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CENTRAL
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TWENTY-SECOND YEAR
ETHIOPIAN KINITS QUARTERS BOMBED MAIN
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Japan Demands Naval Parity With U. S.-Britain
OTHER DISCUSSIONS
USELESS UNTIL NEW
DEMAND IS GRANTED
Genuine Equality in; Reality
And Not Merely in Name
U Asked at Con
ference
AKMS MEET STARTS
IN LONDON MONDAY
Japan Stands Solidly For
Naval Strength Just as Big
As Any in The World;
That Position Wrecked
Previous Naval Confer
ences by Great Powers.
Loudon, I >oc. 7 (AP) —The
.JapanciM! delegation to the
fourth coming international
naval conference advised the
British Admiralty today that
Japan demands naval party
Die L'niled States and Great
Britain in reality and not mere
ly in name.
Further, the Japanese tohl the Bri
lish that no other questions can be
discussed at. the parley, opening next;
Monday, until Japan’s demands for
parity are met.
This means that the Japanese are
Mending solidly for a navy equal In
'iz° and. strength to that of Great
Britain and the United States, a
t'in<i which wrecked the long pre
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Henderson’s
High School
I ioses Rating
Among Large Num
ber in State Drop
pc cl by Southern
Association.
Kalcigh, Dec. 7—(AP) —Forty-seven
North Carolina high schools were
dropped from membership this week
by the Southern Association of Col
leges and Secondary Schools. Dr. J.
Henry Highsmith, chairman of the
. ociation, said there were now 31
high schools in the State which were
members of the association, 14 of
lh p m being privately conducted.
"No school in tho State has to be
>ong to the association," Dr. Iligh-
said, ‘‘but the fact that our
chools cannot meet the standards
met by schools of other states, I
think, shows that we lack something.”
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Roosevelt ‘Must’ Program
For Congress Is Outlined
Appropriations, Neutrality, Food-Drugs and Ship Sub
sidy Law and NRA Substitute Are Desired; Con
gress and Administration Wants Short Session
By CHARLES V. STEWART
Washington, Dec. 7. —Congress un
questionably will be as desirous of a
hurt session, when it meets in Jan-
UHr y, as President Roosevelt is said
to he.
The Democratic lawmakers, any
'; v ay, hope it will be short, and pcace
f'll, too.
■he Republicans naturally would
■ ike io sec the majority get into a
■'earful row within itself, which would
■" likely to spin out the proceedings,
oven G. O. P. politicians don’t
1 -u’c to have them overlap the nation
conventions, as occurred in 1932;
embarrasses a re-election candidate
jo *wi up in Washington when he
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Bombed Again
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WMF jBBraISA
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WB
Headquarters at the northern bat
tlefront of Emperor Haile Selassie of
Ethiopia were bombed again today Tor
tiie Italian air force. The emperor
whs not injured. In the picture here,
Selassie is shown speaking on the
radio on a broadcast to tho United
States,, wearing the biggest smile he
has ever revealed for photographers.
Road Board
Ousted For
Second Time
Gov. Johnston Acts
In F ace of Court
Ruling Reinstating
S. C. Commission.
Columbia, S. C., Dec. 7. —(AP) —The
South Carolina State Highway Com
mission ousted by Governor Olin D.
Johnston with troops October 28, and
reinstated 'by the Supreme Court
Thursday, was removed or suspended
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wants to be at home, spellbinding and
contacting the votes.
CONGRESSMAN S PROBLEMS
To be sure, spellbinding, at big
meetings, isn’t as important as once
it was. It can 'be done by radio.
However, not all candidates have
first-class radio personalities.
Those who are a little deficient in
this respect have to depend more on
slapping backs and shaking hands.
EARLY ADJOURNMENT?
Congress, then, is certain to try to
adjourn well in advance of the con
ventions.
The Republicans will endeavor to
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HENDERSON, N. C. SATURDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 7, 1935.
HOEY IS AGREEABLE
TO STATEWIDE VOTE
ON LIQUORCONTROL
And Will Favor Exempting
Foods From Sales Tax,
Candidate’s intimates
Assert
VIEWS UNCHANGED
UPON PROHIBITION
Hoey, Graham and Mcßae
Almost in Complete Agree
ment on iSales Tax; Gra
ham Only One, However,
Offering Substitute; Hoey
and McDonald “Pussyfoot
mg.
