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gateway to CENTRAL CAROLINA; NINETEENTH YEAR SWEETHEART PEACE PARLEY IN SHANGHAI STALLS ON JAP SOLDIERS Disposition of Troops Un derstood To Have Dead* locked Negotiations In Progress JAPANESE WORKING ON NEW TRENCHES Barbed Wire Barricades and Sandbag Redoubts Being Thrown Up Along Front) Lines; Those in on Nego-I tiations All Profess To See Bright Hopes Shanghai. March 21 <AP) New parley* for peace and r.ew trenches for war were under way here today. Japanese and Chinese negotiators continued the peace parleys under ihe auspices of neutral observers, while nut along the Japanese first linei t<> the northwest Japanese sol diers worked feverishly on new trenches, barbed wire barricades and sandbag rodoubts. Those actually connected with the negotiations .the Chinese and Japa nese representatives, and the foriegn officials, all profess to see hope for success of the parleys, but there were widely speculative reports on the out ride that the negotiators were de&d ioceked over the question of Japanse troops. Officials declined to reveal the plan suggested for the armistice, but they were reported to have centered on three points: 1. Chinese troops to remain In their present positions about 30 miles west of Shanghai. - th<> international settlement. 3 A neutral commission to super use the Japanese withdrawal and to uke over the administration of the wide area around the city now oc cupied by the Japanese. DEFENDS SAURIES FARM BOARD PAYS 0 t h e r t Charge Board Strangling the Coopera tive Associations Washington, March 21.—(AP) —C. E. Huff, of Chicago, president of the Farmers National Grange Cooperation, today defended the salaries paid of ficials of his organization. He fold a Senate committee only sloven men In the corporation would t** effected by the bill of Senator Borah. Republican. Idaho, to cut farm hoard salaries and limit the pay of officials of borrowing organizations to 115.000. U ASTON IA MAN ATTACKS FARM BOARD'S POLICIES Washington. March 21. (AP) - I‘ameron H. Williams, of Gastonia, N. < *.. today told a Senate committee that the “Farm Board, by unwise use ••f its powers, is literally crushing the (-'■operative movement." Williams, a member of the Ameri can Cotton Shippers Association, and a former president of the Atlantic Cotton Association, appeared In the committee's hearing on the bill by nator Borah. Republican. Idaho, to rut the pay of Farm Board members and officials of affiliated organiza tions. He said charges against the associa tion hy U. Benton Blalock, president of the American Cotton Cooperative Association, are not true and "ob viously unfair and unjust.” Williams predented a telegram from L. Hus bee Pope, editor of the Dunn, N C . Dispatch, as denial of a charge hy Blalock that the shippers' group had paid the paper to print an edi torial assailing Farm Board salaries. Another Kidnaper Sentenced in Ohio. For Stealing Boy Warren. Ohio. March 21. (AP) John Damarco. 30. of Youngstown the second of two men Indicted In con nection with the kidnaping of 11-year n|d James Dejutt Jr., of Niles, today Pleaded guilty to a charge of harbor ing and concealing a kidnaped per son and was sentenced to one to 20 years in the Btate penitentiary. Demarco also was indicted on a charge of kidnaping with intent to extort, which carried a penalty of iife imprisonment, but was permited h Y Prosecutor Q. H. Blrrell to plead to the lesser charge. Hrttiirrsmt Satin Btamttrh fsssr Figures r» New Kidnaping * Attempt BgP . am - mB JBS«uK' r Using 11 most the same tactics employed in the kidnaping of the Lindbergh baby, a man attempted to enter the nursery at the home (above) of J. Seward Johnson, millionaire manufacturer of New Politicans Here Watch Federal Sales Tax Fight Over 325400 Johsj Provided Thus Far I New York, March 21.—(AP)— More than 270,000 jobs had been drafted today In the war against depression. Minnesota held the numerical lead over all the states, having found jolts for 30,012. Delaware, however, topped the country on a percentage basis, reporting a total of 4,501 new jolts, which represents more than 230 percent of Its com parative quota. JAPAN WITHHOLDS FULL RECOGNITION Tokyo Expresses Pleasure, However, Over Outlook in Manchuria Tokyo, March 21.—(AP3—Japan's roply to the bid of the new Man churian government for official re cognition was sent to Shanghai today. It made no mention of recognition, however, and merely a acknowledged receipt of the Manchurian note. The government expressed gratification over the avowed intention of Henry Pu Yi's regime to maintain the open door and equal opportunity. The war office announced that total casualties of the Japanese army In the campaign at Shangha was 591 killed and 1,773 wounded. GARDNER TO TALK ON LAND PROBLEM Governor, on the Radio To night, May AUo Answer His Critics Dully Dtspateh Sanaa la the Sir Welter Hotel* nv j C- SASKKKVfiX. Raleigh. March 21.