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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-THIRD YEAR InOSEVELT C hang Given More Time For Release Os Generalissimo Another “Final” Ultimatum Awarded Mutinous Re bel Chief in North ern Provinces HE MAY REFUSE TO COMPLY ON ORDER Dr. Soong, Brother-in-Law of Imprisoned Chiang Kai- Shek Reportedly Ready To Invade Rebel Retreat and To Make War if Kid napers Ignore Offer Nanking, China, Dec. 19 (AP) —The Nanking government, . suddenly ■winging its tactics against rebellious Marshal Chang Hseuh-Liang, ordered tonight punitive military operations against Sainfu rebel headquarters be reopened tomorrow unless Chiang Kai-Shek is released. Three more days of grace in which to end the rebellion and release Gen eral Chiang had earlier been award ed by officials to the mutinous young marshal. The time extension came just as the previous “final” ultimatum to Mar tial Chang, demanding the general ly imo’s immediate return, expired. - Dr. T. V. Soong, brother-in-law of the imprisoned Chiang, reportedly was ready to leave Nanking for Sian fu. where Marshal Chang has held the Generalissimo prisoner since the mutiny of his troops a week ago. Although the Nationalist govern ment had set a deadline of 6 p.- m. '5 a. m. eastern standard time) for the release of their chieftian, an au thoritative spokesman had expressed open skepticism that Chiang would be released at that time. 3 Officers Are Ousted In Escape Pottsville. Pa., Dec. 19 (AP)— County Prison Warden Herbert Gos lin and two aides were dismissed to day for “gross negligence” because of the escape of Joseph Bruno, serving a life term for the Kellayres election eve massacre. Fired with Goslin were Deputy War den Robert Walker and Prison Guard hvin. with whom Bruno went to a dentist's office just before his escape yesterday. Thf' county commissioners also of fered SI,OOO reward for the capture of the life-termer. Bruno was the object of search for police of nine states today. CHRISTMASGIFTS FROM POWER FIRM Carolina Company’s $550,- 000 Rate Slash Good News to Consumers Dully Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Ily J. C. RASKERVILL p leigh, Dec. 19—A Christmas pre ei to electricity users which will amount to $550,000 by the end of the i; has been announced by the Car nlii Power and Light Company and the North Carolina Utilities Commis "F is the result of a series of con b'renees extending over a period of s, ' v ■' ral months, Chairman Stanley Win home, of the Utilities Commis pointed out today. This fifth ! ' l' fion in rates, announced by the Carolina Power and Light Company '"1 the State Utilities Commission v- ifiay, will affect 65,000 residential ‘•>i timers and some 16,000 commer ( ' hstomers, giving them one of the t rates in the United States, " iich will save them at least $550,000 ir as compared with the rates v < h have been in effect until now, ( tmnissioner Winborne pointed out. 'l li is latest rate reduction is the which the Carolina Power and F.nht, Company has made since Jan -1 1, 1933, in cooperation with the 'ute Utilities Commission, these five I 'Factions making the present rates 'mount to $1,615,000 a year less than 'F people were paying four years Commissioner ♦ Winborrfe «aid. f h<- total reduction in utility rates incc December, 1932, including gas • telephone companies as well as (Continued on Page Four.) lilmftrrsmt Batin Btstmfrit L THP El a«^? E SERVICE OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Deposed Leader Ift, HBH[ SIP i Jh M iffl H Harry Bridges, militant leader of the striking seamen of the West Coast, is shown as he addressed 20,000 strikers and sympathizers in Madison Square Garden, New York. Bridges was deposed as an organ izer of the International Longshore men’s Union. (Central Press ) Work Week 48 Hours Is To Be Asked Fletcher' Also Says He Will Urge Rati ficaton of U. S. Child Labor Act Raleigh, Dec. 19 (AP)—A. L. Flet cher, State labor commissioner, said today North Carolina should have a 40-hour week law for all manufactur ing establishments, and as a step to ward it he would ask the 1937 legis lature to enact a 48-hour law. The commissioner said he would also ask ratification of the Federal child labor amendment and enact ment of a model child labor law in his program “for labor legislation in line with the platforms, State and na tional, of the Democratic party, and with the recommendation of Presi dent Roosevelt.” Fletcher pointed out North Caro lina does not regulate hours of work for men over 16 years of age, and has a 5-hour week and 11-hour day law for women.