North Carolina Newspapers

ufSPERSON. gateway to 0 central CAROLINA. nineteenth year EFFORTS TO ME 0 OF DISABLED SUBMARINE STARTED Fifty-Seven Men Imprisoned In Vessel On Floor Os English Channel Today efforts TO CONTACT SUNKEN SUB ARE MADE Vessel Makes Dive Off Portland And Fails To Come Up—Men Given 48 Hours To Live Jah 27.—IAP)— TKf Hritioh admiralty announced: 'at l *i thit afternoon that the Mb marinr M i which failed to come ,p from a dive eoff Portland yes terday. had net been located at * v that time. p>irtiar,J. England. Jan. 27 (AD- Th** rescue resources of the British B »n battled treacherous tides today trying to save the lives of 56 men in ike submarine M-2 believed to be lying <*tsab!e<i 17 fathoms deep In Dead ! San.* Bay on the floor of the Eng kdi Channel With more than half of the 48 hours the a*n might be expected to live in rbe second sunken ship elapsed, since it dirtd yesterday and failed to ap pear igaln. no word of reaaaurance h ad come from efforts to establish contact and efforts were spurred to reach the ship before the weeping tides of the channel could carry it wt to deep water. SALVADOR DECLINES 1 FROM MARINES Government Feels It Will Be Able To Put Down Com munist Disorders . Wash ngtnn. Jan. 27 (AP)—Hie Salvsdcresn government has Inform ed its representatives here that it feels it is strong enough to repel the com munists and defend lives and property wiihout the aid of American Marines. A cablegram from Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Araojo, to Roberto Mol end*i. secretary of the legation and rharg» d'affaires of the unrecognized Mart ner government, said the gov- 1 eminent had declined the offer of American Charge d’Affalres William McCafferty to help preserve order. SAVS INSANITY IN FAMILY OF SLAVER Father of Winnie Ruth Judd Called To Stand In Trial At Phoenix Phofnix Ariz. Jan 27. (APl—The H J. McKinnell. silver haired fvlvr of Winnie Ruth Judd, testified ,r *i*y there was insanity in his fam l!. in an effort to save his daughter from the gallows. Th» 72 year old retired minister in 'rock coat and clerical collar brought a look of warmth into the face of the aer„.^ fl women for the fjrst tlme ln ( * eight days of her trial for slaying Agnes Anne Leroi. blinked her eyes rapidly to keep bank tears when the kindly faced latent beamed at her from the witness " air , afrnf w a corner of Judge How >p€»ak man's rostrum. Mr McKinnell testified to a strain : ’ ' n ' artUv ln the McKinnell line and I named five of its victims OAR WOOD CLAIMS I NEW SPEED RECORD Biters Mark Set By K*yei D°n For Speedboats At Miami Beach J?'*?" £>arh Fla.. Jan. 27—(AP) Hi j lnsr !im Mi ss America IX across Wa " , '' s of Indian Creek at an 'JLTr-*™ 1 ° f 110785 ml, *» “ halt T ar Woofl - exceeded by a scant '’'He an hour.- the world's speed h«ifi r' Z. ,f| ° r 110223 miles an hour WoS . KaVC of England. , , ‘. " s P ep<l was obtained by aVer bo,,:, n ' s for north and aoutb bi.jt)r|)| !’ , " s over th® measured riocw' , eour »® His first run was lU ns ' ®'®ctric timing devices at 3732 „ m ” w 'th an elapsed time of The 5B ! ron ' 18 for the 8.000 foot mile. 49 nn?° n<l run waa at * »te of 110 - 7 h an elapsed time of 17.52 ®*«lur!c * '*** ’ ,rcom P* nl ® <i hy his - - —— w *wewt ■! •w. w* Mztxhtr&tm BmUx Bisuafarhl F rvir l if^? A^*D WIKS RJCRVH’m OF TH* ASBOCIATBD INamed for Huge Credit Board ffIHHL j ! > f ft < H m mt ■ mmSm ■4m fe. ■ MB- » ’-mm. W m mßm* -iJm • 8 11 mm x i - »3 fcflfß -8 ------ ' - ■ 3b I resident Homer announced the appointment of two «f the three Coniomlm of r wM r h C f lh <\ Reconstruction Finale Jess- H Joni- nf h t e n e n D& V a « The appointees are (right) Korm/r rev (1 ° A Wer) ’ a »'J d l HarVey C - Couch of Arkansas (right). former <«°vernor Angus McLean of North Carolina (left. is said to be slated for the third post. Oklahoma Cowboy Held For Attack On Hamlet Child; Hiunlett, N. C„ Jan. 27.