HENDERSON
CATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-THIRD year
ETHIOPIANS REPORT
ITALIANS SLAIN AS
PROTESTS ARE SENT
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Major Engagement West of j
Makale on Northern
Front Is Claimed
at Addis Ababa
MUSSOLINI FIGHTS
ASSISTANCE PACT
Registers Bitter Objection
at Geneva to British Medi
terranean Accord, and !
Calls It Anti-Italian Alli
ance; Objects Also to
British Battleships
kstiopians
A till is Ababa. -lan. 2.‘> (AP) ;
An official Ethiopian com-
Tinijii<;tje today claimed “scve
vai thousand Italians have been:
billed” in a major battle on the
northern front.
Tin* battle haw boon raging since
M' unlay, the communique stated.
I• - jife was not given in the offi
yi a>innuncement. but official ; said
■ ; ,>v understood the engagement took
j.i.ioo w-t Makale.
Ml SSOI.IM REGISTERS lIIS
PROTEST ABOUT NEW FACT
(By The Associated Press)
I reinier Mussolini carried his dip
lomatic war controversy deeper into
• l u* I,cagn«* of Nations Council today
!)•• striking out against the five-power
•runial aid agreement and British
X.val maneuvers in the Mediterran
ean. .
One of his spokesmen asserted the
Dalian lender would protest the as
<i-aance pact of Great Britain. France
Turkey. Greece and Yugo-Slavia as an
nti-Ttalian alliance.”
He was further reported ready to
-•ritiei/e concentration of British war
ship* near the scene of fighting in the
Pain lv h'opian war.
\V*’i iI•• these diplomatic campaigns j
funk definite form, a new committee
•Vi- called t<> consider the proposed
>1 -rnal and steel-iron embargo against
di< aggressor nation in the east Afri
can conflict.
At Paris, president Albert I.ebrun
ibored to discover a successor to for
mer Premier Pierre Laval, whose
cabinet stepped down after political ;
eritici -m of vacillating foreign poli-
Repor's from the actual war front- !
!• rs carried conflicting news of Ital- j
: ; victories, vigorously denied by i
K hiojdan sources.
Negro Scheduled
First Gas Victim
Friday Forenoon
Raleigh. Jan. ”3 (AlM—Every
thing was ready (Iris afternoon for
the scheduled asphyxiation at
state’s Prison tomorrow of Alien
Foster, young Alabama Negro.
MMtteuced to die for criminal as
viult on a lloke county white
womSn.
The execution will be the first
by lethal gas east of the Missis
"ippi river. North Carolina having
installed the new system last year
•nit not previously having used it
on a human being.
f onornor Fhringhaus announced
several days ago he saw no rea
son to inervene for Foster, and
Parole Commissioner Edwin Gill
indicated this afternoon nothing
new had come out in the ease.
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Japan Fears
Competition
Os The U. S.
t
I vvo Nations To
I' ig h t for Com
merce, Backed By
Xa v i es, Admiral
W arns
Osaka, Japan, Jan. 23. —(AP) —Vice
Admiral Sankichi Takahashi, com
hiander-in-chief of the combined Jap
iic.se fleets, pictured tonight, a pros
pect of rivaly between American and
Japanese commerce, backed by navies
in the island territories of the south
eastern Pacific.
Admiral Takashaslii, the navy’s
ranking sea-going commander, ad
tiressed a dinner of 300 business lead
’ i of western Japan. Many of them
"ere munitions magnates.
‘Japan’s fleets,” declared the ad
inira.l, ‘‘are organized with a view to
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Hmtttersnn Bally Biapatrh
LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
Cotton Ginned Is
10,249,688 Bales
Washington. Jan. ’l3—(Al’)—Cot
ton of last year’s growth ginned
prior to January 16 was reported
today by the Census Bureau to
have totalled 10,2-19,688 running
ba'es. counting 281,007 round bales
as half bales, and including 16,281
hales of American Egyptian.
Ginning* to January 16 this year
hy states included: North Carolina,
368.911 hales.
RECORD DISPROVES
™raooicui
Sales Taxers in 1933 Saved
Schools from 50 Percent
Bigger Slash Than
Given
ANTI-SALES TAXERS
ASKED SIX MONTHS
But Raleigh Sentiment Is
Agreed With McDonald
That Local Initiative Is
Now Needed for Longer
Terms and Higher Grades
In School Systems
Hally IliMitateh Ilurcan,
1m Ti..* S|r Wntlir Hole*.
II j .1, C. II 'SKKItVIM.
