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HE WHO HAS NOTHING TO AOYERUSE *#PW"'y T' HAS NOTHING TO SELL f ^TEE ADVHTIBBBS^'^ nj T?? nMTfvnpDTqfi I piw- Tins. emerpbisb ? 1 ?iml ????- ? ' ??''' ? ? r.v HJJj '? '/ " ' ? ' . I ? ? , TOU TWDIt/?IS FAEMVIUE. POT COUNTY, NORTH CABOUNA, fbiday, MABCH 13th, 1931 NUMBER POBTY-PODB ' ; -7- i?prr = G. 0. P. Wffl Not Hold Any Meeting Soon Meeting Delayed Because The Nation Is Suffering From An Overdose Of Politics. Washington, March 11.?James F. Burke, general counsel of the Repub lican national committee, said today j there would be no early meeting of ? the national committee because the j country "is suffering* an overdose \ of politics." c In a formal statement issued short- r ly after Senator Fess of Ohio, chair man of the committee, had said at the t White House plans were being laid ) for intensive work of the organization, ^ Burke said the committee would not c attempt "to usurp the functions of the j national convention in shaping poli- L tical policies." 5 An overdose of politics, he said, is one of the worst maladies that can 1 afflict a nation particularly wften it v is struggling to recover from a?y eco- c nomic disorder and business depres c sion. President Hoover, he said, has been ^ devoting himself to assisting in busi- ^ ness recovery "with an intelligence j and an industry unsurpassed if not un- ^ equalled by any other individual ir t any other government on earth. Never , in the history of the White House has ^ there been such continuous, intelligent ^ devotion to duty." j The country, Burk said, is regain- ^ ing its economic equilibrium and the v time has come when sanity will have more front seats and have more space j on the front page. j "Our conduct," he said, "will be less E critical and more constructive, our news will be less sensational and more substantial. The political atmosphere a will be more amenable and the busi ness atmosphere will be more buoy- . ant" J The national committee, he declared has nothing to do with shaping poli cies or nominating candidates. "The national convention will do that as it has always done during the history of the party." ( MODERN IDEA fc Forward-looking architects, we un derstand, are working out plans for a garage with a home that folds into the door.?Arkansas Gazette. , I . MIGHT AS WELL A Warsaw woman is seeking a di vorce on the grounds that her hus band has eleven sweethearts. She wants to sever relations with the mag- E netic Pole.?Judge. t a Althoukh he is 82 years old, Geo. v A. Wallace, Cleveland, 0.. fire de- I partment member, recency helped to e fight a fire for 4 hours in a blinding P snowstorm with the temperature be- 1 low freezing. s / ? ! *. Few People Hear Butler ; t t 'Fighting Marine' Heard At Ral- f eigh In Rather Tame Lecture; e Talks On Crime. 8 S Raleigh, Mar. 10.?Some 300 people 3 who went to the Hugh Morson High School auditorium hoping to hear d Major General Smedley Darlington s Butler, United States Marine Corps, v "blow off the lid," were disappointed, a They left the auditorium around 10 t o'clock Monday night after listening u to General Butler discourse for some t 45 minutes on crime and Chinaman t General Butler, who is called the s 140-pound dynamo of the Marine Corps, did not mention the names of v Premier Mussolini and A1 Capone, t two men the General has discussed a in the past with the result that a few F complications arose. But he made I veiled references to both without men- ^ tioning the name of either. v The- United. States Government - Publicly apologised to Premier Mus- v solini after Butler in a Philadelphia ' speech declared XI Duce while driving F in Italy ran his car oyer a little girl . and did not stop to *e how badly she was hurt. Butler recently declared A1 Capone should be deported. After declaring in his lecture, the first of his twenty-day Southern lec ture tour, that New York is the head quarters of organized crime in this country and that "nobody can touch that Chicago man, whose same I can- - not mention without having to do gome explaining," General Butler said at the end of his leqture: "I dont be lieve I've said a. thing. F!1 have to apologise for." gis reference to the J Mussolini affair ww tot?n it <?that embarrassing incident." "We will not got ?id of crime un- J tft we and our children stop raising tuft ourselves," General Butler said. "The people themselves?you voters not a police force tu