HENDERSON
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
WKNTY-SECOND YEAR
BORAH IS SEEKING
CANDIDACY PLEDGE
ONLY AS LIBERAL
Primary Purpose, Idaho Sen
ator Says, Is Convention
Wholly of Liberal
Delegates.
HE WOULD SUPPORT
another candidate
But Such Aspirant Would
Have to Meet His Test as
Liberal; Has Tentatively
Agreed to Make Speech in
Raleigh and Also in Cleve
land Next Sprnig.
\\ .Islington. Doe. 20 (AP)
Soiiiit»u* Borah of Idaho form
ally dcchirod today his ob
was a liberal Republi
can platform and said ho would
‘Ynoncrato fully with plans of
uiv pn»gn»ssivo groups ondoav
orin.'.' lino up convention dele
pledged to his own candi
dacy.
Mv primary objective.” Borah
i'ij in a formal statement, “is a con
r. ■: 1 1 ii >: j of liberal delegates, which
will write a liberal platform and make
liberal candidate. To that end I
ball (bvotc my efforts.”
“If in any state or district the lib
i ril fo"ccs think it will help the 1 ih
r-ftl pledge the delegates to
me. 1 hall cooperate fully with that
plan. If. however, it is thought het
t<• r to pledge the delegates to some
oilier liberal, I shall cooperate just as
fully. In other words, inflexible ns
n> 'lie objective, flexible as to the
t act jcs.”
Borah added ns he saw the politi
cal situation in this country, "Man
would be seeking political immola
tion to take a nomination upon any
other than a liberal platform.”
in handing his brief statement to
an interviewer. Senator Borah indi
cated this would he as near a formal
iiiiniiiircniriit of his candidacy as he
would make before the Republican
coio cut ion meets at Cleveland June ft.
Borah has under consideration a
bos* of requests for speeches in the
Past, Middle West and South.
H<' tentatively has promised to
i tl<e speeches in Cleveland and Ra-
Vijjh. N. C.
Johnston Murder
Case Given Jury
On Insanity Plea
Smithfield, I'ee. 20. —(AP) —A jury
of Johnston county farmers at. 11:25
.>. in. today started deliberations in
ihe e.a; *♦ of Marvin Batten, 29-year
"ld farmer, who is charged wit)i (he
tilling la ! Friday of Mrs. I.vdo
Daughtry. Selma, divorcee.
Judge Marshall T. Speaks, charged
the jury it could return any one of
three verdict**: guilty of murder in
the first degree; guilty of murder in
the second degree, or not. guilty.
Batten, m married man. was repro
bated to the jury by his counsel as
having been insane at the time of the
hooting.
Paul D. Grady, president protein
pore of the State Senate, and seeking
the lieutenant governorship, closed
the arguments to the jury, speaking
Vo i (tie defense. His contentions fol
ic we, J dosely those presented lata
■ terday by VV. I, Godwin, mayor of
Seitna. and other members of court-
PPoiiitcd counsel for the defense. It
•' i argued that Batten’s actions
wi re not Hiose of a. sane man. Batten
had freely admitted to officers ho
hot. Mrs. Daughtry, and since the
killing has contended his trial is a
"waste of money.’’
Special Session Advocated
By Candidates For Governor
Categorical Commitments by McDonald and Graham
and Hoey’s Friends Say He is Favorable to Idea;
Ehringhaus Fears Wreckage Os Tax Structure
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In Tlm- .Mr Walter Hotel,
It) J, C. U VSKEIIVIM.
Raleigh, Dee. 20. —Categorical com
mitments of two candidates for gov
ernor and reputed leanings in that
direction by the third do not seem to
move Governor Ehringhaus, who does
not wish to do what he evidently re
gards: ;i vain thing.
There is more extra sessions agita
tion now than there has been at any
time since the May 11 adjournment.
Dr. Ralph W. McDonald, Forsyth
candidate for the Democrotic nomin
ation, in a recent statement, express
ed his conviction that North Carolina
cannot possibly share in the security
legislation of the Federal government
without appropriate statutes passed
by the North Carolina General As
semble. Dr. McDonald thinks the
MW and ny-dv mothers; the cities
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lilt. AbSOCIATED PRESS.