- • - “No State in the Union, and no civi lized nation except Japan, has as long a legal work day for women,” Fletch er added. He said a biU proposing a 46-hour Continued on Page Two.) ROOSEVELT TALKS OF CUBAN CRISIS Washington, Dec. 19.—(AP) — Cuba’s political crisis presumably was the subject today of a fore noon conference at the White House between President Roose velt and the Cuban ambassador, Dr. Guillermo Patterson. School Commission Would Buy Buses If It Had Funds But It Can Do Only What L egislature Authorizes It To Do; Big Problem for Coming Assembly Is To Raise Money Being Demanded on AH Sides Dally Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Bv J C BASKEHVILI. Raleigh, Dec. 19. —The State School Commission is heartily in favor of providing school buses with all steel bodies and of providing a s many new school buses as are needed —provided the General Assembly will appropriate the money for this purpose, Executive Secretary Lloyd Griffin said today. But the commission cannot buy any new buses of any kind whatever un less the General Assembly will sup ply the money. While some people seem to think that the school com mission has unlimited funds at its dis posal, and that the only reason it doesn’t jbuy new buses and pay teach ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. SEEKS STEED FOR RELIEF RILL HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 19, 1936 Poisoned • ; .j.,.. , ;ifH vvs ■■ .Wm .Xvtajaßßßßß Shortly after Annie Thelma Smoak (above), 15, of Wilmington, N. C?., died mysteriously, police arrested her father, Edgar Leßoy Smoak and his housekeeper, Mrs. Jenette Harker, on charges of poisoning he/. Her death also started an investigation into the strange manner under which Smoak’s two wives died (AP Photo). I. C. C. REFUSES 10 EXTEND EMERGENCY FREIGHT* Petition of Class I Railroads for More Time After December 31 Is Turned Down HEARINGS WILL BE STARTED JANUARY 6 Roads Sought Continuance on Ground Loss of Reve nue, Even in Face of In creased Business, Would Harm Financial Structure; Inaugurated April, 1935 Washington, Dec. 19. —(AF) — The Interstate Commerce Commission to day refused to the petition of Class I railroads to extend beyond Decem ber 31 emergency freight surchages expiring on that date. The roads, claiming emergency charges yielded $10,000,600 monthly, have asked continuation pending hearings on their application for gen eral revision of the rate structure. Initial hearings are slated January 6. Two commissioners dissented from the majority opinion denying the ex tension. The roads have asked continuation, claiming loss of revenue from the em ergency charges, in spite of increases in volume from improved industria conditions, woud harm their financial structure. The commission said: “The unmistakeable conclusion from these figures is the emergency which we undertook to meet in our original decision in March, 1935. does not exist. 'a continuing revival of industry ap pears likely to result in a further in crease in traffic, and no sharp gen eral increase in operating expenses is immediately in prospect. A“s before pointed out, the carriers and those supporting their petition Continued on Page Two.)* ers higher salaries is that it just doesn’t want to, the facts are that it cannot spend any money unless the legislature first appropriates the money and then sets aside the amount to be expended for specific objects, Griffin pointed out. Urgent Need fur 800 Buses. “There is very urgent need for at least 800 new school buses for next year to replace old and worn out buses and we should have at least 1,000 new ones,” Griffin said. “If we should get 800 new buses of the same type we are now using, with the re inforced wooden bodies, we could get (Continued on Page Fount) GERMANY GREATLY IN NEED OE MORE SUPPLIESOF FOOD Must Have Bread by Spring In Face of Rationing of Fats Already Put In Effect ALLOWANCES RATED ON SIZE OF FAMILY Nation Must Increase Its Wheat Imports Although Reductions in Foreign Pur chases Had Been! Made; Grave Difficulties Attend This Move Berlin, Dec. 19.