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Volume VII. THE WAR’S OVER Today’s news tells us that Japan has ordered the war stopped, statin* that she had gained her objective. he Chinese have been driven back from Shanghai and Japan says she has “secured the safety of the inter national settlement.” Hundreds of lives live been lost in the conflict and en ormous property loss has been in curred. The native city of Chapei lies in ruins and many outlying vil lages have also been wrecked in the awful conflict. Japan has gained her “bojective at a tremendous cost of life and money and loss of respect among the other powers. FOURTEEN DIE IN BIG FLOOD Seattle, Wash. Fourteen persons were dead, railroad and motor traffic blocked at many points and numerous | t-w-ns isolated tonight because rains and record warm weather for Febru ary followed close upon a record snowflall in Washington and north Idaho. Fresh snow and earth slides threat ened mountain and hill communities while the flood danger in lowlands was reported by the state highway department the worst in years. At least a score of rivers flowed over their banks, washing away houses and bridges and drowning livestock. All transcontinental trains on lines between Seattle and Spokane have been routed through Vancouver, Wash., because of washouts. Hundreds of residents of flooded areas abandoned their homes. PRIZES FOR POEMS Raleigh.—Dr. A. T. Allen, superin tendent of Public Instruction is offer ing a silver cup for best milk rhyme furnished by any pupil in the graded schools of the state, while Dr. E. C. Brooks, president of State College, is Dfcring a silver cup for the best milk rhyme submitted by any high school pupil of the state. Contestants for these prizes must have their rhymes in the office of the State Board of Health not later than noon, Anri 25th. They must be original and not exceed six lines in length. Come on, school children, and write that cup-winning poem. FOREST FIRES IN NORTH (A KOI,IN A Values amounting to §4,786,225 were destroyed by forest fires in North Carolina during 11*31, the worst season on record, according to a re port issued by the division of for . l rv of the Depart im , o Cei.ser u tion and Development. o. ...e:i covered b, the fires dur ing the year, accroding to the report, was almost equal to the combined arc:; of six counties of average size in North Carolina or. 1,722,36!* acr Conservation officials assert that contrasts between the amount of dt it ruction and the size o*' fires in coun ties having organized warden forces and those without thN form of pro tection prove the value of the State warden system. Os the total forest area of North Carolina aggregating . a estimate of 20,568,000 acres, 7,483,639 acres wer» listed as having protection, and 12 - 523,134 acres as being without organ ized protection. The protected area was in those counties which cooperat ! ed wtih the State in tire control and in areas in which control was carried on with the Cooperation of landown ers. In addition 561,227 acres in North < urolina are Deluded within National Forests under the direction of federal foresters. Unprotected counties suffered ap proximately eight times the amount of loss from fires as those with war den service although their area was not double that of those under pro tection. Total damages in non-co operating counties was §4,248,086; and in protected counties, §538,139. The burned area in cooperating coun ties amounted to 310,591 acres; and in non-cooperating counties. 1,411,778 acres. The proportion of burned areas to tho total forest lands in co operating counties was 4.12 percent; and 11.27 percent in unprotected counties. In Wake county, the area burned was 4981 acres, causing damage esti mated at $8,926.00. On our way to Raleigh this week we saw a heavy smoke from a fire raging on the Neuse river southward. Great care should be used in burning off new ground and pastures so the fire may not get beyond control. Great damage is often done by a little care lessness. £.br Zrbittan ißpcorb MAXWELL SAYS HE (AN SAVE MONEY Elizabethtown. A. J. Maxwell, candidate for the Democratic nomina lion for governor, told the Elizabeth-j town Kiwanis club hej£ Tuesday 1 right that he believed he ‘‘can save the people of North Carolina more tnan 50 percent ol their school book! costs at no additional cost to the state.” “Present prices to patrons are un reasonable,” he said, “and can be ■ greatly reduced, either by mass pur- j chase from publishers or by produc- j ing them in a State printing plant, j with North Carolina labor