HENDERSON
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-THIRD YEAR
fKday term
I REGULAR SITTING
Members Leave Raleigh
After Special Session
Enacts Unemployment
Compensation Act
agriculture WILL
BE LARGE PROBLEM
Grange and Farm Bureau
Have Both Asked for To
bacco Control Through
State Compacts; Special
Session Fifth and Shortest
Extra Since 1900
R.ileigh, Dec, 17. —(AP) —Members
of North Carolina’s legislature rested
from their duties today after a record
breaking special session and prepared
for the regular biennial meeting start
ing January 6.
Tne special session covered seven
days but only six were legislative
working days and not a single nega
tive vote was recorded as an unem
ployment compensation measure was
enacted.
It was the fifth special session since
1900. and the shortest of the other
foui was 12 days in 1908.
Faced with most of the same pro
blems which have caused recent ses
sions to run from January until mid-
May. the legislators expressed hope
as usual for a short regular session.
Senator A. Hall Johnston, of Bun
combe, the Senate president protem,
predicted the regular session would
be completed in about 90 days.
Senator J. A. Patterson, of Scotland,
and Representatives W. W. Eagles, of
Edgecombe and W. E. Fenner of Nash
said they expected legislation dealing
with agriculture to play an unusually
important part in the regular session’s
deliberations.
Both the State Grange and State
Farm Bureau Federation have passed
resolutions asking for tobacco crop
control through State compact laws
and during the campaign Governor
elect Clyde R. Hoey pledged himself
to aid the farmers in securing better
prices for their products.
Crisis Grows
While Strikes
Spread More
(By The Associated Press.)
Strike tension in the automobile
industry, already beset iby walk-outs
of glass workers and wheel-makers,
increased today with picketing of a
Detroit cushion and upholstery plant.
Trade observers in Wall Street es
timated some 75,000 workers were out
in eleven major strikes now under
way, the principqal ones being in the
maritime shipping and automobile in
dustries.
x'iie new picketing appeared at the
National Auto Fibres, Inc., factory.
At Washington a conference was
called between John L. Lewis, head
cf the Committee for Industrial Or
ganization, and leaders of the glass
and automobile workers union. Con
ferees present included President
Glenn McCabe, of the flat glass work
in-. who have 14,000 members on
strike, and President Homer Martin,
of the United Automobile Workers.
McCabe and Martin announced last
week their unions would cooperate in
labor disputes. *
Social Act
Enacted By
25 States
North Carolina, Ohio
and West Virginia
Latest Legislatures
To Meet
Washington, Dec. 17 (AP) Enact
ment of unemployment insurance
w in Ohio, North Carolina and
West. Virginia brought to 25 today the
yiat".s cooperating with the Federal
program.
indications are nearly 35 states will
" in line before the new year. Only
:g ht and the District of Columbia
f, i such laws a year ago.
The Virginia legislature was expect
-1 to act today. The Minnesota leg
nit ure was called to meet today for
the same purpose.
Special sessions began yesterday in
Maine and Tennessee. The Michigan,
lowa, New Jersey and Vermont legis
iutures meet next Monday.
Two developments account for the
burst of activity. First, the Supreme
Court upheld the New York State un
‘ mployment law. Thereafter, the se
-1 unity board made plain it would not
" commend any extension of the dead
one for states to get their shiire of
DG6 payrolls.
Heniicrsmt B ailit Bisjiatrh
L THP E SERVICE OF
IHB ASSOCIATED PRESS.
ROOSEVELT HOME FROM PEACE CONFERENCE
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Home from his eventual trip to the Inter-American peace conference in Buenos Aires, President Roosevelt
landed at Charleston, S. C., from the cruiser Ind*anapolis. He is shown en route to the railway station to catch a
train for Washington juSt after coming down the gangplank. Left to right: Capt. Henry H. Hewitt, commander of
the Indianapolis; the President, Mrs. James Roosevelt, wife of his eldest son, and Mayor Burnet R. Maybank.
Peace Parley Drops Idea Os
American League Os Nations
6,000 Women Write
Edward In Approval
Os Simpson Romance
Enveseld, Austria, Dec. 17. —(AP) —
The Duke of Windsor, suffering again
from severe headaches received 6,000
letters from feminine admirers today
applauding his “romantic gesture” in
giving up the British throne for Wal
lis Warfield Simpson.
