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HENUEKSON GATEWAY to CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-THIRD year Death Toll Mounting Fast From Salvador Earthquake Striking During Week-End WHOLESALE RUIN IS REPORTED, WITH 200 KNOWN KILLED San Vincente Almost Razed by Tremors During Week- End In Central Ame rica Town many buildings in CITY RIPPED DOWN Homes Shattered and Hun dreds of Bodies Are Dug Up from Ruins Shortly After Devastation Is Wrought; Communication Lines Are Destroyed San Salvador, Dec. 21.—(AP)—Of . -v oxpreesed fears today a mount ing death toll in the devastating earth , which almost razed San Vin conte and killed at least 200 persons over the week-end. Persons arriving in San Salvador f:om the stricken provincial capital told stories of wholesale ruin, of shat tered buildings and homes and re tains digging out some 200 bodies in the first few hours after the quake. How high the deaths would reach no one would estimate but govern ment officials advanced all relief available to the area. Accurate reports were made in creasingly difficult to obtain because of the disrupted communications be tween the quake’s area and San Sal vador. Telephone and telegraph lines were ripped down by the quakes and infor mation could be had only from those who fled inland from the scene. Rob Office Os Sheriff At Raleigh Raleigh, Dec. 21.—(AP)—Sher iff Nunia F. Turner, of Wake county, reported today four rob bers entered the safe In nis office in the court house during the week-end and stole about S6OO. Chief Deputy Chris Haynes found an electric wire attached to a handle on the safe door this morning and investigation show ed seven of the nine inside com partments had been forced open. Haynes said the loot included SOOO in cash and nearly SIOO in checks. Landon Sees President In Hour’s Talk Defeated Candidate White House Call er; Talk About Their Children Washington, Dec. 21 (AP)—For m r|y an hour today President Roosevelt and his defeated Repub li«an rival for the presidency — ibtvernor Alf Landon of Kansas —catted in the White House about 1 h l ist mas and children. ! t iling reporters about the visit the governor said: “The President talked about his grandchildren and I talked about (■Continued on Page Three.) OUR WEATHER MAN tV)K NORTH CAROLINA. '»enerally fair tonight; Tuesday partly cloudy, possibly followed ,l .v lijjht rains; no decided change ii» temperature. HintJi rrs mt £3 atltt tltsunlrlr L THF E A«^m E SERVICE OP associated press. Windsor at Enzesfeld 1.. ■ • This picture, posed especially by the former King Edward Vm at Baron Eugene de Rothschild’s Schloss Enzesfeld, near Vienna, was flashed by R. C. A. radio to New York. It is the latest picture of the monarch who renounced his throne for Wallis Simpson. (Central Press') Liquor Plan Gives 80 Pet. To Counties •> * But State Would Have General Sup ervision of all Coun ty Operations Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. By J. C. BASKERVILL Raleigh, Dec. 1. —A combination State and county liquor control and liquor stores plan, under which coun ties would get 80 per cent of the pro fits from the liquor stores and the State get 20 per cent, with the ad ministration of the system centered in a State liquor conrol commmission ana county control boards, is recom mended to the governor and the 1937 General Assembly by the special com mission to study the control of al coholic beverages in North Carolina, in the report and recommendations just submitted iby Victor S. Bryant, chairman of the commission. The findings and recommendations of the commission, exclusive of the model bill prepared by the commis sion, cover 32 legal size typewritten pages, while-the many appendices and the bill fill almost as many more pages. The report of the commission has nothing to say concerning the sort of (Continued on Page Three.) Peace Body Nears End Os Labors Buenos Aires, Dec. 21. —’(AP) —The inter-American peace conference end ed its formal labors today with ap proval of 37 projects designed to strengthen bonds among the 21 Am erican republics and liberalize trade policies. A plenary session sanctioned a Cen tral American declaration for com plete American solidarity if war any where threatens the western world; resolutions urging lowered tariff and equality of trade opportunities, and other plans to cement peace and im prove commercial and cultural rela tions. The delegates stood silent for one minute at the opening in memory of the victims of the earthquake, at San Vincente, Salvador. ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. Pope Might Radio World Greetings Vatican City, Dec. 21.—(AP) — Pope Pius, confined to his bed with circulatory congestion and a slight fever, expressed the wish today to broadcast a Christmas eve message to the world. The Holy Father, instructed by physicians to curtail his activities rigorously, was represented as be lieving a Yuletide radio statement would modify worldwide concern over the state of his health. Pre lates declared the pope might speak into a microphone set-up in his study adjoining the sick room. CONDITIONS FOUND BAD IN DRY AREAS Liquor Commission Reports Improvement in Wet Counties, However Dally Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. By J. C. BASKEttVILL Raleigh, Dec. 21—Conditions with regard to the illegal sale and use of alcoholic liquors in “dry” counties where the State prohibition laws are still in effect are undoubtedly bad and “large amounts of illicit liquor are both manufactured and sold in many of these counties,” the