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JL i Local Merchants Prepare For Dollar Day Thursday WASHINGTON AND RALEIGH NEWS BUREAU CORRESPONDENCE MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Hundreds of Special Correspondents Over North Carolina and South Carolina First In America Circulation Yesterday City and Suburban 48179 Country 10985 TOTAL PAID 59164 It Is Interesting to note that of The Observer's 58000 DAILY and more than 59 OOO SUNDAY circulation 48 000 or more than 82 is citv and suburban circulation in Charlotte's immediate trading territory Ninety per cent of the other circulation is within convenient shopping radius of Charlotte The Observer leads In circulation ALL newspapers Momma and Evening in the states of Smith and South Carolina It is the largest newspaper between Richmond and Atlanta and Washington and Birmingham The Observer occupies the unique position of being the unlv I morning newspaper in AMERICA published in a citv of less than 100 000 population having a circulation of 58 000 daily and more than 59 000 Sundav The Observer leads all newspapers both Morning and Evening in the two states in volume of advertmng carried each vear The Foremost Newspaper of The Two Carol inas- Circulation Books Open to FOUNDED 67TH NO 166 22 PAGES TODAY CHARLOTTE TUESDAY MORNING SEPTEMBER 17 1935 PRICE: FIVE CENTS TEN CENTS SUNDAY AndDavisDiscussNavy Limits LITTLE HOPE Of DIVIDES FLEET IN STRATEGIC UNITS READY FOR ANYTHING More English Ships Steam Into Mediterranean Jeritza Is In No Mood To Warble Pumped Lead Into Assassin Of Huey Long Primaries In Four 4 States oday Carry Many Broad Issues In Pennsylvania Constitution Sales Tax in New Jersey Capture of State Assembly in New York Property Tax Exemption in New Mexico miM Joe Messina Tells Jury He Killed Weiss 145 VESSELS ARE IN SEA Talk Over Ethiopian Situation Informally AMERICA STANDS ALOOF France Weakens on Sane tions Ethiopia Prepares to Mobilize at Once WASHINGTON Sept Broad issues over-shadow individual candidacies in primaries in four states tomorrow The fight over revising sylvania's constitution held higher interest than many a bitter local contest for party nominations The Philadelphia Republican mayoralty contest attracted most attention Farley state and national Democratic chairman was at stake in Queens and Richmond counties Chase Mellen Republican SMITH GETS EXCITED Organizer of the Clubs Calls District Attorney Plotter Envoy at Large Discounts Idea That United States May Become Involved Youth Director Named WASHINGTON Sept tP) Overton of Nashville today was appointed state youth director for Tennessee by Aubrey Williams executive director of the National (Youth ad-ministration Overton for 11 months has been State supervisor for Tennessee of the emergency educational program oE the relief administration Slayer Saved From Gallows LONG BEACH Calif Sept 16 Mrs Nellie Madison convicted slayer of her fourth husband was saved from the gallows today Gov Frank Merriam commuted her sentence to life imprisonment Refused License to Wed THE HAGl'E The Netherlands Sept 16 Dutch municipal asithorilies refused today to issue a marriage license to a German Jew and a Dutch xv oman as a result of Germany's new marriage laws Submarine Adrift LONDON Sept 16 i 'TV-New dispatches from Bristol tonight said ships in the gale-swept Bristol channel had been warned by wireless to watch for a drifting crew less submarine which was lost while being towed by a steamer The vessel was recently sold by the British navy to be broken up Trial Review Opposed JACKSON Miss Sept 16 (AV-The State of Mississippi acting through Assistant Atlor-nev General Conn Jr today had filed a petition before live Cnited Slates Supreme Court opposing a review before that court of the trial and sentence of three Kemper county negroes sentenced to hang for the murder of a white planter See Repeal of Sales Tax 1 RENTON Sept i-T) Jersey's legislative pri- i mary campaign ended tonight with the sales tax repealists predicting xietnry and Governor Hoffman chief tax defender urging Ihe oters to "impose no penally upon high Girl Hitchhiker Hurt MCNFORDVILLE Ky Sept i Pi Miss Mildred Oldham 24-year old Rutherford insurgent faced a test of his new Republican organization New York's entire police force was kept ready for anticipated YDg PARK YSept disorders at polling places 1 1 New Mexico will vote on five Iiesideilt IvOOSP- state proposals one of which would velt discussed the possibility place all taxpayers