aadstence that can* dean up a townfpa week when Hiree Hindus Are Held In Murder Case .. r Death Of California. Student Takes On Appearance Of An Oriental Mystery. Sacramento, CaL March 11.?Three lindus were held by Solano county luthorrties today as the hunt for the norderers of Sant Ram Pande, 31, Jniversity of California student, took in ramifications of a sinster oriental nystery. . . . ' The State Bureau of Criminal Iden ification, for which Pande gave up lis studies in order that he might pork on the unsolved killings of 13 if his countryman in California in the ast five years, allegedly had been inder surveilande by Hindus in the iacr&mento Valley. Clarence S. Morrill, head of the lureau, said state criminal records " * ? ' * -? rere being guarded oy armea men oc ause of the surVei lance by Hindu haracters. The manner in which Pande met leath, Morrill said, recalled the ac- J ivities of the Thuggees of northern ' ndia, the strange cult which worahip *ed the black goddess Kali and prac iced murder. Pande's headless body fas found trussed to a tractor wheel , a the Sacramento river near Dio fista last week. The head evidently iad been severed by someone with a nowledge of surgery. Decapitation cas a rite of the Kali followers. Udlham Singh, Shajga Singh and Cagahar Singh, fellow countrymen of ^ '(fnde, were arrested at a ranch barn iear Rio Vista last night. In the barn, officers said they found ? i harrow, one side of which was c feighted with a tractor wheel similar s o that found with Pande's body, j Jfficers said they regarded the fact t he other side of the harrow was < riinus a counterbalance weight as sig- j ificant t t 5ccs Advance in ; Realty Values: _____ r t ^ow Is The Time To Invest In c ileal Estate Is The Opinion Of s Guy ESis/Of Detroft " ~ i i t Chapel Hill, March 11.?That the ' >resent is an especially favorable ? ime to invest in real estate and that 2 , rising trend is just ahead is the con- 3 iction of Guy W. Ellis, prominent * )etroit Teal tor, whose talks on real 1 state investments featured today's * ?rogram of the annual Real Estate nstitute which closed a two-day sen- 4 ion at the University, with 14 North 1 Carolina realtors in attendance. The f - - .. i pegfcer said the end of tne napon- * side depression is now in sight Discussing the advantages of real r state investment Ellis pointed out I hat the big estates which have held * ogether and grown from generation 2 o generation are almost exclusively iroperity estates, which are largely 3 xempt from the investment hazards r f stocks and bonds. He reminded his s .udience that neither war nor Wall T Itreet can wipe out land, "the most 1 table investment in the world," v The other principal speaker of to by's program was Paul E- Stark, out- | tanding realtor of Madison, Wis., y rho made two talks on advertising nd selling homes, Giving due credit o newspaper, bill-board and direct nail advertisement, he declared that he best way to sell homes is the open t touse method, which is especially " uitable for used or furnished homes. The institute closed its program ritb the awarding of a gold cup to he real estate jjoard having the best ittendance. The trophy, donated by L E. Dillard, president of the Durham ? lealty Company, was awarded to the J Vilmingtcn delegation by W. A- Eom t "ielle, of Wilson, president of the j ?forth Carolina ? Real Estate Hoard, v rho presided over the sessions, and <ras accepted- by Nelson Mac Roe, ^ ?resident of the Wilmington board, t ?? ??..... . ... i v V Y J- - ' >*' x ? ?' - ?' ' v ? . l" i ' i, t i i . ;i i ? ii ,i.| "Now There Were Two Irishmen?" | John D. Rockefeller, Sr., aged millionaire, regaling women genera Jessie Firth, Mrs. B. B. Brindle, Diana Fishwick and Nona Dixon with, a pet yarn at the Women's South Atlantic Championship matches at Ormond Beach, Fla. ? ' : . J i Printer's Ink as T. B. Treatment Printed Word Plays An Import ant Part In Conquest Of The Disease. Sanatorium, March 11.?A powerful ] illy of the medical profession in the orm of educational propaganda thru j he printed word is playing an in ireasingly important part in the eventual conquest of tuberculosis and ither chronic diseases, according to an irticle entitled "Treating Tuberculos s With Printer's Ink," appearing in he March issue of The Sanatorium >un, official organ of the North Caro ina Sanatorium. Expression of opinion regarding he part played by the various sana orium magazines