and with paper produced in North Carolina from pulp wood taken from our North Carolina forests. An addition al 15 per cent can be saved that is now added TT> high purchase cost for distribution, which would necessarily be eliminated by a State rental sys telm. After these immense savings, nearly one-half of the remaining cost ean be saved parents by furnishing books on a rental basis and in this way providing the economies of con tinuous re-use during the usable liie ; of the books. “No other tax paid represents a greater hardship to a majority of the people of North Carolina than does . thi school book tax. To many pai ; ents the cost of school books is heavier than all other taxes cotn . bined. Nowhere else can the power . of the State he more appropriately used than in providing the best school books at the lowest possible I cost to the user.” -News & Observer. Recorder’s Court j The local Recorder’s Court did a I wholesale business at its session on i yesterday. Among the cases decided were ten negroes and one white man. The court held over into a night ses sion to try a man for disposing of mortgaged property. j From Judge Rhodes’ and < lerk J- - • j Whitley’s records we copied the fol , lowing: Robert Pace, who was charged with an affray, bad prayer for judge- j ment continued on payment of costs. Fal. Richardson who was caught on i Sunday not long since near Zebluon making whiskey with his father was sent to the state roads for lour months. Jake, his father, was sent up to help build better roads for the „ame length of time. Dave Baker was charged with an affray, and escaped with prayer for judgement with payment of costs. Oren Ferrell is to#behave himselt for one year or work on the stat ,-oads for 00 days for being drunk and disorderly. Pete McNair will carry a pick and shovel on the streets of Zebulon fm , -0 days for carrying a razor. David. Ferrell got off somewhat lighter lor the same offense, having judgment suspended on payment of costs. Haywood Pace paid the costs on prayer for judgment for an affray. , Lawrence Ray was found not guilty, of malicious injury to real property. Alec Wilson, on prayer for judg ment for being drunk and disorder K-. was taxed with the costs and giv en till the next term of court to J pay same. Charlie Horton was found guilty ol simple assault and Judge Rhodes put j him to work on the streets of Zebu lon for 30 days. WITC H KILLED— -60 NATIVES TO DIE Nairobi. Kenya.—The death sen-, tence was passed on GO natives of tV.- ( Wakamba tribe here for killing an old ] woman they believed to be a witch, j T n other natives under 1G years old: were ordered to be detained during j -Ms majesty’s pleasure. The "witch” was believed to have cast a spell on the wife of one of the accused men, so that she was struck dumb. The husband collected 60 compan- j ions and took the old woman to his hut. where she was ordered to remove tin spell. The supposed witch es c.,ped, but was chased by the men, who in accordance with an ancient Wakamba custom beat her to death with thin sticks. BILL FEI.T^RELIEVED Bo—Hello. Bill, I hear you’ve been siclc Zo Yeh, but when the doctor told me it wasn’t asthma I breathed a b>l easier. \ ADVERTISE IN THE RECORD Zebu lon, Wake County, N. C„ Friday, March 4,193 k. Zehulon Has New City Hall For more than a decade Zebulon has been using a rented hall up-stairs ip the Ferry building for the city court and public meetings, at a cost ol well over S2OO a year. The pres ent depression caused mayor L. L. Massey and the alderman to look around for new sources of revenue Finding none, they then sought means of retrenchment. The municipal light and water plant was installed abort ,18 years ago. When the town sold the light plant was installed abt ut 1H years Light ( ompany it had a SIO,OOO brick building on its hands with no use foi it. Thus it has s' owl through the intervening years as a white elejjfmnt. till the depression reveal ed it as an asset to the town. With the help of carpenters and the ex penditure of less than SIOO the town has converted the building into a convenient and substantial city hall with ample space for court and as sembly room, jail, officers and stor age. The grounds are spacious and the building is situated on that street on which are the post office and some of the best business houses of the town. With a minimum of money and labor the place can be made into one of the most beauti ful and attractive municipal locations in the state. YE FLAPDOODLE Speaking of dumbness personified, take any woman. Why it was only the other day that I gave