regardless ofjof further naval limitations war service on an equal basis over he teacups todav'with in property exemptions aside from the constitutional issue with two city officials seeking the nomination In New Jersey the sales tax was the big issue repealists predicting victory and Goveinor Hoffman and his supporters urging retention of the tax Candidates for 60 assembly and eight senate seats also are to be named Republicans in New York saw in the primary the beginning of a drive to capture the slate assembly as Democrats faced numerous contests most of them in New DOME Sept 16 (P) Benito Mussolini answered Great concentration of fighting ships in the Mediterranean tonight with a sudden order dividing armed naval forces into Adriatic as well as Mediterranean fleets The decree piovided that Italy's fleet hcietofote mostly concentrated under the high command at the Spezia Gaining school in the northern Mediterranean will be di-tided under two com- M4RIA JERITZA UNTERACH Austria Sept The golden-voiced Maria Jer-ita piqued because some Austrians don like her second mar-liage refused today to sing for the home-folk that's the way I The Philippine islands hold their first presidential election to choose the head of their new commonwealth government As assassination threats were reported Gov Norman Davis American representath to the preliminary negotiations Davis afterward expressed doubt of new agreements ork City where the Tammany i ernor General Frank Murphy said Hall leadership of James Dool-! the government would use its full ing was one issue military strength to keep the elec- The political rule of James A jtion regular With the British fleet steaming our countrymen feel about tt I in each sea into the Mediterranean in the "ill not embarrass them by sing- The two commands of the two Italian-Ethiopian crisis Mr Roose-'mg I had planned a benefit for naval aie to be lodged at velt leisurely talked over the situa-! the Austrian poor but now' I in-tion with Davis and Mrs Davis at I tend to make a $6 000 contnbu- the tion to charity said diva TEST OF II I PLEDGE Bargain Prices To Prevail In Stores Charlotte Business Houses With Stocks Bought Before Rising Prices Ready for Influx of Buyers 3 ith rising wholesale costs steadily pushing retail prices upward annual fall Dollar Day Thursday September 19 will be the only big co-operative trade event this fall that will enable shoppers to beat rising prices by stocking up on all needs now Announcements from local chants have disclosed the fact that Constitutionality of Holding Company Act Attacked in Suit in Baltimore 'points which will be decided by the naval mmistiy The Adnatic fleet will be divided into two stiategic command sta tions: one for the upper Adriatic I and one for the lower Adriatic and I the Ionian sea Similaiiy the superior command i in the Meditei i anean will have two strategic control points one in tnt upper Tjitheman sea and the other the lower Tv riheiiidn Each of the new supnior command stations will serve as naval Gaining schools in time of peaee In time of war thev will become 'effective The decree did not indicate how Italy's total naval stiergth will be divided bet eui the two superior commands but because of Italy glowing inteiests the Near East it was thought the Adriat'c would be protected on about the am numerical basis as the Mediterranean Ttie decree for the reorganization of the high naval command came after officials in Rome had exploded sat i 'fact ion with Italy position on both military and dplo-matic fronts tea Davis upon his retun to the temporary executive pffice at the Nelson house in Poughkeepsie said that the foieign situation was dis-I cussed just like any other exciting news of the day but he said that' there was no thought of American intervention BRITISH TAKE lMTIATIt So far as the foreign situation is concerned Mr Davis said the British have taken the initiative He said there was no indication of American involvement and spoke discouragmgly of the possibility of future naval limitations which he has been seeking as this country's representative The European situation he said was mentioned just as anyone would sit down and discuss the exciting news of the day but not with any thought of action by this government The naval treaties of Washington and London piesrribing latios among the United States Great Britain and Japan expire next year As for the Kellogg peace pact Davis said it piovided moral obi War Described as International Racket by Speakers