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U. S, JOINS ORDER TO HALT FIGHTING
* * * * * * * * ***********
Japanese Begin Major Offensive Against Shanghai
CHINK FORCES TO
RESIST CONTINUED
INVASIONS OF CITY
Japs Beliexed To Be Shell
ing City From Warships
Anchored In Low
er River
PLANF.S OF JAPANESE
MAKE TRIP OVER CITY
Mo Damage Done From Air
But Observers Bjlicve
Photographs Were Being
Made of Shanghai Area
Shanghai, China, Feb. 3
(Wednesday) A sullen sil
ence had fallen upon the
r un- of Chapei (Wednesday)
after a sharp artillery duel on
Tuesday during which neith
er side appeared to have gain
ed any material advance.
The Japanese claimed a vic
tory in the artillery exchange
but the Chinese command
only rpcated their blunt state-'
ment:
' Wc intend to drive the
enemy out ol Chinese terri
tory "
Shanghai, China, Feb. 2
f AP) Two thousand Japa
nese bi ic jackets began a
general advance on the Cha
pci ?cctor this afternoon fol
'C n’;:mcd cn rage Three.)
ACCUSES WIFE AND
MAN FOR ATTACK
Grrriir.horo Resident Has
Wife And Man Arrested
For Attempt on Life
‘i'p« nsliorn. Fob 2 <APi Mrs. W.
f'rrnrh. whose husband charged
■‘hr lr<i him ;o a ;>uety spot where
!• B Owen, an insurance men
f h‘>» him was arrested todvy.
Mr.s French was arrested by police
i n -estimating the mvsterious shooting
"f \V K French, who said hi* wife
ar, l 1 B. Owens, Greensboro insur
on“' man. had run over his prostrate
'-•'ly on a street here as they fled In
hi- rar after Owens shot him twtoe.
Several hours after the shooting
1,1 n -Kht Owens walked into the po
ll-- station saying he had Just heard
of ,he -“hooting for the first time from
fading a newspaper and that he had
in a theatre when it occurred.
MAN TO PAY WrTH
FIFE FOR MURDER
William M. Frazer To Die In
Chair For Slaying of
Hi? Paramour
T "‘nir in . N j, Feb 2. (AFI-The
vietion of William M. Frazer, of
‘-Ahway. who killed Mrs. Phoebe
his paromour, and hid her
> in a Virginia forest was upheld
> 'he court of errors and appeals
•on day Frazer has been sentenced to
' 0 1,1 s he electric chair,
he state's highest tribunal also af
mrd r eviction of three other slay-
J* ,w " "f whom have been con
oemned to die.
.. Ih * two who must share Fraser’s
in ihe chair are Eugene Compo.
kiued Eugene Lynch, Newark
* ,orre manager. during an at
n ‘ 1,0,1 holdup and
' aro. who fatally wounded a po
''r.nn when asked to show his driv
,n». lieeiise.
ronten <*«<* during Fraser’s
h f t the 31 *y**r-old man, who Is
drer, ' u , an<l lh€ Os two chll
,hr ' kll lcd Mrs. St&der when she
1,,,- a . " n °d to terminate their rela
•Wiaroui™” 1 ' " Ud ,h ' • h00,,n »
Imtiteramt Dntln tUsucrtrh
ssa Bssp-
United States Proposes
Basis For Early Ending
Os Sino-Jap Difficulty
Studies Hawaii
United States Attorney Sui.ford
B. Wood, above, of Honolulu, ia
thown on his arrive! at sgn Fran
-i*e® Hawaii to confer with
Assistant Attorney General Seth
Richardson on reformation of law
enforcement in the Hawaiian
islands. The two are to sail for
Ha weii soon to conduct a prob«
into crime conditions on th«
islands
mslayerk"
TERMED AS INSANE
Los Angeles Psychiatrist De.
dares Winnie Ruth Judd
Undeveloped Mentally?
Pocnix, Ariz., Feb. 2.—CAP)—Dr.
Edward Huntington Williams, Los
Angeles psychiatrist, testified today
that in h:s opinion. Winne Ruth
Judd, on trial for murder, was insane
when she killed Agnes Anne Leroi
and Hedvig Samuelson last October.
“I think that she did not know the
difference between right and wrong,”
Dr. Williams said.
He testified the 27 year old defen
dant was not fully developed in a
glandular sense "so as to be a normal
person—her arms are too long, her
legs are too long—these are Indica
tions.”