the wife a kimona and said, “Darlin, I brought this all the way from Panama for you.” “But, dear.” she chimes, “Isn’t that a little far-fetched?” And a friend told me that a former ship matt of mine was collecting antiques, j but 1 already knew that, because I’ve , oen his wife Which reminds me that 1 was in court the other day ! when a pickpocket, case came up. i “Rut.” asked the judge, “Didn’t you I feel the thief’s hand going into your (pocket?” “Yes,” replied the absent | minded plaintiff, “But I thought that ' it was my own.” lt was only yes terday that a friend of mine ups and says to me, “Swashie, old boy, I’ve half a mind to get married.” Upon (which 1 looks at him sorrowfully and Isays. “Mv boy, that is all you need” Still it’s easy to get around pub lishers who only take manuscripts ! from people with well-known names, all ou have to do is to tell them that «bas -beens” are merely “tfiink-they your name is Smith or o’ones And | t people who are thought to be i weres” —Saw a former buddy of mine | in a hospital the other day and think [that he is goi to bo there‘a long •hue. Nope, 1 didn’* see his doctor, 1 saw his nurse —Yep, the Navy’s a , , oat life if you don’t weaken— “ You know,” gushed a lady friend to ~ie the other day, “I only sing to kill time.” “I know,” says I, “Your ■nging would kill anything, and be lieve it or not, she became highly in dignant And the sweet young thing that lives next door to the wife told n e that she was going to see a beauty doctor. “But Madam,” 1 says in my most, professional manner, Y don’t need a beauty doctor, you need a miracle worker” —1 went to a for tune teller the other day and when she took a look at my palm, she cuoghed, and gave me my monev back And then about the neighbor who lives across the street. She has two daughters, one is simply terrible, and the other is terribly simple— Yep, you’d adore our neighbors. One of them, according to himself, lives in a house withdht a flaw, but darned it T can see v hat he uses to walk on— And the | there was the Scotch doctor who was engaged to a girl in our town and when she broke the engagi r ent, he rot only asks for all the . resents that he had given her, hut Iso sent her a bill for forty-eight calls Still 1 never can forget the first meal that the wife cooked for me. “Dearest,” 1 says. “These bis cuits are perfect.” “But. honey, that’s the butter dish you’re eating.” she come back -And then some girls like the tone of their lover’s voice because they think there’s a ring in it—l don’t have the slightets idea what skins are used for making shoes, hut I do know that banana skins make good slip pers Ho-hum. —Observer. i Some people stir their coffee as though they were mixing a cake. Tardy Recognition of good work is MRS. CARTER DIES On Monday night Mrs. J. W. Car t i died at her home in Zebulon. She as 48 years old and leave.- a daugh t. r, Mrs. L. S. G of ' alei h, and one- son, M. C. Garter, of Zebuh i uneral service were conducted < '.Veil e-day iften oon at Pearce .hyli, >. ah she was a me mix !•' her pa > r Bov. J. F. Mitchoner NEWS FROM THE ANIMAI> Mr L. B 'iv or was in the other lay to p ’is eibscription and in - cidentall” cn e u • a bit of news. He informed us that Mr. M. M. Wall wa :l rorn ! we ring a 9x12 smile, tlis f-incv hn’l dog had given birth to twelve of as site puppies as you ever saw. !)<-Dh 't Privette’s Zoo. And it is dead! On a dark night •l Februer it arrived among civili zation. I* ni P'-.-r had not a a daughter recei *’ed‘ that training that a mother might have given her had '•(> not be n snat bed away from her paternal horn- -a young child of the forest. And the father, he was dissipated n”d n-- I ver of home. So v hen the little o n e came into the world, the father was cruel and the mother, knowing the suffering and sadness before his little one, attempt ed to end its miserable life scarce yet begun. Tender hands found it just in time to rescue it from a cruel death. Mr. Cheeves, aided by Mrs. fbeeves, car ried it indoors and gave it the best care a man knows to give. Mrs. Pri vette returned at night and became nurse to the foundling. Wtih a soft cotton bed and sweet milk she tried to hold the little life that had already begun to slip away. At midnight its little life slipped away into that hap py hunting ground where only nni mals are found and where the souls of little bears cuddle up against (he soft, warm furry breast of mothre bear. And so, little Teddy, the bear died. PARTRIDGE FLIES INTO AUTOMOBILE Lumberton. —A partridge that flew into the automobile of T. Dunn, of Jersey