—(AP) —The third Reich strove today to find the bread it must have by spring. An iron clamp pinched the already slim trickle of butter and fat pro ducts to the German consumer. Now, experts affirm, the Reich must face the prospect of empty domestic bread bins by April. To get the wheat to make the bread Germany eats means going abroad, and there lie grave difficulties. The stringencies imposed on Ger man households in preserving dwind ling food supplies were disclosed yes terday by the issuance of ration cards for butter and lard. Under new orders, allowances of fats will be pro-rated according to the size of the family. Purchases will be limited to 80 per cent of October con sumption each month, starting Jan uary 1. Agricultural estimates agreed Ger many must increase wheat importa tions after having reduced them in 1935 to 160,000 tons, as compared with 605,000 tons the year before. SLAYING CONFESSED BY KANNAPOLIS MAN Carpenter Admits He “Fired in Dark” Killing Leonard Daves, Fol lowing After Him Kannapolis, Dec. 19. —(AP)—Police Chief Ira Chapman said Pearl Car penter, Kannapolis man, confessed to day he shot and killed Leonard Daves, 22, textile employe, here last night. Chapman quoted Carpenter as say ing he shot in the dark without know ing who was “following” him. Daves, brother of Dewey Daves, head of the local Young Democratic Club, was shot about 9 o’clock last night. His body was found lying near a baseball park by a passerby shortly after midnight. Chief Chapman said Daves and the accused man were together early in the evening and Carpenter had been drinking. Persons living near the scene said they heard three shots, but only one bullet, from a 45-calibre pistol, struck Daves, entering his head just above the ear. Carpenter was placed in jail on a murder charge. 1936 Rains Set Record At Raleigh Raleigh, Dec. 19 (AP)—Heavy rains here today gave Raleigh a new annual rainfall record at 63.57 inches for 1936, the heaviest in 50 years. The Previous high for Raleigh was 63.41 inches in 1891, Lee Den son, in charge of the Weather Bureau, said the continued rains were causing “serious’ flood con ditions in the Neuse river, with water nearly 19 feet deep at Kin ■ ston and still rising. It was al ready some four feet in flood. At Goldsboro the river had reached a stand at 20.9 feet, about seven feet above bank level. Z.f\SHOPPING QlJ^days AS DR. FRANK FIGHTS OUSTER 11 j|Pf }: jo j III v - ■ $ i - w - *&•> Top, Wilkie, left, and Dr. Frank; below, students eavesdropping Although Dr. Glenn Frank, for 12 years president of the University of Wisconsin, declared he would not resign, a test vote of regents seeking his ouster has disclosed that Gov. Philip La Follette and his Progressive state administration has sufficient votes to force a change of administration. Frank adherents, however, have forced an open hearing, to be held soon after Jan. 1. Dr. Frank is seen at top, right, talking with Harold M. Wilkie, chairman of the board of regents at a meeting of the board in Madison. Wilkie said he' would demand Frank’s retirement at the expiration of his contract In June. In the lower photo, undergraduate students, followers of Frank, are seen eavesdropping at meeting and giving vent to jeers. —Central Vre^i Cuban President May Be Ousted For Refusing To Sign Sugar Tax Measure Batista Forces Bill Tbrougb Cuban House of Represen tatives Over Protest of P resident; Seen as Lever To Impeach Nation’s Chief Executive Havana, Dec. 19. —(AP) —Cuban congressional leaders opposed to President Miguel Gomez met se cretly again today to discuss pos sigle impeachment proceedings against him. They allegedly discussed latest development in the dispute over the $1,500,000 sugar tax bill which President Gomez has signified he will veto. The bill, which the army seeks New N. C. Social Act Is Approved Washington, Dec. 19 (AP) —The Social Security Board approved to day the North Carolina unemploy ment insurance act passed Wed nesday at a special session of the State legislature. Approval of the North Carolina act completed enactment of un employment laws in social securi ty region four, including the Dis trict of Columbia, West Virginia, Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina. The