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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-THIRD YEAR TVA UPHELD BY COURT RUSSIA WILL CLOSE ALL CONSULATES IN MANCHUKO BUT ONE Tokyo Thinks Action Not Result of Border Clashes and Not Move To ward Warfare CENSORSHIP PUT ON NEWS BY JAPANESE Only Official Government Communiques May Be Published by Newspapers About Border Clashes; Tokyo Rejects Neutral Voice in Settling Dispute Tokyo. Fob. 17. — (AD —A Japanese foreign office spokesman said tonight iji ■i [ information from 11 sink ing in (prated Russia soon would withdraw nil i,er consulates, except the consui -general at Harbin. from Man cluikuo. Officials said they believed the with drawals were not connected with the recent fights along the Manchukuoan I,orders and could not be interpreted as preparations for war. PARTIAL CENSORSHIP ON NEWS IMPOSED IN JAPAN Tokyo, Feb. 17. —(AP)—Japanese of ficials applied a partial censorship to dav to Japanese press accounts of the dangerous situation arising from re (a'liT sanguinary military clashes on the ill-defined Manchukuo-Outer 'Mon golian frontier. The officials ordered the press not to publish anything concerning the issue except Japanese and Manchu kuoan government communiques. The ban was attributed authorita tively to an official desire to avoid in flaming public opinion, while a series Continued on Page Three.) Cotton Harvests Greatly Reduced Over Five Years Washington, Feb. 17 (AP) A re duction of 3.3 percent in the harvested acreage of cotton in 1931 as compar ed with 1929. was reported today by the Census Bureau. The figures arc based on the 1933 Federal census, the first since 1930. The acreage decrease was accom panied by a production drop of 33 percent, but the bureau stressed that the drought of 1931 seriously affect ed all comparisons with the preced ing period. New Date Not Named For Bruno Trenton, N. J . Feb. 17 (AP) The •'"'bale delayed fixing of a new death date for Bruno Richard Hauptmann today to give Governor Harold G. Hoffman time to make any possible moves he may be considering. Assistant Attorney General Joseph bannigan said he would not ask Su preme Court. Justice Thomas W. Tren chard before tomorrow at the earliest to fix a new death date for the man convicted ~f the Lindbergh baby kill ing. *he governor, who left Mercer hos pila] Saturday after a week’s recup 'ratinn from a nasal operation, was expected hack at his office today. lb' conferred yestefday at his t'outh Amboy home with Samuel S. ueibowitz. New York criminal law- W:| , and said later Leibowitz had sub s Con tinned on Page Three.) Near Martial Law Declared In Spain Mh#Jrid, Spain, Feb. 17.—(AP)-- A '> f alarm” to last eight days I'hs declared throughout Spain today "Mowing the deaths of six persons in 111 yesterday’s general elections. One 1,101 e Person was killed today, bring lnK the casualties for the last two day 0 sev 'en dead, 16 seriously injured, d| ifJ scores suffering minor hurt 3. Declarations by both radicals and '"nservatives indicated that the left ists had won between 250 and 265 st:;i, * s out of the 473 in parliament. tbe state of alarm—which requires bat police authorities be constantly on the alert, but does not suspend HrnDrrsmt DaUu Dispatch ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Coughlin Coming In Face of Dare Washington, Feb. 17. —(AD —Re- presentative Sweeney, Democrat, Ohio, told the House today that Father Charles E. Coughlin will ar rive in Washington tomorrow to take up Representative O’Connor’s, Democrat, New York, challenge to ‘‘kick the Detroit radio priest all the way from the Capitol to the White House.” STATE MIGHT TRY 10 RECOVER SOME PROCESSING TAXES Action by Extra or Regular Session Almost Certain If South Carolina Succeeds WOULD LIFT FUNDS FOR OLD AGE HELP Trouble, However, Is Money Would Be Available For Only One Year, With Problem of Financing Arising, After That; jPal metto State Being Watched Usiily UlNiiahh llurcnti. in The Sir Walter Hotel, |»y J V. SKK.ItVII.I. Raleigh, Feb. 17.