HENDERSON,
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA.
nineteenth year
War Clouds Hover
LowOverShanghai
As Fighting Looms
Japanese Prepare Strong
Measures To Keep Chi.
nese Out of 12 1-2
Mile Zone
CHINESE REPORTED
GOING OVER CREEK
Japs Ask British Consular
Officials to Request Native
Troops To Withdraw From
That Territory; Chinese
Report To Be Digging In
*hMiighai. March 2.l.—<Al*>
War cloud* again lowered over
Shanghai late this afternoon as
Japan ewe army official* announced
they were preparing to take strong
measures to block a reported re
entry Into the 12 1-2 milea aone of
Chine** troops.
The Japanese said they were inform
.d hy observers that the Chinese had
crossed Soochow creek at Chiawang
mia- within the zone of evacuation
dc.-eribed in General Uyada's ulti
matum of February 20.
Japanese officials asked British con
sular authorities to request the Chin
e-e to withdraw south of the creek.
A .■‘pokesman said the Chinese were
digging themselves in on the north
.-ide nf the stream. opposite the Japa
nese 1-nes. with the apparent intention
of remaining.
Jonas Nomination
Formally Brought
Into the Senate
Washington, March 2.l.—<Al*)
The Senate today began ronsider
•lw of Ihe contested nomination
of fTtarle* A. Jonas as United
Stale* attorney for the Western
district of North Carolina.
Jonas, a former member of the
llous*. is now Nerving under a re
cess appointment.
His nomination was adversely
reported from the Senate Judi
ciary Committee because of
• barge* that he had made un
founded attacks on the Senate
•svmpaign Investigating commit
tee.
CLASS BANK BILL
CALLED DANGEROUS
I'resldent of investment Banker* As
sociation Testifies Before
Sena's Committee
Washington. March 23 <AP> The
banking reform hill was called
“dangerous" to nat : orval bankers <o
dsy by Allan M. Pope, president of tihe
Investment Bankers Association of
America at hearings before the Sen
ate Banking Committee.
Pope said he had consulted with
several hundred Investment bankers
and ‘without exception they are op
posed to the legislation on the ground
t v 't we now are engaged in an at
tempt to idem the tide of deflation..’*
mayor council will hi*kak
ON ABHETS IN CHAPEL HILL
On pet Hill. March 23-Zeb Coun
cil. mayor of Chapel HIII. will tel! of
the ometa of Chapel Hill on a radio
ad'reTg to b* delivered over Station
WPTF. Raleigh at 630 o’clock Thurs
day evening. March 24.
State 1931 Cotton Acreage
Second Lowest In 25 Years
Curtailments in This State Have Been by Voluntary Ac
tion of Farmers and Without Coercion of Law;
North Carolina Has Done Its Full Part
Billy Dliyil'k <
la Ikr *l» Wilier Hntil.
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Raleigh March 23. North Carolina j
cotton acreage in 1931 was the *mal-;
lest since 1906 with the single ex
ception of 1915. the year following the .
beginning of the World War. accord
ing to official figures obtained today
from the State and Federal Depart
ments of Agriculture here. Further,
the exception of 1929. the num- j
ber of bales produced in North Caro- 1
lina lasi year. 775.000. was the smal
lest since 1917. the year in which the
United States actually entered the
war.
The peak of the upward trend in
acreage following the war was reach
ed in 1*25. whan 2,017,000 acres were
planted to cotton in North Carolina.
That year's crop yielded 1,102.000 bales
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L THK A ?? I> mtjhr siirvies
THE ABS<k;iaTßO prbW.
Thanks Lucky Piece
i
j 1
mfwm <
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Mrs. Carl Pickens of Clarksburg,
W. Va., is convinced that a horse
chestnut, or buckeye, is a lucky
piece. After she had driven her
car through the railing of the
bridge, above, and dropped 100
feet below, the buckeye was found
in the front seat of the sedan.
Mrs. Pickens was extricated vir
tually unhurt. The machine land
ed upside down.