Employment Goal
All But Attained,
Hopkins Declares
"Black Jack” Today
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lie’s 75 now, but Gen. John .) Per
shing is still as stalwart in appear
ance as ever, lie’s seen at White
House after calling on President.
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STATES NOT ABLE
ID HANDL E RELIEF
Minor Politicians Helpless
Before This Major Crisis
Os Nation.
OHIO IS AN EXAMPLE
And If Stales <'annul Cope Willi Ite
lief emergency, llow Can They
Deal W ith Utilities, Critics
Are Asking
Ity LESLIE KK HKL
Central Press Staff Writer
Cleveland, Dee. 20. How wholly
unprepared the state:; are to take
care of an employment is exemplified
in Ohio. Here the legislature and the
governor play polities with relief—
and the destitute suffer. Bast year
Governor Martin B. Davey was charg
ing' the federal government, with
domineering and interfering. This
year, when the government ceases to
"domineer” or "interfere,” in other
words when it ceases to bear Ohio's
relief burden and ceases to dictate
that the money shall go to the needy
without politicians dictating the dis
tribution. the federal government is
.attacked for giving up the burden.
It probably is the same in many
other states.
Relief is a. problem beyond the
states.
If that be the ease, say student#
of government, then s<> too are many
other of the major acts for the bet
terment Os tile people.
For example, how can the huge in
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and counties*, and the State itself
must have this legislation. The old
age pensions arc specially needed, de
pendent mothers must have help, the
State is paying an immense amount
of taxes into the Federal government
regardless of what comes back, and
the local units of government need
something to lift the pressure from
them.
Hoey Favorable.
Lieutenant Governor A. H. Graham
has declared quite as definitely as
Dr. McDonald has for this special
session. Clyde R. Hoc., has not, but
he is represented by people who
should know his views as favorable to
such a session. Dr. McDonald made
a special trip to Raleigh some months
ago to urge Governor Ehringhaus to
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ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA *
WPA Administrator R e
ports 3,476,782 Jobs Sup
plied Under $4,000,-
000,000 Program
NEARLY A BILLION
DOLLARS UNSPENT
But It Will be Needed To
Carry Out Heavy Works
Projects Already Launch
ed During This and Prev
ious Years; 37,287 Jobs
Made in North Carolina.
Washington, Dee.. 20 (AD —
lie vised employment, figures Is
sued by llarry L. Hopkins today
numbered jobs supplied by the
.*4,000,000,000 works program at
2,478,782, as of the week begin
ning December 1).
Relief sources previously hid indi
cated that approximately $900,000,000
would bo untouched at the end of the
tiseal year June 30.
But it. was generally understood that
the bulk of this balance would be
needed to carry on heavy public works
projects already begun by this year’s
and previous appropriations.
Hopkins said his Works Progress
administration employed 2,878,829, the
Civilian Conservation Corps 531,295,
and projects of other Federal agen
cies. 288,858,
Officials reiterated that the 3,178,-
782 figure represented “substantial”
achievement of the goal.
WPA employment by States includ
ed: North Carolina. 37,287.
Milne Kidnapers
Sought in Region
Near Philadelphia.
Doylostown, Pa.. Dee. 20 (AP)—
Fight manhunters of the Department
of Justice centered their search for
the kidnapers of Caleb Milne IV in
the Philadelphia area today.
While G-Men all over the country
have been asked to aid in the search,
the detail specially picked by the head
quarters in Washington was reported
convinced the abductors arc some
where in eastern Pennsylvania.
A ramshackle farm house and an
other property not fat from Doyles
town was the Center of scrutiny as
the result of a rambling, broken story
of abduction and torture told the
agents by the young actor-mystery
writer in a hospital last night.
Investigators are to question him
again today.
With his physical condition improv
ing and his mind clearing, they hope
lie will be able 1o supply them with
new details of how ho was lured from
New York last Saturday and left
trussed and dazed in a road Wednes
day night.
