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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-THIRD YEAR Japan Consults Germany As War Threatens In Far East Due To New Chinese Crisis KIDNAPED CHIANG STAGES COUP AND CAPTURES CAPTOR I Report of Incident and of Northeastern Army Go ing Communistic Not Confirmed JAPANESE SEE HAND OF SOVIET NATION Russia Suspected of Inci dent Precipitating Crisis in North China; Disastrous Civil War Faces Chinese Government; Military Moves Very Swiftly Tokyo, Dec. 14 (AP) —Tokyo con ciliated Germany, her anti-Commun- T ft a iiy. today on reports the Komi :;rn was behind the amazing seizure of Chiang Kai-Shek amid Chinese -predictions that China’s overlord may face a firing squad--if he still is alive. Simultaneously, it was reported the vanguard of a Chinese rescue expedi tion. pressing toward rebel-held Sianfu. had clashed with the muti nous troops of young Marshal Chang Hsueh-Liang, ,who has sef ed Gen eralissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, Eight divisions of the Chinese cen tral army, said Japanese dispatches from the mainland, were poised to as sault Cianfu, capital of Shensi pro vince. which is presumed to be the place where Chiang Kai-Shek is held. The press said there was indisput able proof the communist internation al had intigated the seizure of Gene laiissimo Chiang and his generals. DISASTROUS CIVIL WAR FACES CHINESE REGIMES Nanking, Dec. 14 (AP)—China fac ed disastrous civil war today as the central government massed its forces on the border of Shensi province to force the release of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek. The dictator-general',, imprisoned Saturday with 20 of his subo. uinates, in a sudden rebellion led by youthful Marshal Chang Hsueh Liang, was de finitely reported alive at Ciangu Cianfu, capital of Shansi. While troop trains rumbled west ward over a railway, last-minute ne gotiations were opened to free the Continued on Page Five.) TWO ARE ACCUSED IN THEFT OF AUTO Men Brought From Goldsboro To Face Charges in Tarboro After Car Is Recovered Tarborqf, Dec. 14 (AP) —Officers iid today Woodard Edmondson, of Tarboro, and Simon Garris, of Roa noke Rapids, had been brought, here fnom Goldsboro to answer a charge of automobile theft. The two were arrested last night mid the car was recovered. A hole the door, apparently made by bul- I'-t-s led officers to theorize that it had been involved in a shooting. Y C. State’s Athletics Up At Meeting E actional Dispute May Get Before Legislature if Not Settled Shortly U.-illy Dispatch Iturenn, In the Sir Walter Hotel. By J. C. BASKERVIIjL Raleigh, Dec. 14. —Athletic politics ;,, h' r than Aguiar State politics, are hi the limelight here today, and at ’"o’ion i s turned more towards State ' Hego and the Chapel Hill unit of ' " University of North Carolina, than 'he special session of the Gene:al A .-r mbly meeting here. The interest n State College is in the meeting of " athletic council there today in which it is expected to decide whether ' ' not it will offer Coach Heartly v - (Hunk) Anderson another contract whether it will retain Dr. R. R. Ser mon as director of achieves and other- Wi.-e attempt to settle the rather bmssy kettle of fish which has de veloped in the athletic department ,! ‘id which now threatens to involve (Continued on Page Three.), _ lirttftrrsmt Bath} Btspafrh leased wire service op THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. ; |B|& 1111I1& ,:v; : * C. F. Beech (left), assistant chief of the recording division of the Social Security Old Age Benefit Bureau, is shown with Frank Bane, executive director of the board and Mis* Maurine Mulliner, the board’s secretary in Baltimore headquarters, on an inspection tour. (Central Press) One Dead, 1 Hurt Just Below Oxford Blackstone, Va„ Dec*. 14. —(AP) — W. Odell Price, 24, of Blackstone, was instantly killed today in a col lision on the national highway be tween Oxford and Creedmoor, N. C. S. L. Price, driving, was injured but not seriously. INSURGENT ATTACK WITHOUTRESULTS Shivering Defenders Cling to Madrid and Prepare Winter Siege Madrid, Dec. 14. —(AP) —Fleets of insurgent tanks, supported by infan try and machine gun units, battered for two hours today at government lines in University City, but shiver ing defenders held firm. An icy wind howled down from nearby mountains as the fighting broke out anew. Defenders, however, said the long-awaited insurgent “big push” had not materialized. It was announced 60,000 non-com batant men, women and children had been evacuated from the besieged capital in the past week. The Socialist defense junta ordered complete reorganization of its militia forces in preparation for a bitter win ter siege. While insurgent batteries threw oc casional shells into the city, the de fense forces were converted into “per fect army units,” the government said. TWO MORE ARRESTED IN WOMAN’S KILLING Pair Nabbed After Police Sought Two Men Nash Woman’s Son Went Riding With Wilson, Dec. 14.