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Japan I ells World To Draw Own Conclusions About Far East Policy
BLUNT STATEMENT
REFLY TO DEMAND
TOR ELUCIDATIONS
Tokyo Spokesman Refuses
To Elaborate on “Asia
for Asiatics’’ Pol
icy Laid Down
foreign holdings-
ARE NOT AFFECTED
No Intention of Promoting
Independent Movements in
Philippines or Elsewhere;
London Press Is Aroused;
Japan Pictured in Garb of
‘‘Welfare Worker”
Geneva, April 25.—(AD—Chi
Tsai-ilu, Chinese minister t Sw..
/(Held, declared today that “Jap
unew imperialism seeks to enclose
all China and veto the rights of
ineign nations.
He tot’d neuspat - r c.r. e*pond
i»t\ gathered b» in station, that
the m«*w Japanese noetiine violates
al’ the fiindan « nt.iN of the nine
pewer treaty signed at Washing
ton in 1922. to which the United
states Great Britain, France,
Holland. Japan and oher nations
sere signatories.
Tokyo. April 25. (AP) —Japan, in
effort, told the world today to draw
it.* own conclusions regarding her re
stated policy toward China.
A foreign office spokesman said:
"Our statement has been made. Let
others read it as they will.’
This was the reply to requests for
further elucidation of the declaration,
in which Japan claims responsibility
for maintenance of the peace in east
ern Asia, warning other powers not
to threaten tranquility by activities in
China.
The spokesman also refused to com
mon on references to “Asia for
Asiatics in an enunciation of Nippon
ese policy by the Japanese consul gen
eral at Geneva.
However, he did reiterate that
iPnn'imiMl on Pmjjp Threa.l
Dr. Wright
Pa sses At
Greenville
Head of East Caro
lina T eachers Col
lege Suffered Heart
Alt tick on Monday
Grenville. April 25.—(AP)—Dr. R.
H Wright, first and only president of
Ba-tam Carolina Teachers Colleg-is
died at 10:20 o’clock this morn
in-' at the Pitt County Hospital alter
8,1 illness of two days.
Dr - Wright suffered a heart attack
Monday, and his condition had been
ci :t ical since. Yesterday he rallied
slightly, hut. an hour before he died
* bulletin was issued stating his con
rli'ioi, was not. good.
Funeral p*_ins had not been com-
I 1 'rfd, Init services will ibe held some
tinv tomorrow.
‘l'd he lived until May 21, Dr.
1 1 ,ht would have been 64 years of
ag>:.
H i survived by his widow, who
we Miss Pearl Murphy, of Toma
’,fnvk. m Sampson county, before her
aiHtiiage and by four children, Dr.
* H Wright, Jr., of Phoebus, Va.;
M Don Cadman, of Chautauqua,
A Mrs. Derward Parker, of Wil-
M,| ‘. nod William A. Wright, of Green
ville.
I>i Wright spentall the mature
’' a 1 ' " f his life in preparing himself
o educate others, and in fulfilling
'b mission.
‘ ' h r,f a Sampson county land own
' t 1)1 Wright received his early edu
' l, r,n in the public schools of his
ru. n * county, and at Oak Ridge In
l l,u ‘ n Guilford county. He later
I' 11 , e University of North Caro
ine where he received, in 1897, a de-
r M:, ‘ * lf baonelor of science. He con
''“l his studies at Johns Hopkins
at Baltimore.
c nen Eastern Carolina Teachers
1 .ego was established in 1909 by act
L'. n ,orth Carolina General Asseni
u ’ '• Wright became its first presl
i..' ' 4,1 °!Tice which he held until
*‘U death.
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The map in the above layout
shows the region where federal
and state authorities are waging
a relentless search for John Dil
inger, inset, escaped Indiana out
w and desperado, and his aides,
•Mowing a pitched battle in a
Testimony Is Completed
On Kerr's Tobacco Bill
Epidemic
Os Escapes
Is Fea red
Diillf DlMpatch Kurina,
In tli* Sir Walter Motel.