report of the State Liquor Commission just submitted to Governor J. C. B. Eh ringhaus, who in turn will submit it to the 1937 General Assembly, declar es. As a Fesult of its investigation of conditions in the 18 “wet” counties, the commission is of the belief that the legalization of the sale of liquor in county liquor stores has improved conditions somewhat. Increase in Consumption “Much of the information before us indicates there has been a rapid in crease in the consumption of whisky and other intoxicants in the State, within the last ten years,” the report of the commission states on page 18, in the section devoted to “The Prohi bition Counties.” “There is evidence that in practically every county in the State, whisky may be readily ob tained by those who frequently use , (Continued on Page Six.) WORK UNDER WAY ON NEW HIGHWAY RADIO Raleigh, Dec. 21 (AP)—Captain Charles Farmer, of the State High way Patrol, >said today work was un der way on the radio transmitter houses at Salisbury and Asheville, and would be started on the Raleigh unit this week. Construction of the Wil liamston and Elizabethtown houses is to be started next week. HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY i' AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 21, 1936 Cuba’s President Vetoes Sugar Act Havana, Cuba, Dec. 21.—(AP) — President Miguel Gomez has vetoed the $1,500,000 sugar tax bill, pav ing the way for prospective im peachment proceedings instituted by his political opponents, Senator Octavio Rivero announced today. The senator said the chief exe cutive I\l informed him of his action during a conference in the presidential palace. The vetoed measure will be sent to the Senate this afternoon, Rivero declared. BELIEVE WRECKAGE BE MISSING PLANE SIGHIEDBY FLIER Impossible for National Guard Pilot To Say Whether Two Airmen Are Still Alive EARHART JOINS IN SALT LAKE SEARCH No Trace Yet Found of Missing Plane Carrying Seven Passengers Besides Crew That Have Been Missing for Week; Wo man Flier Hops for West Spokane, Wash., Dec. 21 (AP) —A National Guard pilot advised Phelps field by radio today he had cited what he believed to be wreckage of the missing Northwest Air Lines trans port plane near Galder, Idaho. A pilot and co-pilot were aboard the airship when it disappeared early Friday. The message saiid only that he< had found the ship and he could not determine whether the two pilots were alive. AMELIA EARHART PUTNAM OCEAN FLIER, JOINS HUNT • Salt Lake City, Dec. 21 (AP) —Ame- lia Earhart Putnam, bobbed-hair air conqueror of two oceans, joined to day the search for a Western Air Ex press transport plane missing seven days with seven persons. The tall, freckled flier arrived un expectedly, with her advisor. They departed at once for Milford, Utah, 180 miles southwest of here. Air operations were based there today. Salt Lake City, Dec. 21. —(AP) —-The wintry west locked the fate of nine missing persons in its cold and snow today as officials posting a SI,OOO re ward, announced a search “on our own” for one of two planes seven days after it disappeared. Admitting "every clue exhausted,” Western Air Express officials offered the reward, effective until noon Jan uary 4, for discovery of the Los An geles-Salt Lake City transport, lost with five men and two women since. Tuesday. The ship, last reported over Milford, in southwestern Utah, is sought in that vicinity and northward, and in east-central Nevada. Five hundred miles northwest Ran ger M. T. Olmstead turned the hunt to a new sector in north Idaho for Pilot Joe Livermore, Co-Pilot A. A. Haid, and their Northwest Air Trans (Continued on Page Six.) Beaufort Harbor Skeleton Not Yet Fully Identified IBeaufort, Deo. 21 (AP)—Carteqet ,county authorities said today they were not satisfied the skeleton found Friday on Peanut Shoals in Beaufort harbor was that of Joe Willis, More head City barber missing since July 2. Solicitor Dave Clark gave orders the bones be preserved pending pos sible further developments. Dr. R. C. Smith, coroner, said he had been told a farmer reported see ing Willis in Wilson as late as Sep tember, although the braber had! been listed as missing since July. smoaksenTFack 10 CELL AT JAIL Man Accused of Poisoning Daughter Waives Preli minary Hearing Wilmington, Dec. 21.—(AP) —Edgar Smoak waived a preliminary hearing in recorder’s court today and was or dered held without bail on a charge of murdering his 15-year-old daughter Annie Thelma, by poison. A murder charge against the house keeper Mrs. Genette Harker was drop ped, but she was placed under SI,OOO bond as a material witness.* The entire proceding required only three and a half minutes. Mrs. Harker and Smoak were re turned to their prison cells immediate ly after the hearing. ARMS EMBARGO ACT IS UPHELD 7 TO 1 UNDER SUPREME COURT ORDER CUBA PRESIDENT FIGHTS OUSTER Col. Batista President Gomez Differences between President Miguel Gomez of Cuba and Col. Ful gencio Batista, Cuban “strong man”, have projected a serious crisis, with Col; Batista’s aides seeking to oust the president and Gomez indicating he would fight such an attempt to the finish. Arti cles of impeachment were reported to have been drawn in the House of Representatives while the cabinet -was reported to have voted unanimously to support Gomez. The clash between the president and the military dictator arose over a bill to tax sugar nine cents a bag. Batista demanded the tax so as to finance army-taught coun try schools. President Gomez, seeking to halt the extension of the military-fascistic