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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-THIRD YEAR SCHOOL BUS WRECK PROVES FATAL FOR MOORE COUNTY LAD Earl Callaway Fatally Hurt and Nearly All of the 35 Occupants of Vehicle Are Injured BROTHER OF CHILD KILLED IS DRIVER Report Says He Was Trying to Light Cigarette While Truck Was Going Down Hill; Lost Control and Crashed into Tree; Many of Children in Hospital Carthage, May 5. —(AP) —Ear! Cal laway, 10, was fatally injured and 17 other school children were hurt today when a Moore county school bus wrecked on the High Falls-Carthage road six miles from here. Sheriff C. J. McDonald said an in vestigation was under way to deter mine the cause of the accident. Eight children were taken to the hospital for treatment of injuries. Nine children were hurt slightly, hut released after emergency treat ment. Sheriff McDonald said he under stood Roy Callaway, 16, was driving the bus. substituting for his brother. Robert, the regular driver. The child killed was a brother of the driver. The sheriff said he had heard a re port that a witness of the wreck, a Mr. Crabtree, said the driver of the bus was trying to light a cigarette as the vehicle was going downhill. The boy lost control and the bus jumped across a side road and sideswiped a tree, he said. No time for an inquest had been set this afternoon. All children live in the vicinity in which the accident occurred. At the Moore county hospital at Pinehurst, where the injured chil dren were taken, nurses said it was not thought any were seriously in jured, though several were painfully hurt. One nurse said she understood there were about 35 children in the bus and “practically every one suf fered bruises and cuts.” GAINS FOR GRAHAM LIKELY THIS WEEK His Supporters Predict Best Week He Has Had Dur ing Campaign Ulllly l)lsp:it«h Rnrrnn. 'if Tin* Sir \V:iltor Hotel, l>v .1, C. HASKICn Raleigh, May 5. —The managers! and supporters of Lieutenant Gover nor A. H. (Sandy) Graham in his campaign for the Democratic nomi nation for governor are predicting that he will make a better showing this week than at any time so far, hi the grounds that the Democrats of the State who are opposed to Dr. Ralph W. McDonald of Winston- Salem are at last waking up to the fact that Graham is the only candid ate who can defeat McDonald in a second primary. They maintain that most of Graham’s supporters are moderate liberals who will not vote for Clyde R. Hoey because he is too closely linked with the present ad ministration and the old ‘•machine,” with the result that in a second pri mary in which Hoey and McDonald were the candidates, most of the Gra ham backers would vote for McDon ald. But in a second primary between Graham and McDonald, even though the former college professor might tun ahead of the field in the first primary, Graham would win because he woul gdet at least 90 per cent of the Hoey vote, the Graham forces contend. The Hoey supporters, although be lin —— (Continued on Page Three.) Maryland Man Is Killed Entering Norlina Store James B. Austin Shot by H enry Wiggins in Early Morn ing Hour; Body Held at Warrenton Pending Word From Relatives of Would Be Robber James B. Austin, about 30, tenta tively identified as being from Salis bury, Md., was shot and killed about 2 o’clock this morning by Henry Wiggins at a beer garden a few hun dred yards south of Norlina after Austin had attempted to break into the establishment. Wiggins was sleep •ng in the building which is located on the national highway. According to information received here, Austin attempted to enter the place from the rear and Wiggins fired into the ceiling to frighten the man, Austin later appeared at a side —.. HENoetfgu"*- _ tiimurrsmt Hatly iHsmttrb ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRmNTA ' Deserts His People HAILE SELASSIE, Fugitive emperor of Ethiopia M’DONALD VOTE ON HOTHS,MEALSTAX House Journal Cited to Show He Did Favor Measure, Despite Per sistent Denials GRAHAM AND HOEY DENOUNCE CLAIMS Graham Even Hotter About It Than Hoey, Who First Dug Up the Issue; After AH, It Was Spite Bill Ori ginating in House; McDon ald Style “Blatant” Dully Dl;*|»>it<'k (tiire’in. In The Sir Walter Hotel, Itv .1. C nA MR Hit VI 1,1, Raleigh, May s—More political smoke is being generated here over the fact that Dr. Ralph