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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-THIRD YEAR CHINESE GOVERHMEHTTO PUT DOWN REVOLT Unemployment Act Becomes Law As Legislature Adjourns MEASURE IS GIVEN UNANIMOUS VOTING 8Y SENATE HOUSE Record in Modern - Day Law-Making Set in North Carolina as to Speed Assumed Also lhringhaus~given FULL ENDORSEMENT Resolution Approves His Entire Administration, In cluding Calling of Special Session; Measure Adopted Extending Time for WPA Bond Issues Raleigh, Dec. 16 (AP) —The special session of the North Carolina General Assembly ad journed sine die at 12:27 o’clock this afternoon after writing into law the “adminis tration” unemployment • com pensation bill. The clocks in the Senate and House chambers showed the hour as noon as stipulated in the resolution of ad journment but the work was not fin ished so that the gavels could fall simultaneously to end the session un til 27 minutes later. The bill to fix the time for filing the teport of the liquor study com mission for December 23 was lost tem porarily, causing part of the delay. I.aw Becomes Effective. The unemployment compensation net, cause of the special session, be came effective at 12:26 p. m., when it was -igned by the lieutenant governor and speak of the House. The Senators voted 46 to 0 for the 13,000-word measure on which less than six hours of actual legislative time has been spent. They then adopted a resolution com (Continued on Page Four.) U. S.-Italy Negotiating For Treaty Rome, Dec. 16.—(AP) —Negotiations h i a new commercial accord between the United States and Italy have been begun to replace the expiring treaty of 1871, it was officially announced today. The announcement also disclosed the enunciation today of the existing pact effective in one year. "For some months,” an official com munique stated, “commercial nego tiations have been going on between Italy and the United States and the treaty drafts are now in the course of examination. Today at Chigi palace, Italian Foifign Minister Count Gala Gal b a/.o Ciano and William Phillips, Am * tie >n ambassador to Italy, signed a fni niorandum denouncing the agree ment of 1871, which does not corrcs l" i"! to the necessities of the present” Scott Plans ToHoldFour Os Leaders This Quartette May Escape Wholesale Firing in Agricul ture Offices Raleigh, Dec. 16 (AP)—The Raleigh 1 ; e 3 said today it had learned au bni itatively that four division heads 1 the State Department of Agrlcul would be retained by W. Kerr ■ 1 1., commisisoner-elect, when ht Jts ames office in January, it listed them as R. B. Etheridge, ad of the division of markets; I *r William Moore, veterinarian; S. i : Miller, in charge of test farms and horticulturist; and A. B. Fairley, warehouse division director. The paper said Scott “may offer” (Continued on Page Four.) Henderson Daily Dispatch SERVICE OF the associated press. —— ■ ■■? ■ ■ 4 , I WM I SN In £ *■ J Sheriff C. David Jones, of New Hanover county, North Carolina, and Dis trict Solicitor J. J. Burney are leading the investigation into the fatal pois oning of Annie Thelma Smoak at Wilmington. Her father, E. L. Smoak, and his comely housekeeper, Mrs. Genette Harker, were charged with poisoning the 15-year-old girl because she objected to their illicit relations. Meanwhile, the death of Smoak’s two wives under similar circumstances is under investi gation. (Associated Press Photo). SCOT! ADVISED TO END FIRING SPE New Commissioner Warned by Friends That Enough Is Enough COLLEGE GAINS GRIP Scott Is N. C. State Graduate and Is Replacing Fired Men With Personnel There; Pub licity Man Declines Diiily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Bv .1 C. BASKKJIVILI. Raleigh, Dec. 16—The firing “spree” by W. Kerr Scott, newly-elected com missioner of agriculture who will take office January 7, which culmi nated this week in the ropping of Dr. Leiby, chief of the entomology divi sion of the Department of Agricul ture, ha% caused such reverberations that Scott’s closest friends and ad visors have become alarmed and are calling on him to call a halt in his de partmental house cleaning for the time being at least, it was learned here today. As a result, indications are that Scott has decided to post pone any additional changes he may have in mind either until the general assembly gets well under way or pos sibly until after the regular session adjourns. As long as Scott confined his firing to married women and minor em ployes of the department few objec tions were heard, except here in Ra- Continued on' Page Two.) GLASS STRIKE MAY SPREAD IRE YET Threatened Tie-Up May Curtail Operations of Automobile Industry (By The Associated Press.) Extension of a glass workers strike to three hitherto unaffected manu facturing centers threatened today to curtail automobile industry opeia tions. The Federation of Flat Glass Workers, refusing to accept a con tract offered by the Libbey-Owens- Ford Cpmpany, called a strike of com pany employees last midnight in Toledo, Ohio, Charleston, W. Va., and Shreveport, La., to support demands for union recognition and salary ad justments. Already idle were 6,000 Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company employee and 1,300 Libbley-Owens-Ford workers at Ottawa, 111. The two companies produce 85 per cent of the-safety glass used in Am* erican-made automobiles, as well as 70 percent of the nation’s wind glass and 93 percent of the plate glass. Pacific seaports, strike-bound by a maritime walk-out, saw hope of a set tlement. ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OP NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. Probing Poison Mystery HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 16, 1936 Ehringhaus Will Join a Law Firm Raleigh, Dec. 16. (AP)—Gover nor Ehringhaus announced today he'would enter the practice of law again after he retires from office January 7. The announcement was made through Kenneth Royall, Raleigh and Goldsboro lawyer, and said the new 7 firm would he known as “Ehringhaus, Royall, Gosmey and Smith.” Definite location of the offices of the firm will be announced later, but it was understood they would be here and at Goldsboro. C. A. Gosmey, of Raleigh, and J. N. Smith, of Goldsboro, are the other two members of the new firm mlmanW GET SECURITY JOB Hoey’s Good Friend of Campaign May Become One New Commissioner Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. By J. C. BASKERVILL Raleigh, Dec. 16. —Speculation is in creasing as to who Governor-elect Clyde R. Hoey will pick as the two appointive members of the new Un employment Compensation Commis sion, just created iby the enactment of the unemployment insurance bill today. The third member of the com mission will be Commissioner of La bor A. L. Fletcher, who will serve ex officio. But the other two members must be appointed. While these ap pointments will be made and announc ed by Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus, it is generally conceded that the ac tual selection of the appointees will be made by Governor-elect Hoey and that Governor Ehringhaus will mere ly give his approval to the two per sons selected by Mr. Hoey. The belief is growing in some cir cles that one of these appointments may be given to a woman, despite the fact that this commission will have to administer a fund of from $12,000,000 to $15,000,000, and which will get lar ger every year. Some think Mr. Hoey will name ’Mrs. J. B. Spilman, of Greenville, as one of the Commission- Continued on Page Two.) FOB NORTH CAROLINA. Rain early tonight; Thursday mostly cloudy, probably rain by night. Unanimous Approval Is Given Peace Plan At Buenos Aires Complete Sponsorship Os United 1 States Plan Given by All 21 American Republics RATIFICATION FOR FIVE PACTS URGED These Are Already in Ex istence; Peace Project Pro vides for Consultation if Peace of Hemisphere Is Menaced from Within or From Without Buenos Aires, Dec. 16 (AP) —A United States proposal for consultation by the American republics if American peace is menaced from within or with out won final approval today by the full inter-American peace conference, along with eight other projects. The United (States plan, only slightly modified as it passed through a committee, had the unanimous sponsorship of all the American republics. United States Secretary of State Cordell Hull’s resolution urging all American republics to complete ratification of five existing American peace trea ties likewise was quickly ap proved at the session. brannonlgei DR. LEIBY’S POST State College Man Named to Agriculture Job by Kerr Scott Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. By J. C. BASKERVILL Raleigh, Dec. 16—-Prof. C. H. Bran non, extension entomologist with the Agricultural extension of State Col lege, has been offered the post of chief of the division of entomology of the State Department of Agriculture, to succeed Dr. R. W. Leiby, and has accepted the offer, it was announced today by W. Kerr Scott, recently elect ed commissioner of agriculture who will take office January 7. Dr. Leiby was notified a few days ago by Mr. Scott that his services would not be needed after January 15. Fred Miller will remain with the State Department of Agriculture as (Continued on Page Two) ALL-TIME HIGH FOR ASHEVILLE TOBACCO Asheville, Dec. 16. —(AP) —An all-time high record was estab lished dn the Asheville tobacco market yesterday when 185,420 pounds of hurley leaf was sold for an average of $38.74 per hundred pounds. One basket of more than 200 pounds brought 75 cents a pound. EXIRALEGiITURE IS GOOD MINING Has Worn Newness Off Members and Prepared Them for Regular Job Daily Dispatch Bureau, Iu the Sir Walter Hotel. By J. C. BASKERVILL Raleigh, Dec. 16. —The special ses sion of the Geerai Assembly which came to a close at noon today, after having been in session for exactly six legislative days, has been excel lent training for the new members and has demonstrated to them what can be accomplished if and when a legislative session gets down to to work, some of the older members of the Senate and House pointed out to day. “I think this special session has been an excellent thing for both the new and old members, hut especially (Continued on Page Four.) REVOLT, COUNTER-REVOLT IN CHINA i, JH : jaBB Hr/ Scene of Chinese crisis; Marshal Chang, inset top; Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek and wife, inset below. The entire Orient is tense over a possible revolution in China. Marshal Chang had demanded a declaration of war on Japan. Anti-Japanese feeling re mains strong. The scene of the crisis is shown on the map above. Marshal Chang is pictured in top inset, while below are Generalissimo Chiang Kai- Shek and his wife, who had desired to go to Sianfu, to plead for his life — but who had been dissuaded by government authorities. Madrid Viciously Bombed From Air Madrid, Dec. 16. —(AP) —Twenty insurgent bom!bing plahes loosed large quantities of explosives over thickly populated