power of Col. Batista, opposed the bill. —Central Press Early Break Expected In Sea Strike Motor Industry, Is Squeezed Even More Tightly By Its Walkouts (By The Associated press.) Union and employer spokesmen cit ed a possible break in the 53-day-old Pacific coast maritime strike today in the form of a tentative agreement submitted to members of the sailors union. On another strike front the auto motive industry began feeling the pinch of a walk-out by 26,000 glass, auto and auto parts workers, with lit tle headway apparently in efforts to reach accords. At Pittsburgh, steel workers launch ed an attempt to supplant company - 'Continued on Page Three.) Four Held In Killing Nash Man lll—' Nashville, Dec. 21 —(AP) —Four per sons were placed in the Nash county jail here today while police sought to determine whether Preston Cone, 32, was killed by a hit-and-run driver yesterday, or whether he was murder ed at a filling station where he was last seen before his dead body was discovered on the Middlesex-Bailey highway. > . Blood stains on a large piece of iron pipe and a shovel found at the fill ing station led to the arrest of Viola Brown, Dock Williams, Beatrice Lamm and Eula Driver who was seen with Cone at a filling station which Miss BroWn is said to operate. All are from Nash county. Sheriff C. V. Falkner ordered the arrests after Coroner M. C. Gulley, of Nash, investigated the death. •b^DAYS vJSCtill PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. $2,000-a-Day Income WliiiilllKEiß : i : B % Mrs. Hugh A. Dillman Mrs. Hugh A. Dillman, widow of the late Horace E. Dodge and one of the wealthiest women in the world, receives an income of at least $2,000 a day from the Dodge fortune of over $58,000,000. This is disclosed by the ninth an nual accounting in Detroit of the estate. Total daily income is $6,100, but there is a deduction for taxes amounting to about $4,000 a day, barring exemptions. —Central Press TO SEEK POPULAR PRESIDENTIAL VOTE Measure Is Inequitable On Almost Any Conceivable Calculation By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Dec. 21.—Soon after 1 Congress meets, the attempt, usual in late years at every session, will be launched to amend the Constitution so as to provide for the election of future presidents by national popular majorities. And, as usual, it presently will be come apparent that such an amend ment, 100 per cent effective, is an impossibility. An approach can be made to it, but the plan’s best friends, if at all fam iliar with the facts in the case, realize that the plan’s accomplishment in its (Continued on Page Five) 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY PRESIDENT NEEDS POWER Os ACTION IS COURT OPINION Ruling Generally Interpret ed as Having Bearing Upon Course of Com ing Congress TO REVIEW DISPUTE ON FARM MORTGAGE Frazier-Lemket Act Involv ed 1 , Granting Three-Year Moratorium on Farm Fore closures; Refuses To Re view Appeal Involving Commodity Exch a n g e Control * Washington, Dec. 21.—(AP) —In a ruling generally interpreted as hav ing an important bearing on forth coming congressional consideration of neutrality legislation, the Supreme Court held today.the President of the United States must be given a large degree of latitude in handling of for eign affairs. By a seven to one vote, it upheld the constitutionality of the 1934 arms em bargo act, which authorized President Roosevelt to forbid the sale of muni tions in this country for use in the re cent Chaco war between Bolivia and Paraguay. Before adjourning for two weeks over the holidays, the court agreed to review a controversy involving the constitutionality of the Frazier-Lemko act, granting a three-year moratorium Continued on Page Five.) War Flier Drops Flag To Edward Enzesfeld, Austria, Dec. 21.—(AP)— Julius Arigi, Austrian World War ace, disclosed today it was he who piloted the plane which flew over Edward, Duke of Windsor, Sunday, and drop ped flags all about the grounds of the castle of Barn de Rothschild. “I dropped Austrian, British and the Rothschild family flags as a token of a soldier’s affections for the sym pathetic former ruler,” said the avia tor, adding the police had dissuaded his plan to drop a great wreath as near Edward as possible. The wreath might hit the group, Arigi said the police pointed out. Workers and peasants hereabouts are in many little ways trying to show Edward they approve of him. Some sent him simple gifts and poems. Others sent fresh trout, as they had been told Edward likes noth ing better. It was learned the former king of England dined on trout Sun day night when the British Minister Walford was one of the castle guests. Hold Woman In Shooting High In Air Madam Schemeder Lands in England and Is Wanted By French Authorities Selsey, England, Dec. 21.—(AP)— Madam Marie Schemeder, sought iby French police for shooting her co-pilot over Villa Coublay yesterday, was or dered held on a technical charge to day after crashing her plane in a Sussex field. British authorities detained the woman flier, wife of a wealthy French machine manufacturer, after French Police reported a warrant for her ar rest had been issued at Versailles. Madam Schemeder fled from France in the same plane in which she was alleged to have shot Pierre A’Alleman her co-pilot, during a flight Sunday morning. The smashed her plane near Selsey late Sunday afternoon, it became known today. She gave Sussex police the name of Chappelet, al though it was understood she carried no passports.
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