Authorities in New York rejected
♦he idea that Milne was the victim of
Alvin Karpis, "public enemy No. 1,"
One official said Karpis "must be
pretty mad about being mentioned in
this thing. He is a master craftsman.
This was a bad job. probably the
work of an amateur."
Another spokesman said authori
ties have a "pretty good idea” as to
the identity of the kidnapers.
DRYS SEE CHANGE
10 HOLD ERANKEIN
County Votes Monday On
Legalizing of County
Liquor Store.
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I* The Sir Walter Hotel,
Uy J. C. UASRISRVILIi
Raleigh. Dec. 20. —With an election
just three days off, the drys of Ral
eigh believe they have certainly an
even chance to beat the wets in
Franklin in the Monday poll to de
termine whether Franklin shall open
a liquor store in Louis burg and
Franklinton and perhaps other towns.
The. courts gave Franklin a set
back when the tide seemed to be with
the drys. They had made a better
fight tha.ii the wets had and appear
ed to be on the go. But they sought
a restraining order to prevent the
tlection and got it. But it was not the
right remedy the Supreme Court held
Meanwhile the adjoining counties
opened their stores, some tax relief
was seen and the swing of the ear
lier activity had died out. A new cam
paign was necessary and the wets
with a half-court support went with
more heart into this one.
If the wets carry the county, no
stores will be opened before the new
year. Counsel for the commissioners
thought it unwise to bid for the Holi
day trade. Franklin has sold its to
bacco and cotton crop and there will
be available much less money than
HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 20, 1935
Defending the TV A
NBHk \ aKaS
I
John Lord O’Brian, assistant at
torney general who is defending the
Tennessee Valley Authority Act
before the l\ S. Supreme Court, i*
a Hoover appointee.
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PERSONNEL OF NRA
IS 10 BE ABSORBED
BY OTHER BUREAUS
President Reveals Plans
That Are Now Being
Worked Out, With
holds Details
DIVIDE FUNCTIONS
WITH OTHER UNITS
Set-Up is Only for Balance
Os NRA’s Life, or For Per
iod From Now Until April;
Two or Three Government
Agencies To Share Duties.
Washington, Dec. 20. —(AP) —The
administration is working out plans
for transferring the expiring NRA
organization to two or three estab
lished government agencies, but de
tails have not been finally determined.
President Roosevelt said at his reg
ular press conference today that
plans were being Considered to trans
fer NRA to various departments,
dividing its functions among them, j
He explained that, the plan was only
for the balance of NRA’s life or for
the period from- nttw iintil April.
But be said details were still to bh
worked out.
62 ALLEGED RIOTERS
AT PELZER ACQUITTED
Anderson, S. C., Dec. 20 (AK)
Sixty-two persons charged with
rioting at the Keizer Manufactur
ing Company plant at Keizer last
September 2. when one woman
was killed during intense but
short-lived gunfire, were acquitted
by a jury in general sessions
court here today after overnight
deliberations.
GILLIIJSIALKEDt
Tarboro Solicitor May Race
Warrcnton Man For
Congress Post.
(•nil? Di*|»n4fh Mureau.
In The Sir Walter Ilotci,
05 .1. C. BASKERVTLI.
Raleigh, Dec. 20.—Second distriet
ers here yesterday and the day be
fore say that early in January Solici
tor Don Gilliam is going to announce
his candidacy for Congress against
John H. Kerr, incumbent, and A. O.
Dickens, Wilson lawyer who has en
tered the race against Mr. Kerr.
Solicitor Gilliam is represented as
being less excited over this prospect
than any of his proponents. But the
presence here of Congressman Kerr
Wednesday did nothing to abate the
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3 shopping
days until
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Britain Is Seeking
To Forge Ring Os
Steel About Italy
| Trying to Mobilize Other
Nations in League to Meet
Possible Attack in the
East.
IRONCLAD PLEDGES
ARE BEING ASKED
Assumption is That Poten
tial Allies Are all Mediter
j ranean Power; League Cir
cles at Geneva Enthusiast
ically Hail Breakdown of
Peace Plan.
