North Carolina Newspapers

"’"ufN'PKRSON, gateway to u ‘ CENTRAL CAROLINA. nineteenth year Chinese Shells Fall In Marine Area MANY OF AMERICAN ORGANIZATIONS PLAN IB HELP PRESIDENT Pledge Support To Hoover * Hoarding Cam paign Throughout United States CIVIC LEADERS HOLD PRIVATE CONFERENCE president Declare* Hoarded ,Money Ha* Cau»ed Huge Credit Deflation —Talk* to Fifty Leader* Vtaxlilngton, Feb. R (AP)— I'retik'nt Hoover today obtained 6 unanimous pledge from two .om- nat onai clric organlxatlons u jiiin In a unified campaign to unp the money hoarding that itif ,r% huxlnew rejuvenation. Behind cloned doorx of his cabi rrt room Fn-sldent Hoover In an r\i>mporanei>us sjo-ech outlined to half a hundred rl\ie leaders ha |lan for creating and anti-hnard m* machine. lie aas flanked hy Aeting Sec retary Mills of the treasury and Otari* h G. Hawes, presklent of the Rirnnstruetion Finance corpora tion The chief executive, in his ad dress to the gathered leaders of wore than two score national or jamiat on**, stressed that the American *-ionetary system depend upon r moMIe currency and that lh SUOMSMSS he estimate* la hoarded has caused a credit de- Halion »f approx I matcly *lO 090,- nse ’ FGU WILL MANAGE i MORRISON’S DRIVE; Chairman Os Wake County Democratic Committee | May Resign Job Raleigh. Feb. o. The Wake county ! Political pot has already started boil- although it simmers almost con aantly. with the seeping out of the «*»s that James H. Ron. Jr., for e eral years chairman of the Wake Hinty Democratic committee, will ►h»rtly resign to become campaign* Manager for Senator Camercn Mor-) nson m Wake county. This becomes * vcn more significant, since Pou is a rr 'th*>r-in-law of Senator Josiah Wil ham Bailey, and indicates an elign- j |"»nt between the Morrison and ~"*y forcM 'n Wake county—and Bailey forces, if anything, are v, ionger in the county now or fully * strong as when Bailey was nomin •M in 192*. ,f is also significant that Judge , h- Manning, perhaps the most po- Pnf ° rre * n successful Bailey •Jftpaign in 1928 and who la credit ,r as being the man who kept Bailey m talking during that campaign, ' s ated to succeed Pou as chalr •tn of the Wake County Democratic executive Committee. Piwlmont Section Holds key To Primary Victory D »llr UltMlfl Barra*, Fvalei"h w .MWWVIU. reb 6.-The Democrats in hoW?K m u° nt SWJtion of State tion in v *° th ® P° ,,,Jr:al situa ‘ r ' r b Carolina, and the can nominat Wh °» W,na l **e Dtmocratic t* the tlon j r ° In June will molt vnr nd,dat * Wb ° Can « arn " th « "e'pJJ* countl “ that ih» Piedmont, according to , cal heada here who have Pa<t n. r ° H * ®tudy of the outcome of pile, ,„7r raU<: prim * ri «* > . This ap ti..n # . e c °ntest for the nomina- J '; r J be U. S. Senate as well as A governorship. stMdv T* ot this belief—and a randjarl . flgllr ** confirms it—the cither fnr #. win the nomination fort h-romin ° V * rnor or ««nator in the ttroneer r * prtm *ry. must make a anywher* **[* * n th ® Piedmont than 'hat >3 For ,he candidate ,n the Up a blg m ajorlty to w,„ ,k nt co «ntlea will be able east and *. nomination, even if the For li i l.f oUhl *° agalnrt him. numb« r of ni* * tn ** that a larger both m it, votes are cast '•Uions rjf • e “tern and western dl -113 ®f the State than in the Pied iHwiitfrsntt Batin Btauatrh prS* 3 * Where Seventeen Died in Bln^ .v f. §\ V I j JM■ B - jHjjHB > - " " ll " Almo.-J lotailj- uesuoyvu ;»j rt „ cxu.omoi, me uii Bidwell t ahown at her pier at Chester Pa., foliow.ng the disaster that cost th* lives of seventeen workers. Twenty others were injured in the and fire that followed. The tanker*had just iimsied dKchirSl* t£ cargo of gasoline and members of the crew were cleaning a hold when the explosion wrecked the craJu WATERWAY ROUTE TO BE DECIDED SOON River* And Harbors Board Will Meet Monday To Settle Questions Washington. Feb. 6.—(APi A hear ing wUI be held Monday by the Rivers and Harbors board of army engineers on the dispute whether the proposed intra-coastal waterway from Cupe Fear River. North* Carolina to St. j Johns River. Florida, should be near j the coast between Georgetown and i Charleston or farther inland. The engineers board in a report to the last congress recommended a route near the coast. This recommendation was not adopted. The board was asked to re view its findings on this point. SAYS JAPAN AFTER PHILIPPINE ISLES Electric Company President Makes Charge* Before , House Committte Washington. Feb. 6. (AT*) John H. Paidee, president of the Manila Elec‘.,.c company, t.Hnc »r( -tmal’y warned >he 1 *.use Ins”lai commit tee '.g* ; n t 'hrcsiened Japanese en croacnno ir n the Philiap islands He testified >n proposals Imping t***- wartH making ‘he island mI•» =l l it. Pardee said Philippine indepen dence should not be granted for 30 yef.’s Ae to his views on lapan he told the committee it could make record of his remarks or not as it chose. It was agreed this testimony would be “off” the record. mont counties, it is also a fact that almost without exception, the ma jorities given by the Piedmont are in variably larger and that the Pied mont majorities are the ones that nominate the candidates. So If any one of the various can didates—either J. C. B. EhringhAus. A. J. Maxwell or R. T. Fountain for Governor or Senator Cameron Mor rison, Rabert R. Reynolds, Frand D. Grist or Tam C. Bowie for U. S. Sen ator—can merely manage to hold their own in the east and west but get a. good sized majority In the Piedmont, he can be pretty sure to win the nomination. The results of the McLean-Balley primary in 1924, the Overm&n-Rey nolds contest in 1929 and .of the Bailey-Simmons struggle in 1928 tend to bear out thi,sbelief. The results of the last three Demo cratic primaries show that the win ning candidate has received from 140,000 to 200,000 votes and the los ing candidate from 83,000 to 129,000, showing that on an average there are approximately 100,0000 Democrats who will oppose and vote (Continued on Page Five.) NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. ONLY DAILY HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 6, 1932 Interest Rates In Shanghai Advance Up to 730 Percent Shanghai, Feb. 6. (Al*) Chines* hanks announced today that in view of the disrupted state of business here all loans in the future will he charged interest at the rate of 2 percent daily or 730 percent a year. JAPANESE BOMBING CHINESE As WIN Troop Concentrations Shell ed From Air With Heavy Casualties Harbin. Feb. 6. (AP) —Japanese airplanes today bombed Chinese troop concentrations in the region of Pinhsien and it was believed that heavy casualties were inflicted. Military authorities explained the operation was ordered because of fears that the Chinese commandei Ting Chao forced from Harbin yes terday would reassemble his forces at Pinhsien and make that point a base for further attacks. Japanese sources estimated, the Chinese ' casualties at Harbin during Thursday and Friday at 500 killed nnd 300 wounded with Japanese losses in the final drive at 16 killed and 60 wounded. GREENSBOROCHILD KILLED BY TRUCK - Two Year Old Child Run Over By Truck While Playing In Street Greensboro, Feb. 6 (AP)—The Jtwo year old daughter of Leon Ham, Jr., Greensboro real estate man was in stantly killed today when an ice truck backed over her as she was playing in the street in front of her home. Harry Chavis. Negro driver of the truck said he did not see the child who apparently rode Sip to the rear of the truck .In a kiddie car, while Chavis delivered ice to the house. The Negro was arrested on a man slaughter charge and released on bond. GAR WOOD S RECORD NOT TO BE ALLOWED New York, Feb. 6 (AP)—Gar Wood’s new world speedboat mark of 111.712 miles an hour will not be accepted as a new American record because the run was not sanctioned by the American Pow erboat association, It was announc ed today at the ofice of Harry B. Jennings, chairman of the asso ciation's racing committee. Close Watch on Levees Washington, Fsfc. 6 (AP) —Close watch is being kept by the army on a Louisiana where the muddy waters series flood threat in Arkansas and Louisiana where the" muddy waters! of Mississippi tributaries are bat tering away at shackling levees. DEMAND FOR WORLD PEACE BEING MADE AT ARMS MEETING Voice of World At Large Echoes In Ears of 59 De legations Attending Conference LARGE DELEGATIONS APPEAR AT PARLEY Delegates Re|>res e n t i n g Hundreds of Millions Os Men And Women March Into Geneva Conference Hall Geneva, Fell. 6 (AP) —The voice of the world at large echoed this morning in the ears of the dele gates of 59 nations of the world at the Disarmament Conference. Mr. and Mrs. Average Cltlxen, of 56 countrles, demand through their representat.ves peace and disarmament. It was the first time since the abortive conference of Nicholas II that the man In the street and his wife were given of ficial heed. Delegates from organizations representing hundreds of millions of men and women marched into the conference hall with green bands on their arms across which the white words “pax” (peace) was written. GRAHAM MAYSEEK FOUNTAIN'S PLACE "TlSHi'e T » S ■* J . Former Speaker Os Stale House May Run