'HENDERSON
gateway TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-THIRD year
EDWARD’S DECISION NEAR
Ehringhaus Message Ready
i or The Extra Legislative
Session Starting Thursday
VANGUARD ARRIVES
II STATE CAPITAL
FOR PRELIMINARIES
Hoey To Meet With As
sembly Leaders Tonight
To Discuss Social Se
curity Program
SEAT ASSIGNMENTS
OMIT GREGG CHERRY
That Is Taken To Mean He
Wili Certainly Be Elected
Speaker; Governor Leaves
For Indianapolis Meeting
By Air, and Will Return
Wednesday
Raloisrh, Dec. 8. —(AP) —Governor
Ehringhaus finished his message for
the special legislative session which
convenes here Thursday before he
left for Indianapolis this morning,
and f id it would be “short and to the
point."
It won’t take more than 15 min
utes to deliver the message,” J. C. B.
Eh nr.-i ha us, Jr., private secretary to
his father, said.
The governor will, return here to
morrow.
A meeting of some of the legisla
tors will be held here tonight a.t the
roque.-' of Governor-elect Clyde Hoey
to discuss the proposed social security
legislation, it was learned.
Attorney General A. A. F. Seawell
remained in Washington conferring
with Federal Social Security Board
officials on the bill to .be offered the
General Assembly, so the State may
comply with the Federal unemploy
ment insurance act.
Seat assignments of the legislators
were released this morning, showing
R Gregg Cherry, of Gaston, slated
to he elected speaker of the House,
had b* en assigned the mythical House
seat NG 120, which does not exist.
Early arrivals for the session in-
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CABINET CRISIS IN
JAPAN IS REPORTED
Tokyo, Dec. B.—(AP) Japanese
F"r*'ign Minister Hashiro Arita has
pii-sented his resignation to Premier
Knki Hirota, the newspaper Miyalio
reported today.
Sues Catitor
For $250,000
Now Is Dead
•\<W York, Dec, B.— (AP)—David
nan, whose $250,000 breach of
.-uit against Eddie Cantor,
creen and radio comedian
1 yesterday in supreme court,
d doling the night in his sleep at
I me on the upper West Side.
• dman, gag and script writer for
. and collaborator with the
■ 'ii on several magazine articles
u ■ oks, charged the comedian with
i • Mon of an oral contract for
ts per cent of Cantor’s earnings.
f -'i ' . rlman was the first witness in
,al yesterday, and spent several
'i < f on the stand testifying to his
association with Cantor.
120,000 Applicants Seek
Soil Payments In State
'Ucge Station, Raleigh, Dec. 8. —
me 120,000 applications for pay
i under the 1936 soil conservation
!' ram will ibie made by North Car
' 1 ' farmers, it was estimated here
to f jav
Around 15,000 applications have
f < "n received in the State office, said
J F. Criswell, of State College, and
°'n rs are coming in at the rate of
»onnd 1,500 a day.
A fast as the applications can be
' < 'mined and approved in the State
'Alice, he said, they are being sent on
U Washington for final approval and
Hintfrirsmt Daily Dtsmrfrh
SERVICE OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
Riviera Refuge for Wallis
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This radiophoto from London shows the Mrs. Herman Rogers villa at
Cannes, France, wherd Mrs. Wallis Simpson is reported hiding as she
awaits the outcome of the present crisis in England.
LATITUDE GRANTED
STATESJN LEVIES
Social Security Expert from
Washington Speaks at
Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, Dec. B.—(Af )—Ewen
Clague, of the United States Social
Security Board, emphasized today
that each state has great latitude for
the framing of its unemployment
compensation laws in an address to
the conference on social security
taxes being held at the University of
North Carolina.
“The State is free to write its own
law in its own way. There is a great
degree of flexibility in the whole pro
gram,’’ said Clague, who is associate
director of the Federal board’s bu
reau of research and statistics.
In his audience were a number of
North Carolina legislators who will
meet in Raleigh Thursday for a spe
cial session of the General Assembly
OUR mATHEP MAN
FOR WORTH CAROLINA.
Mostly cloudy, slightly warmer;
Wednesday unsettled, slightly
wanner, possibly rain.
payment.
Criswell estimated that the bulk of
Nfarth Carolina’s applications would
reach the State office by December
31 and would be sent to Washington
by January 15 or 20.
The bulk of the payment checks
should start flowing in the latter part
of January and in February, Criswell
stated.
