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r HENDERSON gateway to 'central CAROLINA | TWEN T Y-THIRD YEAR L T^I E S s |SS5 T s E E D Rp R tf s of M EDWARD IS DELATING HIS DECISION WHOLESALE FIRING OF EMPLOYEES BY SCOTTJSSTARTED Action of New Commission er in Cleaning Out Ag riculture Personnel Demoralizing MANY SENTNOTICE ABOUT DISCHARGES W. H. Richardson, Director of publications. Is Among Bureau Heads New Com missioner Is Dropping; Retiring Commissioner Regrets Scott’s Moves v ji. Dec. 9. —(AP) —Six more -of the State Department •jure revealed today they , t e ived notices their services w be required after Commis- W. Kerr Scott takes of •ce ir. January. T Department, of Agriculture is ;>zed,” Commissioner William A am. who retires next month, r.n. :'.ed “Many have received -of dismissal, and many others wa; - anxiously to see if they wiLl get • t:ce- I hate to see my staff go. as I cier my organization one of the • tficient in the State.” Tr commissioner expressed hope • - James Higgs. Negro employee cf tin department, now in his 52nd (Continued on Page Six.> Grange For Stamp Tax Upon Sales R-. . Dec. 9 'AP)—Ben F. Wil f Mebane. master of the North Ca;o.; a Grange, urged the organiza r. •.■••day to go on tecord as favor tamp method of collection of tr- •• • percent general sales tax. W: -: , speaking at the annual G: . •. vention, praised Governor E“ r*: _haus for ‘'‘his constructive v. ; calling a special session of ’. :«' iture to .enact social secur i -t-lation, but added “it would :• •- seem wise for the special ses to consider other matters. T' : ■-•er advised convention dele .. ' -to give careful consideration to . itions favoring tobacco crop tc ■ through State compacts, old :.aion laws and the like, and .option of a resolution on the - tax, and one favoring a rural ’> .epnone system. Tv. • v-.seven resolutions were re to various committees four con i'.dotation. RHODES PROSPECTS GATHER IN DURHAM biikr and Wake Forest Seniors Have Inside Track for Represen tation of State jTj am. Deo. 9. —(AP) —The North > Rhodes scholarship commit - called six students to appear Id cumber 19 for interviews when lidates will be named for re arviews at Atlanta Decem ber 21. f .'jded in the six called back, all are James S. Brown, Duke, : Gatesville, N. C., and Thomaa J ty Jr., Wake Forest College, Wnke Forest. Grading Os \V eed Halted By Meekins Federal Judge Makes Injunction At Oxford Perman ent for Four Houses gh, Dec. 9 (AP)—Judge I. M. bins, Federal district jurist for rn North Carolina, filed a for ! erder here today restraining the grading of tobacco under the • r al inspection act on four ware b°u-<- floors at Oxford. Several weeks ago Judge Meekins iu b.-d in an oral opinion the tobacco (Continued on Page Four.). 1 c * . it,: « ? V‘ it ifeititersnn &mht Htsrratrfr EXTRA LEGISLATURE MUST SET UP WHOLE SECURITY MACHINE Administrative Organiza tion Must Be Created as Well as Levying of Tax Measure THREE MEMBERS OF COMMISSION LIKELY This Body Will Collect Tax From Employers in State and Also Administer Law; Won’t Be Much To Do Un til Payments Start Two Years From Now Daily Dispatch Bureau. In the Sir Walter Hotel. II j J. C. BASKERVILI, Raleigh, Dec. 9. —An administrative agency must be set up for the collec tion of the State unemployment in surance tax by the special session of the General Assembly which will con vene here at 11 o’clock tomorrow morning, in addition to the levying of ■the tax of nine-tenths of one per cent on the payrolls of all employers who come under the Federal law, it was learned here today. It is expected that this agency will be designated as the North Carolina Unemployment Insur ance Commission and that it will be composed of three members, two of whom may be ex-officio members, but with an all-time chairman, to be ap pointed by the governor. This commis (Continued on Page Four.) RAPIDS MAN FREED ON 2 AUTO DEATHS Roanoke Rapids, Dec. 9. —(AP) —A coroner’s jury last night ex onerated William Daughtry, driv er of a car that struck a bicycle causing the death of two children. The children, Raymond Wil liams, 13, and his brother, Walter, 8, were killed as they rode a bi cycle near here Saturday night. TURMOIL SEEN IN COMING CONGRESS Abundance of Opportunity for Con flict on Farm Mortgages, 30- Hour Week and Others Washington, Dec. 9. —(AP) —An abundance of opportunities for conflict and turmoil in the. forth coming session of Congress was oreseen today by some members who have been surveying legisla tive prospects. They pointed to such far-reach - |ng measures as the Frazier Lemke bill to re-finance farm in debtedness with $3,000,000,000 worth of new money, the Blaek- Connery 30-hour work week bill and a bill to divorce manufactur ing and retailing contemplated by Representative Patman, Demo crat, Texas. There is also much talk of - amending the Constitution to give Congress specific power to enact legislation of a social character. ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. EYES OF WORLD FOCUSED ON THESE THREE POINTS ™™™™ l—Bß - ... •■■v.'AjawHi aruj,w«MiiMgaakA>vw " ; <_, . v-v View of Cannes, France, left; No. 10 Downing street, center, and Buckingham palace As the King Edward-Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson story continues to draw the attention of the world, these three places similarly draw the eyes of the world. HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 9, 1936 •Princesses Anaemic!’ •>:’ jj SHk®' , s Lord Marley, deputy speaker of the House of Lords, in an address be fore the Institute of Arts and Sciences in Brooklyn, N. Y., said “England is sick of anaemic, spotty princesses from the continent. We’d much rather have an American woman as queen.” SENATE UNCERTAIN ABOUTMUCUS Members Don’t Know Whether To Meet for Purpose Tonight Or Not Raleigh, Dec. 9 (AP) —Members of the new State Senate still wondered this afternoon whether they would caucus tonight to organize for the special legislative session tomorrow, while representatives prepared for their organization gathering at 8 o’clock. Leßoy Martin, principal clerk of (Continued on Page Six.) FOB NORTH CAROLINA. Cloudy, mist and light rain to night, and probably Thursday; not quite so cold. In Cannes, France, Mrs. Simpson has sought refuge. At No. 10 Downing street, London, the British cabinet wrangles over the problem. At Buckingham palace. Three School Children Die Inßus Wreck ? Ten Others Injured When School Bus and Truck Crash Near Fayetteville Fayetteville, Dec. 9. — (AP) Three children were killed and at least ten injured, several critical ly, when a school bus and a pro duce truck collided today on a highway four miles from Fayette ville. The dead, all residents of the Sunny Side community and pupils at Stedman high schooi, were identified tentatively as: Ernestine Johnson, about 15. Inez Bulla, about 15. Mack Williams, about 16. The wreck occurred near Bander, on the Fayetteville-Clinton highway, Details were not immediately avail able. As far as could be learned, it was the first school bus fatality of the present year. The accident occurred about 1:40 p. m. this afternoon a short while after the bus left the school. The police have not determined the driver of the school bus nor the truck. HOLDS - INDICTMENT OF EDITH MAXWELL Wise, Va., Dec. 9.— (AP) —A de fense move to void the indictment against Edith Maxwell was over ruled by Judge Ezra T. Carter to day at the opening of her second trial on charges of killing her blacksmith miner father, Trigg Maxwell. Cherry Will BeNamedAs House Chief #■ Gaston Legislator to Be Speaker of Spe cial and Regular Legislatures Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. By •>. C. BASKERVILL Raleigh, Dec. 9.—The Democratic members of the House of Representa tives of the North Carolina General Assembly will hold a caucus tonight at 8 o’clock in. the hall of the Housei for the purpose of electing a speaker, and engrossing clerk, reading clerk and a sergeant-at-arms. It is expected that R. Gregg Cherry, of Gastonia, will be elected speaker with little or no opposition and that the various other clerks, with the exception of Continued on Page Five.) ancestral home of British royal families, London crowds sing and shout support of the king. No. 10 Downing street is the official residence of the prime minister. "• ** - ■* * o m 14 Passengers Die As Large Airplane Falls In England Croydon, England, Dec. 9—(AP) —Fourteen persons, among them one Juan de la Cievra, the auto iro inventor, met sudden flaming death today in the crash of a “KLM” Dutch air liner, just four minutes off the runway at Croy don Airdrome. Three survived with varying in juries. They were the German > passen ger. Walter Schuberk; the wireless operator, Von Bemmel, and the stew ardess. Fraulein von Bon Gertman. The condition of the men was grave, that of the stewardess, who leaped from the craft before it caught fire, revisecomflainT IN REYNOLDS SUIT Discharged HOLC Man Asking $7,200 of Sena tor, Secretary and HOLC Mocksviile. Dec. 9 (AP) —A revis ed complaint was on file in superior court here today in the suit of Dallas C. Kirby, local attorney, against Sen ator Robert R. Reynolds, his secre tary. Wesley E. McDonald, and the Home Owners Loan Corporation for damages alleged to have been suf fered by Kirby when he lost a posi tion with the HOLC. Judge John Clement yesterday hoard attorneys sot Senator Reynolds move to strike out certain parts of (Continued on Page Six.) RECORD PRICES FOR ASHEVILLE TOBACCO Asheville, Dec. 9. —(AP)—With a, half million pounds of tobacco on the floors and loads continuing to pour in throughout the the day, the 