0VER312,000 JOBS
PROVIDED THUS FAR
National Figure Climbs
Fast; Total of 11,941 In
North Carolina
Washington. March 23. (API
President Hoover was informed today
ihe American Legion employment
drive now in its fifth week had re
turned 312.H97 jobless men to work.
Mark Y. McKee, of Detroit executive
director of the campaign, said he
splaced this figure before the Presi
dent. He said w«.,d just received by
the figure for yesterday’s re-emmoy
ment at 13,393 in 1.791 different towns
and cities.
Mr. JOBS IN ONE IIAY IN
NORTH CAROLINA REPORTED
Raleigh, March 23. (AP> State
headquarters for (he American Le
gion employment drive today received
reports that 516 jobs had been secured
for unemployed in North Carolina
during the past 21 hours.
The State total since Febiuary 15
now stands at 11,941.
ITALIAN FASCISTS
CELEBRATE BIRTH
Pome. March 23. (AIM Fascist
Italy celebrated today with imposing
ceremonies *he thirteenth anniversary
of the founding of the Fascist party
Although thore was a drop the fol
lowing year to 1.985,000 acres, the crop
amounted to the unprecedented sum
of 1.213.000 bales.
It was in 1926 that the decision to
reduce through voluntary rather than
legislative or coercive action took de
finite shape. Several conferences were
held at the invitation of Governor
Angus W. McLean. There was a strong
demand for legislative action, to be
taken at a proposed special session,
but it was decided this would be in
advisable. As a counter movement, the
governor and those in charge of the
administration of agricultural affairs
in the State announced they would re
sort to education father than coer
cion. certainly as a preliminary mea
(ContluuvU on Page Five.}
NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
ONLY DAILY
State Gets Extra
Presidential Vote
Raleigh. March 23.—(API—North
Carolina will be anti tied to caat 13
presidential electoral votes in the
1032 election. Attorney General
ennts G. Brum mitt said today.
Population Increases which gave
the State Ita eleventh congressman
under the recent reapportionment
also entitles the State to an ad
ditional vote In the electoral col
lege in 1932. he said. Heretofore,
North Carolina had 12 votes.
THREE CANDIDATES
FOR GOVERNOR AEL
SEEK TEACHER AID
Fountain’s Views Clash
With Teachers, But
Ehringhau* and Max.
well Make Gains
conventionTike
POLITICAL MEETING
Leaders Set Forth What
They Demand of State
Government; Fountain,
Claiming Teacher Support,
Opposes Some Policies
Adopted at Charlotte
Dntlr lllapnteh Harms,
la the air Walter Hotel.
M J. C. BISKKRVILL
Raleigh. March 23.- Because of the
influence wielded in the State by the
23.000 public school teachers and the
powerful influence they have in mould
ing the thought of the State through
their daily contact with more than
900.000 school children and their par
ents, the three candidates for the
Democratoic nomination for governor
are eager to win the approval of these
teachers. This has become especially
true since the annual meeting of the
Noroth Carolina Education Associa
tion in Charlotte last week, which
was more like a political convention
than a teacher meeting, since poli
tical matters almost eclipsed the dis
cussion of educational topics.
At this meeting, the school politi
cians. wbb compose the group that
controls the education association,
made it clear that they and hence
the association- will not support any
candidate for governor or any other
State office who does not favor more
money for schools and school ac
tivities. and a return of more power
to the educational forces. They made
it very clear that the thing they want
most of all is to abolish the State
Board of Equalization and thus re
move all school matters from being
touched by the unholy hands of lay
men.
For many months in fact since the
19vl General Assembly—Lieutenant
Governor R. T. Fountain has been re
garded as the favorite candidate of
the school politicians for governor, de
spite the fact that he is chairman of
the much-hated Scnool Board of
Equalization and is supposedly bitter
ly opposed to any further “concen
tration of power” in Raleigh and in
new "boards or commissions.” For the
school politicians want to abolish the
board of equalization Rnd set up a
super-powerful and highly centralized
State Board of Education that will
have exclusive control of the school
machinery of the State and which can
not even be regulated by the General
Assembly. In advocating the all-power
fui and self-perpetuating board of
education, the school forces of the
State are advocating almost the iden
tical set-up recommended for the State
hy the Brookings report, the very
mention of which makes Fountain
burst into a full spray of denunciation.
