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■^TENDERSON, gateway to CENTRAL CAROLINA. NINETEENTH YEAR China Will Accept Withdrawal Plans, Bat Japs Decline Resolution Prepared by Lea gue of Nation* Commit, tee 1* Agreed to at Nanking JAPAN OBJECTS TO «. j MIXED COMMITTEE I i Opposes Fixing of Date For Withdrawal of Troop* From Shanghai; Japanese Budget for Year Call* For Increase for |ts Military Operation* N-tukins. April 20. 'AP> China },, tn accept Ihe draft re _,,lntt..n <•!! withdrawal of troops from (As .'h.»ns;h.»i area prepared by the ~f Nations committee of 19. „ f,. r ri2ii office spokesman announced twl.iV p, vv \V Yen. China's represen ,.,(ivo oti 'he league Council, has K ti tiv-M acted accordingly. 4 \l*\\ VA 11.1. NOT AGRCK TO KI.MU.I TION. IT IS STATKD T»livii April 2" iAP» It was! s'col "i good authority today that i J,;un will rvt agree to the draft re-j „,;uof the League of Nations ! committee of 19 dealing with the Ni.>la(‘«n?>e dispute, and will ob yr, m any provision for permitting a mive>l rommittee to fix the date of wi*Mt»wal of Japanese troops from *»lvu jtui Th* wvr office t«>day fixed 205.000.- •»» \cr. a* the amount of the supple mentin' military estimates the gov einmen’ intends to introduce at the -[m-cm! region of the diet which will rumen* .Way 23- The estimates are to cum thf cost of military operations in Vviirhuna and at Shanghai from June 1. 1932. to March 31. 1933- Bi<; Closed Bank In South Carolina To Pay 18 Percnt. OvuKton. H. C. April 20. <AP> - A cmM)li'!ated bank examiner’s re tt-ri filed in Federal court here to tl: \ rdimates the closed 44-branch i'fv|ii»s stale Bank of South Carolina *•11 [>■»> unsecured creditors and de p-ifur* a return of 18.4 percent. Th* examiners place the amount <lu* unsecured creditors and de- P«'Mbits as of January 29. shortly after the bank closed, at $10,924,891- "8 They estimated the net total left f-r return at $2,011.46*16 Application of the usual rules, the rM»>i! -aid, "shows a return to un sc'-,iitw| creditor* and depositors of 18.1 percent." DIVORCEEIs BEATEN TO DEATH IN HOUSE Cleveland. Ohio. April 20. -<APt— -5.1 * Catherine Jones. 28. a divorcee "h.. worked as an investigator for P"\'it ( . detective agencies, was beaten H|, f kicked to death today in the hutlwav «,f an East Side apartment. Ihi.u mPn running from the building w,| e halted by patrolmen and later ~f 'hem was identified by two "M'UHants of the japartment house ” * they saw kicking Mr*. Jones. HELL HOLE KING’S AUTO IS RIDDLED Unsuccessful Attempt From Ambu*h~To Kill Monck’* j Corner Man '"tick -. Corner. S. C.. April 20. — ' I '' Amtoisher* riddled the auto rn.’hi te of <; ip nil D McKnight. the * v, n>: iif he|| hole swamp,” with bul -1.1, early today In an unsuccessful to kill him "nly one bullet struck McKnight, " merely grazed his arm. ■'irk night, his automobile riddled *" h buckshot and rifle buliets. rode Monck* Corner to report the fmhush attempt to officers. l l'‘ said he was on his way from b'- home in Monck's Corner to his s, ‘>ic at Huger, about 16 miles dis- Uiii At Alligator bridge, about half Huger, he said, un armed man ■'•epped j n t 0 road. McKnight said he expected trouble And speeded up hi* car. Just as he did. six other men appeared, he said, and l>egan firing. He left the place at top speed, he aid. only one bullet striking him. It inflicted a flesh wound ip theleftarm. When McKnight reached here, cit uens counted 40 buckshot boles and Hirer r 'He bullet holes In his car. hirteen of the buckshots went thro ugh the door of the car near where be was sitting. The three rifle shots *ent through the wiodsbitld. Until wamt Bally Dispatch ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPE R PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. rsf'S.XllK* Japs “Lone fciagle n wS~ Regarded by his countrymen as the “Lindy” of Japan, Captain Seiji Yoshiwara, who tus come to the United States to prepare for his trans-Pacific flight to Japan, is shown at New York soon after his arrival. Captain Yoshiwara has brought a Cutty Sark flying boat to America and will use it in his attempt next month Japanese newspapers offer a S’2r>,OOQ prize * for the flight. DUKE UNIVERSITY SUIT RULED UPON: Demurrer of University Ob tained In Lower Court Upheld at Raleigh AUTOPSY IS INVOLVED