—The problems of the landowners will be discussed by Governor O. Max Gardner tonight in a radio address from 6:30 to 7 o'clock in a Statewide radio hook-up that will include all the radio stations in the State. Though Governor Gardner will »peak from Raleigh, his speech will be relayed to the radio stations In Greensboro. Charlotte, Asheville, Win ston-Salem and Wilmington, so that It will be broadcast from six stations at the same time. As a result, It will be possible to tune in on the speech from any of these six stations, so that it will be possible for people in every section of the State to hear it. 7 While most of the speech will deqJ (Continued on Page Four.). _ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA ANn VITKIN?a OF STOLEN BABY’S NURSE EXONERATED Support of It By Eastern »■ .iteatis Cjroli—i Congress men Is Regarded as Significant ANOTHER SALES TAX MOVE HERE LIKELY But There Might Be Some Hesitancy if Measure In Congress Fails; Its Appli. cation Would Take Many Millions from People of This State Dsllr IHiMCk llorees. In Ikr air Witllrr Holci. MY J. C. BMKFRVILL Raleigh. March 21. - State govern mental officials and political circles generally are carefully watching the fight going on in Washington ovei the bill now holding the spotlight in Con gress that proposes to levy a nation wide tax in the form of 2 -4 per cent tax on all manufactured goods, in an effort to balance the Federal govern ment budget. Leaders here are con vinced that tHe question as to whether or not the State will impose a State on land, with a sales tax and part of the gasoline tax suggested as good sources. 2. Higher salaries lor teachers. 3. Opposition to any further econo my in the operation of the public schools on the grounds that any more economy will injure standards of In struction given. 4. Abolition of the State Board of Equalization by means of a Constitu tional amendment that will put all school administration in hands of a self-perpetuating State School Board and thus remove it from any inter ference or controls by the State gen eral aaeembty. 5. A State supported eight months school term, to assure teachers and executives of State pay checks from the Treasurer’s Office for eight in stead of six months and thus remove the uncertainty of pay checks from local governments. None of the speakers, naturally, came out and advocated this platform in so many words. But after much beating about the bushes, moet of the speeches made eventually pointed to ward one or more of these plants* as things that must be obtained for the continuation and: preservation of the schools in North Carolina. Nor did any of these planks ori (Continued on Page PiveJ Tax Decline Shown Above $100,000,000 For Y ear Thus-F ar Washington, March 21.—(AP) —In- come tax collections from the first quarter's payments on March 16 were $27,14 .167, as compared to $24,106,314 Mr the same day a year ago. The collections brought the total for March to $152,428,074, against $283,- 229,2*6 In the same number of days last March. , _ _ HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY-AFTERNOON, MARCH 21, 1982 e Brunswick, N J. Be was dnvei. off after an ex change es shots. George Malden (left), of New ' or ** w 'th detective after his arrest at South Plainfield. N J.. a.« a suspect. Mrs. Johnson is inown with Elaine, one of the four Johnson children. TEACHERS 10 MAKE DEMANDS IN 1933 i Raising Big Fuhd For Cam. paign To Force Legisla ~ tioas TkftmigJfr ~r~ SEEKING HIGHER PAY Would Abolish Equalization Board, Replacing It With SeJ f-Perpetual ■ ing Board of Own; Against Moir Economies Dally Dlseate* Bams. 4a (hr Sir Walter Motel, *T J. C. lIItKKRVILI. Raleigh. March 21.—The platform that will bo advocated by the North Carolina Educational Association in the 1933 General Assembly, and for which a big war chest is now being provide I from a levy of $2 on each school tea hi r in the State, is rapidly taking definite form. In fact, a close study of the many speeches made be fore the meeting of the association in Charlotte recently and a careful read ing between the lines of these speech es. clearly reveal sthe basic structure of this platform. The basic planks in the platform or program that will be urged upon the 1933 General Assembly, as indicated by the trend of thought at the Char lotte meeting of the association, arc as followers: 1. More money for the public schools > of the State, from any source, but pre- j ferably from sources other than taxes ! (Continued on Page Five.) FRAUDINELECTION DENIED BY BAILEY Senator, in His Defense, Says Pritchard's Charges Are Not True Washington, March 21.