For to Fountain the Brookings re
port Is a work of the devil, designed
to rob the people of any participation
In the government of their State. Yet
the school leaders would write the
Brooktngs report recommendations In
to the State Constitution, instead of
make them only statutory, as the
Brookings report suggested. Thus the
school people would go even farther
In centralizing power and taking it
away from the people than would the
Brookings report.
Consequently one of the big ques
tions in political circles now is wheth
er or not Fountain can oontinue to
(Continued on Page Five.)
House Committee
Starts Move for
Parley on Silver
Washington. March 28.—(AP) —The
House committee studying silver has
asked economists, bankers or govern
ment officials of eight nations what
their attitude would be toward an in
ternational conference on the metal.
Chairman Somers, of the House
Coinage Committee, made this known
today as his group sat down to hear
Bernard M. Baruch, financier, ap
prove the international conference
idea, and say he thought the initiative
for such a conference should be taken
by the United States. _ __
HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 23,1932
Death Toll In South’s Tornado Over 300
As Reports Come From IsolatedSeetions
Out of The Pens and Into The Lens
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sSI flO SMSBj -
I- f■ mm** •’•lyagirTiMi iTwiTf ar *’ *
* 4 s -<- v WML*, a * - >
One ul in tic*. (trial art.- o. President de Valera
of the I rich Frei- State on hts election a« Cfyel
Executive »I ,the Kineruld isle was to abolish the
Public Safety .Art, passed under the administration
u| former Pr4udt mi Cosgrove, and release all oolttt
House Rules Cause Lull
In Warm Revenue Fight
Wednesday Being Day for Consideration of Local Bills,
Fight Is Deferred a Day; Higher Taxes on Great
Wealth Written Into Bill Late Tuesday
Washington, March 23. (APi —Pro
ponents of the manufacturers' sales
(ax in the new revalue bill today pre
pared for a decisive vote tomorrow
in the House when consideration is
resumed.
Majority Leader Rainey said he still
believed the sales tax would stay in
the bill, “in view of the proposed Ways
and Means Committee exemption of
food, clothing, medicine and farm im
plements."
Representative Rankin, Democrat,
Mississippi, a leader of the opponents,
said in a statement, however, that
his "forces are stronger today than
we have been at any time since the
fight began, and I feel confident that
we will be able to strike it from the
bill we reach it tomorrow."
Washington, March 23. -(AP)
House rules which assign each Wed
nesday to action on local bills staved
off a while longer today a decision
Tax Collections
Exceed Forecast
Washington, March 23. (Al*>—
Income tax collections this month
have exceeded Treasury estimates.
The latent Treasury statement for
last Monday showed receipts for 21
days of March amounted to $178,-
567,113. The Treasury had forecast
collections for the entire, month
would approximate $175,006,040.
RlSEVElfFifr
GARNER IN GEORGIA
Testing Extent of Hi» Popu
larity in South in Pri.
mary Election
Washington. March 23. -(aV 1 ) The
third popular test of the Roosevelt
strength comes today in Georgia’s pre
ferential primary', a contest in which
the New York governor Is sure to win.
but which Is looked to for statistical
evidence of his popularity in the
South.
Georgia will complete a double three
way test for Roosevelt He won New
Hampshire In New England over Al
fred E. Smith. He won North Dakota
in the west over Governor Murray of
Oklohoma, and in Georgia he is op
posed by Judge G. H. Howard, of
Atlanta, who seeks to throw the
state’s strength to John N. (Tamer.
WEATHER
FOR NORTH CABOLNA.
Mostly cloudy, probably rain in
extreme east portion tonight;
Thursday generally fair, little
change in temperature.