Dally Dispatch Duraau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel,
til J. C. JJASKERVILL,
Raleigh, Dec. 7. —Clyde R. Hoey, of
Shelby, one of the five candidates for
the Democratic nomination for gov
ernor, while still a personal and po
litical “dry,” will agree to a Statewide
referendum on the repeal of the State
prohibition law and the substitution
of State liquor control and State li
quor stores, if the 1937 General As
sembly desires to submit the question
to a vote of the people, it was learned
here today from persons who have
recently talked with the Shelby ora
tor. Mr. Hoey will not advocate the
repeal or removal of the sales tax, but
will advocate exempting basic foods
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Youth Confesses
His Part in Fatal
Robbery of Bank
New Tazewell. Tcnn.. Dee. 7 <AP)-
Sheriff Frank ltlley said today Frank
Hopson, 22-year-old Claiborne county
youth, had surrendered to him and ad
mitted being one of the three bandits
who robbed -a bank here yesterday
and killed Sheriff L. D. Hutchison, of
Union county, during their flight.
The shei\'f .said Hopson named Gus
McCoig. 22. and Pete Dean, 18. escap
ed Tennessee convicts, as his com
panions, and declared that McCoig
shot and killed Hutchinson.
Biley quoted the youth as saying
lie left McCoig and Dean about 3 a.
m. (central standard time) today, aft
er they had fled from a mountain
cabin, where they were tracked by
bloodhounds.
DOiOiITO
Merchants Secretary Would
Have Strong Support
Against Durham
Daily Dispatch tluraun,
In the Sir Walter Hotel,
BY J. C. IIASKERVILL,
Raleigh, Dec. 7. —Willard L. Dowell,
execuptive secretary of the North
Carolina Merchants Association, is be
ing mentioned more and more as a
possible candidate for the Democratic
nomination for State auditor, against
Baxter Durham, present State au
ditor. When asked today if he intend
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M shopping I
days until
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Mussolini Is Firm For War
Despite New Peace Appeals
I Rome, Dec. 7. —(AP)—-Benito Mus
solini, premier of Italy, defied 52 na
tions which have imposed sanctions
against Italy in a speech amid stormy
applause in the Chamber of Deputies
today.
“When we have reached the 365th
day of the siege,” he proclaimed, “we
will have the same will, the same
courage, the same determination as
on the first day.” i
mSSn I
I
— —— I
l
But They Are Afraid To Re
sist the Powerful Mili
tary Dictator,hip
FEAR ROOSEVELT PLAN
Business in This Country Refuses To
Believe Swing to tho Right by
Administration Is Actu
ally Under Way
By LESLIE EICHEL
New York, Dec. 7.-—Japanese bank
ers arc not faywaWe ia Japanese ex
pansion—at least, at; such a rapid
pace. That is the word from Japan.
Manchoukuo has been a heavy
drain. Investments there have been
large, returns small.
North China would require millions
of yen to develop. It is barren, in
many respects, of possibilities.
Besides, any great expansion of in
dustry in these annexed regions
would anger Japanese industrialists,
who have millions at stake in Japan
itself, and do not desire competition
from colonies.
Why, then, does Japan proceed?
Because there is a virtual military
dictatorship. That dictatorship be
lieves in state capitalism.
For example, the South Manchuria
railway is called on constantly by the
military dictatorship to “invest” in
bankers are trying to call a halt, for
industries in Manchuokuo. Japanese
the railway borrows for the “invest
ments” from the bankers. And there
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McDonald
Tax Plans
Discussed
Dailj Dispatch Uuraao,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY J. C. BASKERVILL,
Raleigh, Dec. 7.—Much interest is
being shown here today in the five
point tax program outlined by Dr.
Ralph W. McDonald In his address
last night in Lenior before the Kiw
anis club there, and which he termed
the “five fundamental principles up
on which our State tax structure
niust and shall rest.’* While most ob
servers here agreed that these five
taxation principles sound good in
theory as stated by Dr. McDonald,
many of them expressed a desire for
further amplification of them and for
more definite examples of the type of
tax called for by this program with
which he would replace the sales tax.