(By The Associated Press)
The British government,
abandoning the Franco-British
plan for peace between Italy
and Ethiopia, was described in
London today as trying to mobi
, lize other members of the Lea
gue of Nations to meet a possi
ble attack by Italy.
This disclosure from a high Brit
ish sourer indicated that British en
voys were already attempting to gain
ironclad guarantees from other na
lions of support in case of military
hostilities.
Although the uotential allies were
j not named, it was assumed that they
were nil Mediterranean powers.
Prime Minister Baldwin's success
negotiation t>f a stormy parliamentary
sen. was followed by an official an
nouncement in Paris that the head of
the French government, Premier La
val. also would remain in office
The possibility that the Italian gov
ernment might attempt, to place both
Great. Britain and France in an cm
i barrassing diplomatic position was
indicated bv a spokesman for the
government at Rome.
He said Italy still regards Great
Britain and France as hound by the
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i Johnston Man Is
Sentenced To Die
In Lethal House
Smith field, Dec. 20 (AP) —Mar-
vin Batten, who killed Mrs. Lydsi
Daughtry, of Selma, on the even
ing of Friday, December 13, this
afternoon was convicted of first
degree murder in Johnston Coun
ty Superior Court and was sent
enced by Judge Marshal] T. Spears
to die in the lethal gas chamber
at Raleigh on Friday, Mareli 13,
next.
Temporary Set-Up
In South Carolina
Road Muddle Seen
Columbia, S. C., Dec. 20 (AP)—
'Both branches of the South Carolina,
legislature today sought measures to
j set. up a temporary control of the
! State Highway Department as Gover
i nor Olin Johnstou ordered the with
drawal of troops, who have held the
! road bureau since October 28,
A report of a joint committee that
the governor had consented, after ne
j gotiations. to demobilize the National
I Guard, sped action in both branches
‘ in hopes <jf ending the special high
way session this week-end.
Townsendite Doctrine May
Be Permeatinf Faster
Than Thought.
Unit? Dispatch llurciiti.
In The Sir Walter Ilute.,
Uj J. C. BASKERVII.Ii
Raleigh, Dec. 20.— Michigan’s spe
cial congressional election, in which
a. Townsend congressman running
Republican won by taking twb-thirds
of the votes, made the intellectuals
who wore gathered here Wednesday
think.
Some of them were Republicans,
but most of them Democrats. Mich
igan was considered fairly safe for
conservatism, and, of course, one
congressman no more makes a law
than one swallow precipitates a sum
mer. But the election leaves the old
times to wonder whether the Literary
Digest poll, anti-New Deal in an
alarming way, is against the admin
istration because it has been mildly
Townsendish, or because it is too mild
In a word, the defection from Roose
: velt may mean that he has been too
conservative.
Certainly, it was hard for the .e
--gular Republicans to get any com
[ t eont.r)norl ,-vti "Docra Tma 1
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
“Mercy” Nurse
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mP - nn
L 4
Marie Sevigny
Pending determination of her
mental condition, Marie Sevigny,
above, 20-year-old “mercy death”
nurse, was held without bail at
Woonsocket, R. 1., charged with
murder. According to police,
Miss Sevigny confessed she killed
a woman patient to end her suf
fering. Deaths of other patients
she attended arc being investi
gated.
wM
Minnesota Republican Solon
Struck by Automobile in
Washington.
VERY CRITICALLY ILL
Suffers Fractured Skull- Compound
Fracture of Left Leg and In
ternal Injuries in Ac
cident at Capital
Washington, Doc. 20 (Ah) —Senator
Thomas D. SchalL, Republican of
Minnesota, was reported in a “criti
cal condition” at 10:45 a. m. today aft
er a consultation of physicians on in
juries received last night when struck
by an automobile.
The senator was still unconscious
more than 15 hours after the acci
dent.
The examination this morning dis
closed that he had suffered a frac
tured skull, a compound fracture of
the left leg and internal injuries.
KIDNAP THREATS IN
TODD DEATH HEARD
Los 'Angeles,/ Cajty Dec.; 20. —
(AD—Kidnap tlireats against the
head waiter of the Hollywood
club, wiicro Thelma Todd sudend
ly dropped from gaiety and left a
party to go to her death, threw a
sinister riddle today ou the heels
of a hint the actress may have
been slain.