in all parts of the ountry in the anti-tuberculosis cam laigns .were submitted by the editors if these publications and are publish d in full. "It is through the information fur lished by the sanatorium magazines hat much of the present progress in ombating tuberculosis is made pos dble," wrote Dr, Henry Bo swell, Resident of fee National TdbercuIbB s Association and superintendent of he Mississippi State Sanatorium, vho also maintains a supervisory idltorship of his Institution's raaga ;ine, as quoted in the Sanatorium Sun ymposium. "It is through such papers phich are anxiously read by the pub ic, that real sound public health deals arp put over." From distant Canada comes a let er from J. R. Pyer, editor of The ["raqquillian, the organ of the Tran inille Tuberculosis Society, Tranquil? e, British Columbia, who accorded a ? ' ? a ?i? __e ugn piace 10 me vaiue vi saiiaiunujii ? oagazines in acquainting tSe general | >nblie, and Especially those having uberculosjs and their friends and rel .tives, regarding the disease. "Prom an experience of over eight rears in the type of work which your nagazine is doing," he wrote, "I am atisfied the poany tuberculosis jour tals issued by sanatoria and tubercu osis associations are doing valuable rork in the education of the public." Simmons Will Go to Trenton Home [ones County People Prepare Celebration For Return Of Ex Senator, V* - 11 Trenton, March 11,?Jones County ?eople expect the venerable former lenator Fumifold Simmons to spend nost of his time in their midst, now hat he has retired from public serv ce. They are preparing a rousing welcome for him. The farm -down Trent River way vhich Simmons calls home is one of he best kept In the country. Around t live many of the statesman'* kin, Fhere are hundreds of bis cousin* in ind around this town and Pollocks rille and Maysville. Some of the peo )Ie who will cell on him at the San ation went to school with him, grew ip with him and knew him as an in iustrious youth. Re has hundreds of icquaintancea at New pern and Rin rton, in adjoining counties, and will >e expected to visit both places fee luently. Jones County has pot altogether 'orgiven the State's democracy for urning its hack on Senator Simmons 0 |ast year's primary, after he had flyen a l|fe time to its service, even* f he did forsake Alfred E. Smith hi L928 because hte did not agree with lis anti-prohibition views- there is lothmg Jones County can do about it, loweyer, except to help make things ileasant for its mo*t famous son in he declining years of his life. ^ : If the 'Ln'LM make We irotid^ no Outline Plata to Push Caise of Projtibilion Gigantic Nationwide Organiza tion Promoted By F. Scott Mc Bride In Floiida^ St Petersburg, Flfc March 12.? Plana for a gigantic iiation-wide or ganization to espous4'the cause of prohibition were outlind today before the southern convention of the Anti Saloon League of Anjsrica by Dr. F. Scott McBride, general superintend ent. V He suggested formation of units of prohibition supporter* in townships | and counties throughout the country to assist state organizations, which in turn would correlate their work with the national association. "If we are going to take care of this second campaign against pro hibition," Dr. MdBzide declared, "we must depend largely ,?h what is done pack home m the counties apd town ships in carrying on ft# legislative "plaiF^wT^^pe^^^^organlibd." We cant fight a battle against any army that is organized with an army that is not organized." ? He said there are. ten -more pro hibition advocates in the House and ten more in the Senate today than when the Eighteenth Amendment was voted. "Not only are there more dries in Congress," he added, "but the dry sentiment is even stronger. "Congress has been getting drier every election since prohibition was voted. In 1928 there were more dries elected than at any other tiny?, and ? * ? * ? v? ? J we also eieciep a ary rresiaepc. In 1930, however, the wets h^vo taken an Advantage. Multimillionaires have taken advantage pf dry inactiv ity and have elected some wet sena tors who should have been defeated by dries, "If three dries in each of 80 states were to be defeated by three wets in each of 30 states, the majority in the House woiild be wet, hut we still ' would have enough dry states to keep prohibition in force. Bat whenever the House has a majority of wets there would be mighty little comfort for us, We must not merely