—-The next North Carolina General Assembly-—or possi bly a special session—may make an effort to recover enough processing taxes from textile and other manu facturers in North Carolina, through the levying of an excess profits tax, to [my for old age benefits and other social security activities, if South Carolina is successful in a similar move, it was agreed here today. A good many arc frankly skeptical and doubt if Governor Olin D. Johnson, of South Carolina will be able to get a law enacted to recover from South Carolina textile manufacturers any appreciable part of the pioccssing taxes which have already been return ed to them by the Federal govern ment. as he is advocating. They be lieve that such a law, even if enact iContinued on Page Five.) More Cold Blows Down Out of The Northwest Areas Chicago, Feb. 17 (AD—Down from the national “northwestern refrigerating” plant swept new masses of frigid temperatures and additional snow today. The forecast generally was con tinued cold, snow, rain, sleet and little hope for relief in the near future. Early yesterday Dinkinson and Williston, N. D. registered an of ficial minus 50, hut It later warm ed up to minus 32, then dropped again sharply. Traffic accidents over the week end, may indirectly charged to the weather, totalled at least 50. Michigan reported four deaths from the cold, and a four-year-old girl fell through a hole In lee ten inches thick on the Passaic river at Little Fals, N. J., and was drowned. civil processes —was proclaimed in the face of rumors that a “state of war” might be instituted. Authorities feared that disorders might resiilt from the large leftist gains in the elections. A cabinet session was called. The ministers authorized the state of alarm and indicated that a state of war could be decreed at once should 'be decreed at once should the necessity arise. President Zamora’s family was transferred from the Zamora home to the presidential palace, where there were more facilities for defense. HENDERSON, N. C„ MONDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 17, 1936 Where Border Clashes Threaten Peace of Far East Closing of the Russian Consulate General at Mukden is reported to have followed serious border clashes between Soviet and Japanese Manchuo kuan troops in Outer Mongolia, along the all important trans-Siberian railroad. Top and bottom left shows types of Russian olanes and troops V ote Money To Pay Off Huge Bonus Senate Passes Bill for T hat and Other Purposes for Total $2,609,751,905 Washington, Feb. 17 (AP) —The Senate today passed an appropriations hill carrying $2,609,751,905, including $1,730,000,000 to pay the bonus, and $879,751,905 to run the independent offices of the government in the next fiscal year. The measure, which now goes back to the House for action on the bonus amendment, carried one of the largest of peace-time appropriations for the combined regular and emergency ex penditures of government depart ments. The $| .300,000,000 original public w’orks appropiration included in a de ficiency bill three years ago was the record. The largest emergency peace-time appropriation not included in a regu lar supply measure was last year’s $1,880,000,000 for work and direct re lief. THOMAS D. WARREN PASSES SUDDENLY Former State Democratic Chairman and Eastern Carolina Lawyer Dies at New Bern New Bern, Feb. 17—(AP)—Thomas D. Warren, 64, well-known Eastern Carolina lawyer, political leader and former chairman of the State Demo cratic Executive Committtee, died suddenly at his home here at 12:30 a. m. today of a heart attack. Al though in poor health for the past several weeks, Mr. Warren retired last night feeling as well as usual. He was stricken about midnight and died half an hour later. Funeral arrangements have not yet been announced. Refunding N. C, Bonds Is Studied Hally Dispatch Hareii*. Id The Sir Walter Hotel, By J. O. BASKEIIVILL Raleigh, Feb. 17. —Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus and State Treasurer Charles M. Johnson, are in New York today and will probably remain there until tomorrow, discussing possible bond refunding plans with bond at torneys and bankers there. They left here last night and were due to ar rive in New York this morning. Plan Not New. For more than two years now Gov ernor Ehringhaus and State Treasur er Johnson, with the assistance of the State’s bond attorney in New (Continued on Page Three.) Big Victory In Ethiopia Is Claimed By Italians Most Sweeping Advance of Troops in North Since Early Stages of War Ann ounced; Ethiopia Also Lays Claim to Victory on the Southern Battlefront (By the Associated Press.) Claims of a great Italian victory in northern Ethiopia were put forth in Home today as the Italian govern ment reported the most sweeping ad vance of troops in the north since the early days of the war with Ethiopia. The Italians said they had captur ed 300 square miles of