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VOL. 16
SELMA, N. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 1933.
NUMBER 4
New Amendment To
United States Constitution
Uiider New Amendment Just Rati
fied by 36 States the Date of
Presidential Inauguration Is
Changed to Januai’y 20th and
New Congress Will Meet on
January 3 Next I'ollowing Elec
tion.
Washington, Jan. 23.—After 10
years of trying ,and a hundred of
waiting- ,the UnAed States moderniz
ed its political machine today by
eliminating ’ defeated offcials—the
‘ lame ducks”—from government.
A 20th amendment was written
ijito the eon titution declaring that
after this year both the President
and the newly chosen Congress shall
take office in the January follow-
mg November’s election, and that the
old-time short session which for so
long has clogged the polit’eal mach
inery with its ineffectiveness shall be
held no more. The present one i.s
the last.
Thirty-six states of the union
ratified the amendmenta in less than
one-tenth the time it took to con
vince Congress that the country de
manded abolition of this lumbering-
antiquity.
Missouri Is Final State.
Senators Bailey Favors
Resubmission of the
18th Amendment
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Washington, Jan. 19.—Senator Jo-
siah W. Bailey is hard to classify
on the wet-and-diy issue.
Many politicians have been hard
to classify on the liquor question,
but Senator Bailey does not class
ify . with the straddlers, either. De
cidedly to the contrary, he expresses
himself with the utmost boldness.
He is a fundanientalistic southerner,
with nothing- half-way about him.
In fact, he was head of the North
Carolina Anti-Saloon league during
t- period of maximum militancy,
whicli was up to early 1907, when
it came out for statewide prohibi
tion.
Proceedings County
Recorder’s Court
Charred Body Is
Found In Ruins
Missouri completed the ratif’ea-
t-oh, seizing- the distinction of beng
6th approvng state by a wide
awake maneuver. Its house wa.s to
meet at 2 p’clock to act on the
amendment already ratified by tlie
Missouri senate. The Massachusett
house was to do exactly the same
tiling but had the one-hour ad
vantage of being- in the eastern
time zone. iPhe Missouri speaker
rounded up his members for a 10
o’clock morning se-sion and the job
was done in next to no time.
Though actually part of the con
stitution from today on, the amem!-
ment w’ll noj; be proclaimed in
force until the secretary of state
receives the 36th formal record of
state action. By its own terms it
■will- not take effect until October 1 o.
Had it been in force last October,
Frankl’n D. .Roosevelt would be in
the White House today.
Take Office In 2 Months
After^ this year when the people
record their will at the ballot box
in Novdhrber, the men they send to
.Congress will begin to function
■vr’thin two months. Hitherto tli-'
ew repre.sentatives have had to
tw'iddle tlieir thumbs for 13 month.s
—until December of the next year
—while the • country has been given
legislation sponsored, framed and
put through in part by men who
have been specifically repuiliated by
the voters.
Senator George Norris, Nebraska’s
independent -warrior, put the amend
ment through Congress last Marc’n
after a lO-year fi.ght against the
ultra-conservatives who wished to
preserve the antiquated mach’nery.
He hailed the victory today as “a
great step toward placing the con
trol of our government in the hands
of the chosen representatives of the_
American people.”
He' was confident too that h’s
amendment would do away with
bucK 'spectacles as the senate fili
buster of tlie last two weeks, for
filibusters, justified or otherw’se,
thrive on lack of time and from
BOW on Congress will have no set
adjournment day.
It will meet every year on Janu
ary's. The President will take office
every four years on January 20. The
17-day difference is to give Con
gress time to canvass and certify
the election results.
The popularity of the change has
been attested by the ‘ speed with
which states' have acted. Virginia
ratified -without even waiting to get
a copy’ of the proposal. .Seventeen
states had ratified before last sum
mer’s. campaigns. The remaining
ratifications have all come since
legi.slative sessions began again the
first week of 'ths month.
The North Carolina league’s meth-
od.s had been rather peculiar under
t he senator’s management. Paren
thetically, he was not then a sen
ator, but editor of the Biblical Re
corder; as Hs name implies, a re
ligious publication, Bapt.'.st.
■ For one thing, he maintained the
Tarheel league’s independence 'of
any national organization.
North Carol’na still had regular
saloon.s in tho e days, but was be-
ginnihg to experiment with dispen-
.-laries. Editor Bailey’s system was
to get di.pensaries substituted for
saloons wherever he could; then to
.get the d'spen-arie.-i abolished -wher
ever possible. He found that they
had. fewer friends t'nan the saloons
had had, he explains.
