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TWENTY-THIRD YEAR
LEGISLATURE MEETS DEC. 10
i dward Tells Cabinet He Will Wed Mrs . Simpson
MONARCH HAS NO!
DECIDED HE, WILL
ABDICATE THRONE
Bui Cards Are Still Stacked
High Against Edward in
Firm Stand He
Has Taken
MRS. SIMPSON NOW
IN SOUTH FRANCE
Puts in Call to Buckingham
Palace from Village Where
She Stopped for Lunch;
Officials Firm Against the
King But Press And
Masses Are for Him
London. Dec. 5 (AP)— King
Edward of England told his
distressed irate cabinet today
lie i> determined to marry Wal
lis Simpson—and then formal
ly cancelled all his official en
gagements “for the present.”
His supporters seized joyful
ly on those last three words con
tain 1 in a Buckingham Palace
announcement. They thought
it meant, he merely wanted to
have his hands free to deal
with the present constitutional
crisis—Prime Minister Stanley
Baldwin’s ultimatum that he
and Mrs. Simpson must not
wed.
The kh.:. it was learned from a
1 1 i _h suum. has not decided to abdi
i:tu he has decided nothing except
that he will marry his American
friend.
But th cards still were stacked
h.gh against him.
La" today Lord Rothermere said
in rh" Evening News:
You cannot smuggle the greatest
iiving Englishman off the throne of
England during the week-end!”
Thi publisher urged “time for the
solution of the crisis.”
"Haste is indecent!” he proclaimed.
At Fort Belvedere the king was de
.-*<■! ihed as “cheerful and in the best
r he Utii by a friend who talked to
him hortly before 4 p. m.
M l. ENGAGEMENTS CALLED
IOK FREEDOM OF ACTJOU
London. Dec. 5. —(AP) —It was of
- Lilly announced from Buckingham
Fain, today "all of the king’s offi
cial engagements have been cancelled
for the present.”
Tn( formal announcement was tak-
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Russia Has
Rights To
Start War
1 IW. Dec. 5 (AP)—The con
<>: Soviets today approved the
Uu. dan constitution after
g it to create a commissariat
• ay industry and empower
government to declare war
11 ase of necessity.”
ause empowering the govern
■i declare war was believed in
d '() bolster the Soviet Unions
alliances with France and
1 ““t nations.
• t the original draft, war could
seen declared only in case of
lined attack against the Union
I i ialist Soviet Republics.”
‘ constitution as amended grants
<vernment power to wage war
of necessity to fulfill inter-
II ial obligations arising out of
iJ: d assistance pacts."
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Pope Pius Is Stricken With
Paralysis In Both His Legs
Summons Legislature To Meet
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Hull Asks The Americas
To Attempt World Peace
Arrests Man Who
Threatened Ginger
Washington, Dee. S.—(AP) —J.
Edgar Hoover, director of the Fed
eral Bureau of Investigation, said
today his agents had arrested
James F. Hall, 20-year-old sailor,
at Long Beach, Cal., on charges
of attempting to extort $5,000 from
Ginger Rogers, the movie actress.
Hall was arrested late last night
at a Long Beach case, Hoover said.
The agents Hoover aserted, led
Hall into u trap by carrying out
instructions contained in a letter
the film actress received on No
vember 27. It demanded delivery
of $5,000 at the case and threaten
ed the lives of Ginger Rogers and
her mother if the demand was not
met.
Hcover said Hall has signed a
confession that he forwarded two
extortion letters to the actress.
Hoey Plans
Job Awards
Upon Merit
Spoil System Expect
ed To Be Taboo In
New Administra
tion in State
Dnlly Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Wnlter Hotel.
By .1. C. BASKERVILI,
Raleigh, Dec. 5. — Will Governor
lect Clyde R. Hoey follow the prece
dent of past Democratic administra
tions in N*orth Carolina and place
public service ahead of political pat
ronage in making his appointments,
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HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY .AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 5, 1936
Cooperative Effort To Stave
Off War Abroad as Well
As Peace at Home
Is Urged
8-POINT PROGRAM
GIVEN CONFERENCE
Common Action for Wel
fore of Mankind Insisted
on at Buenos Aires by U. S.
Secretary of State; Happy
Position of New World Is
Recalled
Buenos Aires, Dec. 5. —(AP) —Secre-
tary Hull summoned the 21 American
nations today to cooperative effort to
help stave off war abroad as well as
to preserve peace at home.
Presenting to the inter-American
peace Conference an eight-point pro
gram for a comprehensive anti-war
structure, the head of the United
States delegation pleaded for the
creation of an “armory of peace” in
the interest of the whole world.
"I strongly entertain the hope,” he
said, “that a united group of Amer
ican nations may take common ac
tion at this conference further to as*-
sure peace among themselves and de
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OUR WEATHER MAN
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Partly cloudy tonight, Sunday
increasing cloudiness; slightly
warmer.
Weekly Weather: Rain at be
ginning and again after midde of
week; cooler Tuesd ; mild tem
peratures middle week and
colder latter part.