City, N. J., near Lumberton Sunday afternoon may cause him to lose his eye. The New Jersey man was going along on the highway when the quail dived through an open win dow and smacked him in the eye, dying as a result of the blow. Mr. Dunn, bringing along dead ■bird, came to Lumberton and is now under the care of a local doctoi. NEW MAGAZINE “THE < AUDI-INAS" Charlotte. —Early in the spring a new magazine will make its appear ance in the Carolinas. It will be sponsored by the Boards ot 1 t ade jand Chambers of Commerce in the two states. It expects a 50,000 dis tribution and will seek to give pub licity to every resource and advan tage offered by North and South Car ! elina. Planting Done At Cemetery Mrs. Pattie Harris, in charge of improvements at our cemetery, is much encouraged at the interest be ing shown in the work and (he prog ress being made. Planting has been begun, and much more is to be done I before long. j Tuesday was donation day for; The response was gratifying. Mrs.. shrubs and trees for the cemetery. Norwood and Mrs. G. S. Williams supervised the planting on Tuesday, land saw to the setting of twenty wa ter oaks and the same number of dogwood -. \n addition to help given by our mayor, Mr. L. L. Massey, and “Chief” Baker, others who have given their services are Mr. Eatman and Mr. G. S. Williams. Mr. Williams help ed plan and lay off the new circular driveway at the back of the cemetery. Besides being a convenience u» driv ing. the new plan adds much to the j appearance of the grounds. V. S. GRAIN EXPORTS Washington—Grain exports last week from the United States amount ed to 1,826,000 bushels against 639,- 000 bushels the previous week and 479,000 bushels during the corres ponding week of last year. THREE CHILDREN BURN TO DEATH Trapped in their one-room home a lir.sk wind tunned flames which wire engulfing the structure, three; gro children, the oldest only four ■ r.- of age, were burned to death -rtly before 3 o’clock yesterday j rnoon at Method, three miles ,1 ..deigh. ei a Mae Williams, oldest of the nr almost reached the door of] ourniog house in an attempt to j .dy to hi forced back and ated with her younger brothers, - and Earl la*e, aged one and respectively. e -.('•.■rs, neighbor of the in hi. family, told the story of ig to Coroner L. M. Waring. ;!l Williams and his wife, par of the children were away from ■i at the time. The mother had V'he house for a few minutes to ■ll for a bucket of water, e was only 200 yards away when ] c fire was discovered. Williams] at work two miles away. j A OMEN JURY TEST 'lmpel Hill. The League of Wo men voters, holding its State meeting today, voted to promote a test ease to determine whether women ve tlie* right to serve on juries in rib Carolina without revision of the Constitution, and appoint a com t-e to study increases and do (Tr iscs in salaries by State depart ments and institutions during the last ar to find if there has been discrim, ifiti against women employers. •rty members, coming from Reicls \ Up, Raleigh, Charlotte, Durham, C eenshoro, Asheville, Goldsboro and Chapel Hill attended. All officers were re-elected and the University Law School and Dr. •i bbe- cs by Dean M. T. Hecke of Christopher Roberts, professor of Economies at Duke University were heard. The officers re-elected today were Miss Elsie Riddick. Raleigh, presi dent; Mrs. 11. F. Seawell, Carthage, first vice-president; Mrs. E. R. [Mosher, Chapel Hill, second vico 'pi esident; Mrs. Mary (). Cowpcr, i Durham, treasurer; Mrs. ('. W. Fil lett, Charlotte , corresponding sec retary, and Mrs. Reverdy M ilh-r Charlotte, recording secretary. ! The decision to appoint a commit tee to study wage scales of women j employes of the State was reached i after a talk by Delia Dixon < arroll. of Raleigh, whose figures, she said ; indicated a basis for reports that there had been discriminations | against women workers. NEW FISHING (1.1 II The Taylor’s mill pon<| has been for a grea( many years a noted tish ing place. Johnnie Hilliard bought tainablc. It has not been fished for the mill sometime ago and has stock ed it with some of the best fish ob nearlv three years and has an abun dant qunatity. Mr. Hilliard has ! about*2o boat ready for the Season membership in the club; may be purchased, or one ean enjoy , day’s fishing for a nominal sum. “IMSHRAG” GOURDS Houston, 'lex. That Rio Grande valley plant with the unimpressive name the “dishrag” gourd may yet turn out to be <>f value to the land holder. Establishment of a plant in the Texas valley is projected to manufac ture “dishrag gourd” products, de scribed as shoe insoles, bath mats, 'summer bats and, yes, dishrag*. 