at National Convention BALTIMORE Sept A petition challenging the constitu- BATON ROUGE La Sept 16 (P) Joe Messina the late Senator Huey I favorite bodyguard wept today as he told a jury he killed Dr A Weiss Jr assassin Alter hearing testimony from Messina and other bodyguards who poured lead into the body of Dr Weiss the night he mortally wounded the Sanator in the State Capitol the jury telurned a verdict that Dr Weiss died of wounds in the head chest and abdomen Under Lousiana law a coroner's jury is requited only to decide the form of a person's death and docs not fix the blame in such cases Fuither action is left to the prosecutor and the grand jury Dramatically waving his hands the Rev Gerald Smith organizer of Longs societies refused to answer questions and called District Attorney John Fted Odom a plot SMITH APPLAUDED There was applause from some of those in the crowded couitioom and Smith was slapped on the back by Long bupporteis when he was leaving the inquest The atmosphoie was tense Some of Longs bodyguards present rose to their feet About the same number of agents of the district attorney's office likewise stood up Slowly rising to his feet Odom said care nothing for his opinion of me or my acts but if he or anybody eHe says I engaged in any plot to kill Senator Huey Long he is a wilful malicious and vicious Theie as applause Odom laughed and the tension was broken After the verdict District Attorney Odom who conducted the inquiry said as far ns he was concerned the mattci was closed Attorney Gencial Gaston Por-terie who took part in the hearing said he did not know whether he would pqrsue the inquiry further Meanwhile James Sr assistant attorney general at New Orleans said a man whom he declined to name had come to his office and made an affidavit respecting an alleged murder plot against Senator Long and the affidavit had been over to the proper authorities'' He refused to say what authorities At De Queen Aik Dr George Long of Tulsa Okla brother of the assassinated said follow ers of the late Senator had evidence that a plot to murder him was instigated by four Congi ess-men in a New Oilcans hotel Dr Long was in De Queen to TO GO HITLER IS Savings stores hitchhiker was seriously injured tionality of the public utility holding company act passed by the recent Congress was filed in United States district court here today it was the fast couit attack On the measure The petition was filed in the names of Whitwoith and Donald Fenhagen trustees for American States Public Service company a holding company which controls opeiating properties in seveial western States but whose main office is in Baltimore The company is in ptocess of reorganisation The petitioner declare that if they aie forced under the bill to register with the Securi-l ties and Exchange commission it will entail heavy expense lav a punishing burden upon the ongi-I nal owners of the company and I prevent the carrying out of the 1 plan of reorganization Attorneys made it clear the action is a test by a hit and run driver near here early today Banks Get Bogus Money MIAMI Ha Sept More than 20 enunterfeit $10 Federal Reserve notes were in-tereepied at Imal banks today and police said they were identical with spurious $10 notes found in possession of two men arrested Saturday night Hongkong Bank (loses HONGKONG Sept Ifi-tTi-The Chinese National Commercial bank which is associated with prominent Chinese department failed to open today Wed Britain Rushes More Ships to Mediterranean (Copyright 1333 by Ihe Associated Press LONDON Sept Great Bri-lain moving behind a screen of official secrecy rushed many men war southward tonight to reinforc lirr groat Meditei ranean fleet The Empnp acted the face of the tightening tension that followed last weeks grave developments at Genova and at Rome As the belief increased that another pottentous meeting of mn- NEW ORLEANS Sept 16-1 T9-Var veteians all of whom have wived the Slais and Stupes abroad heatd war described today as a "mad international raiket for profit' and pledged their effmts to uoild peace at the opening session line of the 36th annual encampment of Veterans of Fomgn Wai Peaee rang out as the gniduig theme of the convention whrh diew veteians and their families fiom every State in the Union The delegates cheered lustily as their commander-in-chief James Van Zandt of Altoona Pa clasped hands with Admual Isamu Takeshita chief of a delegation representing war veteians of Japan in a mutual gesture of friendliness between