ho}a our own, but keep Congress and the state leg islatures dry. "There has never been a time when we need to ketep up the fight like we do today," Gandhi Back Home Again Monster Crowd Greets Nation alist Leader Upon His Arrival At Ahamadadad. Ahmadadud, India, March 11.? After a year's absence Mahatma Gan dhi was back in his own home town today, a conquering hero, Thousands turned out at every sta tion as the train bearing the Nation alist leader aped from'New Delhi, where Gandhi last week woo from Vjceroy Lord Irwin cgnpefshms which Indians largely consider a victory ever the 'British government ! Climaxing the day of ovations! the ( largest crowd of all met the Mahatma at the raftroad atetion opqn Ml ar | rival he** bent upon paying homage. The monster crowd surged toward the tiny 63-year-old sage and for a time it was feared he would be crash ed to death. He was rescued by Nat ionalis. volunteers who bore him aloft to an automobile. ' Gandhi, who was observing his weekly day of silence, made no an-; - swer to the ovations, but tears rolled down his cheeks as thousands knelt And those nea*st .Um scrawter fo* (to Oie Blamed For Dnpft- C? Prison Tragedy State Inspector Wiitley Says System Responsible For Loss Of 11 Lives. t j - r i Baleigh, March 11.?L. G. Whitley, penal inspector lor the' State Board at Charities and Public Welfare, in re porting yesterday to Mrs. W. T. Bost, Commissioner of Public Welfare, on tbe Duplin county prison tragedy which last Saturday morning took the .lives of 11 Negro prisoners, said that he found no evidence of criminal neg ligence on the part of any individual but rather blamed a system which tolerates the incarceration of indivi duals in buildings whidrare not fire proof. The direct cause of the fire he believes to be defective wires, Mr. Whitley was immediately dispatched to the scene of the tragedy on Sat urday and returned again Monday to continue his investigation. "All the evidence indicates that the fire originated from defective wires of the lighting system," according to his report "The fire was first seen in the roof of the kitchen and mess hall. The only fire in that section of the building during the day wan that in the range for the cooks to prepare supper for the prisoners and prison officers. That fire had gone out and the range was cold before the prison ers retired for the evening. There was evidence to show that the disaster might have been averted had the building been fireproof; or, had there even been a guard or watch at night, the fire might have been dis covered before it was too late, Mr. Whitley said. Although there is no State regulation to require a night watdhman at prison camps, it is a common practice at co<untyt dty, and State convict camps to have-a guard stay oh watch at all hours, according to the penal inspector. "Under the new road bill, all camps will be under State control and there will be not only a better type of buildings but uniform regulations for the care and safeguarding of the lives of prisoners," Mr. Whitley said. Mr. Whitley, who works -with the State Board of Charitieg and Rjblic Welfare and the State Beard of Health under a joint arrangement, is charged with inspection of conditions ^a^Utlon an# the trgJhg^t^dMthe deran prison buildings on account of fire hazzards, nor is the State Board of Charities and Public Welfare vest ed with such authority. "North Carolina's need for more rigid requirements for fire-proofing buildings where there are inmates who must be locked in their rooms or cells is seen more clearly than ever since the horror of last Saturday morning," declared Mrs, Bost yester day. . "A fire breaking out in the State's Prison at night, for instance, would find prisoners locked in their cells who could be released only if a guard could get to each cell and turn- the j loclf. "With North Carolina stunned by the awful tragedy which to ah the lives of 11 men serving sentences on the Duplin county roads, and incar cerated in the. stockade, we feel that it is imperative to provide fire-proof quarters for our prisoners. A State should not place a man under lock and key unless it adequately protects him 3gainst fire hazards, for then he is defenseless. He looks to the State as his guardian and we must not fail by allowing another such tragedy to oc cur, "Last year, the holocaust in the Ohio state prison took a toll of 300 lives. We have had our warning. We know the horrow of prison