—(AP)— Deputy Sheriff C. A. Brown, of Bailey, said today he had arrested Edgar Honey cutt and Tab Bunn, Nash county men, in connection with the axe-slaying of Mrs. Maris Bissette, 60-year-old Bailey woman. He said Jesse Bissette, 35, son of the slain woman, still is being detained, but that no charge had been lodged against him. Deputy Brown did not say why Honeycutt and Bunn were held, ibiut earlier officers had said. they were looking for two men with whom Bis sette had taken an automobile ride the night of the slaying. 2^shopping Cfcjk>DAYS y§C,TILL ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. Talking Social Security HENDERSON, N. C„ MONDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 14, 1936 Southerners In Congress Freeze Jobs North and West, However, Challeng ing Seniority Me thod of Promotions By CHARLES 1\ STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Dec. 14 —Continuing our diagnosis of the complications in volved in the case of the organiza tion of the next House of Represen tatives: Today’s Democratic personnel of the House is very different from what it was throughout the long per iod during which the Democrats gen erally were in a minority. In those times a majority of the Democratic minority was pretty con sistently southern. With few excep tions a southern Democrat, once elected to Congress, continued to be re-elected and re-re-elected indefinite ly. Most northern Democrats, how ever, Were in-and-outers —good for only a term or two each. had their exceptions, too, like Congress men Sabath of Illinois and Taylor of Colorado. SOUTH STILL RULES But in the main southerners were the senior Democrats. They still are but they have ceased to be a majority among sitting Democrats. Due to re cent landslides, northern and western congressmen have become a majority of the Democratic majority. But they are largely juniors. Now the northerners and western ers demand preferment in the house in proportion to their preponderant numbers. On the opposite hand, the Southern- Continued on Page Five.) twoMldio STATIONS STARTED Construction on Others To Get Under Way This Week, at Saving Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. By .1. C. BASK-ERVILL Raleigh, Dec. 14.—Two of the five highway patrol radSp stations a{re now under construction and two of the other three will be started this week, Captain Charles D. Farmer, commander of the patrol, said today. Work has been started on the founda tions of the station near Asheville, al ■fjo the one near Salisbury, and the concrete will probably be poured Tfor these stations within the next few days. Excavation will start this week for the station here near Raleigh and the one near Williamston, while work is scheduled to start on the Elizabeth town station early next week. The houses for the sending equip ment and operators are being built by the patrol on "force account’’ in- Continued on Page Five.), WILMINGTON PAIR DENY THEY KILLED DAUGHTER OF MAN Solicitor Burney, Mean while, Says Girl Slain for Objecting to Immorality MAN ANbTARAMOUR TELL TWO STORIES Conflicting Statements Are Made as Poison Is Found In, wSftomach of Girl Like That in Bottle Possessed By 39-Y ear-Old Boiler- Maker in His Locker Wilmington, Dec. 14 (AP) —E. L. Smoak, 39-year-old boiler-maker, and his house-keeper, Mrs. Gennette Har ker, were quoted by Solicitor John Burney today as denying from their jail cells they poisoned the former’s 15-year-old daughter, Annie Thelma, who died December 1. Burney asserted, however, the man and woman told conflicting stories about a bottle of poison which he said was found in Smoak’s locker at a railroad shop where he worked. The two were arrested shortly aft er midnight on receipt by the solici tor of a report from a Duke toxico logist that the girl’s viscera contain ed poison of the same kind reported to have been found in the bottle. ißoth were .subjected to intense questioning by Burney and New Han over county officers. Neither had re tained counsel at midday. ; Welfare officers took icharge jof Smoak’s two sons and three children of the 28-year-old widowed house keeper, who were found weeping at Smoak’s cottage this morning. The solicitor said he was investi gating possibility of an insurance motive also. iPreliminary hearing was set for next Monday. SOLICITOR SAYS VICTIM OBJECTED TO SEX ORGY Wilmington, Dec. 14.