new territory in a six-day battle, which brought death to 5,000 Ethiopians and wounds to 15,000 more. The total alleged Eth iopian casualties, 20,000, was exactly the same figure as was advanced by PIIIMAN’S SPEECH I Hull’s Disclaimers Do Not Obviate High Position Senator Occupies lly CHARLES 1\ STEWART Washington, Feb. 17 —It is no sec ret in Washington that Senator Key Pittman ’ai persistent warnings that Ihe United States must prepare for war with Japan or expect to take a licking when a conflict between the two nations does come are embarras sing to Secretary of State Cordell Hull if not to /ie entire Roosevelt admin istration . From a militarist’s standpoint it is true, of course, that, a case can be made out of a clash of interests in the Pacific between Uncle Sam and Ja pan . However, Secretary Hull is not viol ently militaristic. Obviously he is disinclined to have a war if one can be avoided—not ne cessarily to yield too much to Japan, but not to be provocative either. PROVOCATIVE Senator Pittman, on his part, is pro vocative. What makes his fulminations espe cially trying to the State Department is the fact he is chairman of the Son (Continued on Page Five.) OUR WEATHER MAN FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Mostly cloudy, with possibly oc casional light rain in extreme west portion tonight and In west portion Tuesday; somewhat cold er in extreme west portion Tues day. I which must be brought from Moscow (see map) if Japanese planes anc troops (top to bottom right), which are reported ready for any emer gency, cut off ingress to Outer Mongolia from Russian army base at V ladivostok <Central Pres») Ethiopian sources last week concern ing the Italians. The Italian casualties in the battle were said by the Italian government to have been 1,500, of which less than 500 were killed. The Italians said that their front lines in the north now were within 20 miles of Amba Alaji, the famous ridge that their punitive expedition reached in 1896—before the Ethio pians cut the army to pieces in one (Continued on Page Four.) EXPERT TELLS HOW INFLATION STARTS Excess Reserves, Expansion of Deposits and Dollar Devaluation Aid By LESLIE ELSCIIEL New York, Feb. 17—Who starts in flation? Is it the government? Probably, by expanding credit with its huge borrowings. Read this summary by the Alexan der Hamilton Institute, of New York: “Economic and financial conditions in the United States at the present, time are very much influenced by the fear of inflation. This fear arises from several circumstances which may be briefly summarized as fol lows: (1) the huge excess reserve balances of the member banks with the Federal Reserve banks; (2) the steady expansion of deposits in the commercial banks; (3) the possibility of further devaluation of the dollar. The surplus balances of the mem ber banks with the reserve banks have been created chiefly by the huge influx of gold from abroad following the devaluation of the dollar. Since each dollar of member bank reserve (Continued on Page Five.) HIRAM PERCY MAXIM; INVENTOR, IS DEAD Throat Infection Fatal in Colorado Hospital, Where He Went On Way to California La Junta, Cal., Feb. 17.— (AP) — Hiram Percy .Maxim, of Hartford, Conn., international known inventor and mechanical engineer, died in Men nonite hospital here today of a throat infection. Maxim was en route by train to the west coast with his wife last week when he became ill. He had been in the hospital here since. The inventor was 67 years old, and was born at Brooklyn, N. Y. Maxim was electrical engineer for a number of concerns and later or ganized his own firm to manufacture ordnance articles of which he was the inventor. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. SAYS GOVERNMENT DEPRESSED COTTON Federal) Tinkering Blamed for Sharp Price Decline Last March 11 INQUIRY is STARTED Head of Great Texas Cotton Merch andising Firm Testifies, Decla. lug Market for Cotton Disrupted > ” 5r Washington, Feb. 17 (AP) —'Opening testimony in the Senate Agriculture Committee’s investigation of cotton futures exchanges, W. L. Clayton, of Houston, Texas, today blamed “gov ernment tinkering” for the two-cents price break on March 11, 1935. Clayton, head of Anderson, Clayton & Company, one of the world’s larg est cotton merchandising firms, said for the past six years “there has been no cotton market in the traditional sense that prices are normally estab lished by competitive buying and sell ing.” During that whole period the pre dominant price influence has been the hand and voice of the government, he said. “The market has gone up and down not because of changing conditions of supply and demand, but in response to governmental moves in cotton, (Continued on Page Five) Rivers Are Subsiding In Lower Areas Raleigh, Feb. 17.