fires. "Out at the State's Prison, which was built in 1869, we have what all will agree is a fine trap. The sub-com mittee which reported, a few weeks ago on North Carolina's prison prob lem said: 'It is admitted that the pres ent central prison is not now adapted to, or can be economically altered into the type of prison plant that meets modern demands. It is unsafe from the standpoint of fire protection; it is costly to heat; it is expensive to operate; it is devoid of proper sani tary facilities; it lacks adequate hos pital facilities; and, in general while possessing imposing appearance, its condition as a central plant is thoroughly uneconomic and it pos sesses the danger of a fire trap.' M ? ... ?? ? ... .. f A DIRTY FLING Under a new form of Soviet cen sorship, Russian novelists will come under the control of various factories. In this country, it ceems, sometimes such control already is being exJerds ed by the cheese factories,?Chicago Daily News. ; v-.:(L ' : > ' Gandhi, attended by the ever faith ful Miss Madeline Slade, daughter of an Ungiidt admiral, rode here in a dilapidated third class coach. 'He car ried a mattress and tin utensils which he had used for preparation of his food, v': ^ ...... ."" ? More than 2,000 women dentists are practicing in the United Static ^ H Gardner Italy ToHefr Moses - j May Be In The Bally Election Probe, However, Says The Governor. Raleigh, March U-r?Gov. 0. Max Gardner is willing, he says, to co operate fully -with the U. S. Senate subcommittee in the proposed investi gation of the Bailey-Pritchard elec tion, but financial and other difficul ties may prove serious handicaps in the inpuiry. " Alter George M. Pritchard, Repub lican, had charged Josiah W. Bailey, Democrat, had won the Senate can test through election fraud and ir regularities, a sub-committee headed by Senator George H. Moses, announc ed it would scrutinize the North Caro lina election. V. Replying to a request for aid in the undertaking, Governor Gardner wrote Senator Moses he was quite ready to co-operate but he v/as not sure it i would be possible 'to send the ballot boxes and other records to Washing ton as he had been asked. Sinco no noticte of a contest or re quest for impounding the ballot boxes was filed within the North Carolina legal limit, Governor Gardner inform ed Senator Moses, he was not pre pared to say whether the ballot boxes were preserved or what had happened to them. The Governor pointed out the State had no funds for copying records and that it would be impossible to send the registration books to Washington because they are the basis for future elections. , 1 . < Think Contest Bad Judgment I ? i Republican Leaders In Washing ton Not Pleased At Action Of Pritchard. Washington, March 11. ? North Carolina Republicans have lost pres tige because of the filing of the Pritchard contest against Senator Bailey. A survey of the field here shows that not a single man of any consequence believes that the action of Mr. Pritchard was started because of any feeling that he had been cheat r^T$ri?tuG* oflfieTonSerBejpeaentJK tive of the Tenth District were glad to have him make the race for the Senate, but they shook their heads when asked if they thought he had a chance to win. The old G. 0. P. leaders, E. C. Dun can, Thomas S. Rollins, Jeter C. Pritchard and others would not have taken that step. Coming, as it did, after the Jonas flare-up, and the fail ure of his confirmation in the Senate, it looks bad, a lack of judgment or worse. Some of the most active Re publican leaders believe it was a great dstake, and that the party will suffer as a result ? ??? ? . ? v _ vv Former itepresentative. jonn n. Small, who has an open mind on such thing's, declared that the Republicans could hot have done anything that would have been more helpful to the Democrats of the State. Members of the sub-committee ap pointed to hear the cpntest are not much interested in it, and are glad Senator Bailey volunteered to co operate with them in bringing out the facts. The success of Mr. Hoover in the Presidential campaign of 1928 in North Carolina, on the issues involved and the reaction there has caused Re publicar leaders here to feel that in stead of advancing the party has lost ' They had hoped to continue recruit ing from the business interests, bank ers, cotton mill men and others who believe in a protective tariff, but they are not so hopeful now. V NOT VERY GREAT ?