EHRINGUAUSFIGHTS
GENERAL SALES TAX
Candidate For Governor
Makes Known Stand In
Halifax Address
Halifax, Feb. 2.—(API-J. C. B.
Ehringhaus, of Elizabeth City, can
didate for the Democratic nomina
tion in the June primary, expressed
opposition to a general sales tax in
a campaign speech here yesterday
and advocated the placing of industry
and agriculture on a parity for taxa
tion purposes.
Tax-burdened farms, he said, must
be -relieved .and Industry must take
its proportionate share of tax bur
dens.
Elimination of many so-called
necessities of government which are
In reality nothing more than luxu
ries must be brought about, Ehring
haus said as he advocated a general
retrenchment in the cost of govern
ment
The Elizabeth City man, who left
for Raleigh to open campaign offices
after hie address here, said he fa
vored state support of the schools for
the six months term and was op
posed to any action which would cur
tail public education beyond the point
of absolute necessity.
NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THE SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
ONLY DAILY
HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON,. FEBRUARY 2, 1932
Suggestions Are Submitted
To Japanese By Ameri
can Ambassador to
Tokyo
FIVE POINTED PLAN
NOW BEING OFFERED
Protection of International
Settlement In Shanghai In
cluded In Program Offered
By America
Washington, Feb. 2—(AP)—The
United States has proposed a
basis for peace to the Chinese
anil Japanese governments.
The suggestions were submitted
to Japan and Ciirnu through the
American Ambassador at Tokyo
and the American Consul-General
at Nanking.
They contained five principal
points:
The first provides for cessation
of all acts of violence; secondly,
no further mobilization or pre
parations for further hostilities;
thirdly, withdrawal of both Jap
anese and Chinese combatants
from all points of mutual contact
in Shanghai; fourth, prof set inn ot
.. Hbhitghal** iniegantipaal —-ftJr
ment by establishment of a •
neutral sons to be policed by
neutrals and fifth, prompt ad
vances upon acceptance of the
proposal towards negotiations to
settle all outstanding controver
sies between the two nations.
MYSTERIOUS FIRES
PUZZLING POLICE
Bladenboro Authorities Un
able to Explain Series
Os Blazes
Bladenboro, Feb. 2.—(AP)--Mysti
fied authorities touay were investi
gating a strange fire that at intervals
and originating from no known
source has burned household articles
and clothing of the C. H. Williamson
family here.
The intermittent fires began Satur
day afternoon when a window shade
and curtain in the Williamson’s din
ing room were burned. A short time
later another window shade burned.
No fire had been lighted in this room
for days.
Sunday, while the family and visi
tors sat in a room, a bed was en
veloped in flames. Later, at various
times, papers in a closet burned; a
pair of trousers in a closet burned;
the clothing of one of Williamson's
daughters caught fire but was extin
guished before she was harmed.
Five rooms of the house have been
visited by the fire.
SfIUTHTOOPPOSE
NEW TAX ON OILS
Georgian Speaks For South
Carolina, Georgia And
Florida At Capital
Washington. Feb. 2.—(AP)—Opposi
tion to a oprposed tax on all oil im
ports was expressed before the Ways
and Means committee today on be
half of South Carolina, Georgia and
Florida.
George M. Rommel, industrial com
missioner at Savannah, told the com
mittee in a statement, he represented
the sentiment of Georgia, South Car
olina and Florida in opposition to
additional taxes no matter whs tthey
may be called, on petroleum or
petroleum products.
WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Wanner in the Interior tonight;
Wednesday cloudy; fresh south
and southwest winds.
JAPANESEADVANCE
IS GREAT SURPRISE
TO WORLD POWERS
Country's Determination It
Misjudged ky Observers,
And diplomats
WerenFooled
FOREIGN CITY IS
CRUX QF PROBLEM
What Japan Is Clearly Re
solved Upon Is Domination
of Up-Country Trade In
China and Suppression of
Boycott Against Japanese
Merchandise
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Staff Writer
Washington, Feb. 2.—Assuming the
ultimate completion- since accom
plished—of Japan’s conquest of Man
churia, diplomatic specialists on
Oriental affairs were predicting
weeks ago that the hext step of the
Islanders would be toward seizure of
one Chinese port after another from
the coastal end of the Great Wall
southward to some point about op
posite Formosa.
This theory was based on the the
ory that Tokyo’s policy contemplated
acquisition or control over China pro
per as well as doihlnation of the more
loosely attached Northern provinces.