1936 burley auction season got under way here today. Prices broke all records in the first half hour, during which the weed brought an average of $31.23 per hun dred. IVWJpOAYS PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. was not dangerous. Trapped by twisted steel and flames de la Cierva died with the former Swedish secretary of state, Admiral Arvid Lindman, and 12 others, in cluding two of the crew. No Ameri cans were aboard. The plane, heading into a heavy fog which cut visibility to little more than 20 yards, clipped the roof off two houses in nearby Purley, swerved across a street, sheared off o large tree and finally imbedded itself in an unoccupied house. The engine, ripped from its mount ings, smashed through the front walls lorefarirsT SHAREINBENEFITS Two Classes of Payments To Be Allowed For Co operation, Hutson Says Washington, Dec. 9.—(AP)—Agri culture Department officials predicted today more farmers would share in the $500,000,000 benefit payments plan ned under the 1937 Federal farm pro gram, the principal feature of which .will be an attempt to control corn acreage. Greater inducements to small farm operators and inclusion of more dairymen, rangers and stockmen were listed as other major changes from the 1936 plan by J. B. Hutson, of the Agricultural Adjustment Administra tion. As under this year’s program, far mers may earn two classes of pay ments: One for reducing acreage of corn, cotton, tobacco and other major crops, and hte other for following ap proved methods of building up fer tility of their land. Congress mu|st appropriate funds before the program can be effective. TWO ARE HELD FOR KEEPING FUGITIVE Slain Colin Cain’s Widow and Eliza beth Stegall of Raleigh Are Given Sentences Greensboro, Dec. 9.—(AP) —Rita Cain, widow of Colin Cain, and Eliz abeth Stegall, of Raleigh, today were under Federal court sentences on charges of harboring Cain while he was a fugitive from justice. Cain, wanted as an escaped convict from a North Carolina prison, and on Federal charges, was fatally wounded by South Carolina officers September 7. His widow, reportedly an expectant mother, and her co-defendant pleaded guilty in Federal court yesterday. Both were sentenced by Judge John ston J. Hayes to serve two years in the industrial reformatory at Alder son, Va. 8 PAGES TODAY five cents copy PREMIER BALDWIN INFORMS COMMONS NOTHING NEW YET Both King and Government Hesitating in Answer to Empire’s Pressing Dilemma CLIMAX TOMORROW DECLARED LIKELY Parliament Increasingly Concerned Over Economic and Political Results Os Suspense; Edward Re mains at Rural Fort Bel vedere as He Ponders London, Dec. 9 (AP) —Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin call ed the British cabinet into a sudden, unexpected session to night to discuss Jate develop ments in the constitutional cris is. Government whips instruct ed all members of the House of Commons to cancel engage ments outside London in pre paration for the Prime Minist er’s expected pronouncement tomorrow on King Edward’s decision to renounce either the British throne or Mrs. Wallis Simpson. The summons for the special session of the cabinet was in terpreted to mean that every facility of the British govern ment was being pressed into action to enable a final, defi nite statement in the Commons tomorrow. London, Dec. 9 (AP) —Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin dis closed to the distressed and an. xious House of Commons today that king and government still were hesitating on the answer to the empire’s dilemma—if Edward VIII will marry Wallis Simpson and lose his throne. The first minister, after a night (Continued on Page Six.) Sweringen Line Under Bank Order Washington, Dec. 9.—(AP) —Senate investigators heard testimony today that the $3,000,000,000 Van Sweringen rail and industrial empire was active ly controlled for four and a half years by the nation’s largest trust company. William C. Potter, chairman of the Guaranty Trust Company of New York, told the railway financing in vestigating committee that his firm had exercised control from August 1, 1931, until February 1, 1936. During that period the trust com pany voted the key securities of the Continued on Page Five.) Acceptance Os American Pacts Urged Sanctions To Insure Peace Sought at In ter-American Meet in Argentine Buenos Aires, Dec. 9.—(AP)—Os waldo Aranha, Brazil’s minister to Washington, today challenged Amer ican republic which have not ratified all five existing inter-American peace treaties to explain their tardiness. The soft-spoken Aranha made his demand before the inter-American peace conference committee on peace organization. (The Unite States has ratified all these treaties.) Bolivia proposed to the conference (Continued on Page Six 4
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