—(API— Btertln Clements member of the Oklahoma Cowboys, a theatrical troupe was convicted here today of attempted criminal assault on a year old girt and was given two years on the roads. The girt said Clements made im proper advances to ner in a theatre. She told her father who beat Clements and then preferred peopleuMdto 1 JUD UNFORTUNATES Communities Can Assist Ex. Convicts When They Re turn, Whitley Says Raleigh, Jan. 27. The community 'an ami should assist the ex-priaoner in his efforts to make egood, L. G. Whitley, penal inspector for the State Board of Charities and Public Wel fare said today. “When the convict comes hack to his community after serving his sen fence he comes back a different sort of character because of his prison experience.” said Mr. Whitley. "He is in need of help to develop stimulation which will prompt his mental life and furnish the moral support for taking hie place of responsibility in the realms of society.” Mr. Whitley said further tfcat good citizens of the community can en courage the ex-prisoner to refrain from further transgression of the law and assist him in the rehabilitation of his life in many ways. He also pointed to the plight o i pri soners' Innocent wives and children who suffer for the necessities of life during the incarceration of the bread winner. urgeMopment OE FISHING PONDS r Conservation Department Encourages Development Os Private Reserves Raleigh, Jan. 27.—An amendment to the North Carolina Inland Fisheries Regulations clarifying the definition of private ponds passed at its last meeting by the Board of Conserva tion and Development, is designed to encourage further the development of fish ponds on farms in the State, ac cording to J. S. Hargett, assistant di rector. Under the amended regulations, the assistant director explained virtually all restrictions on the manner of tak ing fish from "private ponds” are re moved leaving the eobservatlon of the closed season for spawning as the pri mary regulation governing this type of fishing water. Particular attention is called, how ever, to the definition of "private ponds” as a "body of water wholly upon the lands of a single owner, or of a single group of joint owners or tenants in common, which does not have such connection with public waters that fish can pass from one to the ether.” ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. THREE STATES HIT BY FLOODWATERS Arkansas, Louisiana And Mississippi Feel Flood Waters Again Memphis, Tenn., Jan. 27. (AP) Swollen tributaries of the lower Mis hissippi today rolled over the lowlands of three states flooding farms and towns and threatening lives and pro perty. . ; . ' J .' So far the Mississippi delta has been hardest Hit by the\unruly waters but their force was also felt In sections of Arkansas and Louisiana and the accumulating influx has sweltfed the Mississippi river itself down towards Natchez. Today the fight in the Mississippi delta was concentrated at Belzoni. in Humphries county where 100 convicts worked to hold levees against the Yazzo River. Temporary levees were fulng up about the power and water plants at Yazoo city as the lower part of the town was Inundated. CAUSE OF DEATH OF DANIEL IS UNKNOWN Rocky Mount, Jan. 27.—(AP) —A verJ'ct that John H. Dan’el, mer ch-.' i and banker whose mangled laxly was found on the Atlantic Coast Lino railway tracks here: two weeks ago. came to it is death by a freight train was rsco. - 1 i yes ter lay |.y a coroner’s ju y. GENERAL MOTORS EARNINGS SHOWN New York, Jan. 27 (AP)—The Gen eral Motors, Corporation yesterday reported that subpect to final audit, net earnings for 1931 amounted to £115.089.701. as contrasted with £153,- 766,000 for 1030. Boards Ruling Is Made To Protect School Teachers State Will Pay Money To Counties In Proportion To Amounts of Taxes That Have Been Collected JBy Them For Purpose Os Keeping Up Schools Du Hr Dl«»Mfrfe Rartaa. In tk« Sir Walter Hotel. HT 4. C. BAiIHKBVIU. Raleigh, Jan. 27.