Woman Hekl Not f*roper Party For Suit To damages; Alleged MuU luU«n of Child'* Body dur ing Autopsy Performed Raleigh. April 20. -<AP) Tnt State Supreme Court today handed down 13 opinions, ruling in a Pitt county appeal that physical presence of a person when something Is stolen is not necessary In order to convict of larceny. In the case of C. H. Stephenson and his wife. Minnie Dhu Stephenson, on the appeal from Durham county of the wife from a court order sustain ing a demurrer of Duke University that the feme was not a proper party to & suit for damages for the mutil ation of the body of their child, the court held that the father -ould en ter /suit for damages but not the mother and sustained the demurrer. Stephenson filed suit against Duke for damages occasioned by the mutil ation of the body of his child in an autopsy performed allegedly without his permission, and iater his wife was made a party to the suit. Justice Adams wrote the court’s opinion sustaining the lower court in its ruling that the wife could not sue and said trrat the identical ques tion had never before been decided in this State. NEWDIUWES IN OH MINE AREA Mysterious Explosion Oc cur* and Shot* Fired, But No One Hurt Cadiz. Ohio. April 20. (APl—Fresh disturbances broke out today in the eastern Ohio coal fields, where min ers are on strike in protest against wage reductions. A mysterious explosion shook the village of Jewett, ten miles north of here, about 1 a. m. today, but ap parently did no damage. Sixty miles to south in Noble coun ty, nearly 200 strike sympathizers a few hours later attempted unsuccess fully to prevent 200 non-Btrikers from going to work at the Caldwell mine, near Caldwell. The strikers were dis persed by Sheriff Clayton McKee and six deputies with a machine gun, al though no shots were fired. A group of strikers was reported earlier on the march in Guernsey county, but authorities there were unable to locate them. Six shots were fired mear the Tasa mine, a short distance from Jewett, but National Guardmens at the shaft reported no one was hit. They were unable to discover who did the shoot ing. _ _ . HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 20,1932 Mine Prober 'tv* HHlff - 9 Undaunted by the void reception which has been accorded to other would-be investigators, Helen Hsick, pretty co-ed at the Uni versity of Pittsburgh plans to lead a delegation of Pitt students into Kentucky to investigate mine conditions there. Incensed by the treatment meted out to other student visitors to the troubled regions. Miss Heiek is determined *o give full publicity to prevail ing conditions in the cos) fields; $68,332 REFUND TO REYNOLDSREFUSED Maxwell Acts On Brum mitt’* Advice In Declin. ing to Make Rebate CASE TAKEN TO COURT Claim Havd Upon Interest Paid Rey nolds In IR2X by Federal Gov ernment «.n Over-AsMws nicnU fur Taxes llnll) llUimlfh II ■-«-n fii (ke Sir V% wllrr ffofr* in J, I . JiAHKKIIY IL*la. Kulclgh, Apri,’ 20. Application by the R J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, of Winslou-Salena, for a refund of *fi8.3322R in taxes paid to the State in 1928. has been refused by Commis sioner of Revenue A. J. Maxwell, on the advice of Attorney General Den nis G. Hrummitt, whereupon the to bacco company appealed from Com missioner Maxwell’s decision to the Superior Court in Forsyth county, it ivas announced here today. The application for this refund of ifi8.332.28 was filed in March. 1931. and asks the return of this sum with in terest from March 15, 1928. when it was paid. The application was based upon the interest paid to the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company during the year 1927 by the Federal govern ment on tax refunds made because of over-assessments of income and war profits taxes for the years 1918 to 1926, inclusive. The State of North Carolina held that these refunds re presented income and insisted upon the payment of the State Income tax on these amounts, in 1928, the pay ment amounting to the $68,332.28 In question The Reynolds company maintained that under Section 317 d of the North Carolina Revenue Act, if was entitled to a refund of the tax paid on the toto! amount of the refund It re ceived from the Federal government, since this section of the Revenue Act says that "intrest upon the