Raleigh, Jan. 23. —'There is general
agreement hero with the statement
made by Dr. Ralph W. McDonald in
a speech in Hickory Monday night
tc the effect that more local initia
tive and local interest are needed to
restore the public schools to their pro
per position in North Carolina, and
e peciallv the strong intimation by
McDonald that be r elieves the various
local units must supplement the a
mount appropriated to the schools by
the State with funds raised from lo
cal taxation. But there is strong dis
agreement with his statement that
the sales tax forces were the ones
who in 1933 were responsible for the
battering- down of the school approp
riation. For the record, as contained
in tlip Journal of the 1933 session of
the General Assembly, shows that if
the anti-sales tax forces, under the
leadership of Representative Tam C.
Bowie, of Ashe county, had had their
way the school appropriation would
have been only $10,000,000 a year in-
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His Favorite Heir
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MiMMiagM
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“Uncle David" is now King Edward
VIII and Princess Elizabeth, his
favorite niece, may herself some
day occupy Britain’s throne. She
is the eldest child of the Duke of
york and second in line.
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HENDERSON, N. C„ THURSDAY AFTERNOO N, JANUARY 23, 1936
Where George V Joins Ancestors at Rest
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The shadowy confine,' of Albert Memorial Chapel at Windsor, England, will hold the earthly remains of
Britain'? mourned ruler, George V lie will lie next to his father, King Edward VII, whose funeral cortege
is shown winding through the castle grounds to the chapel built by Henry 111 seven hundred years ago.
(Central Press)
Cold Wave Hits Record Low
With 51 Dead In 12 States
Chicago, J an. 23. —(AP) —Sub
zero temperatures and whistling
winds from the Canadian North
west doubled their toil of human
lives today as they swept from
the Dakotas to the Atlantic.
At least 51 dead were counted
in a dozen of 20 states covered
by the Arctic blast.
The rawest cold still centered
over the midwest with 56 degrees j
below zero at International Falls,
in northern Minnesota, the worst |
on the continent, hut zero chill ex- 1
tended from the Rockies to the
edeg of New England and south j
to Tennessee and North Carolina.
SAYS NEWS STORY j
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Foundation Stone of Amer
ican Newspaper, A. P.
Man Tells Meeting
Chapel Hill, Jan. 23.—(AP)— Byron ,
Price, chief oT Urn Washington bu
reau of The Associated Press, told the
North Carolina Press Institute here j
today that the news reporter’s pro
duct still remains the foundation!
stone of the American newspaper.
“There are abundant evidences that
in spite of the intrusion of the radio
commentator, in spite of the increas
ed number of publicists who write
from an editorial viewpoint of their
own, the product of the news repor
ter remains the foundation stone of
the American newspaper,” he said.
“Nothing can take the place of
facts intelligently and accurately pre
sented. Indeed, there is reason to be
lieve that the public puts even great
er reliance in plainly stated facts
from which it can draw' its own con
clusions than ever before,” Price con
tinued.
The speaker quoted Elihu Root,
dean of American statesmen, on the
subject, expressed in an opinion some
time ago:
“With the extraordinary growth of
news service in recent years the pub
lic has been acquiring the habit of
being informed from day to day about
what is going on in the world, and
this habit, has greatly changed the
basis of political action. The Amer
ican voters were formerly moved very
largely Icy stump speeches and strong
ly partisan editorials and by what
they were told concerning public
events in the course of a whirlwind
campaign immediately before the
election,
“Today, as a rule, few elections are
decided before the political campaign
begins, and they are decided on the
basis of news which the voters have
been reading from day to day ever
since the lust election.”
Labor Relations
Act of 1935 Held
As Constitutional
Memphis, Tenn., Jan. 23 (AP)—
Tho constitutionality of the na
tional labor relations act of 1935
was upheld today by Federal Dis
trict Judge John D. Martin in a
formal opinion in which he denied
the application of the Beni is Broth
ers Bag Company, of Bemia, Tenn.
for an injunction to prevent a
scheduled inquiry by a represen
tative of the National Labor lie
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Thermometers between 25 and
35 in Minnesota ami Wisconsin
and from 10 to 20 below In Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois, lowa, Missouri,
eastern Kansas, Nebraska and the
Daktoas.
From Ohio eastward the mer
cery sagged below' zero as far as
New York City, where the column
showed two below.
Gales off the Virginia Capes
blew the Danish steamer Mary
land aground in Balittnorc harbor
and unroofed three homes ill the
city. A 69-mile wind smashed win
dows in Washington, D. C.
Thirty jmsseiigers were report
Will Not Ask For
Funds To Enforce
Potato Crop Law
Washington, Jan. 23. (AP)—
Expressing belief the potato con
(rol act woidd bo held invalid by
the Supreme. Court If a test case
were brought, Representative
Lindsay C. Warren, of Washing
ton. N. C„ says he will not ask
for funds for Us enforcement.
