HENDERSON
gateway TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-THIRD YEAR
CHANG’S terms of
PEACE PUT BEFORE
NATIONAUEAOERS
Rebel General Sets Forth
Plan for Ending Civil
War and Freeing
of Kai-Shek
EMISSARY COMES
FROM MUTINEERS
Conference Is Immediately
Begun, With Chiefs Os
Nanking Government Par
ticipating; Gathering Pro
tected by Armed* Guards
Around Council Room
Nankins;. China, Dec. 18.—(AP)—
officials of the Nanking govern
ment were called into session today
undoi the protection of armed guards
to hear what was thought to be the
forms Marshal Chang Hsueh-Liang
has dictated to end the civil war and
free Chiang Kai-Shek.
The arrival of General Chiang Ting-
Wen from Sianfu opened the Na
tionalist government’s efforts on
peaceful negotiations to release the
generalissimo while their crack di
visions pushed toward the rebel
stronghold of Sianfu under orders to
storm the city if all other means fail
ed.
General Chiang Ting-Wen, who had
been held captiye with his chief, since
the beginning of the rebellion last
week, immediately went into confer
ence with Dr. H. H. Kung, civil head
of the government; Dr. T. V. Soong,
brother-in-law of t\he generalissimo,
and Madam Chiang Kai-Shek.
Edward Kind
To Pose For
Picture Men'
Envesfeld.. Dec. 18.—(AP) The
Duke of Windsor terminated his
voluntary seclusion today to pose for
a battery of photographers on the
grounds of Baron Eugene de Roths
child's Austrian castle.
Hatless and in a serious mood, the
former British ruler walked alone to
the courtyard, where 17 camermen
awaited him. He appeared fatigued.
"Gentlemen how do you want me?”
he greeted the photographers. “Shall
I sit or stand?”
A flood of replies and subsequent
questions followed his remarks as the
business of making pictures of the
abdicated monarch began.
Three minutes later the photograph
ers, clutching their plates, began a
500-yard sprint to their automobiles
and motorcycles to carry them the
23 miles to Vienna.
The duke replied to only one direct
statement, made by a British photo
grapher. who said:
"We wish your highness every hap
piness.”
"I wish you luck, also,” the British
prince responded.
DEATH CALLS WIFE
SEABOARD FOREMAN
Roanoke Rapids, Dec. 18 (AP) —
Mrs. N. R. Jenkins, 54, wife of a Sea
board Air Line railroad foreman at
Littleton, died in a hospital here last
night of a wound. Officers listed the
case as suicide.
Five Perish
LnApartment
House Blaze
Man Goes To Sleep
With Lighted Ciga
rette in Hand; Ac
cused Under Law
Now York, Dec. 18 (AP)—William
Hoffman, who went to sleep with a
1 Lhtcr] cigarette in his hand, and
' nj-ed a fire in a rooming house in
o' d street early today, costing the
live of five persons was arrested this
oft 1 1 noon charged with second de
f'c manslaughter.
1 Assistant District Attorney Saul
- ncc, who questioned Hoffman, said
he was guilty of “culpable and gross
criminal negligence.”
The five were killed at dawn when
hre swept through the house near
Riverside Drive.
Four were burned to death inside
•he four-story brownstone building
nd one man jumped to his death
! an a third floor window when the
fire cut off his escape down the
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Carolina Power & Light Co .
Cuts Rates $730,000 Total
To Customers In Carolinas
Maine Votes—Anyway
Formal casting of the ballot in the electoral vote of Maine for the Pre«i»
dency is shown above. As Maine went, so did Vermont, Maine gave fivg
votes for Landon—Vermont three. Grand total eight electoral votes.
Oh, we 11.... (Central Press)
Grocer And Woman From
Nearby Home Are Found
Dead In Raleigh Store
Trouble Brewing
Among the Cubans
Havana, Dec. 18.—(AP) —A com
mission of senators and represen
tatives met early today to draft im
peachment proceedings against
President Miguel Gomez because ot
his opposition to the $1,500,000
sugar tax bill.
President Gomez incurred the
political enmity of the commission
members because he said he would
veto the bill, sponsored by Cuba’s
“strong man,*’ CoJ.one( Fulgencia
Batista, to provide revenues for
army-taught rural schools.
Several congressmen ,who de
clined to be quoted by name, de
clared impeachment proceedings
would be forced, regardless of the
congressional vote on the bill,
which would create a nine-cent tax
on each bag of sugar.