BV J C. UASKEHVIIX.
Raleigh, April 25 —Now that “Gen
eral Green” has about arrived, the
prison division of the State Highway 1
and Public Works Commission is
keeping a sharper lookout than ever
to prevent prisoners from escaping,
according to Director J. B. Roach, of
the division. For “General Green” is
the manner in which the prisoners re
fer to the green leaves that appear on
the trees and underbrbush in the
spring and into whose protection
many of the prisoners often try to
escape.
“As soon as spring starts to come
and the elaves start to come out, we
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Government Limits $500,000
Grant To Teachers With
out Support
Dully Di quitch Bureau.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY J. t. HASKEHVILL.
Raleigh, April 25—Strings are tied
to the $500,000 which the , State is to
receive ffrom the Emergency Relief
Administration to help pay the sala
ries of the school teachers for the last
month of the eight months school
term, it was learned today. These
strings provide that this $500,000 may
be used only to pay the salaries of
teachers whb have no other means of
support and who as a result may be
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ONLY DAILY
THE B a2c^ RE SERVICE OF
the associated press.
NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THISjS ECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIrAiIA.
HENDERSON, N. G. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 25, 1934
small hotel near Spider Lake,
Wis., in which two persons were
killed and three others wounded,
one probably fatally. A scene
typical of the wild country in
which the man hunt is being
waged also is shown.
Not a Single Witness Ap
pears in Opposition To
Measure Before House
Committee
SOME AMENDMENTS
OFFERED, HOWEVER
Favorable Report To Be
Submitted on Measure To
Control Cotton Acreage In
1934; Would Let Growers
Vote Each Year Whether
To Apply The Bill
Washington, April 25. —(AP)—Testi-
mony on the Kerr bill for tobacco
production control was completed be
fore a House Agriculture sub-commit
teetoday without a single witness ap
pearing in opposition to the measure,
although several suggested important
amendments.
Chairman Fulmer, Democrat, South
Carolina, of the sub-committee, saiv.
shortly before ordering an executive
session that he was cetain a favoable
report would Ible submitted ito the
committee.
Introduced by Representative Kerr,
Democrat, North Carolina, the bill
bears the endorsement of Secretary
Wallace, who said he did not regard
it as a compulsory measure.
The bill would levy a tax of 25 per
cent of the market value on all to
bacco sold. Farmers joining in the
voluntary tobacco reduction campaign
would be issued tax-payment warrants
to the amount oi their allotted pound
age. These tax-payment warrants
would be accepted in payment of the
tax. Non-cooperatives have no war
rants and farmers wisning to sell
more than their allotment under the
voluntary plan would be liable for the
tax.
Representative Burch, Democrat,
Virginia; Umstead, Democrat, North
Carolina, and J. M. O'Dowd, business
manager of the Florence, S. C.,
Morning News, who appeared (before
the sub-committee a short time before
the report was made, all urged that
some provisions be made in the bill
to protect small farers ineligible for
the voluntary plan from having to
bear the tax.
Burch and Umstead also argued in
favor of a referendum among tobacco
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Compromise Tax
Bill About Ready
Washington, April 25 (AP) —The
I compromise tax bill standing at an
unrevealed point between the $280,-
! 000,000 House and $480,000,000 Sen
ate draft verged on final approval
by conferees for the two branches
late today.
Ohce they agreed the whole scrap
will be put up again to the differ
ing chambers. And once these get
together, the measure goes to the
white Houses where the President
is preparing then to ask appropri
ations of several* times the amount
it will raise.
CONGRESS BATTLE
Ballyhoo Over Higher Of
fices Causing People To
Lose Sight of
Legislature
STATE JOBS EFFECT
PEOPLE MUCH MORE
More Directly Concerned In
What General Assembly
Does Than Cbngress; Real
ly Big Problems Confront
State Legislators Next
Winter
Daily Diftpatcb Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BV J. C. UASKERVILL.
