vol. tw^oty-thkbe , kakmville, Pn-r C0UNTY- N0RTH CAJt0LWA' F ? JANtMRY 2C' 1933 1 X"'""R TnlRTY-SEVEN' ' ' _ Washington Sees Grave Prospects in Far East .??.y?:Tr ? Fighting South of Great Wall Would Involve Foreign Interests Washington, D. C* Jan. 17.?The possibility that fighting between Japan and China in the Jehol region may spread south of the Great Wall of China and involve extensive for eign interests is causing increasing uneasiness in Washington official circles. The administration is standing on its announced policy, to which Presi dent-elect Roosevelt said today he would adhere, of upholding the sanc tity of all treaties, and no new ap proaches to the troubles in Man churia are likely at the present time. But a spread of the hostilities into Tientsin and Peining areas would bring new worries, and military de velopments in the Orient are being watched with more concern than the Japanese occupation of Jehol. Below the Great Wall in this ter ritory lie Great British coal and rail way interests, and any military movements into the sector almost certainly would involve Tientsin, the only important port in North China. JAPANESE AGAIN TAKE SHOT AT UNITED STATES Tokyo, Jan. 17.?Cable dispatches attributing a renewed anti-Japanese atmosphere at Geneva to American influence were prominently displayed by Japanese newspapers today. The dispatches mentioned in this connection the activities of the American embassies in London and Paris. Japanese officials said news from Geneva indicated that the League of Nations, considering efforts to con ciliate Japan and China to be futile, would proceed to frame a report in accordance with Paragraph 4, Article! 15, of the league covenant. The nature of this report, they as serted, will determine whether Japan will quit the league. The paragraph In question provides for recommen dations of league action. From the Manchurian front came news that Monday and Sunday Jap ? anese airmen bombed Chinese troops in the Kailu district of northeastern ; Jehol province. The bombings, plus "internal dis cords," are breaking up the numer ous Chinese volunteers concentrated in that section of Johel, Japanese military leaders said. They asserted the expected attack by the Chinese on the city of Tungliao, in Man churia, about 60 miles east of Kailu, probably would not eventuate. The war office issued a statement saying that alarmist reports to the effect that China in preparing for large scale warfare against Japan are propaganda. The purpose, the state ment continued, is to scare Western [ powers into the belief that a world war will result unless something is done to stop the Sino-Japanese con flict The war office warned the Chinese J that any such propaganda activities amounted to playing with loaded 1 guns?that they might actually pro jdnee a war, in which?case, in the yiew of Japan, the full responsibility would be on China's shoulders. i SnaFwiiT Speak Monday Congressman To Speak At Noon Recess of Su ? n l penor uiuri ?? Grecnrflie, Jan. 18.?Forme* Con gressman John H. Small of Wash ington* D, C., will speak at the courthouse hen Monday at the noon boor in behalf of "Some Important Political and industrial Issues." it was announced here today. The speaking will take place at the noon recess of superior court and was expected to be largely attended by reason of the prominence of the former Congressman who has long been in the national limelight. Mr. "mell now a member of a law Greenville. H* represented this dis j^t>Con^sa fo^many years^ 1 'v iinlK vA?isHn(T in avatvi I m ?;w'w ju SyHi j ^ ?? - va- 4. ?- ? I vi?PiP^W^Mr,can We* Boose Passes Seed l oan Bill ? s * Measure Providing Farm Loans Passed Under Suspension Of Rules Washington, Jan. 17.?Under sus pension of the rules the House of Representatives yest^jday passed the Seed Loan bill for crop produc tion during the year of 1933. Repub lican Leader Snell and other Re publicans vigorously fought the measure, but its friends were able to muster the. two-thirds vote by which it was necessary to pass it No amendments could be offered. Representative Warren of North Carolina, asked unanimous consent to offer an amendment to make the loans applicable to local farm or ganizations, and Representative La Guardia tried to get the interest rate fixed at 3 per cent but a single objection on the part of Clarke of New York blocked same. Representative Lindsay Warren who introduced the seed loan meas ure on the first day ?f the session took part in the debate and replied to Snell of New York and Stafford of Wisconsin. Mr. Warren told the House tha the measure was vital and absolutely necessary and 'its failure would mean disaster. He said that the new regional