obliga tions of the United States or its pos session, or the State of North Caro lina or of a political uub-ivision there of' shall not be included as a part (Conti aued on Page Six) 1 Subpoenas Issued For Short Sellers In Stock Exchange Washington, April —(AIM— Subpoena* for a score of traders and broker* whose names appear on the list of short sellers fur nished by the New York Stock Kxchange were issued today by the Senate Banking Committee. The names of those called were not made public, hut they were selected from among the bigger traders on the list of shorts turn ed over to the committee by Richard Whitney, president of the exchange. North Carolina Is Now Healthier Than Ever Before Winston-Salem, April 20,—(AP) —Dr. James M. Parrott, secre tary of the State Board of Health told the North Carolina Medical Society here today That North. Carolina Is healthier than It has ever been. Dr. Parrott’s address featured the final morning of the 79th an nual convention, which will close late today with election of of ficers. MORRISON’S VISIT INTO STATE NOW IS SIGNIFICANT MOVE Many of His Friend* Think Hi* Presence Will Turn Tide Again Defi nitely to Hikn DISCOURAGED BY OPPONENTS GAINS One Theory Is Grist, Bowie and Reynolds Have, Re tarded Each Other as Much a* They Have Morrison, But Latter’s Friend* Are Confident for Him llnllr UUpntvk llurrim, la Ike Sir Waller llatrl. IIV J. P. It ksKKII \l 1,1. Raleigh, April 20,- The return of Senator Cameron Morrison to the State today for three more campaign speeches and for personal contact with both his friends and enemies, is regarded here as being both timely and significant. Timely, because dur ing the past two weeks Morrison’s friends have been getting more and more discouraged and his opponents more and more jubilant, largely be cause of the steady hammering that has been given him by three of his four opponents for the nomination for the Senate. Significant, because many of his friends believe Morrison will be able to turn the tide that lately has been seeming to go against him and again take the lead in the race for the senatorial nomination. Senator |Jorrison will speak to night in Wilmington, Thursday night in Fayetteville and Friday night In I-umberton. In addition to the con tacts resulting from these speeches. Morrison will, of course, hold numer ous conferences with his friends and supporters from all the counties sur rounding those in which he will speak. These conferences and con tacts will undoubtedly go a long way toward building back some of the sections of his fences which his op ponents are said to have torn down during the last tafro*weeks br so. As a result, the Morrison stock has already gone up considerably higher than it has been for at least two weeks and his friends here are much more optimistic. They maintain that the bombardment which Robert R. Reynolds, Frank 1). Grist and Tam C. Bowie have been aiming at Morrison for the past three weeks has been exceedingly noisy and it has caused a lot of smoke. But when this smone has cleared away, it is going to be found that Reynolds. Grist and Bowie have landed as many if not more shots in each other’s territory than in Morrison's and that few of the Morrison supporters have been chang ed or won over as a result of this barrage. A good many of Morrison’s friends also maintain that at no time during the past two or three weeks has the situation been as dark as many have believed or as quite a number have pictured it to Morrison, and main tain that some individuals have been trying to make the situation appear much worse than it has really been, for reasons that are not difficult to figure out. At least, Morrison has decided to come back down here for a few days and give the situation a personal once-over before placing too much credence In the reports that have been sent or taken to him. Despite the losses which Morrison is said to have suffered the past two or three weeks, even his opponents ad mit that he will undoubtedly be high man in the primary, and that the only thing now is the size of his mar gin and who will be In second place. His friends agree, however, that Mor rison has little more than the pos elbiilty of a chance to be nominated In the flret primary and that a second primary will probably be necessary. A few of tbe