EURE MAY BECOME
STATE SECRETARY
May Take Powell’s Place
Before Starting His
Regular Term
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By J. C. BASKERVILL
Raleigh, Dec. 18.—Thad Eure, who
was elected secretary of state in the
November election, but who ordinarily
would not take office until January
7, is expected to accept the appoint
ment already tenderd him by Gover
nor J. C. B. Ehringhaus and to take
the oath of office as secretary of state
late today or tomorrow. Governor Eh
ringhuas conferred with Mr. Eure
Wednesday night after he had appoint
ed Charles G. Powell present secre
tary of state, as chairman of the new
State Unemployment Compensation
Commission and urged Eure to accept
the appointment to fill out Powell a
unexpired term so that the announce
ment of his acceptance could ibe made
at the same time the other appoint
ments were announced. But Mr. Eure
asked for some time to consider the
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ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
Coroner Waring Pronounces
It Murder and* Suicide
After His First
Investigation
THINKS COUPLE HAD
FOUGHT EACH OTHER
Man, P. N. Mozingo, 52,
Had Nearly Severed Wo
man’s Head from Body
and Then Shot Himself
Twice With Revolver, Ac
cording to Coroner
GROCER
Raleigb, Dec. 18 (AP) —OP. N. Mo
zingo, 52, operator of a neighborhood
grocery here, and Mrs. Anna Collins,
attractive middle-aged woman who
lived across the street, were found
dead in a bedroom back of the store
this morning, and Coroner L. M.
Waring said “it appeared to have been
a murder and suicide.”
After his first investigation, the cor
oner said he thought the man and
woman had killed each other in a
“double murder.”
The coroner said he believed the two
started a fight on a bed in the room
and Mrs. Collins slightly cut Mozin
go’s throat. He theorized Mozingo
then nearly severed the woman’s head
from her body with a case knife, then
shot himself twice with a revolver.
“I must study the case still further
before I make an official finding as
to just what took place,” the coroner
said in discussing his second theory.
M leßceions
“Great Scott Purge” In De
partment of Agriculture
Is Halted
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By J. C. BASKERVILL
Raleigh, Dec. 18. —While present in
dications are that Kerr Scott has for
the time being ceased firing along his
battlefront in connection with what
is now being referred to as “the
Scott purge” of the Department of
Agriculture, echoes from the firing
are still being heard and are continu
ing to reverberate through political
circles in the State.
The loudest reverberations continue
to come as a result of Scott’s firing of
Dr. R. W. Leiby, for 21 years with the
Department of Agriculture and for
the last 11 years chief of the division
of entomology and regarded as one
of the outstanding men in his line in
the United States. He has appointed
C. H. Brannon, at present extension
entomologist at State College, to suc
ceed Dr. Leiby.
It was learned today from very re
liable sources that Scott had also
planned to fire Fred Miller, superin
tendent of the Department of Agri
culture test farms —in fact, that he
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HENDERSON, N. C„ FRIDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 18 1936
$550,000 of Amount of
Slash Is Given in 35
North Carolina Coun
ties It Serves
INDUCEMENT RATE
SCALE ABOLISHED
Stanley Winborne, Utilities
Commissioner, Says Slash
Total $6,500,000 in Reduc
tions Given by Utilities in
State in Past Four Years
Raleigh, Dec. 18. —(AP)—The Car
olina Power & Light Company filed
rate reductions here and at Columbia,
S. C., today to affect savings as a
round $730,000 annually to customers
in 35 North Carolina and eleven South
Carolina counties.
n The reductions became effective on
all bills rendered on and after Jan
uary 26, 1937.
Stanley Winborne, utilities commis
sioner, said the $550,000 saving for
North Carolina customers of the com
pany made reductions of more than
$6,500,000 iby power, telephone and gas
companies in the State in the past
four years.
Experience has shown, he added,
the total estimated saving has been
lower than the actual results.
The new rates abolished the utility’s
“inducement” rate and in North Car
olina affects 16,000 commercial and
65,000 residential users, with the for
mer getting a slightly larger reduc
tion than the latter.
Residential users under the new
rates must pay five cents per kilo
watt hour for the first 50, as compar
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CONVICT GEORGIAN
IN MARTIN MURDER
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A, N. Watson Faces Death Chair for
Slaying of Filling Station Man
at Williamston
Williamston, Dec. 18.—(AP) —A. N.
Watson, of Jefferson, Ga., faced death
in the lethal gas chamber today after
a jury of Beaufort citizens convicted
him in Martin Superior Court of first
degree murder of Thomas Holiday,
filling station operator, near Rober
sonville.
Sentence was not passed immediate
ly to set the death date.
Holiday was found dying at the fill
ing station the morning of Novem
iber 22. Evidence tended to show Wat
son who had been working on a road
construction job near here for some
months, had struck Holiday a blow
on the head while the latter was
changing a tire on Watson’s car.