“He Is In The Hands Os
God,” One Prelate At
Vatican City Says
In Statement
PONTIFF RESIGNED
TO FUTURE TURNS
Willing To Get Better Or
Worse; Arterio Sclerosis
and High Blood Pressure
Combine To Bring About
Condition; Spends First
Day in Bed as Pope
Vatican City, Dec. 5 (AP) Pope
Pius was stricken with a light form
of paralysis in both legs today, high
Vatican officials reported.
Persons close to the Holy Father
disclosed a paralytic condition was
first noticed in his left leg and spread
to the right.
High prelates asserted the pontiff
could move his limbs somewhat, but
was unable to lift them.
Other parts of his body, they said,
were weak.
Nevertheless, the Holy Father’s
spirit remained excellent and he was
completely resigned to either getting
better or worse, these officials told
The Associated Press.
“He is in the hands of God,” one
prelate said solemnly.
The morning stroke was stated au
thoritatively to have been due to a
combination of arterio sclerosis and
high blood pressure.
Vatican officials said the pope had
cancelled all activities and audiences
and spent his first day in bed since
becoming head of the Catholic
Church.
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Commissioner Wants Child
Labor Ban, Work Hours,
Limit for Women
Asheville, Dec. 5.—-(AP) —Commis-
sioner A. L. Fletcher announced today
that the State Department of Labor
would recommend to the next General
Assembly legislation to regulate child
labor, hours of labor, the employment
of women in industry, wage payments
and collection, and social security.
He outlined the proposed recom
mendations as follows:
Adoption of the so-called model
child labor act patterned after the
laws of Ohio, Wisconsin, Montana,
New York, Pennsylvania, Massachu
setts, Rhode Island and Connecticut,
prohibiting the employment of chil
dren under 16 in manufacturing es
tablishments and requiring certifica
tion of those 16 and 17.
Limiting the hours of labor to eight
hours a day and 48 hours a week in
both manufacturing and service in
dustries for men and women.
Adoption of the 46-hour week upon
similar action by eight or twelve
states designated as competing states.
Provision of the following stand
ards for women: eight hour day and
48-hour week; at least one day off in
every seven; lunch period of at least
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Present Generation Not
Hardy Pioneers Enough
To Stand Gaff
By CHARLES P. STEWART
' Central Press Columnist
Washington, Dec. 5 'President
Roosevelt, by his visit to South Ame
rica, has advertised South American
nations as ones with which the Unit
ed States desires to be friends. But
South America is not a desirable part
of the world for North American col
onization.
We can advantageously send our
southern continent’s big cities and de
velop our business relationships with
the folk out in the sticks.
But we ourselves cannot stand the
South American sticks; they are too
primitive for us.
They are exactly as nature created
them. They lack telegraphs, tele
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Sides With Cabinet
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Lord Derby
Opposing the friendship of King
Edward and Mrs. Wallis Warfield
Simpson, Lord Derby, above, close
friend of King Edward’s late fa
ther, sided with the government
when he told the assembled lord*
that “if you throw out this gov
ernment, you would have a gov*
ernment which would bring thi»
empire to dust in 12 months.”
Laborites say, however, that Lord
Derby heads a group of reaction
ary leaders whom King Edward
dismissed from royal favor when
he became monarch.
—Central Press
Government
Income From
Liquor Huge
$1,400,000,000 Put In
to Federal Purse
Since Repeal of
Prohibition Law
Washington, Dec. s.—(AP)—Clink
ing glasse of post repeal drinkers le
gally filled with tax-paid lisuor have
put $1,400,000,000 into the Federal
pure.
On the third anniversary of repeal,
Treasury statistics showed today the
pre-prohibition high in lisuor revenue
already has been passed, with a fur
ther increase anticipated this year.
Liquor tax receipts last year aggre
gated $505,464,000, a total of $94,443,000
more than the previous year, and $22,-
000,000 above the pre-prohibition peak
of 1918-19.
Receipts since July 1 totalled about
$225,000,000. Revenue for the entires
1936-37 fiscal period is expected to
aggregate $589,200,000.
MARRIED WOMEN ON
PAYROLL MAY,LOSE
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Kerr Scott Indicates Shake-
Up in State Department
of Agriculture
Dally Dispatch Bnreas,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By J. C. BA.SK.ER.VIIiI,
Raleigh, Dec. s—Married women
employes of the State government,
especially those whose husbands are
also employed by the State or whose
husbands have jobs elsewhere, are
getting jittery as a result of the an
nouncement made by W. Kerr Scott,
who will take office as commission
er of agriculture January 7, that he
intends to dismiss all married women
holding jobs in the Department of
Agriculture who have husbands who
are employed, also that he looks for
disfavor upon brother and sister,
brother and brother and similar fam
ily “teams” in his department. Scott
has announced that where two mem
bers of the same family hold jobs
in the Department of Agriculture, he
will expect one of these to resign.