Reynolds supporters maintain that “Our Bob” has a chance to win the nomination in the first primary, but the majority agree that the best they hope for is to have (Continued on Page Three.) Slayer of Wife’s Mother Is Suicide Wayne*vUle, Aprit Wk—(AIM— Tom Justice, sought for slaying hi* mother-in-law, shot himself to death in Haywood county early to day. Justice killed Mr*. Alice Cook, hi* mother-in-law, at her home in Canton last Friday during a quar rel after going there for hi* wife. A continuous search for him, night and day, had been under way. The hunted man'* body was found in a remote section of the county. He had left several letter*, hut officer* would not reveal their content*. LEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday; not uiOch change In temperature. - New Tariff Drive Starts In Congress, While Bonus Foes Press Their Claims AS ROOSEVELT INVADES NORTHWES I ■Vw i k Jml. jjpr 1 in n Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt is snapped, right, in his private car chatting with Richard E. Dough erty, vice president of the New York Central railroad, upon leav ing Albany for St. Paul to make Sensation Likely In Stocks Inquiry Washington, April 20. (Al*)—lm portant development* in the stock market investigation of the Senate Banking Committee are expelled after hearings are resumed tomor row morning. Within a few days, said Chair man Norbeck, Republican, South Dakota, the committee will develop “something interesting.” At the same time, lie promised that iri due time the entire list of hear traders named In the April 8 records of 24,000 short sales on the New York Stock Exchange would lie made public. STATE APPROVES HARWOOD RESULT Public Endorses Disposition of Cases of Judge And Daughter Unity Dlxpaack Hnrrnn, In Ihr Sir Wnlter Hotel. ItY J. I IIASKKit\ ILL. Raleigh, April 20. —While there were some who at first were Inclined to criticize State and Attorney General Dennis G. Brummitt and his assis tants for having been too severe with Judge John H. Harwood, especially when it was learned that he has been disbarred and sent to the State Pri son, most of this criticism has now disappeared since the facts have be come better known. It is now definitely known that At torney General Brummitt. Assistant Attorney General A- A. F, Seawell and Assistant Attorney General Wat ter D. Siter, who prepared the case for the State against Judge Harwood and his daughter. IjoJa, maintained from the first that when Judge Har wood pleaded guilty to mutilation of the State’s records that he automa tically pleaded guilty to a felony be cause of the circumstances surround ing the crime, despite the fact that Section 4255 defined mutilation of records a misdemeanor. For a subse quent section in the Consolidated Statutes, supported by Supreme Court decisions, stipulates that any crime "done in secret or with intent to de fraud” even though originally defined as a misdemeanor, automatically be comes a felony, and that the felon may be sentenced either to the roads or to the State Prison. Neither Judge Devin nor counsel for Harwood knew of these other statutes at first, but when their attention was called to them by Attorney General Brummitt, agreed with him. As a result both Attorney General Brummitt- and his assistant* as well as Judge Devin were powerless to stay Harwood’s disbarment, ainoe the law requires that any lawyer, con victed of a felony, must be disbarred from further practice of his profes sion. So when Attorney General oo Page PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. one of the keystone speeches to ins campaign for the Democratic pres idential nomination. Much inter est was attached to Roosevelt’s first campaign speech outside of his own state. STORY OF CRUELTY TO CIDIELATED Witness Describes Whipping of Girl By Brooks In Asheville DIED IN A FEW DAYS Little Girl Was ”l'uny and Weak" a*d Was Forced to Wash Clothe* Day Before Her Death lain March 15 Asheville, April 20. ~fAP> A story of Mrs. Margaret Brooks making her eight-year-old foster daughter stand up in the floor while she whipped her for exercise was told today in her trial with her husband, Morris Brooks, for murder as a result of the child’s death The account of the whipping and other cruelty was given by Calvin Cutshaw, brother-in-law of the de