sections of subur ban Madrid and its outskirts today. The Fascist squadron, composed of ships government officials said were of Italian manufacture, struck first at a village northwest of the capital. They dropped 60 bombs there. The bombardment was continued a short time later over the Cuatro Caminos section of the capital for the first air raids of such propor tions during the last two weeks. SSSit Wasn’t on Job and Change Will Benefit All Around, Is Opinion By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Staff Writer Washington, Dec. 16. —Washington diplomatic folk express little appre hension of a ibreak-up of the British empire as a result of King Edward’s abdication. I can’t quote the foreign represen tative who made this remark, but what he said was: ‘“The British have had a ruler late ly who hasn’t attended to his job. “Let’s hope that the new one will attend to his strictly.” (Os course the diplomat referred to, and he’s quite an important one, has been here long enough to have ac quired the American vernacular.) SITUATION IMPROVED The situation, then, generally is re garded as having been improved; not complicated. The retiring king is not unknown in Washington. As the Prince of Wales he visited here twice in past years. There are functionaries who (Continued on Page Four.) PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. TsEscase Attempted Poisoning of Mother of Woman Living in Home Is Hinted Wilmington, Dec. 16. —(AP)—Solici- tor John Burney said today he was investigating what he termed “the at tempted poisoning” of Mrs. Bertha Stuart, the mother of the woman ar rested with E. L. Smoak Sunday night charged with murdering Smoak’s 15- year-old daughter. Burney said the aged woman, moth er of Mrs. Gennette Harker, who had lived in Smoak’s home since the death of his second wife in 1935, was taken to James Walker Memorial hospital here September 10 in convulsions. Burney added that hospital records showed she was treated for the same kind of poisoning which Dr. Haywood Taylor, a Durham hospital toxicolog ist, said caused the death of Annie Thelma Smoak December 1. Burney said Mrs. Stuart told him Smoak gave her capsules when she complained of indigestion. The solici tor added he had found Smoak had taken out an insurance policy on Mrs. Stuart for SSOO in November, 1935, without her knowledge, naming him self as beneficiary and claiming to Continued on Page Two.) ■ 1 as 1 SfsSHOPPING T'JrDAYS vJaCntL O PAGES O TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY REBEL GENERAL IS TO GET CHANCE TO SEND CHIANG BACK Army Campaign To Rescue Leader, If Alive, or Avenge Him If Dead, Is Being Planned CHIANG’S FATE NOT POSITIVELY KNOWN His Rebel Captor Announc ed He Had Executed' Gen eralissimo; Eight or Ten Chinese Divisions Report ed Moving Into Shensi Area, Scene of Revolt Shanghai, Thursday, Dec. 17 (AP) —The Nanking govern ment will give rebellious Mar shal Chang Hseuh-Liang a fin al chance to deliver Chiang Kai-Shek safely, a high execu tive official said today. An army campaign to rescue Gener alissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, if alive, and avenge him if dead, was reported unofficially to have been voted today by the executive governing commit tee of the Chinese government at Nanking. The report came from Chinese sources. The goal of the punitive expedition reportedly would be Sianfu, the stronghold of Marshal Chang Hsueh- Liang, who kidnaped the generalissi mo, China’s most powerful individual, last week. Official sources have been unable to state whether Chiang is alive or dead —and there were rumors a punitive expedition might result in his execu tion if he still lives. Eight or ten Chinese divisions have been reported moving in on Shensi province, with numerous skirmishes resulting. Fear Seven AreDeqclln Lost Plane Salt Lake City, Utah, Dec. 16. (AP) —(Belief seven occupants of a lost Western Air Express transport plane will never be found alive was voiced today by Pilot Jimmy James, pilot aiding in the rain-hindered search. Fighting weather conditions such as prevailed when an air liner carry ing five men and two women disap peared yesterday men in planes on foot and on horseback searched grim ly today in Wascath mountain wilds. In rain and fog half a dozen planes joined the second day’s hunt for the transport and its occupants—one a pretty stewardess, who turned down romance for her job. The planes criss-crossed over a rain drenched area between Salt Lake City and Provo, 40 miles south of here, centering in the vicinity of a village 25 miles southeast of here. Edward Has Thrown Off Despondenc) Former King Still Irked by Sharp Criticisms of Acts by English Bishop Enzesfeldt, Austria, Dec. 16. —(AP) —His headaches gone and his despon dency vanished,, the Duke of Windsor challenged his hostess to a golf game today and was- beaten roundly by American-born Baroness Rothchild. The prince’s mood was considerably improved, although reliable reports said he still was irked by the criticism of the Archbishop of Canterbury. Baron Eugene de Rothschild, at whose castle the former king is stay ing, disclosed Edward was deeply stir red by the radio broadcast Sunday, in which the archibishop, spiritual lead er of the British empire, rebuked him and his friends. It was said the self-exiled king might make a fiery answer to the archbishop’s empire-wide censure, es pecially of Edward’s friends, as one Continued on Page Two.)
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