W. McDon ald voted for the bill to impose the sales tax on hotel meals and rooms, as well as to increase the license tax on hotels, than over anything that has yet developed during the precent gub ernatorial campaign. The cloud of smoke became thicker and hotter to day as a result of Dr. McDonald’s statement in which he denied “sup porting” this bill but in which he did not deny voting for the bill, and the sizzling rejoinders made to his state ment by Clyde R. Hoey and Sandy Graham. Both Hoey and Graham pointed out that page 788 of the House Journal for 1935 shows that Dr. McDonald voted for the passage of House Bill 1360, to impose the sales tax on hotel rooms and meals when the bill came up for second reading, iConHnued on Paee Six.) window and tried to enter there, and Wiggins fired directly at him, the shot taking effect near the left ear. Wiggins said an automobile was waiting nearby, its headlights on. When he fired the first time the lights were turned off and the car was driven away, it was stated. A card in the dead man’s pocket was the means of his identification. It was a chauffeur’s license card for the Diamond Taxicab Company of Baltimore, Md., and the address was (Continued on Page Three.) LEASED WIRE SERVICE OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. WAR IS NOW OVER, IL DUCE PROMISES PEOPLE IN SPEECH Mussolini Speaks After Si renes and Bells Call Na tion into Great Celebration HALF THE POPULACE SPRINGS INTO LINE Second Time Since Italy’s War With Ethiopia Start ed That National Adunata Has Been Ordered by Dic tator; First Occasion Was Last October 2 Rome, May 5 (AP) —Pre- mier Mussolini declared to night “the war is over” and “Ethiopia is Italian.” II Duce spoke after sirenes and bells in Rome summoned the citizens to celebration of the news that Addis Ababa had fallen. The summons was to the long-ex pected adunata, or national mass meeting, called to symbolize Italy’s victory over Ethiopia. In response to the tocsin, half the population of Italy sprang to military and semi-military formation. It was the second time since Italy’s war with Ethiopia started that II Duce called on the people to march in military formation to public plazas and listen to his radio commands. The first occasion was October 2, 1935. Speaking to 20,000.000 soldiers, blackshirts and'members of organiza tions gathered in military formation in the 7,329 cities, towns and villages of the kingdom, he shouted a warning that Italians would push into Ethio pia. BANKHEAD DEFENDS CREDITS ON COTTON Washington, May 25. —(AP) —Sena- tor Bankhead, Democrat, Alabama, defended the American Cotton Coop erative Association today in a minor ity report on a Senate investigaion into expenditures by the Federal gov ernment for cotton cooperatives. Senator McKellar, Tennessee, Dem ocrat, and Townsend, Republican, Delaware, filed the majority report last month, Senator Townsend said he support ed neither the majority nor minority reports, explaining he had signed the majority report only to enable it to be published. He said he had not at tended the hearings. The Alabaman wrote: "It does not appear, as stated, that capital loans to the American Cotton Cooperative Association and its af filiates have been recklessly or wan tonly made, or that those whom the President has entrusted with respon sibility for the affairs of the Farm Credit Association have been recreant to their trust.” ECONOMffiIM New Deal Created Pros perity Can’t Last With Trade Throttled By LESLIE EICHEL Central Press Staff Writer LEADING FINANCIERS are mak ing a determined effort to have the Republican party declare for lower tariffs and removal of other trade and currency barriers. Republican chiefs, however, are up in the air over upset ting Republican tradition. Big financial interests —particularly international bankers —are nervous over the present tendencies of world security markets. The Wall Street Journal puts these fears into a nutshell by asserting, “In formed opinion leaned to the belief that world stock markets are reflect ing fears that world economic re covery cannot go much further unless leading countries cut through the pre sent tangle of political and financial problems.” Spread of political instability in Eu rope is looked for. The chief cause of this instability is economic dislocation Unless freer interchange of trade and currency is brought about among the countries of the world, international bankers fear that Europe may go completely communistic. Even the dictatorships cannot survive the eco (Continued on Page Three.) OUR WEATHER MAN rs y,, FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Fair tonight and Wednesday. HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 5, 1936 Roosevelt Easy Winner In Primary In Maryland Over Anti-New Deal Foe FEW UNDERSTAND NEW TAX MEASURE Will Be Fine Thing for Experts to Argue and Charge Big Fees By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Staff Writer Washington, May s.