G. O. P. Will
Pay Hamilton
$25,000 Sum
Chicago, Dec. 18. —(AP) —Members
of the executive committee of the Re
publican National Committee disclos
ed today Chairman John Hamilton
had been voted a salary of $25,000 a
year to devote his full time to the
party’s rehabilitation.
It was the first time the chairman
of the Republican National Commit
tee had been put on a full-time salary
basis in the interim between presi
dential campaigns, the committeemen
said.
The action was taken at an execu
tive committee meeting late yesterday
after the national committee gave
Hamilton a vote of confidence and re
fused to accept his resignation.
Depression Is Fading Into
Memory, Babson Declares
Unemployed Being Absorbed by Private Industry And
December Business Is Best Since 1928; Heavy In
dustries Given Credit for Current Boom
By ROGER W. BABSON,
Copyright 1936, Publishers
Financial Bureau, Inc.
Washington, Dec. 18—The outstand
ing feature about this December
boom in business is the renaissance
among the heavy industries. Loco
motive orders, utility construction,
shipbuilding, plant expansion, oil
drilling activity, and home building
have suddenly come to life. This
boomlet is no flash-in-the-pan. The
revival among these industries is
gathering momentum and clearing
away the last obstacles in the path
of returning prosperity.
Shirts Vs.. Locomotives
What is the difference between cap
ital and consumer goods? Consume?
EUROPE POLICY OF
'HANDS OFF SPAIN’
SLOtYCRUMBLES
Even England, Instigator of
Program, Admits Selling
Gas Masks to the
Loyalists
POLICY AIMED AT
LOCALIZING FIGHT
But Russia, Germany, Italy
and Portugal Have All
Been Accused of Helping
One Side or Other in Civil
War; “White-Washing” Is
Given In London
(By The Associated Press.)
Europe’s “hands-off” Spain policy
crumbles as the civil war drags on in
to its sixth month.
Britain’s tall, trim young Foreign
Secretary Anthony Eden today an
nounced "we could have sold a small
confinement of gas masks to the
Spanish government at their request.”
That adds one more difficult ele
ment to a confused situation.
Russia has sent money and fre
quently has been charged with send
ing men and arms to the Madrid gov
ernment.
Germany, Italy and Portugal have
been accused of doing the same for
the Fascist forces, besieging Madrid
and holding more than half of Spain.
Guns, tanks and airplanes with for
eign labels have been found on both
sides of the war front, but how they
got there is not clear.
Eden’s “non-intervention” commit
tee of a score of nations agreed in
London to stay out of the war as the
only method of preventing a Euro
jean conflict. All agreed there was
danger of a general war if arms were
furnished by countries sympathizing
with the Socialist-Communist Madrid
government, or with the insurgents,
composed of Fascists, aristocratic and
Catholic elements.
The London committee white-wash
ed every one, but later developments
Indicated “they were not guilty, but
don’t do it any more.”
ANOTHER GANSTER
LEADER IS KILLED
24-Year-Old Dominick Scaduto Shot
Dead in Chicago in Rear of
Fool Room Retreat
Chicago, Dec. 18.—(AP) —The rid
dled corpse of 24-year-old Dominick
Scaduto rested today at the county
morgue—end of the trail in his vain
flight from a gangland nemesis which
brought down his brother, Joseph, in
New York last July.
Three gunmen lined up the patrons
of a West Side pool hall in a back
room last’ night, drew a bead on
Scaduto and shot him to death with
a shotgun and two pistols.
They made no attempt to rob or
harm the customers.
Police theorized the death of the
brothers might be connected with the
assassination of Arthur (Dutch)
Schultz Flegenheimer, New York
racket boss, for the recent conviction
on vice charges of Charles (Lucky)
Luciano, Flegenheimer’s gangland
rival.
Companies
Accused By
Steel Head
Washington, Dec. 18. —(AP) —Philip
Murray, chairman of the steel work
ers organization committee, charged
today before the National Labor Re
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goods are used up soon after they
are produced. They are usually made
on order and quickly turned into
money. Hence, most manufacturers
of such goods operate on a cash basis.
Typical examples of consumer goods
are shoes, shirts, bread, automobiles,
carpets, radios and the like. Capital
goods, on the other hand, are dur
able products and are used principal
ly in fabricating or transporting oth
er goods. It takes weeks or months
to make capital goods and years to
pay for them. Hence, they are man
ufactured on credit. Examples of
capital goods are locomotives, steam
ships, machinery, and power stations.
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AMERICAN
FIRED ON
CRUSIER
On Missing Air Liner
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m
H. W. Edwards
Among the seven aboard the
missing Los Angeles-Salt Lake
City air liner, believed either
forced down or wrecked in the
Wasatch mountains of Utah, was
H. W. Edwards, above, communi
cations superintendent of the air
lines company.