Treaty With Canada Is
Most Significant Move
Babson Says It May Mean Turning Point Away From
Narrow Nationalism; W orld Commerce Must be
Unfettered if Conditions Are to Reach Normal
By ROGER W. BARSON
(Copyright 1935)
(Publishers Financial Bureau, Inc.)
Washington, Dec. 20 —Many here in
Washington feci that the foreign tan
gle is the darkest cloud on the bus
iness horizon at the present time.
Domestic recovery has come along in
good shape, but the revival can only
go so far unless there is a general
improvement in all nations. At the
moment the world outlook is very
spotty. The most encouraging news
in recent weeks is the announcement
of our trade agreement with Canada.
Lack of Understanding
For the last few months foreign
news has taken a good percentage of
the headlines. The Italian-British
dispute, the French business depres
sion, the Japanese agression in
China and. the Leafoie of Nations
8 PAGES
TODAY
FIVE CENTS COPY
MILITARY FORCES
LEAGUE INTIMATED
Members May be Asked to
Contribute Fighting Units
As Protection to
Covenant.
NOT INTENDED FOR
DRIVE UPON ITALY
Would Merely Assure Great
Britain She Was not Act
ing Alone im Concentrating
Her Fleet in Mediterranean
Action Permissible Under
Article XVI.
Geneva, Dec, 20 (AP)—The
suggestion was advanced in in
ternational circles today, fol
lowing the lead of Prime Min.
ister Baldwin of Great Britain,
that the League of Nations
Council should consider asking
League members to contribute
lighting units to a League mili
tary force.
This military force, which could
include land, sea and air forces, would
be used for the protection of tbs
League covenant.
Sources which disclosed the sugp*
gestion explained that the Leagdfc
lorcc would not be Intended for ag
gressive purposes against Italy, but
would merely assure Great Britain
she was n<\ acting alone in the Med
iterranean through her fleet concen
tration.
Such ysjion is permissible under
Article XVI of the League covenant,
under which the League imposed eco
nomic and financial sanctions against
Italy.
The prevailed in certain
quarters, however, that the sugges
tion would not be followed up.
Kidnaping Threats
Ciiven Grand Jury
In Todd Inquiries
Los Angeles, Cal., Dec. 20 (AP)—
Kidnap threats apd a new report that
Thelma Todd was seen alive after an
autopsy indicated she had died cOm
plicated the ; rand jury’s investigation
of the death of the glamorous screen
actress today.
A woman who identified herself
only as Mrs. Kane,” telephoned po
lice headquarters she saw Miss Todd
telephoning from a drug store Sun
day afternoon nearly 12 hours after
the time autopsy surgeons at first
believed the actress died.
DR. BASKERVILL, 80.
DIES AT KNOXVILUE
Father of Dispatch's Raleigh CoiT©S°
pendent Was Retired Min
ister and Educator
Knoxville. Tenn., Dec. 20 (AP)—•
The Rev, George Sumner Baskervill,
D. D., 80-year-old retired Presbyte
rian minister and educator, died at
his home here at 11:55 last night after
a critical illness of several weeks.
Survivors include a son, John C.
Baskervill, manager of the Raleigh
Bureau of the North Carolina Asso
ciation of Afternoon Newspapers.
WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Partly cloudy, colder, hard
freeze tonight; Saturday fair, nut
not, quite so cold in extreme west.
sanctions have consumed a lot of
white space. Frankly, I am glad thafc
these topics are getting so much at
tention. The best way to make tha
various pcyple< realize that inter
national co-operation is essential for
prosperity is to constantly give un
censored publicity to these episodes.
The only hope that nations can settle
their differences peacefully is for
their citizens to understand clearly
each other’s problems.
The American people do not pay
enough attention to world events and
their effect on world trade and do
mestic prosperity. Very few Ameri
cans realize the deflationary effects
of Uxe world kick-back to the tariff
w'all which we built up between
and 1930. oreign trade is often dis
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