—The public school teachers have failed to receive at least J 3.000.000 du them In salaries for teaching in extended term schools in the various counties and districts within the last three years, because of the failure of the local authorities to collect the taxes levied for the ex tended term, according to findings both by the Board o' Equalization and the State Department of Public In struction. What has happened has been that the necessary tax rates have been levied, in order to get a portion of the Tax Reduction Fund awarded by the Board of Equalization to those diatries tha have participated In the fund, and that then jnany districts — and some counties —have neglected to collect the taxes levied, so that all the teachers have received hah been the amount received from the State. It was this situation, which had be came almost a regular- 'course of pro oednre in many districts where an extended term was being operated, that influenced the Board of Equaliza tion to take the action it did at its meeting last week. This tfetion was to stipulate that effective this gear, none HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 27,1932 PLOT FOR BONK ALABAMA CAPITAL CAUSES UNEASINESS 1 Heavy Guard Os Police Placed Around Historic Capital at Montgom ery iToday i LETTER OF WARNING ‘ RECEIVED BY OFFICIAL No Official i Comment U Made—Letter Reported to Have Been , Sent By Man Who Overheard Bomb Plot Montgomery, Ala, Jam. 27. (APl—Guv. B. 1 [. Miller revealed today that A, L Donaldson, of Rnsley, Ala., wa i the author of a letter sent to th > capital recently that warned of i plot to bomb the chief executive and three other state officials. ‘ f Birmingham, Ala., Jan. 27. (AP)—Chief of • Police Fred Mc- Duff today annbuaoed the arrest of a man he said) was the sender of letter to state officials at Mont gomery warning of a bomb plot. McDuff said the prisoner had been taken to Montgomery for questioning by authorities there. ’ The chief refused to reveal his name. Montgomery, Ala., Jan. 27.—(AP) — A heavy guard patrolled Alabama's historic capital today following a re port of a plot to bomb the governor and three other stgte officials. The detail composed of more than a dozen plain ctothesmen from the Montgomery police department and Kilby prison was stationed ln the building yesterday after State Auditor John Brandon turned a letter describ ing the purported plot over to Gover nor B. M. Miller. None would comment officially but a state official who wished his name withheld explained the letter to the auditor was sent by a Birmingham man, who wrote he had over heard four men plotting^the bombing in a depot. ' '" *' FINANCE BILLIS SENT TO HOOVER Banking Committee Reports Favorably On Presi dential Appointees Washln-'-n. Jan.. 27—(AP)— The £500.000,000 appropriation for the Re construction Corporation was sent to the White House today after Vice- President Curtis had signed it along with Speaker Garner of the House. The Senate Banking committee later reported favorably the nomina tion of Charles G. Dawes, Jesse H. > Jones and Harvey C. Couch to be di rectors of the Reconstruction Cor poration. Chairman Norbeck, said the nomi nation probably would lie over a day and come up for Senate confirmation tomorrow. Meanwhile a forecast that Hoover will turn to the far west for the third Democratic director of the corpora tion was made by Senator George. of the payments from the J 1.500.000 tax reduction fund will be made to the counties or districts operating ex tended term schools until the propor tionate part of the funds they have levied to match the payments from the State, have been collected. Thus if at the end of the first month of the ex tended term operation, the county or district has collected one-half the amount levied for the operation of the term, one-half of the amount due from State will be paid. If at the end of the extended term, all the tax levied has been collected, all of the amount due from the State will be paid. But if. at the end of one month or at the end of the entire term, none of the tax levied has been collected, none of the money from the State will be paid. "The action taken by the board not only protects the teachers and as sures them that they will be paid the full amount of the salaries due them for teaching the additional months of the extended term, but it also will compel the counties and districts to keep faith with the State and actually collect the taxes which they levy but which in the past many hwe not been jjOontlpwd oa Pipe T*o£ G.O.P. Conventioneers | rt j, iiiili - i i I Jg ; H r iWm Uatuk ! n a a- . ■ - .a Here is the guard of the great army ot Republican, that will meet for the G. O. P. convention in Chicago, in June. The group above ,s comprised of four of the sixteen prominent party solonf whS are in the Windy City to make the preliminary arrangements They Cft .