» cal prisoners sentenced under the act. Photo shows
j a group of prisoners outside the Arbor Hill Military
i t» r, , !ion * Dublin, after they had been set free on de
Valera’s order. A wide-awake cameraman was not
quite wide-awake enough to prevent a colleague
from ■naDoins’ him as he (he nri^oner—
on the fate of the manufacturers' sales
tax proposal, the keystone of the bil
lion dollar revenue bill.
Despite victories by the anti-sales
tax forces on amendmentr \o the
measures, the outcome of the- vole is
uncertain, with both sides claiming
sufficient strength to win.
Opponents of the manufacturers' tax
thrust hard at the close of yesterday's
session, changing for the fourth time
an important section of th" measure
to boost the levies rtn great wealth.
By a 190 to 149 voie, estate taxes
were raised to a maximum of 45 per
cent on amounts above $10,000,000, as
compared to the 20 percent in the
existing law. This was only five per
cent above the committee recommen
dation. but. in voting, many of the
members thought they were adding
b 5 to 20 for a total that would give
the Federal and State governments 65
percent of everything left by men who
die in possession of vast fortunes.
BELIEmir
HAS BEEN LOCATED
Federal Officers Comment
On Three Arrests In
Johnston County
Kmithfield, March 23. (AP) Fed
eral officers (oday expressed the op
inion that three men arrested in con
nection with the recent robberies in
this section were members of a "vice
ting," which trafficks in white slavery
narcotics, liquor and stolen goods
throughout the State.
No further arrests had been made
this morning, hut Mayor Hare of
Selma requested the resignation of
Bradley Pearce, chief of police there,
until the matter is straightened out
to the satisfaction of residents and
town officials.
Police said Pearce had constructed
a special stall in his storage garage
for the housing of the car said to be
the property of L. Johnson, of Wilson,
which was seized yesterday, and
which allegedly Contains property
stolen In the recent robbery of the
post office and a store at Benton
ville
Officers said the car was not taker
from the stall except at night, when
it went on “raids." The car had been
kept in the garage about a year.
FURTHER HEARING
DENIED TO CAPONE
Chicago. March 23 (AP)- I Hie Unit
ed States Circuit Court of Appeals
refuse dtoday to listen again to At
Capone's appeal from his conviction
for dodging Federal Income taxes.
University Women To Meet
Chapel Hill. March 23— Winston-
Salem was named as the place and
April 15 and 16 were set as the
for the fifth conference of the North
CkroUna Division s os the American
AHBoctetion of tmivenatty Women at
a meeting held hem.
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTBRNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
GANGS POWERLESS
IN LINDBERGH HUNT
Former Manhattan Outlaw
Ha* Been Working On
Cate for 20 Day*
HAS SEEN LINDBERGH
Made Trip* to Eshtr, But Has Done
Nothing; Famoutf Colombian
Flier. Friend of Qolonei,
Offer* Services,
Hopewell, N. J., March 2i (AP)
Racketdom's reach groping for the
stolen Lindbergh baby has proved no
longer than the law's.
Owney Madden, whose name loom*
large in the annals of Manhattan out
lawry. has been working on the mys
tery 20 days without result*. He has
made three trips to the Lindbergh
estate.
Madden, who once ruled by terror
a district on Manhattan west side
called Hell's Kitchen, has been fight
ing an attempt to return him to Sing
Sing prison as a parole violator.
He was accused in 1915 of instigat
ing the slaying of Patchy Boyla. rival
gangster.
FAMOUS COLOMBIA FLIER
WANTS TO JOIN IN HUNT
Bogota. Colombia. March 23. (AP)
Major Benjamin Mendez, one of the
best fliers in Colombia, and a friend
of Colonel Charles A Lindbergh's to
day received permission from the war
office to fly to Buenaventura, where it
was reported that the kidnaped Lind
bergh baby was bein gheld on an is
land near the coast. The flight will
not be made, however, unless the Am
erican legation requests it.
VANCEBORO BANKER
OWNS UP SHORTAGE)
New Bern. March 23. (API-R, L.