~ ' Observers ftafluddh*.
Students of the situation gave it as
their opinion, however, that the stra
tegists of Nippon would deem the ac
tual occupation and policing of so
large and populous a country as in
terior China too cumbersome a task
to be undertaken. Nor did they be
lieve htat the Japanese would con
(Contlnucd on Page Two)
French Decide To
Send Battalion Os
Troops To China
Paris. Feb. 2.—< AP)—A hat
alion of French troops made up
of two companies of infantrymen
and two companies of ‘Annamltes’
will embark from Haiphone,
French Indo China, aboard the
cruiser “Waldek Rousseau,” for
Shanghai, it was officially an
nounced today.
SETTLEMENT PATROL
BY JAPS IS ENDED
Washington. Feb. 2.—(AP) —
The navy was advised today that
Japanese patrolling of British and
American sectors of he Inerna
ional settlemen would be discon
tinued.
Gardner Ignores Attack
Made By Frank D. Grist
Daltr Ul>»aifk Barraa.
In the Kir Wtiitrr Hotel,
nr J, C. BASK Kit VIM.
Raleigh. Feb. 2.—The caustic let
ter written by Commissioner of Labor
Frank D. Grist to Governor O. Max
Gardner, protesting against the salary
cuts just announced and pronouncing
them as “the most outrageous ex
amples of discrimination that have
ever come under my observation" and
intimating that Governor Gardner
has been improperly drawing $125
a month from funds appropriated to
the upkeep of buildings and grounds
for '‘Public Entertainment,” elicited
only a very brief statement from Gov
ernor Gardner, in which he said the
books and records in the Auditor’s
office were open to public inspection
and could speak for themselves.
All Governor Gardner said in reply
to Grist's letter was:
*'l do not propose now or at any
other time to make reply to personal
attacks made upon me growing out of
my efforts to serve the people and.
taxpayers of North Carolina in this
difficult period. The true facts con
cerning the expenditures for the up
keep of the Governor’s Mansion can
easily be ascertained from the legis
lative appropriation for this purpose
and the record of expenditures on file
in the Auditor’s office.”
Mr. Grist was apparently indignant
because the salary of every appointive
Great Britain, France And
Italy Join In Annoucement
That Fighting Must Be Ended
DIPLOMATS IN. JAP-SINO CRISIS
;M|||y
rh <^
ggpll jB ffjWp Jessy |^BoHLsaaggg|
y- * * .
Thesf diplomats figure prominently
in news dispatches to and from Shang
hai as the United States seeks to pro
tect her interests in the Chinese city.
Left to right above. Cameron Forbes,
U. S. ambassador to Japan, and Ken
Ambassadors Meet
Japanese Minister
For Short Confab
Tokyo, Feb. 2. <Al*>— AmhoK-
Kadofri of tlie United States, Great
Britain and France conferred
shortly with Kenklchl Yoshizuwa.
tho Japanese Foreign Minister,
Khiiniitting in written form what
was described as “concrete pro
posalir” to end the hostilities at
Shanghai.
After they had left the foreign
minister went into conference
with Admiral Osiimi, minister of
the navy. The nature of the am
bassadorial proposals was not dis
closed but it was authorattatively
denied that they constituted an
offer of mediation.
official had not been reduced to sl.-
500, the- salary which he receives as
an elected, officer, evidently on thg
theory that no State official is worth
more than $4,500 a year to the State,
although several of the
officials get more than $4,500. The at
torney General, now the State's high
est paid official, gets $7,500 a year.
The Chairman of the Corporation
Commission and Superintendent of
Public Instructions, both elected of
ficers, get $5,000 & year, Mr. Grist did
not mention any of these State of
ficials in his letter.
In this letter, Mr. Grist first asked
if the reason the salaries of appointed
officials had not been reduced to the
$4,5Q0 standard of a majority of
elected State officials was "because
it would not be satisfactory to your
political pes whom you have appoint
ed to office." He asked “Why the
present Governor been drawing $125
a month from Buildings and Grounds
to pay for ‘Public Entertainment?'
No other Governor has received $125
a month or any other amount to fur
nish nubile entertainment” ■
This attack upon uovemor Gard
ner now makes it possible to tell some
of the facts about the situation in
Raleigh known to most of those here
in touch with the situation, which
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PUBLISHED EVERT AFTRRMOOM
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
kichi Yoshizawa. the Japanese foreign
minister; below. Dr. K&tsuji Debuohl
Japanese ambnssadoi to t,he U. S.. ana
Dr. W. W. Yen, Chinese miniwter to
the U. S. At r.ght is Secretary of
Stale Henry L. Stimson.