° nght AjClarenee S. Hamlin, of Colorado, Daniel E Pomeroy of New Jersey. Charles D. Hilles of New York and seated is Sector Simeon D. Fess. of Ohio. The delegation received first pjymem the amount promised by the City of Chicago. * CONCORD TEXTILE WORKER IS SLAIN Fatally Wounded By Un known Assailant Through Window of His Home Concord. N. C, Jan. 27. - (AP) Jack Dees, 26, textile worker, was fatally wounded last night when an uniden tified assailant fired two shotgun charges through a window at his Ro berta mill village home near here. The first charge stfuck him in the chest puncturing a lung. He died in a few minutes. Cletus Hudson, a brother-in-law was wounded slightly in the arm by the second charge as he rushed to the window to aid his fallen relative. A few hours later police arrested Bclvl nand Luke Pemunger, brothers and Clyde Roberts. Sheriff R. C. Hoover said the men were arrested because of threats they hRd made against Decs and that he was holding them as material witnesses. STONEIUSTRY IN STATE IS GROWING Over Three Million Dollars Invested in Quarry Equip, ment In N. G. Raleigh. Jan. 27 The marble, lime ston eand granite industries is one of the big industries i nthe State, with an investment of £3.047.000 in quarry, equipment, a yeariy payroll of $1,461,- 740 and with a total yearly output valued at $2,485,288, according to a survey of the stone industries in North Carolina just completed by State Geo logist Herman J. Brys° n ’ These fig ures are based only on those quarries which were in active production dur ing the past two years “Many people are inclined to regard the mineral resources of the State as of little value and not worth con serving or encouraging, but here is just one branch of the mineral in dustry in which the investment for equipment is in excess of $3,000,000 and with a payroll of nearly $1,500.- 000 a year.” Bryson said. “It seems to me that these industries are decidedly worth while and that the world needs to be told that North Carolina has as fine marbles, granite and limestone as can be found anywhere." At the present time 2 800 men are employed in the estone industries, with a weekly payroll of about £28,495 a week, the survey just made by Mr. Bryson showrs. JOB HUNTERS SHOW DECREASE IN STATE Charlotte. Jan. 27 (AP)—A de crease In the number of Job hunt ers apply tag lu the eight govern ment offices In North Carolina during last December as computed with December 1980 was reported today by Mason A. Gregg, State director of Federal Employment Service. WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Fair tonight and Thursday; colder In east and central portions tonight; slowly rising temperature Thursday; diminishing westerly winds becoming southerly Thnrz- PUBLISHED EVERT AFTERNOON SXCBPT SUNDAY, Railroad Reports Huge Declines In .Operating Revenue Wilmington, N. C., Jan. 27. lAl')—The Atlantic Coast Line railroad today reported its railway operating revenue during 1981 was $54,088,955 an compared with SBB,- 019. for 1930 and $72,371,894 for 192!). Not railway operating income In 1931 was given as $4,748,109 a de crease of $2,h93,195 In comparison with 1930. Net railway operating income for 1929 was $12,874,207. KING DECLINES TO SURRENDER OFFICE File* Answer To Formal De mands Made By Cyr In Louisiana Baton Rouge, La, Jan 27 <AP) Alficd O King today "respectfully de clined” Dr. Paul N. Cyr’s formal de mand that he vacate the office of governor. After receiving a letter from Cyr in tile morning mail demanding sur render of the governorship on the grounds that the elected lieutenant governor of the state has prior right to the office since former Governor Huey Long has become senator King dictated a tersely courteous reply, flatly rejecting the demand. At the same tim<- he issued a state ment saying it was his duty under the constitution to discharge the duties of governor" and that ho would con tinue to function until Governor De signate O. K. Allen is sworn in next May. The demand was mailed yesterday after armed guards surrounded the state building to prevent him from seizing the office by force. 