agricultural credit corporations were almost worthless under the rules prescribed by the Reconstruction Finance Corp oration, and that no average farmer could secure loans from them on account of the security demanded. He also read to the House the high rate of re-payments from the South ern states. The bill now goes to con ference and it* is "hoped that it will reach the President in a week. The Department of Agriculture will ad minister the loans as formerly. They're publishing a magazine in New York entitled, "Strange Suicides." o :l Area Conference Well Attended ? . . : \ Wahington, Jan, 17. ? Senator ? Smith, Democrat, South Carolina, said today President-elect Roosevelt 1 told the domestic allotment farm re- * lief bill to bs confined to wheat and ? cotton. "He was not familiar with the de- f tails of the bill as it passed the house ' but he did insist, Smith told newspa- j permen, that dairy products, pea- . huts, etc., be eliminated from the bill, in short, all but wheat and cotton.' . Smith added the President-elect _ told him he would approve any modi fication of the plan to cover cotton j that the "cotton people" might agree f upon. v Smith said he had outlined to Mr. ^ Roosevelt a plan of his own under t which the regional agricultural cot ton credit corporation when asked by ^ cotton producers for loans to finance this year's crop they would loan them ^ the money and would buy off the ^ market the amount of cotton he in- r tended to produce. Thus he Contended - the present ^ surplus would be reduced and result in increased price of cotton so the ^ farmer the year later could repay j( the loan and make money on his cr?P- ?:'I t Philippines j Cheerful Over ! IndHwidmcf! b ? a Students Of University * at Manila Make Whoo-" pee at Campus ... _____ / . a Manila, Jan. 18.?Students of the c University of the Philippines cele- tl bra ted the congressional independ- c ence act today mV :a mass meeting on b the campus while insular legislators e informally discussed whether to ac- r cept or reject the measure. w The student celebration was the first general expression of rejoicing $ by the Philippines over their inde- a pendjra^e. . c There was no demonstration on re- | ceipt of the news that the Senate b had overridden President Hoover's v Y<>^ Manuel Qpenson, president of the t: Philippine sep^te, and opponent of ? the flakes Chitting measpye, made 0 nq cpnupent locally, but told pews- % paper correspondents he was cop- v fident the ipa?*inj| Democratic Cqn- ? gfe^joiild approve an act at least Be yefteyated that immediate in- ? dependence would be preferable, as J the eflopojpic condition of the country without preparation would * be worse than the present, He said he-would sail from Manila J Harch U by the way of Europe, afr f his R after tba trip/ & f Ferguson, *3?rred by a Senafb t impeachment court from ever again r holding a stake office of trust, after c lis removal from the governorship :, in 1927. ' ^ ^ fiTiinii4-' liHtihimHrv dfittftrtmpnfe M** Miiisii i . W House Votes Down Bill To1 Drop T Penalties Reverses Itself _ After Members Confer With Local Authorities Raleigh, Jan. 18.?Coming up for i vote in the House at the same time bounty Commissioners from all over ;he State were in special session here, lie Bowie-Murphy-Flanagan bill to ibolish penalties on current taxes vent down to defeat yesterday. The rote was 54 to 62, The defeat marked a reversal of tentiment in the House, for Monday light it had overridden its finance ommittee and voted, 62 to 47, to emoVe the bill from the unfavor ible calendar. Opponents brought in adjurnraent immediately after he bill was restored to tbe favor ible calendar, and fruits of their abors in the enterim were apparent n the defeat of the bill yesterday. The measure, which would have re-1 coved the penalty accruing on un-! iaid 1932 taxes from February 1, was I ffeetlvulv removed from the I-ecis- I ative picture for the time being, as ollowing its defeat it was "clinched" ipon motion of Turner of Guilford o reconsider the vote and to table he motion, It now would require . two-thjrda majority to bring it iack, but Representative Bowie ex iresged confidence that relief would a accorded taxpayers in the future hrough abolition of penalties in the evenue machinery bill. Even opponents of the measure iuded its principle, but directed rguments against changing rules in he midst of the process of tax, col ecting, declaring that its passage rould virtually stop collections un il June when the statutes require hat property be sold for delinquent axes. They pictured closed, para yzed local government, defaulting ub-divisions, a State without credit. Before disposing of the tax pen lty bill, the