the two nations Commander Van Zandt and Ad-mual Takeshita both made Stirling appeals for closer co-opeiation between the veterans of Japan and the United States to cement good will between the nations and to the uoild a lesson in the basic principle of international peace" NYK ACCLAIMED The veterans wildly acclaimed Senator Get aid Nye of North Dakota chairman of the Seriate munitions committee when he branded war an and asked to us be done with the kind of national defense that is conceived to richly reward a few manufacturers' and salesmen wniie heavily burdening the many 'War and prepaiation for it" one of the biggest Dollar Day stocks in history has been purchased for the occasion and purchased recently at prices considerably below present wholesale costs This difference will be passed on as a saving to Choppers next Thursday NEW MERCHANDISE Laige shipments of the newest fall fashions and other new merchandise have been arming dailv for the last several weeks and will he offered heie at special prices for Dollar Day Charlotte mot-chants are enthusiastic over the quality of this new merchandise pointing out that unusual values will be available Thursday when local stoics throw open their doors for the big fall shopping festival As practicaly every retail store in the city is joining in offering special puce reductions for Dollar Dav visitors to Charlotte will be able to supply virtually every need at a substantial saving over regular prices Everything from fashionable wearing apparel to furniture gifts and miscellaneous items will be on sale Special bus fares and train fates to and fiom Charlotte as well as special hotel accomodations restaurant menus and theater programs will add to the attractive featuies of Dollar Day Charlotte's famous Dollar Days one the spring and one in the fell have always drawn inipies-sivp crowds of shoppers from the populous trade area sui rounding the city And Dollar Day Thursday is expected to prove one of the most successful yet held if preparations by local merchants and shopper interest can be taken as a barometer Tells How To Keep Body Fit (Turn to Page 3 Columns 5-6) Nazi Chief in Rousing Address Ration on" the partir thT govern I ment to help prevent war and this is being done NO ACI ION I-VTFNDFD As for actual action by the United States in the event of hostilities he emphasized this was not implied by the treaty Describing his talk with the President as principally social Davis said he did not think there was much possibility of new naval limitations agreements while the threat of war is on He did express the hope of some early talk with the British with a view to naval limitations Before meeting Mr and Mrs Davis at tea the President held another series of talks on matters constantly demanding attention He talked with and selected Franklin Hoyt of New Hamburg the head of the new alcohol control buieau in the Treasury department Hoyt was for 19 years a judge of the special sessions court in New' York City He then became presiding justice of the children court to authorize which he advocated i an amendment to the State con-1 stitution He was the winner of the Hearst temperance contest 1929 with an award of $25009 (Turn to page 2 column 4) NURNBERG Sept 16 CD Retchsfuehrer Adolf Hitler impliedly predicted the doom of dem-ociacy in a rousing address tonight at the closing session of the Nazi party convention Thousands of Der Fuehrer's followers who witnessed today for the first time since Germany broke with the Versailles treaty an exhibition of the nations new military prowess cheered his statements other states have not yet Hitler told his listeners fact that they lest on democracy does not prove our authority and principle are w'rong but rather that historical processes take wild applause greeted this assertion economists nor business leaders nor professors nor thinkers nor artists saved he said exclusively the political soldiery of our Hitler announced the supremacy JO JO SAYS Blondes ore easy on the ryes but hard on the pocket THREE SLAYINGS LAID TO RACKET SHOOTINGS NEW YORK Sept The slaying of three men two of them with police records was linked by police tonight with a senes of racket shootings in Biooklyn in recent weeks Police rally todav identified the body of Abiaham Meer 21 a two-limp ex-convirt found lying in a gutter in Brooklyn die had been shot in the back with a shotgun An hour later detectives found the body of Irving Amron 25 another Biooklyn youth in a sedan parked outside an east