Raleigh, April 25—Are the contests
for the congressional nominations in
eight of the State’s eleven congres
sional districts attracting so much at
tention that the people are losing
sight of the contests for the seats in
the next State legislature?
Some observers here are inclined
to think that the public generally is
losing sight of the importance of the
legislative races and paying little or
no attention to those who are seek-
Scrapping
Mail Lines
Is Upheld
Government Had
Right and Was
Duty-Bound to Act,
Senator Black Says
Washington, April 25 (AP)—Chair
man Black, of the Senate air mail in
vestigating committee, t£>ld the Senate
today the air mail contracts involved
a “network of intrigue, chicanery,
manipulation and fraud,” and claimed
there had been a deliberate effort to
mislead the public on the issue.
Taking up the dbeate for the Mc-
Kellar-Black air mail bill, the Alaba
ma Democrat contended the cancella
tion of the contracts was not only a
right but a duty of the administration.
“There has been a deliberate effort
on the part of certain groups in Ame
rica to mislead the public,’ not only as
to the right to cancel, but the duty,”
he said. “There has been a consis
tent effort on the part of certain sub
sidized editorial writers to confuse the
public and leave them with the im
pression something was done out of
the ordinary.
“We have heard the word ‘un-Amer
ican’ from those who know nothing
about law. It was the duty of the
administration to cancel the contracts
as soon as fraud was discovered.”
WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Slight cooler in east portion to
night; Thursday fair; rising tem
perature in extreme west portion
and probably light frost in expos
ed places in east and central por
tions tonight, and light to heavy
frost In extreme west.
PROGRAM AT ONCE
Dodging Diplomacy
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Secretary and Mrs. Hull
Far from Washington’s atmosphere of statecraft and diplomacy, Secre
tary of Mate and Mrs. Cordell Hull enjoy the balmy breezes of Atlantic
City, N. J., where they were snapped on the famous boardwalk. Inter
viewed at the resort, Sec'y Hull declared America is progressing steadily
towards recovery. (Central Prett)
Arguments To The Jury
In Cannon Trial Begun
Prosecution a'nd Defense
Each Allotted Four Hours
In Which To Pre
sent Case
prosecution” HAS
THE FIRST VOICE
Government Attorney
Charges Cannon Had An
“Ingrowin Hatred of Cor
rupt Practices Act,” He is
Charged With Violating in
1928 Anti-Smith Campaign
Washington, April 25—(AP) —
The contention that Bishop James
Cannon, Jr., is trying “to hide be
hind a woman’s skirt” in his trial
on a charge of conspiracy to vio
late the Federal corrup tpractices
act" was advanced today in Dis
trict of Columbia Supreme. Court
by John J. Wilson, the govern
ment’s prosecutor.
He referred to Miss Ada JL. Bur
roughs, co-defendant with the Sou
thern Methodist churchman on
charges growing out of his 1928
efforts to defeat Alfred E. Smith
for president.
Wilson also contended that Can
non had spent a part of the con
tributions “for his personal use.”
Later he told the jury the bishop
had used the money for a loan to
a “lifelong friend.”
Washington, April 25. —(AP)—Argu-
ments were begun in he trial of Bishop
James Cannon, Jr., today with an as
« Continued on Pace Three.)
High Point Man
Shot Attempting
S. A. L. Robberies
Rockingham, April 25.—(AP)O
Stanton Sechrest, of High Point,
was wounded and captured early
today when special agents of the
Seaboard Air Line Railway fired
on three men who were breaking
into the depot here.
iSechrests companions escaped.
Sechrest, a 33-year-old mechanic,
was taken to a Hamlet hospital.
He was said there to have but a
slight chance for recovery. The
officers, hidden in the depot, said
one of the trio entering the build
ing fired at them.
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.,
DU linger
Search Is
Continuing
Akron, Ohio, April 25.—(AP) —Two
men who were driving an automobile
held up and robbed the suburban Ma
gadore Savings Bank and kidnaped
two officials shortly after noon today.