The five points which McDonald out
lined as the basic structure for a “fair
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Nanking Sets Up ;
Dictatorship For
North China Area 1
Nanking, China, Bee. 7 (AP) ]
The Central Chincso government J
executive committee announced to- ]
day election of Generalissimo '
Chiang Kai Shek as chairman of i
the executive Yuan, giving him 1
the full responsibilities of a vir
tual dictatorship.
Generalissimo Shek» military
ovrlord of China, succeeds former
Premier Hwang Ch en g-Wei, who
was wounded recently by an assas
sin.
Ho referred to a “peace appeal’*
made to him this morning by Sir Eric
Drummond, British ambassador, by
saying:
“In these last few hours there has
appeared a slight improvement in the
atmosphere, but I must put you on
your guard against premature or ex
cessive optimism."
The premier told his followers that
the conferences in Paris between
Premier Laval and Sir Samuel Hoare,
1 the British foreign secretary, “do not
Egyptian Students
Stage Fresh Riots
Cairo. Egypt. Dec. 7 (AF) — One
I thousand students of Cairo L’ni
; verslty fought a rock and club
j battle with police for half an hour
today before they wero dispersed.
Dozens of police and students
were beaten and knocked down in
the outbreak of rioting after two
! weeks respite, but no one was se
riously injured.
MILL CONCERNS
No Indication of Chiseling,
Commissioner of Labor
Fletcher Says.
Daily Dispatch Uuraau,
In the Sir Walter Holel.
UV J. C. BASIvBItVILD,
Raleigh, Dec. 7.—A1l the larger tex
tile mills in the State seem to be hold
ing to the ola 40-hour week, set up
under the NRA, since the only reports
of any increase in working hours has
been has been from a few small mills,
Commissioner of Labor A. L. Fletcher
said today. More definite reports will
be available next week, when inspec
tors now in the field send in their
findings, he said. But so far no in
crease in working hours has been re
ported from any of the larger mills.
“A week or so ago, when we first
started hearing rumors to the effect
that the textile industry in the State
was planning to increase hours and
perhaps reduce wages, we were pretty
much disturbed,” Fletcher said. “But
so far, this rumored lenthening of
hours and reducing of wages has not
materialized except in five or six
small mills. As a result, we are great
ly encouraged and are hoping that
the textile industry has deedied to
continue on the 40 hour week basis.”
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Green Not
To Resign
Labor Job
Washington, Dee. 7 (AP) —William
Green, president of the American
Federation of- Labor, declined an in
vitation by John L. Lewis today to
quit his present post and head an in
dustrial union committee.
Lewis, president of the United Mine
Workers, had proposed that Green
take his place as chairman of the
committee formed within the A. F. of
L. recently to bring millions of mass
production workers in*o industrial
rather Jhan craft unions.
“To respond to the suggestion of
President Lewis would mean that I
would lend my assistance to the de
velopment of dissension within the
American Federation of Labor, and
that I cannot do,” Green told report
ers.
“I am president of the American
Federation of Labor, re-elected at the
Atlantic City convention in October.
I am not president of any group with
in the federation, and I’m endeavor
ing to prevent the setting up of or
ganizations within the federation.”
WEATHER
FOB NORTH CAROLINA.
Mostly cloudy tonight and Sun
day; probably rain in extreme
west portion; Sunday slowly ris
ing tempera tures.
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signify negotiations.”
Then he added significantly, ‘‘and
whenever negotiations may be start
ed it is not certain that they will
reach a happy and rapid conclusion.”
“We have been asked to make
known our unshakeablc demands.
This request is out of order, because
on October 16 wc made them known
to the French government. But In
stead of concrete conversations, sanc
tions have come against the ‘aggres
sor’.”
Md¥ctT
IS WITHOUT FACTS
Jersey Authorities Say
Parker Had no Valuable
Hauptmann Data.
Trenton, N. J., Dec. 7 (AP) —Ellis
H. Parker, the Burlington county de
tective who believes Richard
Hauptmann innocent, told tho State
during the Hauptmann trial at Flcm
ington that lie had “nothing of any
value on the case,” it was learned to
day from a high official. .
Parker made the statement, The
Associated Press source said, at a
conference attended by Assistant At
torney General Robert Peacock, of the
Flemington trial staff; Lieutenant
Arthur Kcatcn, of the State police,
who worked on the Lindbergh investi
gation, and other members of the pro
secution and polico staffs.