> . We see in the papers where a site previously used as a night club has been converted into parking space. But then, if sufficiently sheltered, that should not be a very great change.?New Orleans Times-Pica yune. \ I N*m CoitatGtwtr4~~\ ? f CwWl 8 ri Jr. m , coaraHPHnl.fo N. m iy%:/' -. Begin Move r For Control Of Congress f - ? Progressives To Outline Definite Program at Washington; Hope ' To Control Next Congress. ' ? v; :V *' / k > .1 1 ? Washington, March 11.?Progress ? ivee who hope tojiold the mastery of the next Congress looked expectantly t .today to a meeting here tomorrow and next day as their legislative program took a more concise form. Their principals already narrowed down to five general subjects, they knftc. the principal propositions that will be debated under the guidance of five senators. Each of the senators designated to lead a round-table discussion has ad vanced heretofore specific suggestions be contends past administration-con trolled houses arbitrarily killed. These ? '?* ? t Ik ? A proposals, possimy 111 a new iorm out embodying the same principles, un que8tionaIby will come up for consid eration at the meeting.' The export debenture farm relief plan once more had become of poli tical portent Senator Borah, Idaho, Republican, who ardently believes in the debenture plan and sought to lim it the last tariff revision to agricul ture, was chosen to guide one of the five round-table discussions. Senator Cutting, Republican, New Mexico, will head the round-table dis cussion of what Progressives call a return to representative government Too many congressmen, they contend, ' are elected on issues they forget aa soon as they come to Washington, de voting their time to legislation foP special interests. The Senate's most consistent op ponent of what he describes as the "power trust," Senator' Norris, Ne braska Republican, will diiect debate on public utilities. Unemployment insurance and old age pensions will draw the attention of a group headed by the independent Republican from Wisconsis?Senator La Follette. Senator Costign, a Colo rado Democrat and a former member of the Tariff Commission, will be chairman of the group which considers changes in protective rates and their administration. Regardless of what program finally is decided upon, the Progressives are hopeful Of concessions by Democrats or Republicans or both. The support gress if party lines otherwise hold. Chicken Cancer Study Revealed Described As A Sarcoma Which Produces Its Own Preventive Qualities. New York, March 11.?A chicken car.-er which produces its own preven tive has been found at the Rockefel ler Institute of Medical Research. It is described as "some substance or condition inhibiting" cancer activ ity, in an announcement published in Science, official organ of the Ameri can Association for the Advancement of Science. The cancer is called chicken tumor Number One, a sarcoma, attacking connective tissues of the body aad is not a human cancer. The Rockefeller study aims to find clues to the human kind. The "inhibiting" substance was found in an extract of the cancer ma terial, the nature of which was exact ly the opposite of a preventive. This extract increased the production of Spacer. Some of it was put through an ex tremely fine filter, and then injected into rabbits. In these animals it pro duced a serum which had the inhibit ing seffeet on the chickens. The report cites further experi ments showing that the preventive stuff could have come only from the cancer-active substance; that it is in some manner -a? product of the cancer itself. Whatever this substance may be neither the activating nor the inhibit ing principles are visible. Often water containing them remains perfectly clear. The Rockefeller scientists report certainv wave lengths of ultraviolet light can "inactivate" the agent caus ing this land of cancer. The light pos sessing such lethal power differs from the wave lengths of ultraviolet, which kill living bacteria and the viruses and bacteriophage about whose living (fualities there is scientific disagree ment The report says the difference in light is significant, but gives no further explanation. It is signed by Doctors Jamer, B. Murphy, head of the division of bio physics, Q. M. Helmer, Albert Claude and Ernest Strum. WORTH ALL THE REST, : She (after quarrel.)?Everything in the house is mine?money, fur niture, clothes. What did you have ?. ??. _. Husbimd--^ P sh