Instead, Warren is asking sl,-
006,000 for a survey of potato
marketing and production pro
blems, so the industry may bene
fit in any, new agricultural pro
gram approved by Congress.
Warren’s m ove apparently
meant abandonment of plans to
enforce the measure, which Sec
retary WaUaee once said would be
a near impossibility.
League Has
Fight Over
Communism
Fascism Also Fig
ures in Hot Debate
in the Council
Meeting at Geneva
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Geneva, Jan. 2S— (AP)—A sharp
battle over communist and Fas
cist foreign policies and the right
of an American republic to break
diplomatic relations with Soviet
Russia broke out in tho Council
of the league of Nations today.
Maxim Litvinoff, foreign commissar
of Russia, declared to the Council
that Japan, Italy and “another Eu
ropean state” are fostering aggressive
policies of “the utmost danger to
world peace.”
He demanded that Uruguay explain
to the League exactly why it broke
off diplomatic relations with the
Soviet government on the grounds
that the Moscow government was fos
tering communistic activities.
Alberto N. Guani, the League repre
sentative of Uruguay, answered
heatedly that the time had come for
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"Weather
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Fair, slightly colder in extreme
southeast portion tonight; Fri
day mostly cloudy and continued
SSJ4*
ed marooned in a Pennsylvania
railroad train stalled by snow’
near Starkey, N. Y. An emer
gency crew was sent to free them.
Chicago, Jail. 23.—(AP)—Thou
sands of minute silvery’ threads
shrivelled down into thermometer
bulbs and froze today as all-time
record low temperatures were
shattered in many sections.
The worst frigid wave of many sea
sons swept down suddenly from (ho
northwest on the wings of a gale and
snuffed out the lives of at least 25
(Continued on Page Three.)
Report Is Morgenthau To
Advise FDR and Be Suc
ceeded by Jones
Washington, Jan. 23. —(AP)—Belief
among some Democrats in Congress
that Jesse H. Jones might replace Sec
retary Morgenthau at the Treasury
was declared ill-founded today at. the
\Mhite House.
Rumors of impending cabinet
changes have circulated repeatedly as
the presidential campaign takes shape
Postmaster General Farley is ex
pected to step out before very long
to confine attention to his Democra
tic chairmanships.
There was speculation at the cap
ital whether a Joncs-Morgenthau
shift might be one of several moves
contemplated. Democrats spoke of If,
asking they not. be quoted* and said
their information came from “appar
(Cuniinued ou Page Three.)
CRISIS HEIGHTENED
Paris Jan. 23.— (AP)—Franco’s
governmental crisis heightened
today as the first leaders to be
offered the premiership refused
to step into the uncomfortaibJe
shoes of Pierre Laval. The finan
cial situation also began to reflect
the uncertainty.
Pressure Was Strong On
Wilson To Enter The War
Nye’s Accusations Hardly
More Damaging Than
Letters Uncovered
By LESLIE EICHEL
Central Press Staff Writer
New York, Jan. 23.— Nothing that
Senator Gerald P. Nye, chairman of
the Senate munitions investigating
committee, could say personally
would be as damaging as the actual
evidence introduced so far.
First of all, there is this in a letter,
dated May 14, 1916, from Colonel Ed
ward M. House to President Wood
row Wilson:
“One thing that works against you
is the alienated Americans living in
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PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY,
FRICTION DEVELOPS
OVER FARM BILL IN
SENATE COMMITTEE
Aiken, S. C., Bank
Robbed of SIB,OOO
Aiken, S. C„ Jan. 23 (AP)—The
Bank of Aiken was held up by
three bandits today and robbed of
a sum estimated by W. Oliver
Jones, the cashier, at around $lB,-
000.
The trio escaped with one or
two confederates, who waited in
an automobile. The ear, a black
Ford V-8 coach, sped out of Aiken
on the road toward Greenville.
LIES IN STATeTt
WESTMINSTER HALL
Body of George V Returned
to London, Accompanied
by Royal Family in
Mourning
THREE-MILE MARCH
IN LONDON STREETS
Grenadier Guardsmen Lift
Coffin from Train Onto
Royal Horse Artillery
Caisson: for Trip to West
minster; New King and
Brothers Walk Behind It
London, Jan. 23. —(AP) —The body
of King George V was returned to
London this afternoon to lie in state
four days.
The ten-car royal funeral train
pulled into the King’s Cross station
at 2:45 p. m., while thousands of
Britons packed the adjacent streets.
An houor guard from the three
fighting services—the army, navy and
air force—stood rigidly at attention
on the purple carpeted platform as
grenadier guardsmen carried tho
oaken coffin from the black and pur
ple funeral coach.
The guardsmen placed it on a royal
horse artillery caisson for the pro
cession through the streets of central
London to Westminster hall. There
the great folk of the land were as
sembling for the being in state cere
monies.