SERIOUS DISORDERS
IN TEXTILE STRIKE
IN CAROLINA TOWN
Bladenboro Deputy Sheriff
Is Wounded By iShot
Fired Into Office
Os Mills
WAGE REDUCTION IS
CAUSE OF DISORDER
Strikers Give Active Pro
tests By Hurling Rocks
Against Mill Several
Shots Are Fired
Lumberton, Feb. 2. ( AP)
Bladenboro cotton mill officiate,
whose ot»erator* were on strike
today asked Lumoerwm county
officers to supply them with tear
gra guns.
Officer Shot.
Bladenboro, N. C M Feh. 2.
(AP)—B. F. Townsend, a deputy
sheriff, was shot and slightly
wounded last night after more
than 800 workers of the Bladen
boro cotton mIU went on strike In
protest against a wage cut «f ten
percent. Townsend was sitting in
the office of the mill afid thd'shot
was fired through a window.
Serious disorders occurred dur
ing the night as the strikers gave
active protest against the wage
cut. Bocks were buried against
the mill and several shots were
fired. Whether the other shots
were fired wildly or at officers
could not be determined.
Clyde Hughes, one of the strik
ers was arrested today and charg
ed with shooting Townsend, He
and Giles Guyton, another man *
arrested, were carried to jail at
Elizabethton.
Ten or twelve officers were on
doty about the mill property to
day. They were subjected to jeers
from the strikers this morning
tnt there were no dborden.
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Four Powers Announce
Stand In Brisk Military
Style At Genes*
Conference
DISARMAMENT MEET
DELAYED FOR HOUR
Extraordinary Meeting Os
League of Nations Council
Convened Prior To Open
ing of Geneva Meeting
Geneva, Switzerland, Feb.
2 (AP)—Hugh Wilson, Unit
ed States minister to Switz
erland and a delegate to the
arms conference has been as
signed by the United States
Government to act for it in
collaboration with the coun
cil of the League Os Hattons
in its efforts to Bettis the dif
ficulties between China and
Japan.
Geneva, Switzerland, Feb.
2 (AP)—America, Great Bri
tain, Franca and Jfetty aa
nonneed in brizk military
style at an extraordinary
meeting of the League of Na
tions Council today that the
Sino-Japanese fighting must
“come to an end” and that
they had decided to
further diplomatic efforts to
stop it.
• T H. Thomas, a British cab
inet member, spoke for his
country and the United States
and the American delegates
to the Disarmament confer
ence sat near the council
tab 1 "
That conference was delay
ed for an hour while the coun
cil met.
Conference Opera.
Geneva. Feb. 2.—(AP)—The World
Disarmament conference attended by
the statesmen of three score nations
opened this evening ofetr having been
delayed for an hour while the League
Nations Council met to
the problems in the far east.
Arthur Henderson. the former Brit
ish cabinet minister, who ia acting
as chairman began the session with
an outline of its problems.
' * refuse to contemplate erven the
possibility of failure,” he said. "For
if we fail no one can foretell the evil
consequence that might ensue.”
PROVINCE OF CHINA
IS BEING EVACUATED
Nanking. Feb. 2.—(APO— A tele
phone message from Wulsu Anhwei
province said the Japanese consular
staff and nationals there left today
for Japan and that the .Tsjjansse war
ships there also departed as a result
of the evacuation. ,
AMERICAN MARINE IS
HELD BY JAPANESE
Washington, Feb. ■ 2.—(AP)—
Marine records show Nos* A.
Johnson, reported h*»id by Jap
anese in Hhanghai csa a —iping’
charge, Is attached to the 19th
company, fourth rej-tment, now
stationed at Shanghai.
ALL FOREIGN UrTAT
NANKING, ARE SAFE
Washington, Fe>». 2. (AP)—The
U. 8. 8. Simpson -reported to the
navy today that Americans add
other foreigners at Nanking gv
safe for the prae.it aad no plnhe
for Immediate evacuation |^n
CENSORSHIP ON AI .1X
CABLES IS ENFORCED
London. Feb. t—(AP)— The
Great Northern Cable fr rMj
sfwnewnced this nnrnliii that a ran
■srshlp had been hnpaend gn
milligrams from flUsa ••