2,oooThildren in SCHOOLSEXAMINED Nurses Os State Health Board Are Working In Schools Os State Raleigh, Jan. 27. —More than 2.000 school children in the State have been* examined by the public health nurses in the school health supervision work being carried on by the State Board of Health. Dr. George M. Cooper, bead of the division of Child Welfare and Health Education told the members of the board meeting here today, in re porting on the activities of his division This work has been carried on by only five nurses, who so far have visited almost all of the schools in about 17 counties. These five nurses from the Board of Health are now working in Harnett, Iredell. Pender. Richmond and Scot . land counties and as soon as they have finished the examination of the children in these counties will be transferred to others. Counties in which the examination of school chil dren has been completed are Alexan der, Alleghany, Ashe, Carteret, Chat ham, Edgecombe, Hoke. Martin, Mori gomery and Wilson oonnties. C PAGES w TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY [AMERICAN MARINES PREPARE TO DEFEND CITIZENS IN CHINA British Marine Detachment Also Stands Ready To Protect City Os Shanghai CHINESE SOLDIERS PREPARING DEFENSE Troops Intend To Defend City From Possible Occu pation by Japanese Mili tary And Naval Forces Shanghai, China. Jan. 27.—(AP) —KuramaUu Mural, Japanese con (*ul general handed a new note to Mayor W'« IV Chen today demand ing unconditional acceptance of the Japan«we demands for dissolu tion of antl-Japaneoe organisations In Shanghai. The note was in the nature of an ultimatum and gave the mayor until 6 p. m. tomorrow to reply. (By the Associated Press.) Two thousand American and British Marines stood by to defend the international settlement at Shanghai today as five times that many Chinese soldiers were de ployed to defend the city from Jap anese occupation. Word from Harbin told of a but tle between Chinese factions near that northern Manchurian city giving alarm to both Russian and Japanese authorities. Meanwhile at the British government gave serious consid eration to the situation In Shang hai as the result of —rnrrrsatinns In Washington between Secretary of State SUmson and the British amliassador. CONVICTED MAN IS GRANTED REPRIEVE Man Sentenced To Die On Friday Given Sixty More Day# To Live Raleigh, 27.—(AP)— Bernie Griffin. coaVicted in Orange county of the murder nf Iver Trite, a block* ader, arrd scheduled to be electrocut ed Friday was given & 60 day reprieve this afternoon Tyre C. Taylor, executive counsel, said Griffin, who was described at his trial /as “Durham's toughest gang ster” was granted an extension in or der that the Supreme Court may act on an appeal in his case lodged after a motion for a new trial was dismiss ed in Orange county. EDENTONMIiTER HONORED BY CHURCH Rev. Robert B. Drane Elect ed President Os Episco. pal Diocese Wilmington. N. C.. Jan. 27.—(AP) The Rev. Robert B. Drane, of Eden* ton, was elected president of the 150th Diocesan Convention of the East Car olina Diocese at its opening session at St. James churcb here today. Dr. Drane. because of an illness, was unable to attend the convention this year, but the 150 lay and clerical dele gates present wished to confer the honor of the presidency on him. George B. Elliott, of Wilmington, president of the Atlantic Coast Line railroad was iceiected chancellor. SAYSAKRONBUILT OF BAD MATERIALS Charges Denied By Chief of Naval Bureau Os Aeronautics Washington. Jan. 27.—(AP)— Tha House Naval committee was told to day that an investigation of the iu terials used in the Akron prhloh two men had charted were faulty lad to the dismissal of the men and that many defects were left In the air ship. * E. C. Davidson, of Mount Ida, Va general secretary of the International Association of Macninists related the story after K .. Admiral William A. Moffat i •!( id of the naval bureau of ae; y.a.ts had said the Akron Was far supeiior to any ottyer Seat 1 , bu.ic.