Eight hundred of the writers also
asked the British prince for jobs,
most of them expressing a preference
for secretarial work.
Reliable sources disclosed the duke
suffered last night from another at
tack of severe head pains which some
MARYLANDANGLES^
Estate on Bay Between Bal
timore and Washington
May Be Offered
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, Dec. 17. —If ex-King
Edward cares to spend the rest of his
life in Maryland, he not only can
have an estate there on his own terms
undoubtedly he can have it for noth
ing. Indeed, I surmise that Mary
landers would be willing to pay him
for dwelling among them if necessary.
Particularly in boom times, as we
know, a company with a big factory
to establish frequently is able to set
localities a-bidding against one an
other, each with a view to getting the
promoters to erect its prospective
plant in that neighborhood’s midst.
Tax exemptions are offered; real es
tate is proffered at attractive prices;
all kinds of inducements are tendered.
The theory (perhaps sound) is that
a vast new industry, founded in any
given community, can be depended on
to inflate property values all ’round
about; thus making it profitable for
all concerned to persuade said indus
try to move in.
SEEN AS AN “INDUSTRY”
It is as a possible new industry that
Maryland classifies ex-King Edward.
Strictly speaking, I should refer to
that portion of Maryland rather close
to Baltimore. The remote western end
of the State has no hope that the ex
monarch will seek a home out in the
Cumberland region, where coal min
ing and the heavier forms of manu
facturing prevail. Nor is the eastern
peninsula, where civilization has not
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OUR WEATHER MAN
t on noRiH OAntn.inv
Generally fair; Friday increas
ing cloudiness.
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
said might be connected with his ear
affliction.
Attendants at the castle of Baron
Eugene de Rothschild, where the for
mer ruler is a guest emphasized the
“duke is not really ill.”
The presence of the abdicated mon
arch brought a bustle of new excite
ment to this little Austrian village,
where spectators thronged in the hope
of getting a glimpse of the man who
renounced a throne for love.
An inn-keeper whose best business
day formerly had brought $8 into his
till, grossed $275 yesterday.
Three Bum
To Death In
Their Home
Janesville, Wis., Dec. 17.—(AT)
—A mother and two children were
burned to death early today in a
fire that destroyed their home.
The father saved himself and his
four-months-old baby by jumping
from the second story*
The woman, Mrs. William Ryan,
40, was found at the top of the
stairway, in the two-story build
ing. The charred bodies of Fran
ces, 6, and Billy, 5, were found un
der a bed. In front of the kitchen
stove was the dog’s carcass.
Ryan and the baby he held in
his arms when he leaped were
taken to a hospital.
An explosion believed caused by
an accumulation of coal gas start
ed the fire.
UNEMPLOYMENT BILL
PASSES IN VIRGINIA
Richmond, Va., Dec. 17 (AP) —
The Senate and House each pass
ed its own unemployment compen
sation bill today and the Senate
gave unanimous approval to the
soil conservation measure recom
mended by Governor Peery.
EDWIN BRIDGERS, 42,
CLAIMED BY DEATH
Paroles Commissioner During Mc-
Lean Administration Passes at
Home In Charlotte
Charlotte, Dec. 17.—(AP)—Edwin
Bridges, 42, Charlotte attorney, who
served as State commissioner of pa
roles several years ago, died today in
a hospital here. A rare form of menin
gitis, a sequel to influenza, was de
scribed as the cause oL death.
He was a son of the late Dr. J. R.
Bridges, president of Presbyterian
College of Charlotte, and editor for
many years of the Presbyterian Stan
dard. After serving in Raleigh as pa
role commissioner during the McLean
administration and later, he returned
to this city to practice law. His firm
represented the city as attorneys for
four years.
Funeral services will be at the First
Presbyterian church here at 11 a. m.
Saturday. Survivors include Mrs.
Bridges a four-year-old daughter and
several brothers and sisters.
HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER il7, 1936
Argentine and Brazil Raise
Strong Objections to
Proposal at Buenos
Aires
DOMINICAN ENVOY
OFFERS HIS PLAN
Wants That and One by
Colombia Studied- for Re
port at Next Meeting At
Lima, Peru, in 1938; Neu
trality Convention Ready
for Plenary Session
Buenos Aires, Dec. 17 (AP) —Pro-
posals for creation of an American
League of Nations were sidetracked
by an inter-American peace confer
ence committee today after Argen
tine and Brazil raised strong opposi
tion.
Max Urena, of the Dominican Re
public, proposed five jurists be nam
ed to study Dominican and Colum
bian plans and prepare a report for
the .regular Paris-American Confer
ence scheduled for 1938 at Lima, Peru.
Argentine and Brazilian represen
tatives at once objected, and the com
mittee adjourned without acting on
the sub-committee’s proposal.
The proposed neutrality conven
tions coordinating existing Ameri
can peace treaties was ready to he
submitted to the plenary peace con
ference today. The proposal spon
sored by all 21 nations at the parley
was unanimously approved by the
neutrality committee yesterday.
LEGLESS VETERAN
POPULAR IN HOUSE
Catawba Representative
Rolls Himself Around on
Wheeled Platform
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By J. C. BASKBRVILL
Raleigh, Dec. 17.—Ralph Flowers,
legless war veteran from Hickory and
a member of the House from Cataw
ba county, is already one of the most
popular members of the General As
sembly. Those who observed him here
this week and last are predicting that
while Flowers may not have any legs,
he more than makes up for this by
his brains and pleasing personality
and that he is going to ibe an influen
tial member of the House when the
regular session convenes in January.
He had very little to say while here
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SNSHOPPiNG
feJrDAYS
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NANKING HOPING FOR
PEACE, ALSO RELEASE
OF GEN CHIANG SOON
FATE OF KAI-SHEK IN DOUBT
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Madam Chang Kai-Shek and husband, inset
Fate of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, Chinese premier seized by
the former Manchurian war lord, Marshal Chang Hsueh-Liang,
remained in doubt as Mme. Kai-Shek, American-educated wife of
the premier, pleaded for her husband’s life.
—Central Press
Gets Twenty Years
k.
*
Edith Maxwell
Wise, Va., Dec. 17. —(AP) —A Wise
county jury today convicted Edith
Maxwell, 22-year-old former school
teacher, of second degree murder in
the death of her father, Trigg Max
well, and fixed her punishment at 20
years.
The jury was out an hour and 20
minutes.
Miss Maxwell, standing to hear the
jury’s verdict, burst into sobs and
ifcuried her head on the shoulders of
her brother, Earl Maxwell.
The punishment was the maximum
permissible for second degree murder
under Virginia statutes. Her first con
viction brought a 25-year sentence
for first degree murder, which was
set aside by ' the Virginia Supreme
Court.
KIDNAP CHARGE ON
COLUMN, 44
Kept 14-Year-Old School
Girl With Him in Hide-
Out for Month
Whiteville, Dec. 17 (AP)—Albert
Shepard, 44, sought for a week since
surprised in an underground hide-out
where Estelle Shaw, 14-year-old
school girl, said she had been a pris
oner for a month, was arrested by a
posse near here today.
He was lodged in jail charged with
kidnaping and with offenses against
the girl, who was lured from her
school room November 3, she said,
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EXCEPT SUNDAY.
Scott Finds
His Trouble
Increasing
Seems To Have Of
fered Many Jobs
Not Existing and at
Excessive Salaries
Dally Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By Jf. C. BASKBRVILL
Raleigh, Dec. 17. —Commissioner-
elect W. Kerr Scott of the Sta*e De
partment of Agriculture, who has re
cently pushed the legislature out of
the limelight as a result of his whole
sale firing of employes of the Depart
ment of Agriculture, even before he
has taken office, is now getting into
hot water because of the jobs he has
promised, or is reported to have pro
mised, certain individuals, as well as
on account of those he has fired, it
was learned here today. Reports also
are that Scott has offered jobs to sev
eral persons at salary figures in ex
cess of what/#s now being paid, only
to find that the Budget Bureau is re
fusing to approve any of these boosts
in salaries until July 1, 1937, and is
insisting that whatever salaries are
being paid now must prevail until the
end of this fiscal year.