fendant, who said he lived in thr house for one week prior to the death of Willie Mae Mashburn, the little girl. Cutshaw testified the girl was "weak and puny” and was forced to wash clothes the day before she dieo last March 15. A coroner’s jury found the child’s death was caused by neglect and cruelty. An examination of the body disclosed tbe girl was suffering be fore death from an advanced lung infection which followed pneumonia. $400,000 Shortage iaiq Is Shown In Audit In Virginia County Richmond, Va., April 20. fAP>- I State Auditor T. Coleman Andrew* today advised Governor Pollard that the total shortage revealed in audios of Arlington county officials amoujit ed to more than $400,000. He asked the governor to re<(uest that a representative of the attrxrney general’s office be sent there tr» take legal steps to protcl the intre'jsts of the commonwealth, the county and others Interested. Decision Likely By Tomorrow On , Mooney’s Pardon San Francisco. April ‘iff. — tAP> —Governor -fames Both, .Jr., ex pect* to mukfe known his decision on the pardon application of Thontaa J. Mowev tomorrow, tie fore leaving for Richmond, Va.. to attend a governor*’ conference. He said he would announce hi* finding* in '.he case of the con victed boiu’jcr of the 191« pre pareduces day parade here “a* soon aa possible after noon.’’ He said: “There are still some matters under investigation.” 6' PAGES , TODAY MVE CENTS COPIQ WESTERNERS ASK ’ HIGHER DUTIES ON LUMBERIMPORTS Like Copper Advocate*, Claim They Are Hard Hit and Need Relief From Foreigner* CASTLE BITTER ON DEMAND FOR BONUS Blamed by Him on "Lot of Self-Appointed Political Leaders ’; Say He Repre sents Veteran* for Reduc ing Cost of Peace; Hinet and Dawes Follow Washington. April 20. (API—A new tariff drive opeivi-d before the Senate Finance Committee today with (he appearance of a group of west erners to lay down thrHr argument In behalf of import taxer on lumber and pulpwood. Like the copper tariff advocater. who appeared ycuierday, they said their Industry waa hard hit and the duties were needed to hold back eign competition ' and retain Jobs for American workmen. Arguments Ryr the levy were pre sented by several 15-minute speaker* who appeared, in the stream of wit nesses that c&mem to oppose the sporting good* and other taxes writ *en into the billion dollar revenue bilL “AYS BOMS DKMAND IS BY SELF APPOINTED LEADERS Washington. April 20. -(AP)—De mand for payment of the two bil lion dollars outstanding on the v«t cians’ certificates were blamed to day by Colonel benjamin Castle, of New York, upon a "lot of self-ap pointed political leadtia.” He made the statement »n a brief hearing by the House Ways and Means Committee, sayierg he repre sented the veterans committee for reducing th ecost of peace. Brigadier-General Frank T. Hines will tell the committee tomorrow of the possible effects to be expected from the payment, and Charles G. Dawes head of th*; Reconstruction Corporation, will Testify Friday in opposition to the payment. Bill To Abolish Oath l?o Crown Is Pasf/ed In Ireland Dublin, Irish Free SLste?*~ 2M.—<AP|—President tannin da \ alera’s, bill to abolish the oalh of alir’x-'.ance to tbe Briti*h crown was p j ssed on first reading with out a division in the Dail today. Th#s had been expected, but a critic ;il vote is looked for when the 'hill comes up for second read ing, next Thursdav. f’rewldent de Valera contend* thfat b\ moving to abolish the oath hi the crown, lie i* carrying out t. mandate from the people who elected him to office. 0. A. R. DENOUNCES DEFENSE PROGRAM Convention Told Economy At Cost of Protection Is Bad Judgment | Washington, April 2<> »APi-»Urg- Ing the Hale and Vinson bill* for navy building before the eontiSneial congress of the Datighieis of the American Revolution. Mr*. Fted C Morgan today pronounced econodry at the cost of protection "a wanton, lack of judgment." Mr*. Morgan, legislative ebafirman of the Daughters, Baid Congretr* was so engrossed In* budget balancing that other measures were delayed or for gotten. She catalogued a long list of measures sponsored by the D. Jv R. that had gotten nowhere. Great, Bri tain and Japan, she said, had bgan building to London treaty stmngtb while the United States Navy was being allowed to “go iuto olwulks cence.” ,