For Lieutenant Governor Raleigh, Feb. 6 —The formal an nouncement by A. H. (Sandy) Gra ham. of Hillsboro, Speaker of the House in the 1929 general assembly, .hat he will be a candidate for the Democratic nomination tot Lieute nant Governor in the June primary, is being expected here any time now. Those "In the know" have long re garded Ginham as the only really serious contender for this nomination in spite of the fact that he has never made any formal announcement that he would seek it. The only other avowed candidate for the nomination is D. F. (Fatty) Giles of Marion, well known in Demo cratic circles in the western part of the State. There has been some talk that Mrs. E. L. McKee of Sylva. who with her husband was a member of the State senate in 1931. might be come a candidate for the nomination for Lieutenant Governor. In fact, be fore the 1931 general assembly ad journed there was talk that Mrs. Mc- Kee might become a candidate for Lieutenant Governor and it was hint ed that she had courted the support of Lieutenant Governor R. T. Foun tain. Reports from western North Carolina are that she is openly sup porting Fountain for Governor. moneyMfrom B A N IDENTIFIED Confessed Bandit Who Turned State * Evidence Now On Trial Kenansville. Feb. 6.—(AP)—A. W,, Petit. 19. of Charleston. S. C.. con fessed bank robber who turned state's evidence In his trial with four others for holding up the Bank of Magnolia today identified money secured in the holdup. Petit is on trial with Joe and Her bert Garner and two women. Mrs. Sidney Ray and Miss J. Gaskine, of Brenueau, S. C. The money was part of about *5,- 000 found when Petit, the two women and Jesse Weeks, of Wilmington were arrested in Jacksonville, Fla., after their lavish spending aroused sus picion. WEATHER FOF. NORTH CAROLINA. t Increasing cloudiness, probably followed by rain Sunday and In extreme west portion tonight; wanner tonight; colder in extreme west portion Sunday afternoon or night; moderate to fresh south west winds One American Mission House Ransacked By Japanese And Another Shelled By Chinese DIPLOMATIC PLI^M Mills Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon, approaching his sev enty-seventh birthday, has ac cepted the highest post in the American diplomatic service—the ambassadorship to Great Britain. I Ogden L. Mills, left, underscore- i American Residents Os Nanking Are Evacuating Japanese Plan To Stop Menace From Fighting Chinese Tokyo, Feb. 6.—(AP)—The gov ernment formally announced to night that It has decided to send a military force to Shanghai to “put an end to the menace of the Chin ese armies and to relieve inhabi tants of all nationalities from the strain of fear." IyGIVEN CASE " OF EDWARD ALLEN Fate of Youth Who Killed Sister's Lover Lover Will be Known So6n Morrlston, Pa. Feb. 6.—(AP)—The case of Edward H. B. Allen, charged with murder in the sensational kill ing of Francis A. Donaldson, 111, last November was given to the jury this aftorUoon. The commonwealth did not ask for the death penalty when District At torney St< wart Nase addressed the jury today in the trial. The district attorney, in fact, made no demand for any particular verdict. State Senator Fletcher W. Stites, of counsel for Allen, in his plea asked that the young man be given his free dom. He contended that he shot Donaldson in defense of himself and his home. He flayed A. G. H. Lucas, who was with his friend Donaldson, when he was killed as a “meddler.” ATTEMPT TO LOOT BANK IS FAILURE Waveland, Ind., Feb. A—(AP) — A hand of seven or eight men held a posse of citizens at bay early this morning with gunfire while they attempted to blast the safe of (be Waveland State bank but they obtained nothing for their ef forts. The bandits escaped In an automobile amidst a hall of bul lets with no indications that' any of them were struck. SENATE COMMITTEE APPROVES MEASURE Washington, FA. A—(A^) —A bUI to create a revolving fund of 100 million dollars for Inane to drainage, levee and irrigation dis tricts was approved today by the Senate Agriculture committee. PUBLISHED EVERT AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Mellon tary of the treasury and ex-con gressman from New York, will stop into Mellon’s shoes in tht cabinet. Mellon succeeds Gen Charles G. Dawes, head of the new Reconstruction Finance ca: poration Virtually All Are Leaving City Today On Advice of American Authoritie* MANY HAD ALREADY LEFT FOR SHANGHAI U. S. Consul General De- Clares It Impossible to Pre dict When Rail and Water Traffic Will Stop. Nanking. China, Feb. 6 (AP)— Virtually all Americans In Nank ing began to leave the dty today on the advice of American autho rities. Willis Peck, United State* con mil general, said official* advised the evacuation pointing out that it was Impossible to predict when traffic will be resumed on the .Shanghai-Nan king railway and that navigation on the Yangtae river a* well a* rail traffic on the Tukow-Tentsin line may be ob structed if military fryperafpons continue. One contingent of Americana mostly women and children left Nanking yesterday and went to Shanghai also nn the advice of United States authorities Interest In Campaign For Governor Lacking Dully Dispatch Karra*. In the Sir Welter Hntet. MT J r. HASKKRVII.U Raleigh, Feb. 6.