All this was a labor of love on
Editor Bailey’s part. He received no
salary. He even had his own travel
ing expenses, i
But in 1907, when the number of
Tarheel saloons had been reduced
to only 168, the league decided, as
previou. ly stated, to go in for
statewide prohibition Thereupon Ed
itor Bailey wished his associates
well—but he resigned, and with’n
three months a paid secretary was
working- to put those remaining 168
saloons out of commission, not by
virtue of mahjority sentiment in
the towns where they were operat
ing, but by mandate of the voter-
elsewhere.
True, Editor Bailey himself voted
,'or statewide prohibition (he ad
mits that the instinct of loyalty is
strong in him, even though lie may
not wholly approve of his own par-
,y's policy), but there Is no mis
taking- his view that communities
i much less than statewide propor
tions should do their voting sepa
rately on such quesetions as the
■>vet-and-dry issue.
Wednesday, January 18th.
State vs. Linwood Beddingjield,
white laborer, for V. P. L. Plea of
guilty as to possession of one quart
of whiskey. Continue prayer for
judgment upon payment of cost and
on further co.ndition that defendant
does not violate any of the criminal
laws of North Carolina during tlie
next two years.
State vs. William M. Hinnant,
colored laborer, for fraud. Not guil
ty, and discharged. No cost to be
paid by county.
State vs. E. H. Ballance, white
barber, aged 34, for removing crops
before paying advances, etc. Gu’.lty
and given 60 days on roads. Sen
tence, to be suspended upon pay
ment of $50 fine and cost. Appeal,
bond $200.00.
State vs. Ben Pollock, alias Ben
Pollard, white laborer, aged 28, for
P, L. Plea of guilty- as to pos
session of 12 pints of whiskey for
puipo.se of sale. Defendant given
4 months on roads. Appeal
State vs. Ruff L. Sanders, colored
laborerjv for V. P. L. Not guiicj' and
di-charged.
State vs. Percy Flowers, white
laborer, for assault with deadly
weapon. Not guilty and discharged.
State vs, Mamie Waddell Turner,
■colored, aged 28, for V. P. L. Plea
of guilty as to po.ssession of whis
key for purpose of sale. Defendant
given 4 months on roads.
State vs. Stephen Murphy, white
farmer, aged 52, for A. D. W.,
Gu lty, and given GO days on road-^,
sentence to be suspended- upon pay
ment of, $10.00 fine and cost. Appeal.
Appeal withdrawn.
State vs. Ed Adams, white fann
er. Defendant in court for non
payment of cost in former jud.g-
ment. Court finds that defendant
has not complied with original
Partly Consumed Body of An
Unknown Man Found In Ruins
of Peoples Warehouse After It
Had Burned to the Ground.
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Beer-Wine Bill Approved
By Senate Judiciary Body
Thus far it seems rea-enable to
catalo.gue Senator Bailey among
the dry’s.
It does not follow, either, that he
is a wet merely because he favors
resubiniss’On of the 18th amend
ment, for there are drys who favor
that . (on the ground that the coun
try is entitled to vote on it, if it
wishes), although they intend to do
their best to prevent the necessai-y
36 states from ratifying -repeal.
However,' no one can possibly ex
amine his record carefully without
arriving at the conclusion that the
North Carolina senator is a repeal-
ist.
And a repealist is a wet, accord
ing to all prohibition reckonings.
BILL TO REGULATE HOURS OF
WOMEN WORKERS IS PASSED
Raleigh, Jan. 23.—The house to
night passed on oral vote a bill in-
Aoduced by Representative Crews,
-^j«f Forsyth, to regulate the hours of
■work of women.
- Under the proposal no woman
» -would be permitted to work more
~ than 10 hours a day nor 55 hours
a week.
It would apply to waitresses, sales
women, textile and factory women
workers, and others.
I have carefully dodged quoting
the senator. He insisted on it. But
he did tell me I might quote liim
as concluding:
“I am try-ing to diminish and if
possible extirpate the ■ evils of
drink.”
And he added (as I interpret it,
I am permitted to quote this also):
“Mind, I do not say I am trying
to extirpate drinking;-! am trying
to extirpate the evils of it.”
Six Men Escape From
State Prison Gamp
Salisbury, Jan. 22.—Officers were
today looking for six Negro men
who escaped from the state cam
several miles south of Salibur^Jrfst
night. One was taken. The miR es
caped by breaking down o^.s^ of
their wood frame prison,:SHIf
judgment and he is sentenced to 90
days on the roads.