House received 15 new ills, one of which would relieve mo or car owners and operators of lia ility for injuries to guest pas engers, and another to reduce inter st and fees on tax foreclosures and mit expenditures for advertising ? oreclosures to $2.50 each. t> - nr.., i i jveprcseuuiuve mur pay ur^ueu gainst cutting the pay of committee lerks from $5 to $4 a day, stating 1 riat they were being hard-worked in : apacities requiring considerable in elligence, but his plea fell on deaf 1 ars, the House passing the bill to : educe pay of Iegilative employees rithout a record vote. The bill reduces pay of chief lerks, now getting $7 a day, to 96, nd other clerks by $1 a day- The hief pageB were cut from $4 a day a $3.50, skilled laborers from $3.50 9 $2. The pay of pages, $2.5Q a day ras not molested. Arguing for the ciits, Representa ive Allen of Gipnvi]le declared that e w^S not "willing to out the pay i f school teachers in my county gat ing $00 a month by 16 per cent, djile wo are paying our clerks $150 month without reducing them.'' "We can't afford to cut other State, mployees gnd not cut the pay of ur own," observed QTfcrry of The bill was sent to the Senate by pedal messenger. 1 Merger Counties ? TIia "JfrmfftA Cnmmtht4i? nn rnuntiesL ?.T" ~r"^TV" ' ities and towns Wednesday votdd a adorable report for a proposing he creation of a commission of five nembera to study possible county onsoHdttions in florid Carolin# ] ; ^ meaqre^rovides t^U^gov^ . a group XJZ wmbor powity iflirors iera o.Wii^rs in. itsnooipu couuty in i p ?;;; ? A PfiG6tnb6f? ? * 'Si'-- Ml? ?X_s " ? Philippine islands Given tadendence Senate Voted To Reject President's Veto By 66 To 26 Votes Washington, Jan. 17. ? Freedom for the Philippines was granted by Congress today, the senate voting to override Mr. Hoover's veto on the bill. A, two-thrids vote was required. The House last Friday voted 274 to 94 to override the veto more than the margin required. The Senate vote on rejecting the veto was ?J> to 26. The vote was five more than the required two,thirds of the 92 mem bers casting ballots. Forty-five Democrats voted with *21 Repub licans and the lone Farmer LaE orist, Shipstead of Minnesota, to override the- President's veto and make the bill a law. Under the new law complete in dependence for the 34 year old American possession will be achiev ed in from ten to thirteen years pro dded the island legislature accepts the act within one year from today. Failure of the island legislature to accept it, and dispatches from Manila have carried strong objections to it from that quarter, would start the whole controversy over again with doubt existing in some capital quar ters that the new Democratic Con gress will get as satisfactory a bill through perhaps for , years. ' The Democratic platform promised im mediate independence. Jn the senate this afternoon Sen ator Carter Glass Democrat Virginia, who has been mentioned as Secre tary of the Treasury in the Roose velt cabinet, said he would not ac cept the position under any circum stances. . Glass servv.-d in that capa city in the Wilson cabinet. Representative McFadden, of Pen nsylvania, again moved in the house to impeach President Hoover and Speaker Garner had the resolution read which was overwhelmingly de feated last December when first -in troduced by the congressman. i Boll Offers Bill For Farm Relief It Authorizes Creation of Loan Fund of One Billion Dollars 1 Washington, D. C., Jan. 17.?Sen- ' ator Hull has introduced a bill ' which he believes will give the best ' aid to agriculture. It authorizes a . bond issue of one billion dollars to ; be loaned to farmers for the follow ing purposes as stated in the bill: ' "To enable them for a period of two years 'from the date of the en- 1 actment of this act (1) to make pay- 1 ment of interest on loans made to ? them and secured oy their mortgages in an- amount equal to the differnce i between the rate of interest agreed upon at the time such mortgage 1 loans were made and 3 per cent per annum, and (2) to secure postpone ment of foreclosures upoii the mort gages securing such loans in each and every instance in which the farm mortgagor is exercising reasonable diligence to meet his accuring in- . terest and installment payments, and (3) to make payment of any delin quent taxes accured against the mortgaged premises and . in arrears more than one vear, less interest and penalties, due the State, county . or municipality. The amount of such j tax loan shall constitute a para- < mount lien on the property of the < taxpayers. Such loans or advances < Bhall be made without interest and on such terms as the Reconstruction : Finance Corporation may prescribe.7' Sends Medicine For Victim Of Sneezing \ Greenville, Jan. 18.?The Green- 'j villc Chamber of Commerce sent a < specially prepared drug yesterday toij ? - ? - ? * ? T ?t l _j.