—Central Press
APPOINTMENT FOR
POWELL CRITICIZED
\
McDonald Group Sees Con
tinuance of Spoils Sys
tem in State
MIGHT HELP LIBERALS
If This Policy Continues, 1940 May
See Real Overturn of Present
Dominant Faction in
Democratic Party
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In, the Sir Walter Hotel.
Bv .1 C BASKERVILL
Raleigh, Dec. 18.—The appointment
of Charles G. Powell as chairman of
the newly created Unemployment
Compensation Commission and for a
term of six years, within six hours
after the General Assembly had fin
ished enacting the bill creating this
commission, has set political circles
here by the ears and for the time
being is bringing down more criti
cism upon the heads of retiring Gov
ernor J. C. B. Ehringhaus and incom
ing Governor Clyde R. Hoey than any
thing which hag happened in months,
observers here agree. Nor is this cri
ticism coming from those who are un
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Mexico Will
Let Trotzky
Enter There
Mexico City, Dec.' 18.—(AP) —Leon
Trotzky’s plea for asylum opened hos
pitable doors in Mexico today' for the
wandering exile from Soviet Russia,
who could find no refuge in Europe.
The former revolutionary leader —
despite earlier intimations he would
refuse Mexico’s offer of haven, unless
he were promised full freedom of poli
tical activity—was expected to sail
from Norway on the next boat.
Trotzky, literally a man without a
country, applied to the Mexicon min
ister at Paris, Adelberto Tejeda, for
permission to reside in Mexico, gov
ernment officials said.
The ministry of interior announc
ing Trotzky had accepted the govern
ment’s invitation, (said immigration
authorities were ordered to admit
him.
(Trotzky’s permit to reside in Nor
way, his present refuge, expired yes
terday.)
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FOB NOR™ CROUN,
Cloudy, occasional rain tonight
and Saturday; slightly warmer
. Saturday.
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GUNBOAT
BY REBEL
OFF SPAIN
Three Shells Strike Near
“Erie” off Gijon, to Which
Port Gunboat Goes
Quickly
U. S. FLAG RAISED
AND FIRING ENDS
Spanish Fascist Cruiser Im
mediately Steams Away;
French and , British News
Agencies Report Incident
but U. S. Naval Attache
Lacks Facts
London, Dec. 18 (AP) —A
Reuter’s (British) News
Agency dispatch from Gijon,
Spain, today said the Spanish
Fascist cruiser Estana fired
three shells which struck near
the United States gunboat Erie
off Gijon.
The Reuter’s dispatch said the
shells, of 305 milimeters, struck about
300 yards from the United States
boat.
The Erie ran up the American flag,
the report said, after which the Span
ish vessel steamed away.
The Erie then put into Gijon, Reut
er’s said.
(The American naval attache in
Paris said he was unable to confirm
reports, which also were carried by a
French news agency in a dispatch un
der Madrid dateline.
(He further declared the Erie, hav
ing completed a shake-down cruise,
was scheduled to return to the United
States via the Azores).
The Erie’s displacement is 2,000 tons.
She carries four five-inch guns, two
three-inch anti-aircraft guns, and two
six-pounders.
Fascists
Pave Way
For Drive
Madrid, Dec. 18.—(AP)— Spanish
Fascists, fighting to clamp a band of
steel around northern Madrid, drove
today to the Escorial road, to open
the way for an attack from Guada
lajara.
The insurgents apparently were
shifting thdir attack anound from
the west to the north and east, leav
ing the southern approach to Madrid
less heavily guarded than during the
last few weeks of the siege.
Government forces, seizing their op
portunity, were reported to have cap
tured a strategic hill near Toledo.
One Strike
Os Auto Men
Called Off
(By The Associated Press.)
Strikers in one branch of the auto
motive industry returned to work to
day while others, deadlocked \dith
their employers, awaited word from
union leaders conferring at Washing
ton.
The day-old walk-out in National
Automotive Fibre Company of Detroit
maker of floor mats cushions and up
holstery, ended early today when 1,-i
500 workers accepted wage increases
of five cents an hour and agreed to
negotiate over other issues.
A strike of 13,000 flat glass work-*
ers —whose output includes automo
bile glass—continued. Glenn McCabe,
their union head, planned a meeting
at the capital with Homer Martin,
United Automobile Wforkers chief, and
John L. Lewis, with whose commit
tee for industrial organization both
unions were affiliated.
MOMENISIWS
WAS OVERLOOKED
Big Events Transpiring Dur
ing King Edward “Break”
Were Ignored
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, Dec. 18.—There are
times in the affairs of men when, for
a space of days or weeks or months
or even longer, there practically is no
news except of just one kind.
The interval during which all hu
man attention was riveted upon the
King- Edward-Mrs. Simpson affair
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