The conference was arranged, the
official said, because “we were tired
of hearing about Parker and all the
important information he was sup
posed to have on th case. A show
down was decided upon.”
Complete details of the conference
were not divulged, but officials said
that during its ,Cdbi‘se Parker was
asked point blank if he had any evi
dence or clues on the case.
Parker’s answer, the official said,
was that he had nothing of any value
oil the case.
THAD EURE~TAKES
JIBE AT DUNNAGAN
Raleigh, Dec. 7.—“1 notice that M.
R. Dunnagan, one of my opponents
for the nomination for Secretary of
State, has been in Asheville attending
the meeting of the Society of the May
flower, composed of persons whose
forefathers and fore-mothers came
over on the Mayflower,” Thad Eure,
of Raleigh and Winton, said here to
day. “While he was talking about his
ancestors I was helping my father
clear some new ground in Gates coun
ty.”
Some one asked if the Mayflower
was not a bridge instead of a ship,
since so many people came over on It.
Some one else suggested that maybe
it was an automobile.
“I am kept so busy campaigning
that I haven’t time to talk about my
ancestors,” Eure said.
Caddell And Mrs. Watkins
Brought Back By Sheriff
Self-Styled “G-Man” Arrested in Greensboro Hotel for
Abducting Vance County Woman; No Charges
Against Her; Mystery Letter Received by Dispatch
After being brought buck here
from Greensboro, where she was
found in a hotel where *J. H. Cad
dell was arrested and charged
with abducting her from her ru
ral residence near heflrc, Mrs.
Robert Watkins returned to her
home in Sandy Creek township at
noon today, was received and wel
comed by her husband and their
four children, and husband and
wife caressed and forgave and.
agreed to start life anew where
they loft off ten days ago.
Caddell was placed in jail to
await a preliminary hearing Mon
day morning in recorder’s court
on the charge of taking the wo
man from her home.
J. H. Caddell, self-styled “G-Man”
who last week had two men arrested
and held in jail here ostensibly in
connection with the killing of Mrs.
W W. Mason; wife of a storekeeper
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TO ITALTC LEADER
Hoare And Laval To Draft
Fresh Proposals to Italy
And Ethiopia For
Ending War.
55 DEAD, 300 INJURED
IN FIRST BOMINGS
Today’s Attack Brings
Twice Number of Planes as
First Day; Selassie’s Quar*
ters Are Objective of Ital
ian Planes, but They Miss
Their Mark.
(By The Assoeited Press)
Great Britain made another appeal
today to Premier Mussolini to stop
the war witli Ethiopia.
An official London source announc
ed that the British ambassador to
Rome, Sir Erie Drummond, had con
veyed new appeals to II Duce him
self in conference.
Die Fascist “rain of death” bombs
from droning Italian airplanes smote
Hie field headquarters of Ethiopia's
king of kings” for a second time to
day.
Hard on the heels of Friday's air at
tacks on Dessye, which destroyed the
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48, 665-Jobs
Furnished In
Stale s WPA
6,000 Above Quota,
and 73 Percent of
Base of State Unem
ployed. ;
Raleigh, Dec. 7.~(AP)_ The Stat®
Works Progress Administration today
reported it had allocated funds to
give jobs to 48,665 men and women
on 1,073 work projects when direct
Federal relief was discontinued In
North Carolina Thursday.
The. number of jobs provided was
6,000 above the quota of 42,000 set by
the Staite administration, and waa
73.55 percent of the total certified as
eligible for employment from the May
relief load base of 66,149.
With direct relief ended, the relief
administration figured there were 86,-
000 relief cases in the State, so that
some 35,000 cases Will become respon
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in Pine View, Harnett county, wag
brought back here today by Sheriff
J. E. Hamlett from Greensboro, where
he was arrested last night, on a
charge of abducting Mrs. Robert Wat
kins, wife of a Vance county farmer,
who was at the same hotel, and who
was also brought back here today by
the sheriff.
No charges were brought against
Mrs. Watkins, but Caddell was lodged,
in the county jail pending a prelim
inary hearing. Sheriff Hamlett ac
companied her at noon to the home of
her mother, in the Sandy Creek
township section of the county .
Meantime, a letter came today to
the Henderson Daily Dispatch, after
being mailed in Greensboro Friday,
and which was signed Mrs. Louise
Watkins, and purporting to give rea
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