| Daisy Jost, l&-year-oia crnia at , Chippewa Falls, Wis., who is a sneer- , ing victim. I The medicine was prepared by W. 1 Hill Home, local/druggist. It'con- ( taihed drugs that are soothing to the mucus membrane. The child's nose ] and throat have become - irritated , because of the constant sneezing. ] I Dr. William E. Henske, attending ] physician,"was wired to use the , preparation upon its arrival, which ] was sent by special delivery. In ] numerous eases where it has been used immediate results have been ac- i complished which were beneficial to the patient. w:M xb'P'y - iift' WSm - yfaMKrate# i fcredelHarmers using the seed loans i for cash buying last season say they < Roosevelt Plans toMeet i Stimson and Hoover President-elect Will Continue Discussion of Foreign Problems New York, Jan. 18.?Further dis cussion of America's foreign policy between President-elect Rooseyelt and Secretary of State Stimson. will precede the conference of Roosevelt and President Hoover Friday, it was [learned tonight. ? Roosevelt, who will leave here to morrow morning for Washington, was expected to exchange ^views with Stimson immediately upon his ar rival. . It was learned also that it Was a suggestion from the President-elect which led to the invitation from Mr. Hoover to another visit to the White . House. Foends said Roosevelt, at the time of his meeting with Stim son at Hyde Park, informed him of his plans for a stop in Washington, and added that if the President wished to talk with him he would be available. Although Roosevelt insisted his conversations with the President should not be regarded in the light of a conference and that he expected they would be "very general," close associates were of the opinion the Far Eastern crisis precipitated by Japanese invasion of Manchuria and Jehol province would be the prin cipal topic. Strength is lent tliis belief be cause of the seriousness of the situ* tion and the fact Roosevelt's ad ministration will be committed to the Hoover doctrine of non-recognition of puppet governments set* up after violations of the treaty- of Park. Roosevelt would not confirm or deny reports that Norman H. Da\is, chief of the American delegation to the Geneva disarmament confer ence, would "sit in" with him at the White House. Neither would he dis cuss the possibility of Prof. Ray mond I. Moley, his economic adviser, accompanying him, a$ .he did when both men wept over the war debts question. ** He devoted his -final day in New , t ? York City to a . series of informal discussions with callers, who in cluded Herbert C. Pell, former Der" cratic State chairman, and 'Herbert Bayard Swope. "Have you heard tliat the Demo crats in Congress have decided to wait until you call a special session before attempting to balance tRe budget?" he was asked. "Oh, that's just another Washing ton report," he smilingly retorted. "What will you and Mr. Davis talk about on the trip to Washing ton?" he then wa3 asked. "We plan to take up the progress of the disarmament matter," he ex plained, "and perhaps the world economic conference in London." "Will Mr. Davis attend that con ference?" "Why do you ask?" Roosevelt shot back. "Because," his interviewer re marked, "if he is there, then he cannot very well be Secretary of State." The President-elect laughed heart ily and turned to other subjects. Will Charge Jury Monday Asks County Officers To Be Present To Hear The Charge Greenville, Jan. 18.?Judge Henry A.. Grady, of Clinton, who is conduct ing a two-week term of Superior Court in this city, will stress the rivil form of government in his Jiarge to the new six months'grand jury next Monday morning, it was. made known todays ' ?. Judge Grady will speak on the sub ject, "The Meaning of the Civil Form >f Government," and has asked that ill officers of the county be present to hear what he has to say. The judge's charge to the grand jury is always the highlight of a :riminal court session, and especially in view of the fact that juries are :hosen now only every six months, md a tremendous crowd was ex sec ted to be ?resent. Preceding the address, a new six months' grand jury will be chosen. Following the address, court will i>egin delving into the one-week criminal docket, consisting of two murder cases and a charge of crimi nal assault Many other minor diarges sre to be considered, princi pal among them being numerous vio lations of the prohibition law. Court this week is confining its at tention to consideration of civil cases, m'W:IssSSr lege at ten o'clock Friday, Janaur^