The report is going the rounds here
today, for instance, that he has al
ready offered the job from which he
fired William' H. Richardson —that of
director of publicity—to four different
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Snows May
Cover Site
Lost Plane
Salt Lake City, .Utah, Dec. 17 (AP)
—(Fearful that heavy snows would
erase the most tankible clue to seven
persons given up for dead aboard a
lost sky liner, searchers struggled to
the scene today on horseback, snow
shoes and through the sky.
Fifteen planes mobilized here to aid
in the quest for the Western Air Ex
press transport, missing since early
Tuesday, were made ready for mo
mentary call.
Subsequently relatively improved
visibility permitted six of the search
ing planes to get into the air. About
500 men were in the ground search
ing crews.
Clearing skies in the picturesque
valley of the Great Salt Lake, stret
ching north from the mountainous
center of the search, gave hope the
planes, grounded mostly of yesterday
could carry out their organized part
of the search.
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BELIEVER TO LIVE
Spokesman Bringing Auto
graphed Letter from
Chiang To Prove He
Is Still Alive
ADVISOR OF REBEL
CHIEF HEARD FROM
James Elder’s Conversations
at Nanking Hearten Gov
ernment To Hope for
Smoothing of Difficulties;
Closeted With Officials
For Hours
Nanking, China, Dec. 17.—(AP) —
Nanking officials seized fresh hope to
day for an end to China’s civil war
and release of Generalissimo Chiang
Kai-Shek, after conferences with re
bellious Marshal Chang Hsueh-Liang’s
British advisor, James Elder.
At the same time, a spokesman de
clared a messenger was bringing an
autographed letter from the imprison
ed military overlord, which would
“dispel douibt as to the general’s
safety.”
He also cited a telegram purported
ly from W. H. Donald, Chiang’s ad
visor, saying he “had returned to
Sianfu and was remaining in the
same room with the generalissimo.
Elder, arriving in the capital today,
was closeted with government offi
cials for the greater part of the day,
attempting to work out a satisfactory
solution for the crisis.
His movements were strictly con
trolled by Nanking authorities.
The controlled Yuan (council) ap
proved a motion condemning Marshal
Chang to public execution as a result
of the military rebellion in which the
generalissimo was seized last Friday.
Threatening
Letter Found
In Floggings
Southport, Dec. 17.—(AP) —Sheriff
J. A. Russ, investigating the activities
of a band of “preying floggers” in the
Waccamaw river valley, said today he
had turned over to Federal authorities
a copv of the threatening letter re
ported received by the relatives of one
of the alleged victims of the night
riders. «
Sheriff Russ said the crudely pen
ciled note warned Jarvis Inman, 22-
year-old Freeland filling station op
erator, of “things you must do” or
“we will get you.” He said the warn
ing was signed “K.K.K."
Jarvis Inman is a cousin of William
Inman, who reported to Sheriff Russ
yesterday that he and Jesse Cox, also
of Freeland, were seized a few weeks
ago, driven six miles from their homes
and flogged by a masked band of 25
or 30 men.
The letter to Jarvis Inman was
headed, Little River, S. C., but the en
velope bore a Freeland postmark. The
sheriff said it was in the same tenor
as one left on the door of Herby King,
another Freeland man, the night of
December 5, the day the Inman warn
ing was dated.
THREE ENGINEMEN
KILLEDIN WRECK
Two Engineers and Negro
Fireman Lose Lives in
Crash in Alabama
Castleberry, Ala., Dec. 17. —’(AP) —•
Two engineers and a fireman were
killed in the head-on collision of a
southbound Lauisville & Nashville
train and a northbound train stand
ing in the station here early today.
Passengers were shaken up but
none was reported seriously injured.
Castleberry is in south central Ala
bama, 20 miles north of the Florida
peninsula line.
Trainmen said passenger train No.
3 crashed into train No. 2 as it stood
at a water tank on the main line.
They listed the dead as engineers
Lee Gorey and Philip Grizzard, both
of 'Montgomery, Alabama, and a Ne
gro fireman named Barnes.