The new King Edward assisted his
mother, the widowed Queen Mary, to
alight from tlie train.
Then he fell in hy the side of his
three brothers, the Dukes of York.
Gloucester and Kent for the sacred
walk of the day (behind the coffin.
Together they set off afoot for
Westminster hall, three, miles away.
The Queen Mother and the other
women members of the royal family
followed in automobiles.
Not. only the streets but rooftops
and windows were packed with the
mournfully silent watchers.
BURY KIPLING WITH
ENGLISH IMMORTALS
London, Jan. 23 (AP)— Rudyard
Kipling was buried today in the
company of other immortals of
Englilh* literature.
While the body of his sovereign,
the late King George V, was hiv
ing homo to Westminster hall,
the ashes of Kipling were
reverently In the dim and quiet
poet’s corner of Westminster Ab
bey.
Glass and Connaliy Bitter
But Coulld Scarcely
Deny Charges
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Staff Writer
Washington, Jan. 23.—1 t probably
was undiplomatic of Chairman Gerald
P. Nye of the Senate’s munitions in
vestigation committee to charge that
President Wilson and Secretary of
State Lansing “falisffied” relative to
their knowledge of the Allies’ plans
to make over the map of Europe
after defeating Germany.
However, Senators Carter Glass and
Tom Connally, in attacking Nye for
his atterance, scarcely were in a posi-
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Republicans Refuse To
Serve on Sub-Committee
To Study New Agri
culture Measure
CHAIRMANSHIP IS
UNLOADED ON HIM
Asked Where Money Will
Come From, South Caro
lina Senator Answers,
“Just Reach Up and Grab
It Out of the Air”; Norris
Calls It Uneonstitutional
Washington, Jan. 23 (AP) —Serioua
friction over the new administration
farm program developed in the Sen
ate Agriculture Committee today
when Republicans refused to serve on,
a sub-committee to study the soil con
servation plan, and Senator Smith,
Democrat, South Carolina, reluctantly
accepted the chairmanship.
Smith, who is chairman of the full
agriculture committee, but who defer
red to Senator Bankhead, Democrat,
Alabama, to introduce the soil im
proving subsidy amendment in the
Senate, told reporters after a closed
committee meeting:
“I’ll support this bill when it con
forms to the Constitution.”
iSniith said Senators iMcNary of
Oregon, the Republican leader, and
Norris, Republican, Nebraska, declin
ed to serve on the sub-committee of
five which was named to study the
plan and report back to the full com
mittee by Saturday.
Senator Smith plainly indicated
how he stood on the bill.
“Unfortunately, they made me chair
man of the sub-committee,” he said.
“When the sub-committee completes
its work, “111 give you my opinion.
Everything is going to depend on
what the sub-committee does.”
“What. an. you going to do for
money?” a reporter asked.
“Just reach up and grab it out of
of the air.” Smith replied, throwing
an arm up.
It was learned the Senate commit
tee discussed the constitutionality at
the measure at length. Some argued
it could be framed to conform to the
Supreme Court’s AAA decision; oth
ers. including Norris, contended other
wiso.”
ROANOKE RIVER AT
24-YEAR TOP MARK
Considerable Minor Damage Being
Done by High Waters in Roanoke
Rapids Section
Raletgh, Jan. 23.—-(AP)—-Running;
higher than at any time since 1912,
the Roanoke river at Weldon today
was doing considerable minor damage
as it approached a flood crest forecast
at 48 feet.
The stream was 46.3 feet deep this
morning, 15 feet above its banks, and
the rise was expected to continue 12
to 24 hours longer. The waters had
already closed Statp highway 47 a*
Roanoke Rapids. The heavy flood will
reach the lower sections of the river,
around Williamston. next week.
Other eastern Carolina streams
winch have been in flood since Mon
day were dropping in their middle
reaches. The Neuse at Smithfield waa
down a foot, the Cape Fear at Fay
etteville was down seven feet since
yesterday, and the Tar was falling at
Rocky Mount and rising at Tarboro
and Greenville.
Labor Board
Tells Lewis
To Be‘Good’
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Bolting Mine Union
Head Told by A. F.
of L. Council To
Halt Movement
Miami, Jan. 23 (AP) —The
American Federation of Labor execu
tive council today commanded the
John L. Lewis committee for indust
rial organization to “Immediately dis
solve” and “cease to function.”
The committee moved after finding
“there is growing conviction that'the
Lewis committee’s activities consti
tute a challenge to the supremacy of
the American Federation of Labor.
Recalling the expression against in
dustrial unionism of delegates to the
A. F. of L.’s 1935 convention, the ex
ecutive council said it must “insist
the convention policies should be re
jected, observed and carried put.* l