North Carolina statute was brought here Thursday by State officials. NEWSPAPERS ASK ELECTION CHANGE Want Primary on Tuesday Instead of Saturday and 1 Shorter Hours Dally Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. By J. C. BASKERVILL Raleigh, Dec. 19 —The newspapers of North Carolina, speaking through Continued on Page Five.) PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. to use to promote education in rural areas was taken to the pres idential palace for action. Havana, Cuba, Dec. 19 (AP) —The Cuban sugar tax bill, which the army political faction seeks to use as a level to oust President Miguel Gomez was on its way to him today after passage in the uproarious congres- Continued on Page Two.) RAIL PROBE TO BE BIGGESTINQUIRY Will Produce More Sensa tions Than Anything Like It In U. S. By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington; Dec. 19. —Senator Bur ton K. Wheeler’s investigation of America’s transportation systems ap parently is destined to be the biggest congressional inquiry in the country's history. It is the Montana senator’s quiz in the sense that he initiated it, as chairman of the upper congressional (Continued on Page Five) ~OUR WEATHER MAN i.IR Cloudy, occasional rain tonight and possibly Sunday. morning. O PAGES o TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY $500,000,000 OF ADDITIONAL MONEY FOR YEAR NEEDED Relief Program for Fiscal Year Starting Next July Will Wait Until the Spring WILL KNOW NEEDS BETTER LATER ON New Allotment of Funds Required To Meet WPA Costs Until June 30, Pas sage During First Week of Congress, Meeting Jan uary 5, Will Be Asked Washington, Dec. 19. —(AP) —Quick congressional approval was sought to-* day for President Roosevelt’s reuest for an immediate SSOO/000,000 relief appropriation. Current funds are expected to last only another month, making action necessary early in January if the pro gram is to proceed without interrup tion. Mr. Roosevelt said yesterday he Would ask for the appropriation, de signed to meet WPA costs until June 30, during the first week of Congress. It convenes January 5. Estimates for relief needs in the next fiscal year will not be submitted until spring, in order to obtain a bet ter idea of future needs/ Eure Will Start Duty Forthwith Raleigh, Dec. 19 (AP)—Thad Eure, of Winton, accepted an appointment today to serve as secretary of state in the interim before he assumes of fice in January, for the term to which he was elected in November. In a brief statement issued after a conference with Governor Ehringhaus, Eure said, in part: “In accordance with the will of the people and my own desire, I gladly accept the opportunity to serve them these few days before my constitu tional term begins, although it en tails much personal sacrifice on the part of myself and my family at this particular time.” Eure wil succeed Charles G. Pow ell, appointed secretary of state three weeks ago, when Stacy Wade resign e dto accept a social security job. Powell will become chairman of the State Unemployment Compensation Board. Hopes Rise For Finding Lost Plane Cry of “Help” Heard In Idaho Wilds; Passenger Liner Is Still Mystery Salt Lake City, Dec. 19.—(AP) —Faint radio messages—the indis tinct sound of a man’s weak voice —were picked up time and time again today by searchers for a Western Air Express plane lost since Tuesday with seven persons The recurring calls apparently directed at both St. George, Utah, and Salt Lake City, were describ ed as between the frequences of both the United Air Line and Western Express equipment. They were picked up most plain ly said C. A. Cahlan, of Western Air, by a Transcontinental and Western air station at Kingman, Ariz. This, Cahlan said, was the only station able to make out where the unknown caller was trying to make contact. Salt Lake City, Utah, Dec. 19 (AP) A cry of “help” from an Idaho wild erness led snow-battling searchers to hope today for the safety of two pil ots in a missing plane, but seven oc cupants of another vanished air liner were feared to have perished. Sheriff’s officers hurried into the wilds of northern Idaho where a man reported hearing the distress cry. Searchers hailed it as the first de- Continued on Page Two,)
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