Police said the license number of the
robbers car was an Illinois liense,
and began checking immediately to
determine whether this was one of the
Dillinger cars which fled from a trap
in northern Wisconsin Monday night.
PETITION ASKS DROPPING
OF UNITED STATES AGENT
Mercer, Wis., April 25. —(AP) —A pe
tition asking the suspension of Melvin
H. Purvis, chief of the bureau of in
vestigation of the United States De
partment of Justice in this area,
pending an investigation into the
escape of the John Dillinger gang
from the hide-out near here Sunday
night was being circulated here today.
AXE TOFALLAGAIN
IN REVENUE OFFICE
Employees In State Office
In Raleigh on Pins In
Fear of Jobs
'
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
la the Sir Walter Motel.
BY J. C. OASKERVILL.
Raleigh, April 25—Employes in the
Department of Revenu ehere are in
a flurry and sitting on needles and
pins these days as a result of the re
organization still in progress within
the department, with Assistant execu
tive Commissioner of Revenue M. C.
,S. Noble Jr., as chief engineer, since
he is in charge of personnel.
During the past two or thre weeks
some half dozen clerks and steno
graphers have been dropped from
the department’s payroll and indica
tions are that some ten or fifteen
more ar eslated to go eventually, as
well as some eight or ten "higher ups”
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TODAY
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American Ffeet To Be
Brought Up to Treaty
Limits Under Plans
Soom to be Stated
MONEY TO BE ASKED ,
OF THIS CONGRESS
President Has Not Decided
How Many Ships of More
Than 100 Already Autho
rized Will Be Constructed
at This Time, But Will Seek
Authority
Washington, April 25.—(9P)
The new proposal of Japan to
oversee Chinese foreign relations
was on the list of topics President
Koosevelt arranged to discuss to
day with Secretary Hull.
Washington, Apil 25.—(AP)—Presi
dent Roosevelt intends to ask au
thority in a forthcoming supplemental
appropriation bill to start actual naval
construction to bring the United
States fleet up to treaty limits.
This would permit the President to
begin the construction program any
time he sees fit.
Legislation recently enacted autho
rized the building program up to Use
treaty limits.
The appropriation measure, totalling
a little less than $1,500,000,000, will go
forward to Congress as soon as the
revenue bill has been finally framed.
This is the general lump sum re
covery appropriation outlined by the
President in his budget message, and
$500,000,000 of it will be tagged for
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Committee Okays
Bill for Control
Os Stock Market
Washington, April 25.—(AP)—
The House Interstate Commerce
Committee today approved the
Fletcher-Rayburn stock market
control bill.
The committee action was with
out a dissenting vote after a mo
tion to create a committee of five
to adininiste the egulations was
defeated.
Chairman Rayburn, Democrat,
Texas, said he planned to bring
the bill before the House Mon
day.
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DENY SANDERS WILL
QUIT G. O. P. OFFICE
Washington, April 25 (AP)— ,
Reports that Everett Sanders is
preparing to step out as Republi
can national chairmafc because of
ill health were denied today on his
behalf by J. Bennett Gordon, re
search director for the Republi
can National Committee.
Large Sums
Mailed Out
On Tobacco
43,379 Checks for $2,-
626,522 Paid; North
Carolina Gets sl,-
029,000
Washington, April 25 —.(AP) —The
Farm Administration announced to
day it had mailed 46379 checks rep
resenting $2,625,522 in rental and price
equalizing payments to flue-cured to
bacco growers up to April 24.
Os the total checks issued, 32,329
totalling $1,359,975, were in payment
for acreage rentals, and 13,989, total
ling $1,266,546, were price- equalizing
payments.
North Carolina received $703,869 as
■rental payment and -325,561 as price
equalizing payments.
Flue-cured tobacco growers will re
ceived uring 1934 a total of -17,000,000,
of which more than $8,000,000 will ba
paid this spring.