—The Senate Fi nance Committee now is wrestling with the tax bill recently passed by the House of Representatives. It is a safe bet that not a dozen men in Washington understand that bill. There are members of the House committee, which framed it, who ad mit that they do not understand it. Therj are others who certainly do not understand it, although they do not admit it. The Treasury Depart ment, which inspired it, cannot ex plain it comprehensively. In part it is mathematically so complicated that it has to be expressed in terms of lo garithms. Even astronomers confess that logarithms are puzzling. As finally adopted, the program as suredly will be a glorious thing, how ever, for legal tax experts to fight (Continued on Page Three.) U, S. Legation In Ethiopia Safe; Italians In Command Where Americans in Addis Ababa Were in Deadly Peril Americans as well as British citizens sought refuge in the British Legation grounds at Addis Ababa (below), which is bomb-proofed and protected by a troop of 200 Sikh soldiers (above). Americans had fled from the United States Legation (inset) after the streets of the city were overrun by hill bandits and guerillas s Emperor Haile Selassie fled from his capital. (Central Press) Italy To Protect Interest of U. S. Washington, May 5. —(AP) —The United States has received assur ances from the Italian government that lives and property of foreign ers in Addis Ababa would be pro tected, according to the rules of war, as soon as ItaUan forces oc cupy the city. This was learned today shortly after word from London that a large force of Italian troops had entered Addis Ababa. Earlier, America’s fighting envoy, Cor nelius Van H. Engert and the lit tle band whjch staved off attacks of Ethiopian .bandits had been evacuated safely to the British Legation. The Italian assurances were given the American Embassy in Rome in response to an inquiry from Secretary HulL President Has Five-to-One Lead Over Colonel Henry Breckenridge In Balloting MORE PRIMARIES IN WEST BEING HELD Complicated Tickets Fight for Support on California, While Roosevelt Is Unop posed in South Dakota; Republican Fight Is Over Delegates There (By the Associated Press.) Returns from the Maryland presi dential primary gave President Roose velt today a better than five-to-one margin over Colonel Henry Brecken ridge, foe of the New Deal, and as sured the chief executive the State’s 16 votes in the Democratic National Convention. , As the count of votes in Maryland was being completed, primaries were being held in California and South Dakota. In the Republican party in the coast states there is a contest be tween an uninstructed slate of can didates and a slate pledged to Gover nor Alf M. Landon, of Kansas. On the Democratic side voters had a choice among a slate picked by (Continued on Page Six.) RAVISHED BOgYOf Girl, 7, Had Been Assaulted and Killed Near Home In Maine City Waterville, Maine, May 5. —(AP)— The ravished body of Mary Proulx, 7, missing since Sunday, was found to day in a clump of alder bushes on the banks of the Messalonskee stream. The child had been bound and 'gag ged and apparently died of strangula tion. Circumstances of the slaying were virtually the same as those in the un solved slaying last October of Annie K. Knights, 12, school girl of nearby (Continued on Page Six.) PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Court To Rule On Important Cases Raleigh, May s.