—(AP) —A mid dle-aged boiler maker and his house keeper, a comely young widow, were charged today with poisoning the for mer’s 15-year-old, daughter ilriecause, Solicitor John Burney said, she ob jected to their illicit relations. Meanwhile, Burney continued to in vestigate the deaths of the man’s two wives. He sa?d circumstances connect ed with their deaths were similar to some surrounding the death of the young girl, whose body was exhumed last week at Orangeburg, S. C., for an autopsy. Officers arrested the girl’s father, E. L. Smoak, a native of South Caro lina, and the house-keeper, Mrs. Genette Harker, 28, a few minutes after midnight, upon a toxicologist’s report that girl’s viscera contained traces of a poison. The girl, Annie Thelma Smoak, a daughter by Smoak’s first wife, died Continued on Page Five.) WOMAN BADLY HURT BY HIT-RUN DRIVER Mrs. L. A. Hudson in Roanoke Rap ids Hospital; Two Negroes Ar rested Later by Officers Roanoke Rapids, Dec. 14 (AP) — Mrs. L. A. Hudson was in a hospital here today with serious injuries re ceived last night when a car driven by her daughter, Mrs. E. W. Smith, was forced off the road, struck by another car, and run into a telephone pole. Another daughter, Mrs. W. S. Edwards, was less seriously inqured. Deputy Sheriff George Pittman ar rested Woodrow Harvey and William Jenkins, Negroes, who he said were occupants of the hit-and-run car, a mile from the scene of the accident. Hitler in a Tux im? '' St 111 / iPH RriBSIK Reichsf uehrer Adolf Hitler, who af fects raincoats and drab semi-uni forms is seldom photographed in formal or semi-formal array. Here he is shown at a recent Berlin func tion wearing a tuxedo. (Central Press) King George Pledges Utmost Efforts To Promote Welfare Os People Os Entire Empire IRELAND ON WAY TO REPUBLIC? __ t P .... -s’ 1 Map of the British Isles; inset, President Eamon De Valera When called upon to agree to the succession of the new British king, the Irish Free State took the first act toward becoming a republic eventually. A new constitutional measure, removing the British king’s name from ail internal governmental activities of the Free State, was introduced into the Dail Eireann (parliament) by Presi dent Eamon De Valera. The measure retains the king’s name in the constitution only in connection with matters affecting external relations with other countries. President De Valera, shown above, and the speaker of the parliament would divide the duties of the governor general, representative of the king, whose office would be abolished. Map of Ireland shows relation to England. —apntrnl Press WRIGHT BROTHERS Recurring Anniversary Os First Airplane Observed in Dayton, Ohio Dayton, Ohio, Dec. 14.—(AP) —This “cradle of aviation” turned once more today to plans for paying homage to Orville Wright, and tribute to the memory of his late brother, Wilbur, as the fathers of heavier-than-air transportation. National figures, one of them possi bly bearing a message of felicitation President Roosevelt, will gather here Thursday, the 33rd anniversary of Orville Wright’s first adventure into the skies at Kitty Hawk, N. C. Almost to the hour of that flight, members of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics are to tie his guests at a luncheon at his home. Then they will visit the cemetery for an annual service at the grave of his brother. Eugene Vidal, director of air com merce; C. A. Cisler, superintendent of air mail at Washington, and air line officials, including Jack Frye, (of Twa) and Eddie Rickenbacker (East ern Air Lines), are among those ex pected to greet Wright. Vidal may bring a message from Mr. Roosevelt. VIRGINIA ASSEMBLY TO PASS SOCIAL ACT Richmond, Va., Dec. 14 (AP) — Governor George C. Peery, in his message to the special session of the General Assembly today, asked the legislators to enact an unemployment compensation bill, with an emergency clause to make it effective on passage. FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy tonigt and Tues day; slightly warmer Tuesday. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Duke Power Appeal Sent Back Lower Supreme Court Tells Lower U. S. Courts To Rule on Case In “Orderly” Way Washington, Dec. 14.