Until he has checked on more ap
plications, he will not be able to es
timate the total amount North Caro-
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ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
Norwegian Vessel
Sunk by Spaniards
Oslo, Norway, Dec. B.—(AP)
The Norwegian foreign office was
informed touay the 1,196-ton Nor
wegian steamer Gulnes had been
bombed by insurgent Spanish air
planes while entering Seville har
bor, and that one seaman had been
killed.
The ship owner said the vessel
was empty and under way from
Oporto to Seville to collect a cargo
of ore. She never has carried con
traband, he added.
The foreign office is conducting
a vigorous investigation.
FARMERS DROPPED
BY WPA GET MONEY
Cash Will Be Furnished to Them by
Resettlement Administration,
Washington Rules
Washington, Dec. B.—(AP’)—Reset
tlement officials announced today
that 250,000 farmers in drought areas
who are being discharged from relief
jolts by the WPA would be given di
rect money grants by the Resettle
ment Administration.
The office of Will W. Alexander,
acting head of Resettlement, said this
plan had been agreed upon after a
•conference with WPA officials.
Previously, both agencies had said
that all drought farmers cut from
WPA rolls would be investigated be
fore being placed on direct relief.
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Thursday, December 10
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Henderson Daily Dispatch
HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 8, 1936
(Central Press)
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Above map shows the route Mrs.
Wallis Warfield Simpson took to
Cannes, where she hoped to find
sanctuary with Mr. and Mrs.
Herman Livingston Rogers of
New York, who have occupied a
villa at Cannes for 10 years.
—Central Prezs
Sweringens
Recovered
Rail Lines
Three Billion Pro
perty Lost Sept. 30,
1935, Then Regain
ed on Same Dav
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Washington, Dec. 8. —(AP) —Senate
investigators heard today ' the late
Van Sweringen brothers lost their $3,-
000,000,000 rail and industrial system
on September 30, 1935—and “regained
control the same day without putting
up a five-cent piece."
This testimony was given the Sen
ate Interstate Commerce Committee
a tthe same time as the possibility
grew that J. P. Morgan would be
summoned to a Capitol witness stand
for the third time in four years to
answer questions as to his reasons
Ifor relinquishing control of the na
tion’s largest thansportation set-up.
Evidence that the whole system, in
cluding 249 companies, was controll
ed through $8,250 worth of stock,
opened the second day of hearings in
the Senate’s railway financing inves
tigation.
Innocence
Plea Made
By Bailey
Columbus, Ohioi, Dec. 8 (AP) —
Reese Bailey, 30, described by Fede
ral agents as a dangerous gunman,
pleaded innocent today to a charge
of assault with a deadly weapon in
arraignment before Federal Judge
Mell G. Underwood.
Bailey’s trial was set for Thursday.
He was wounded three times in a
gun battle with Federal agents and
captured September 13 on his poultry
farm nine miles northwest of Jack
son. He escaped from the Raleigh,
N. C., State Prison two years ago.
Federal authorities also want Bail
ey for the slaying of a Rosalia, Wash,
marshal during a bank robbery and
for violation of the national automo
bile theft act at Asheville, N. C.
ENGLAND WAITS TO HEAR EDWARD
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King Edward vm speaking into microphone
All England waited and wondered whether King Edward would talk
to the people directly over the radio.
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Mysterious Air Liner Is
Sent To Simpson Retreat
From London Airdrome
Tar Heel Robbery
Is Christmas Urge
New York, Deo. 8 (AP) —Puz-
zled by loot detectives said two
Gastonia, North Carolina, youths
gathered in a hold-up foray against
haberdashery shops, an officer
asked today what they had in
tended doing with the merchan
dise.
“We were going to give it away
for Christmas presents,” replied
one of the pair, self-identified as
Erie Grice, 21.
Grice had his companion, who
gave his name as Robert Bracket,
20, were charged with assault and
battery.
Social Bill
Will Place
Tax On Pay
State Will Collect
Nine-Tenths of One
Percent To Be Sent
to Washington
Dally Dispatch Bureau,
(n the Sir Walter Hotel.
By J. r. BASKCHVIU,
Raleigh, .Dec. 8. —The unemploy
ment insurance bill which will be pre
sented to the special session of the
General Assembly here Thursday
morning by Governor J. C. B. Ehring
haus, will be a tax bill and will - levy
a tax of ninetenths of one percent on
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Chopping
Vy^DAYS
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PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
Edward Meets Brothers and
Advisors at Fort Belve
dere Before An
nouncing Decision
PAIR DETERMINED
TO PRESS BATTLE
King and Mrs. Simpson An
xious for Morganatic Mar
riage They Have Planned;
Mrs. Simpson Has Said,
However, She Was Will
ing To Give Up the King
London, Dec. 8. —(AF) —A chartered
air liner carried two home office of
ficials and a physician on a myster
ious mission to France today, while
King Edward, still facing his great
decision at ice-glazed Fort Belvedere,
met his brothers and advisors.