New' York house He had been shot twice through the head I (Turn to Tage 4 Columns 2-3) (Turn to Tage 3 2 and 3) Naltioiniall WDiinnDngDg The New Behind the New MEET HUEY LONG A Candid Biorjraphy by Forrest Davis Veteran Writer KANSAS CITY Sept 16 Senator William Gibbs McAdoo a smiling 71-year-old bndegioom guided his pretty 25-ycar-old bride around a water puddle' at the Kansas City airpoit todav then talked about how to keep fit as a septuagenarian "Careful there he said in a soft voice to the former Dm is Cross whom he married Saturday at Washington It was the Senator's third matrimonial ventme must not risk getting your feet wet with those thin soles of he raulioned The rouple stepped out of a transport plane at the rain-soaked airport during a few stop-over on their way to his California home can do every bit as murh work row as I could at the tall Senator said "The secret is gauging one's cn-pacities Get eight hours of rest at right and you can do 16 hours work In a day if you need to lets use this ship as an example" he said referring to the plane in which they had arrived at the field 'Tve owned one and it has' been driven over 500000 miles 1 ve taken ns murh care of the engine I as I would a horse I've owned quite a few horses too There I then is an important rule Don't I overtax the I COAST GUARD LEGION LAUDED BY RED CROSS WASHINGTON Sept tPt The Red Cross through its chairman Admiral Cary Grayson expressed today appreciation of cooperation of the coast 'guard and American Legion posts in relief efforts in the Florida hurricane area Admiral Grayson praised officers and crew of the coast guard in letters addressed to Secretary Mor-genthau Jr Secretary of the Treasury and to Rear Admiral Harry Hamlet commandant He also w'rote to Frank Belgrano Jr national commander of the Legion praising Florida legionnaire for their help CHAPTER THREE If Huey Long was not clear in his mind as to which March he would be riding down Pennsylvania Avenue to kiss the book he did pot propose to be confronted with pow'er unprepared The King-fish was no foolish virgin neglectful of the oil for his lamps Already he was meditating devising and charting the way he was going to this country when he I stumbled on the fact that Senator Long was for America He' I am sure did not intend to have it known He said: "I don't like to talk about those Huey was struck by the theory of plenty He read Harold Loeb book Chart of Plenty" and as he eailier had been beguiled by James Truslow Adam's Epic of he promptly incorporated in Share-Our-Wealth Locb'8 disclosure that in 1929 at height of the old prosperity the country did not produce enough foodstuffs to furnish a minimum healthy ration for all the people by Department of Agriculture standards Under-eonsump-tion Huey perceived was the plague of agriculture In no year (Turn to page 4 cols 5 and 6J make Mussolini behave Then the noon editions brought w'ord that Premier Laval of France had backed the British stand in a stirring speech at Geneva It was not until the breakup of the Italo-French alliance seemed imminent that Mr Hull called in the correspondents for an emergency press conference and distributed his formal statement Mr Hull showed that he had profiled from the expet ience of Predecessor Henry Stimson in the affair The United (Ttun to cols- 2 and 3J BV RAY TICKER WASHINGTON Sept Circumstances surrounding the Roose-velt-Hull demand for full adherence to world peace treaties make the experts suspect that it was a sort of too" utterance It fell like an echo as well as a summary of our long-distance moves for peaceful solution of the Italo-Ethiopian dispute When Secretary Hull saw the pi ess at 10 30 in the morning he expiessed no official comment on Samuel Hnaie's warning that Great Eritian might fight if need be to things I don't want people to get the idea that I'm a dreamer or a visionary The way I want people to regard Huey Long is as a shrewd politician shrewd and Huey's was an evolution He called in experts to help figure out how to apply Share-Our-Wealth But when the experts began to explore the implications of Share-Our-Wealth they found that they proliferated in all directions Vistas far wider than Huey had dreamed of stood open and he viewed them with delight The experts promptly got Into the problematical field of North Carolina: Fair Tuesday and probably Wednesday slightly warmer Wednesday South Carolina: Generally fair Tuesday Wednesday mostly cloudy probably shower in south and central portions 4.