All of which is causing consterna
tion among the married women who
are employes not only of the Depart
ment of Agriculture, but in all the
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PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
Ehringhaus Orders
Special Session To
Pass Security Law
dooms’ Duke of York
Ms
Eififfinjk
Lord Beaverbrook v -
Great Britain’s most powerful
publisher, Lord Beaverbrook,
above, has begun a “boom" to
place the Duke of York, Kmg
Edward’s brother, on the Erit: ,h
throne. This action is coinci
dent with the government crisis
in Britain over King Edward’s
friendship for the American-born
divorcee. Mrs. Wallis Warfield
Simpson. Lord Beaverbrook re*
cently returned to England the
same day he arrived in the United
States, reputedly because of alarm
over the publicity given the king
and Mrs. Simpson in the American
and Canadian press. The Duke of
York is looked upon with greater
favor by the British Conservatives
also because King Edward has
leaned toward Liberals and Luoor
ites.
—Central Press
Most of SBOO,OOO Out of
New Million To Go
There, Waynick Says
PRISON BENEFITS, TOO
Some New Industries To Supply State
Needs and Give Jobs to In
door Prisoners Are
Contemplated.
Dally Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By J. C. BASKEDVILU
Raleigh, Dec. 5. —'Plans for the irse
of the additional $1,000,000 just grant
ed to the State Highway and Public
Works Commission by Governor J C.
B. Ehringhaus from the highway sur
plus, have already been made, hue
will not be announced until submit
ted to the entire membership of the
highway commission at its next meet
ing, Chairman Capus M. Wfaynick said
today. This $1,000,000 was granted by
the governor with the understanding
that SBOO,OOO would be used on road
maintenance and betterments, chiefly
on the roads, and that $200,000 would
be used for providing additional pri
son industries or for expending those
now established in the prison di
vision.
While Chairman Waynick said to
day he could not definitely say how
this additional $1,000,000 would be
spent, he indicated that he would re
commend the use of some of it imme
diately and probably the allocation of
most of it within the next 30 to 60
days, although a good deal of the
work to be done with this money can
not Ibe done until spring. Some of the
SBOO,OOO earmarked for road work will
probably be held in resei v*: in anti
cipation of rrod damage by winter
weather, he indicated.
County Roads Benefit.
“While this money can be used on
either the county or State road .sys
tems, the plans which I expect to re
commend will call for the use of the
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Will Convene Next Thurs
day, December 10, Con
sisting of Newly-
Elected Solons
GOVERNOR THINKS
PRESENT ACT GOOD
Bel ieves It Sufficient To
)Qurflify State’s 'Participa
tion in Federal Funds;
Graham To Preside Over
Senate; First Extra Session
Since 1924
Raleigh, Dec. 5 (AP) — Gov
ernor J. C. B. Ehringhaus is
sued a call today for a special
session of the North Carolina
General Assembly to meet De
cember 10 at 11 a. m., to enact
social security legislation.
The session called today will be the
first special session of the Genei’al
Assembly since 1924, when Governor
Cameron Morrison convened the law
makers to enact laws permitting the
State !o establish and operate port
terminals.
The call issued by the governor and
the Council of Stato is for the new
legislature elected last November. It
said the solo.is would he asked to puds
legislation “acceptable to the Federal
Social Security Board.”
The governor made it plain he still
considered the Oherxy act of the 1935
legislature ample to qualify the State
for participation ijfi Federal social s«-
cuitv funds, despite a ruling of coun
sel for the security board, but said
he did not “wish to place an addi
tional burden on the Senate or Con
gress, or leave trie question of State
compliance open to the slightest pos
sibility of question.”
Business Not Limited
The call lists only unemployment
compensation insurance legislation
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HIT-RUN DRIVER IS
HELD FOR KILLING
Rocky Mount Boy Fatally Injured
and Companion Badly Hurt
Friday Afternoon
j Rocky Mount, Dec. 5 (AP)—Police
! today held a man they would not
i identify in connection with the hit
! and rur. death here late last evening
of a J2-yeai old child and the injur
ing of his 13-year-old| companion
while they walked along the edge of
a principal highway near here.
The victim, George Speight, son of
Mr. and Mr-. Seth E Speight of thi*
city, died in a local hospital without
! gaining consciousness ’Shortly after
the accident. Raymond Drew,
Gteorge’s -ompanior, was knocked
down by a glancing blow, he said, but
was •iot bcu n ved seriously injured.
Both boys and automobile were go
ing south.
Police sai'i a man ip a drunken
condition wu- picked up a few mile*
from town on the same highway aft
er he hud run his automobile into a
ditch.
They would not state hit and run
charges had been preferred against
him.
Bombing Os
Capital City
Worst Yet
House Destroyed,
Entombing Many
I Dead; Telephone
. Building Struck
Madrid. Dec. 5 (AP)—‘Fascist bomb
ers swept Madi V 1 today, adding at
least a score to the list of dea, con
tinually mounting, in the
aerial attack of the civil war.
One bomb which fell uring the
morning in Glorieta e Queveo, not
far from the American Embassy, e
stroyed an entire house, burying
many victims in tae ruins which are
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