—Many of the old timers here are continuing to marvel at tfie apparent apathy on the part of Democrats generally over the State toward the contest for the Democratic nomination for Governor. They point out that not in years has the time ever gotton so close to the primary i with so much uncertainty as to the | contest for the nomination, and with so few apparently committed to anjj/ one candidate. By the close of the 1919 general "as sembly, almost evAry member waa de finitely pledged to-support either Max Gardner, Cameron Morrison or Robert Page, it. is recalled, by this time in 1920, Gardner and Mocrison were shelling the woods and, each other and keeping batteries of steno graphers busy writing tetters, sending out campaign- material. Gardner had a corps of 12 stenographers at work in his headquarters/ he recalls. The McLean-Bailey campaign in 1924 also warmed up much earlier than the pre sent one and definite alignments had been formed long before February, 1924. So the present situation, with so £ PAGES u TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY J«|? Bluejacktts Enter Ame rican Presbyterian Mil lion Despite Offi. cial Warning METHODIST MISSION DAMAGED BY BOMBING Airplane* Begin Another Attack On Chapei Region Shell Fall* Into American Marine Billet Shanghai, Feb. 7 (Sunday) —Six inch guns thundered in the dark early this morning as the Japanese poured shells into what is left of Chapei. For eight days they have been bombarding the Chinese line but today (Sunday) there were fresh troops relieving the Chinese veterans and their stubborn resistance was unbroken. All through the week the artillery bombardment has subsided along about mid night but. at one a. m. today the firing was heavier than it had been all day long. Washington, Feb. 6 (AP) —The explosion of seven shells from Chinese anti-air craft guns in the marine regi ment area at Shanghai was reported today to the navy department. , . In a dispatch sent at 11:56,; ** a. m., February 6, Shanghai, time, Colonel R. 8. Hooter, commanding the ’maHne*' in the international settlement there reported that an eighth detachment, billet ; in Japa shell a dud, fell in a Houston nese Dong Shin Hill. hflssions Attacked Shanghai, Feb. 6 <AP)— Two American missions hous es in Shanghai were attack ed this afternoon while a fleet of airplane bombers roared overhead battering* for the second time today the flatten ed sector of Chapei. Japan*-*** bluejackets forcibly entered and ransackfed the Ameri can mission and pressed on north Scechucn mod, wMI within Um area occupied by the Japan Me. Th-y forced f heljr way Into the buildings in splf« ; of an official notice of the funertcan consul which win nailfd up on the en trance of the fS roperty. Method i*A Mission Hit The Amerir / n Southern Medio (Co«tinued on Page Five.) little apparent interest in the gub ernatorial campaign and with no one able to tell about the trend or what candidate seems to be in the lead, has poll) teal circles somewhat worried. "'lt merely goes to show that the irj.tlnct of self-preservation seems to lye stronger than anything else and That people have been so busy look ing out after their own affairs and trying to solve their own problems that they have had either the time or inclination to become interested in politics as yet." one observer remark ed today. “However, although many have not yet said who they are for, many have undoubtedly already de cided whom they are going to vote for.” , Opinion here in Peleigh is that while none of the three candidates for Governor hav emade much pro gress recently, that A. J. Maxwell has probably made more progress within the last month or six weeks than either R. T. Fountain or J. C. Ehrtnghaue, largely because cti*dl- I tions have served to accentual*. Max well's program more than those of the others. But no one » m*irf*tg any predictions' about the i.ual outcome of the campaign.