4 'PI- vocrnio «.» 22 ’ n tYYIH DUH'dI- i»' • ’ ,v Atlantic and the sinking of a New York fishing << hooner in Nantucket sound today wore added to the pages of the adventures of sea faring men. The unfortunate fishing schooner 'was the George W. F.lzev, .Tr., which I was in collision with the coast guard cutter Acushnet off Cross Rip light ship i aight as the- cuttc r was pro ceeding to sea and the schooner re turning to port. No lives were lost in either mishap, and as far as could ho learned, no iniuric- were suffered. ENGAGEMENTANNOUNCED Miss Laura Estelle Williams of Richmond, Va„ only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wiley H. Williams of Zebu lon. to Mr. Walter Timothy Smith of Richmond and Lincolnton, N. C. The wedding to Lake place April in Richmond, Va. Number ‘SB Lindbergh Baby Kidnapped Hopewell, N. J„ March 2. (Wed nesday) Charles Augustus Lind bergh, Jr., 20 months-old *. n of the Living ( olonel, was kidnapped last night from his nuixry in the Lirid bergh country home near here. Police said he . apparently was spirited away in an automobile, which they have not yet identified. An automobile which cont lined two men stopped at least tw i persons prior to the kidnapping and its occu pants and asked directions to the iso lated Lindbergh home. Possibility that a woman figured in the kidnapping develoocd, police aid, whe a minute examination of the grounds around the Lindbergh home revealed feminine fotprints along with those of a man. Within an hmr after Col. Lind bergh himself telephoned the first alarm police quad ears blockaded every Jersey road for miles. They had orders to stop any suspicious persons or cars. Crib Was Empty. The child, clad in a blue sleeping robe, was put to hod at the usual hour, 7:30 p. m. At. about 10 p. m. someone peered inio the nursery. The crib was empty. The Lindbergh baby, probably the most famous infant in the world, is 1 described as a golden haired replica of his famous father. He is chubby with blue eyes and curly hair. He was of about normal stature for his age. had begun to toddle about and was learning to talk. Mem- I bei's of the family stressed the re semblance to bis father. ABANDONED CAR FOUND Hillside. N. J. An abandared sedaa j found near here last night and .answering the description of the car (thought to have been used by the kid - j papers of Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr., i was stolen from Brooklyn yesterday, j police were told this morning. Police towed the car to their ga- I rage, saying they would examine it for fingerprints. It answered the I description of the one whose occu ! pants asked the wav to the l.ind ! I ergh home yesterday. The car belongs to Samuel Man del, of 1519 East Third Street, Brook i lyn. When it was first found au thorities thought thev noticed an j odor like chloroform, but Mandel ex plained he had spilled a bottle of perfume in it last week. The place where the a# to was found was on a mute that might jhave been taken liv the Lindbergh ■ kidnapers. It is on the main Frince | ton-Somerville-New Y’ork highway. 'Mr I. lher b La's Bahv Had ’’ad Cold When Stolen. Hopewell, N. J. The Lindbergh baby, Charles Augustus, Jr., who was kidnapped last night from his crib, was ill with a severe cold, his mother the former Anne Morrow, revealed today. She expressed fear lest the child, (lad only in night clothes, suffer from exposure. Mrs. Lindbergh, striving to main tain her sell control with marked ef fort, told Patrolman Charles E. Wil li mson of the Hopewell police about the child’s illness. She said he has been under treatment for several days. Williamson’s search of the nursery he was the first officer to reach the Lindbergh estate following news of the abduction revealed that no blankets had been taken, lending substance to Mrs. Lindbergh’s fears that the child was taken away im properly clad. The patrolman said also, quite em phatically, that there was no note on the window sill, although State policemen later said such a note was found but refused to divulge its contents. Williamson quoted Col. Lindbergh as saying: “It was very windy outside during the early evening, and the noise of the w-ind could very easily have blanketed strange sounds that at an other time would have been heard. SI.I MP IN TOBACCO EXPORTS Figures just released by the United States Department of Commerce for 1991 show a considerable slump in foreign trade in leaf and manufac tured tobacco.
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