— (AP) — Muddy flood waters in Eastern North Caro lina streams began to subside in the upper reaches today, but raged on in middle and lower stretches, doing minor damage and covering thous ands of acres of lowlands. The Cape Fear reached 45.7 feet at Fayetteville yesterday, and was down a foot today, Lee A. Denson, Weather Bureau head here, reported. At Smithfield, the Neuse was on a stand at 19 feet, while the Roanoke at Weldon was 41 feet deep this morn ing, some ten feet above its banks, (Continued on Page Two.) Beard Faces Six Capital Offenses Raleigh, Feb. 17.—(AP) —Robert T. Hurt, criminal district attorney of Dallas county, Texas, said here today Dwight Beard, North Carolina des perado, faces trial in Dallas on six charges, under each of which his life will be at stake. Beard, a resident of Caldwell coun ty before he was convicted of the mur der of Augustus Bounous, at Valdese, escaped from (State’s Prison last fall while serving a life sentence given 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY GOVERNMENT GAINS MAJOR VICTORY BY EIGHT-ONE RULING Justices Decide Disposition of Power Is Question for Congress, Not the Courts HOLD GOVERNMENT OWNS POWER SOLD Nothing In Constitution To Prevent Its Selling of Sur plus Generated in Deve loping Any Navigable River and Providing for the National Defense Washington, Feb. 17 (AP) In a decision which did not reach the constitutionality of the TV A as a whole, the Sup reme Court today upheld the right of the government to dia* pose of surplus power from dams constructed for purposes of navigation control, or as a national defense measure. In an eight-to-one decision, read by Chief Justice Hughes, and with Mc- Reynolds dissenting 1 , the court held the construction of Wilsoin darn at Muscle Shoals was constitutional, and that the government purchase of transmission lines from the Alabama Power Company to distribute the en ergy was also valid. Minority for Dismissal. A minority contended that the court should have dismissed the case. After ruling that the construction of the Wilson dam was an act of na tional defense, and for the improve ment of navigation, was legal, the court held that there was no consti tutional prohibition against the man ner in which the Tennessee Valley Authority was disposing of the cur rent generated' there. “Surplus power" Is power produced in excess of gov ment needs. In an opinion by Justice Brandies, joined by Cardozo, Roberts and Stone, it was contended that the suit should have been dismissed ibecause of lack of jurisdiction. Thereupon, Justice Mcßeynolds (Continued on Pago Two.) PANTAGES, WEALTHY THEATRE MAN, DIES Los Angeles, Cal., Feb. 17 (AP) Alexander Pantages, wealthy theatre owner, horseman and veteran of the Klondike gold days, was found dead in bed at liis home here today. The cause of death apparently was heart failure. He was G 4 years old. (derating principally in the west ern part of the United States, Pant ages sold his large theatre chain to RKO in 1929, hut in 1933 he again headed an independent exhibiting or ganization . Pantages was born on an island off the Greek mainland, and as a youth worked in Cairo, Egypt. Inquiry Os Townsend's Plan Seat Washington, Feb. 17 (AP) —A reso lution for a congressional investiga tion of the Townsend and other old age pension movements was approv ed today by the House Rules Commit tee. The committee reported favorably the resolution by Representative Bell, Democrat, Missouri, calling for ap pointment by Speaker Byrns of an eight-man investigating committee, composed of four Democrats Republicans. Chairman O’Connor, Democrat, New York, said he would call the resolu (Continued on Page Three.) him when Governor Ehringhaus com muted his sentence of electrocution. Hurt said Beard was charged with murder in Dallas in the death of an inactive pensioned police officer, who was shot fatally as he tried to stop a hold-up of a garage. In addition, Beard faces five other charges of robbery with firearms, and under Texas law the death penalty can be imposed in each case if con viction is obtained, Hurt said.
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