—(AP) —An at tack by the Duke Power Company on a major phase of the Public Works Administration program making loans and grants for publicly-owned hydro-electric projects—was returned to lower tribunals by the Supreme Court today for re-trail. In addition, the justices dismissed litigation over whether the Associated Press was entitled to an injunction restraining radio station KVOS, of Bellingham, Wash., from broadcasting the press association’s news. Taking this action, it held that The Associated Press had not proved that it would be damaged by as much as $3,000 —the amount necessary to give Federal courts jurisdiction in such matters Presumably new action could be brought by the press association in an effort to prove this claim. In the Duke case, the court held unanimously that the circuit court of appeals at Charlotte and the Western South Carolina Federal District Court had “failed to act in accordance with (Continued on Page Three.) LIQUOR ADVOCATES ACCUSED OF DEATHS Voters Accused by Preacher At An derson, S. C., in Killing and Execution of Slayers Anderson, S. C., Dec. 14.—(AP) — South Carolinians who voted for the return of legal liquor have the blood of a murdered Anderson taxi driver and two executed men on their hands, declared Rev. Harold Smith, Green ville evangelist, here Sunday at fun eral rites for Sam Powell and Sam Anderson, who died Friday in the electric chair for slaying W. A. Daniel “You in this audience who favored or voted for the return of legal whisky in South Carolina are the murderers of W. A. Daniel,” the minister assert ed. 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY EDWARD, SECLUDED IN AUSTRIA, GIVEN EAR TREATMENTS Former King Calls at Office of Vienna Specialist After Other Pat ients Leave GEORGE RESOLVES TO DO FULL DUTY “With God’s Help and Sup- by My Dear Wife,” He Pledges Loyalty at Mo ment of “Great Personal Distress”; Message Sent Parliament London, Dec. 14.—(AP) King George VI, in a message read to th® House of Lords today, said: “I have succeeded to the throne in circumstances which are without pre cedent, and at a moment of great per sonal distress, but I am resolved to do my duty, and I am sustained by the knowledge that I am supported by widespread goodwill and sympathy from all my subjects here and thro ughout the world. “It will be my constant endeavor, with God’s help and supported by my dear wife, to uphold the honor of the realm and promote the happiness of my peoples.’’ The king’s declaration was read by Lord Halifax, lord privy seal, as the peers finished the ceremony of swear ing allegiance to the new ruler. Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin was to deliver the message in the House of Commons later. EDWARD SEES DOCTOR FOR ANI AILMENT OF HIS EAR Voeslau, Austria, Dec. 14. —(AP)— The Duke of Windsor, closely guard ed in a chateau, where he started life anew today as a private citizen, made an appointment to consult a Vienna specialist about a long-standing ear afflicition. The former king of England, who came to Austria last night, after giv ing up his throne for Mrs. Wallis Simpson, was exepeted to call at a Vienna clinic late in the day after all other patients had left, attendants said. It was noted the former sovereign held his hand over his ear when h® was driven from the Vienna station to the country estate of Baron Du genne Rothschild, near here, after a trip from England through Franc® and Switzerland. Professor Heinrich Neumann main tained an ethical silence concerning the duke’s ear trouble, but it was learned from attendants and other physicians that the treatment he will undergo consists of X-ray, light rays and rincing the inner ear. BISHOP OF CHURCH CALLS FOR CHRISTIAN LOYALTY London, Dec. 14.—'(AP) —George VI, Britain’s new king, pledged to his Par liament today “my constant endeavor, with God’s help, and supported by my dear wife, to uphold the honor of the realm and promote the happiness of the people.” His message was read first to the House of Lords, while Edwand, Duke of Windsor, sought relaxation in the guarded grounds of an Austrian cas- Continued on Page Five.) RooseveltTo Return Home On Tuesday Mclntyre and Oth ers of Secretarial Staff at Charleston To Greet Him Charleston, S. C., Dec. 14 (AP)— Marvin Mclntyre, presidential secre tary, arrived here today for the ex pressed purpose of checking plans for the debarkation of the chief execu tive early tomorrow morning from the cruiser Indianapolis. Mclntyre said the President was expected to end his 12,250-mile jour ney to South America and back at 7:30 a. m., and would go directly to Washington. Mclntyre was accompanied by Mrs. James Roosevelt, wife of the Pres ident’s son; Miss Marguerite LeHand and Miss Grace Tully, members of Mr. Roosevelt’s secretarial staff.
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