—((AP)—The Su preme Court took under consider ation today cases involving State statutes prohibiting the operation of slot machines and requiring li censes of buyers of scrap tobacco. The slot machine case hinged on whether a machine possessed by James Humphries, of Fayetteville, was a game of skill. Humphries appealed from a lower court con viction for possessing and operat ing a gambling device. The scrap tobacco case, appeal ed by the State from a ruling by Judge F. A. Daniels holding the law 'unconstitutional, involved J. A. Morrison, an admitted scrap to bacco dealer of Lumberton. Simmy Retires Despite Request of President That He De sist for While Chicago, May S.—(AP) —Major Gen eral Johnson Hagood issued general orders today relinquishing command of the Sixth Corps Area and the sec ond field army—a command which he assumed only last Saturday. He asserted President Roosevelt, in a personal interview, had requested him “not to retire at this time.” The general yesterday was order ed home to await retirement at his own request. He referred to the appointment from which he retired as a “vindica tion command.” He previously had been removed as head of the Bight (Continued on I age Three.) Resting Place Os Big Meteor Near Winston Sought By Residents Winston-Salem, May 5. (AP)—• Residents of this section were trying to trace the resting place of a meteor believed to have fallen near here early this morning. At nearby Lexington many people reported being awakened abut 3 a. m. by a heavy explosion and flash in the sky northeast of Lexington and railroad employees said they had seen what appeared to be a meteor across the city from northeast to southeast. Windows were rattled in many 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY MISTER EH TAKES REFUGE IN BRITISH QUARTERS Refused To Leave on Ord ers of Secretary Hull Un til Legation Drove Off Bandits EMPEROR FLEEING AS EMPIRE FALLS Large Force of Italians Oc cupies Capital City of Ad dis Ababa; Foreigners Hope They Will Be Able To Restore Order; Rioting Has Been In Progress Washington, May 5 (AP) — The American Legation in Ad dis Ababa, which was evacuat ed early today by Minister Cor nelius Van H. Engert and his staff, has been reoccupied fol lowing the occupation of the Ethiopian capital by the Ital ians, the State Department was notified this afternoon. Washington, May 5 (AP) America’s fighting envoy, Cor nelius Van H. Engert, and the little band who had braved the dangers of massacre to defend the United States Legation in Addis Ababa were safely eva cuated today. Word that the defenders had left the building, which for four days had. been menaced by savage Ethiopian bandits bent on loot and murder, weus flashed here byway of London. No details were available beyond the terse oable: “U. S. Legation safely evacuated. M It was assumed that Minister En gert, his wife and the other occupants of the poorly fortified Legation had been taken to the stout British com pound, some three miles away. Secretary Hull last night sent an urgent plea to Engert to accept a British offer to convoy him to the com pound. But. at that time he said he would hold on a while longer in hopes of saving the Legation and the Ame rican wireless station from destruc tion . From Djibouti, French Somaliland, (Cso.itiiiued on Page Six) Labor Head To Support Roosevelt Washington, May s.—(AP)—Presi dent William Green of the American Federation of Labor, declared today for the re-election of President Roose velt. Addressing the convention of the National Women’s Trade Union Lea gue, he sadi: “We have been Inspired and thrill ed by the leadership destiny he has given us. We want to continue it.*' Reporters inquired subsequently if he had meant advocacy of the re election of Roosevelt. Green assented. In his speech, the labor leader spoke of "slaughter” of NRA wage and hour standards by Industry since the Supreme Court invalidated that New Deal agency. He contended prin ciples of that extraordinary law would be restored in legislation. The NRA and social security pro gram were praised by him. ,“We can’t,” he said, “afford to make any change in the leadership of this great forward movement.” houses, resident reported. The following is a typical report: “I woke up with the feeling that the' moon was dancing, and suddenly was blinded by a flash like lightning, which was followed by a sharp report like an explosion, which rattled win dows and which left a rumbling re beration like the roll of thunder.” The flash was also reported seen at Salisbury. Reports agreed the explosion oc curred about 3 a. m. ~
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