The air liner, which informed per
sons said had an undoubtedly sig
nificant role in King Edward’s unique
and intense struggle with self and
government, heart and throne, took
off from Croydon airdrome en route
to Cannes, where Mrs. Wallis Simpson
is secluded. Treacherous flying weath
er, however, stopped the plane at Le
Bourget, France, Croydon officials
said.
No explanation was immediately
forthcoming of the nature of the
aerial mission, or the intention of its
passengers, who were identified only
by occupation at the airdrome.
Beneath the fluttering flag which
the king uses to signify the self-es
tablished demarkation between his
state and private life, Edward group
ed for escape from his quandary, for
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Untold Deaths Occur In
Great Philippine Flood
Manila, P. 1., Dec. 8. —(AP) — The
peaceful farming valley of Cagayan
was a devastated graveyard of untold
dead today.
Flood waters of the mighty Cagay
an river, largest in the Philippines,
swept thousands to their deaths, of
ficial Philippine army advices said,
and left other thousands missing.
Officials marshaling the common
wealth’s relief agencies, expressed
fear the full extent of what they
termed “the greatest disaster the
Philippines has experienced,” would
never be known.
Populations of entire barriors—
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BALDWIN HURRIES
TO KING’S PALACE
AT LATTER’S CALL
If Decision Is Given To
night, It May Be With
held Until Wednes
day Forenoon
BALDWIN MAY TELL
HOUSE OF COMMONS
If Abdication Conies, How-
Edward May Give
Tip by Flight from Coun
try; British Empire And
World Wait Momentous
Events Now Transpiring
London, Dec. 8 (AP) —Prime Min
ister Stanley Baldwin reached Fort
Belvedere this evening, summoned by
his king, presumably to receive the
final decision of Edward VIII on re
nunciation of either his throne or
Wallis Warfield Simpson.
The premier hastened over the icy
roads from London to enter the gates
of the royal lodge in the gathering
darkness, while suspense hung heavy
ever London, England and the empire.
It generally was believed the deci
sion, even if given tonight at Fort
Belvedere, would be withheld from
the public until Baldwin has an op
portunity to communicate it to the
House of Commons.
If the answer is abdication, the
king might give the tip-off by quick
flight from the country.
Edward’s youngest brother, the
Duke of Kent, was believed to have
participated in tonight’s crucial meet
ing. There also were reports the
motor car of the Duke of York, Ed
ward’s heir presumptive, had been
seen entering a side entrance of the
estate.
BITTER COLD HALTS
DRIVE OF FASCISTS
Government Artillery Batteries Rake
Insurgent Lines With Heavy
Fire At Madrid
Madrid, Dec. B.—(AP)—Government
artillery batteries raked insurgent
lines with heavy fire today as a bit
ter cold wave delayed expected Fas
cist infantry assaults around the cap
ital’s outskirts.
The bombardment was concentrated
against insurgent fortifications in two
districts.
The emergency defense council dis
closed 21 persons were killed during
an insurgent aerial attack on a pro
vincial capital northeast of Madrid.
Winter Is
Moderated
Over West
dy The Associated Fitss.)
Moderating weather today marked
the apparent end of winter’s sub-zero
thrust into the Middle West. At least
nine deaths were attributed to the
cold.
Temperatures ton to twenty above
".ero were the outlook in the Dakotas
and Minnesota wnere the frigid wave
was held accour tulle for six deaths.
A light snow covered most of the
northwest. Lew for that area last
night was 11 below at Dickinson, N.
D.
In Illinois the mercury rose grad
ually from yesterday’s lows, ranging
down to 13 below at Freeport. Three
cold-induced deaths were counted in
the Chicago area.
The fishing tug Dorothy Irene, with
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suburban clusters of native huts—
were wiped out. The river, swelled by
the northern Luzon island’s heaviest
rainfall, swept down the populous val
ley last Friday, trapping most of the
victims as they slept.
Entire families were caught by the
unexpected torrents, aftermath of a
typhoon. They were carried scream
ing toward the sea. The unprecedent
ed flood covered more than 100 miles
of rich tobacco and rice farming lands
northeast of Manila.
Fifty-four villages were known to
be inundated. A large part of the area
most populous rural section on Luzon
island, had not been heard from.