Jenkins, assistant cashier of the |
Vanceboro branch of the Eastern j
Bank of New Bern, confessed early I
today that he had embezzled $5.2001
from his accounts.
He was given a hearing before a ;
justice of the peace, apd posted bond :
for his appearance io superior court. '
Triple Shooting follows
Kidnaping At University
One Student May Die And Another I* Critically Shot*,
Outcome of Long Feud Between Engineering
And Law Students at University of Missouri
Columbia. Mo.. March 23 (APi
A bitter campus feud which inspired
reprisal for the "kidnaping” of a
pretty university of Missouri co-ed.
was the cause, police were informed,
of the shooting early today of three
students by a fellow student, who
helped engtneer the "abduction.”
It was a bloody culmination of a
rivalry of long standing between the
schools of engineering and law, a
rivalry that devalped from innocent
pranks to pistol play.
One of the three engineering stu
dents, felled by bullets, may not re-
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INJURIES PLACED 1
AS HIGH AS 2500;
HOMELESS 7.000
246 Known Dead Reported
In Alabama, Hardest Hit
State In Monday
Night's Storm
NO ESTIMATE YET
OF PROPERTY TOLL
Hundreds of Homeless Have
Cold Wave To Add to
Their Miseries; Farmers
Face Planting Season
Without Shelter, Imple.
ments or Livestock
Birmingham, Ala.. March 2.1.
<Al*>—The i'uuih'a tornado death
list went above 366 todav a* the
sombre work of rettcue and re
habilitation progressed.
Estimate* of tile iniured ran a*
high a* 2.51N1, while the homeless
were estimated at upward of 7,-
000.
A dawn check of fatalities, which
have increased steadily since first re
ports of seven dead Monday, disclosed
246 known killed in Alabama today.
15 in Georgia, 18 in Tennessee, two in
South Carolina and two in Kentucky,
for a total of 303 in the five states
struck by storm.
Relief workers sent back reports
of some of the additional dead after
♦hey made their way over storm-llt
ered roads to aid communitlM laid
'lat by the freakish spring wind.
Dther reports came as regions visited
'yy the blast were able to re-astabllsh
communication lines. And still others
‘ollowed the search of wreckage.
None was able yet io estimate the
Property damage in dollars and cents.
The hundreds of homeless had a wave
>f cold weather added to their discom
fort and farmers over the hardest hit
ireas faced the prospect of a planting
•eason without shelter, implements or
ivestock. ,
i
Capital Penalty ** ;
Asked in Georgia
For Communists
Atlanta, Ga.. March 23. -(API—A
law of reconstruction days was in
voked here today by Assistant Solici
tor General John H. Hudson to ask
ihe death penalty for six persona
Charged with Inciting insurrection by
distributing communistic literature.
The six were inrJUcted in Fulton Su
perior Court for copital offenses un
der an 1868 statute. They were ar
rested after a scries of meetings here
In 1930. at which the State charged
literature containing Insurrectionary
and communistic propaganda, includ
ing doctrines of Karl Marx, was dis
tributed.
Futile Effort To 1
Ge t Action on Big
Road Bill Is Made
Washington, March 23.—(AP)—
For the second time in the last
few day* a futile attempt waa
made in the Seriate today to get
action on the Democratic road
construction unemployment relief
! measure.
The measi're. carrying $132,500,- <
non. a* |wk> ed hy the House, and
S3,.son,<NM» more added by the Sen
ate Roads Committee, was brought
up under u rule terminating con
sideration. at 2 p. m.
cover. and hi* alleged HSsailaut. wh*
wenl to the university to study law.
also i* in a critical condition.
The shooting was the climax of a
feud of long standing between stu
dents of the engineering and law
schools. Last Saturday afternoon Miss
Mary Butterfield, of Kansas City, who
was to have been crowned St. Pat's
queen at the engineering school dance,
was "kidnaped" as she was leaving
her sorority, house and was held'Cap
tive until almost midnight, when Is he
was upturned to the campus top late
ior her coronation as gueta, «