—(AP) Senator Bailey, Democrat, North Carolina, today termed ‘.untrue" and denied each of the allegations of fraud in 42 North Carolina counties brought hy George M. Pritchard, Republican, of Ashe ville, who Is contesting the elec tion of Bailey In 1930. In a formal reply filed with the Senate Elections Committee, which expects to take up the contest again tomorrow, Bailey declared Pritchard's amended petition alleged only general counta "without stating any material Instance” of fraud or irregularities. Bailey also asserted: “The presump tion of regularity and validity • at taches to the election returns as can vassed and certified." The senator said Pritchad's charge were not sufficient to override that presumption, but that they tended to show that he (Bailey) was elected. WEATHER FOB NORTH CAROLINA. Cloudy and warmer, probably showers In west portion tonight; Tuesday shower*; colder In the Itftemooa in sgutbwmt portion. CHALLENGES FOES Df SALES TAX TO BALANCE BUDGET Secretary Mill* Tell* La- Guardia to Get Money Elsewhere or Vote For Measure ADMINISTRATION IS CALLING FOR HALT Substitute for Ways And Means Committee Proposal Would Lack $530,000,000 of Tlelding Enough Reve nue, Treasury Head Tells Congressman Washington, March 21. <AP» Alarmed by the prospect of facing the tax bill before the House, the admin istration called upon the opposition to day to halt its fight unless it can devise a program to balance the budget. In a letter to Representative La- Guardia. the independent Republican from New York, who has the leader ship of those opposing the proposed sales tax. Secretary Mills said the proposition put forward by LaGuardia as a substitute for the Ways and Means Committee bill would fall by 5530.000.000 to yVeld the amount of re venue needed. * A copy of the letter was sent to Acting Chairman Crisp, of the Ways and Means Committee. ROW BY CHILDREN RESULTS FATALLY Fathers Get Into It And One Shoots Other At North Wilkesboro Nerth Wilkesboro, March 21. (AP) —A quarrel among children in the neighborhood led to the slaying today of Jesse James Byers, 27. of Gordon, a North Wilkesboro suburb. Byers was shot by Foster Smith, a neighbor. Byers died in a hos pital here. Smith came to North Wllkesboto for an ambulance for his wounded antagonist and then surrendered to Sheriff W. C. Somers. He was lodged in jail. Officers were told that Byers’ chil dren, playing near the Gordon school house, were throwing rAcks at a dog. A rock struck one of Smith's chil dren. and Smith was informed. Then Smith and Byers began an argument, which later became a fight. Police said Byers was attempting to cut Smith with a knife when the latter drew a revolver and fired. Forest Fires Are Sweeping Counties In The Southeast Raleigh. March 21.—(AP) —Several forest fires of considerable extent are sweeping through unorganized coun ties of the southeastern section of North Carolina, Charles H. Flory. as sistant forester, said today upon hia return from a trip to Brunswick. Pen der, Duplin. Sampson and other coun ties. At the same time reports reached Raieigh of literally dozens of small forest fires throughout the State, most of them of small consequence. One motorist reported seeing more than two dozen in Harnett, Cumber land, Hoke Robeson and Scotland counties over the week-end. House Wet-And-Dry Vote, First Since Prohibition, Removes The Straddlers By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Pres* Staff Write* Washington. March 21.—*fti* wets accomplished one thfng, anyteay, by the vote they recently foroSd In con gress on the subject of the sOcalled Beck-Linthicum resolution— Hereafter they will not .have to fight in the dark, while themselves In plain sight for the drys to snipe 'at. Surprising as the statement may sound, considering how long prohibi tion has been the law of the land, fully half the representatives and about an equal proportion of senators have managed hitherto to avoid taking any position on the wetanddry question. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Two Notes Found Tied On Carrier Pigeons Studied In Lindbergh Kidnaping Novel in Polities I —1 Beeking the Republican nomination for Congress in the Fifteenth Penn sylvania District, Mrs. Cornelia Pinchot, wife of Governor Gifford Pinchot, is using the silhouette above on her campaign literature instead of the customary photo graph. Mrs. Pinchot seeks to op pose Representative Louis ElacFad den, who game time ago made a verbal attack on PresTJlem H onvf»r iIICOTTON CROP 17,060,122 BALES More Than Three Million 500-Pound Bales In Excess of 1930 STATE IS LESS Larger Than l»?fl. But Half Million Bale* Smaller than IWZX, Official Figures by Govern ment Indicate i Washington. March 21. iAP> -The 1931 cotton crop amounted to 16.596,- 780 running bales. or 17,060,722 equivalent 500-pound bales, the Census Bureau reported today.in announcing final ginning figures for the season. The 1930 crop was 13.755.51 S run ning bales, or 13.931.587 equivalent 500-pound bales, and the 1929 crop wa> 14,527.791 running bales, or 14,8124.861 equivalent 500-pound bales. Figures for North Carolina were 756.237 bales. NORTH CAROLINA’S CROP IK LESS THAN THAT LAST YEAR Raleigh. March 21.--(AP)-- North Carolina's cottiTh crop in 1931 was 18,300 bales less than in 1930, the Fed eral-State Crop Reporting Service an nounced today. The 1931 crop, it was noted, was larger than that of 1929, but more than 500.000 bales smaller than the 1928 crop. Production of equivalent 500-pound bales as reflected by glnners' reports was 756,237 in 1931: 774,537 bales in 1930. and 747,208 in 1929, and 836.474 in 1928. On election days they have contrived to appear dry to the drys and wet to the wets. They could only keep this up by preventing a vote on the issue, and that is just what they have succeeded in doing all these years. The usual attempt was made to chloroform the Beck-LJntblcuta re solution, when it was introduced in the house of representatives early in the current congressional session, but for once the anesthetic failed to “taker* * The resolution, jointly sponsored -by £ Continued on Page Four) 6“ PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY One Says Sender Is Hid on Yacht Outside U. S. Jur isdiction off Atlan. tic Coast SECOND TAKEN TO LINDBERGH ESTATE Woman and Man Bring It In Along With Dead Bird; First Was Found on Bird Beaten Down in Storm In Connecticut, Decoded by Bootlegger Jersey City, March 21 (AP) —Henry (Red) Johnson, sail or suitor of Betty Gow, the Lindbergh baby’s nurse, was completely exonerated by local Dolice today of any com plicity in the kidnaping. Hopewell. N. j., March 2l_ <AP)—lnvestigators in the Lind bergh kidnaping were excited for a time today by two notes sup posed to have lieeti found on car rier pigeons. One was quickly re vealed to lie a hoax and the other could not be veritied. The investigators were otherwise without any tangible results in their long search for the missing baby. Hopewell. N. J., March 21. (API illvcsligaloiin the Lindbergh kid ding sought today to learn the sig lificance of two carrier pigeon notes'. The two notes which were reported •o New York State police, read: "All lines unsafe. Hid In yacht. Mak ing no port. Wen trained here out ode jurisdiction. Return bird." "Pulled off the job In fine order* Make a clean getaway. No one svrtt uspects me. Will meet you Monday is planned. Will have the dough with me. Yours. (Signed) Red.” The first note, police said, was re ported to have been in code and found m a bird beaten down in a Connecti cut storm. The informal, who said he did not see the note, told the police it was decoded by a local bootlegger, who he refused to nome. The second note was brought to po lice headquarters in the Lindbergh home along with the dead bird by Mrs. Charles R, Stein, Lehighton, Pa., and Arthur J* Bond, of East Strouds burg. A Mills * SHE IS INNOCENT Lexington Woman Accused of Poisoning Her 6-Year- Old Daughter k t Lexington, March 21.—(AP)— Mrs. Pickett ptraded not guilty when arraigned in David son County Superior Court today on a charge of poisoning her slx -y ear-old daughter, Elizabeth last September. Judge G. Vernon Cowper order ed a special venire to be drawn and told to report In court Wed nesday morning. Mrs. Pickett has been in jail her* since her arrest several months ago. Solicitor VL L. Knonce said he did not intend to senl bills against for mer Solicitor George A. Younce and W. F. Brinkley in connection with the slaying ors Sheriff J. A. Leonard here two month* ago, to the grand jury today. (- Indications are trial of this case will not be reached until late in the term, if the jury returns true bills. Parts of Airplane Found, Pointing to A Double Tragedy Steubenville. Ohio*. March 21.—(APi - Parts of an airplane and a dozen air mail sacks found oo the West Virginia bank of the Ohio river th< w afternoon at Brown* Island, five miles north of here, led to the belief that an east bound Transcontinental Western Air Line mail plane- mlsalng for ten hours, had crushed Into the river with its pilot end a woman pas senger. _ ,
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