State vs. W. P. Stallings, wh’te
farmer, aged 38, for disposing of
crops before paying rents, etc. Guil
ty. Sixty days on roads, to be su.s-
pended upon payment of $20 fine
and cost. Appeal.
State vs. Graham Bass,, white
farmer, a.ged 25, A. D W. Guilty.
Thirty day jail sentence to be su.s-
pended upon , payment of cost.
. State v.s. Cl’fton Cooper, white
laborer, aged 25, A. D, W. Guilty.
Defendant gi-,-en 4 months on roads.
State vs. Clifton Cooper, white
laborer, aged 25, A. D. W. Guilty.
Defendant given 4 months on roa!s.
This- sentence to begin at expira
tion of above sentence.
State vs. A. T. Cooper, wh’te la
borer, aged 52, Y. P. L. Plea of
guilty as to po.ssession of one pint
of whiskey. Continue prayer for
judgment upon payment of cost.
Thursday, Jan. 19th.
State vs. R. D. Lee, white, and
Sallie Lee, white, assault w’th dead
ly weapon. Not guilty.
State, vs. Herbert Kni.ght, white
laborer, aged 36, for being- publicly
dj-unk' and disorderly. Guilty. Con
tinue prayer for- jiulgment upon
payment of cost.
State v.s. Alford 'V^’illuuns, color
ed laborer, aged 32, for carrying
concealed weapon. (Juilty. 60 day
road sentence, to be suspended up
on payment of $50 fine and cost.
Appeal.
State vs. Jim H. Capps, white
farmer, A. D. W. with intent to
kill. Probable cause found and de
fendant is bound to Sup|i’ior Court.
Bond $200.00.
State vs. Ruff L. Sanders, colored
laborer, aged 38; Mamie ]|L Tur
ner, colored, aged 28, forKorn-'ca-
tion and adultery. Both griilty and
each defendant given 8 months in
jail. Sanders -to work on roads and
Turner to work as sheriff sees fit.
Sanders- appeals.
State vs. Flossie Lassiter, colored,
aged 18, for A. D. W. Guilty, and
defendant is given 60 days to be
worked as sheriff sees fit. Sentence
to be suspended upon payment of
cost.
Stete vs. Sudie Mae Sharpe, white
farmer, aged 32, and John D. Ed
wards, white farmer, aged 37, for
fornication and adultery. Both
guilty.'- Sharpe to serve 8 months,
\^rking as sheriff sees fit. Edwards
.^.ven 12 months on roads. Later
judgment as to Sudie Mae Sharpe
su?;gended provided defendant is
gone, from county by 12 o’clock,
Tuesi^', January 24th, 1933. Ed-
rSaJti
Smithfield, Jan. 23.—The Peoples
Tobacco Warehouse, one of the lar
gest in this section, was burned to
the ground early Saturday morning
in the b’ggest fire this city has ex
perienced since the Banner Ware
house burned last year.
The charred body of an unknown
man was found about 2 o’clock Sat
urday afternoon in the debris, with
arms and legs burned off. The body
was found face downward when
firemen were throwing water upon
the smouldering ruins. A belt
buckle, some buttons, a burned neck
tie, and the charred remains of a
sh'i't collar found near the body
failed to offer any means of estab
lishing his identity.
The body was found in the ashes
of what had been an office of the
warehouse. It was supposed that it
was a negro named Marvin Coley,
or “Texaco” as he was better-
known, of Princeton. Coley was a
former employee of the warehouse
and was known to have been fre
quently sleeping there, not having
any other place to sleep. An auto
mobile crank was found near him
and this strengthens the theory
that it was he, because it was stat
ed that he slept with a crank near
him for protection.
He w,as last seen at John Jones’
Cafe on Market street about 11:30
Friday night and since then he has
been missmg.
' The body was buried by the J.
D. Underwood Undertaking Co.,
Sunday, in the negro cemetery
here.
A horse belonging to L. G. Pat
terson and occupying a corner sta
ble in the warehouse was also burn
ed. Besides the horse, Mr. Patter-
-son lost hi.s automobile, a truck and
trailer, a wagon, and about 40 cords
of firewood, all of which were .stor
ed in the warehouse. He had no in-
■surance on any of the.-e.
The Glass-Staples Tobacco Co.,
of this city, owners of the, build
ing, lost a truck which was store I
there, and an automobile belonging
to ,T. N. Cobb, former employee of
the warehouse, was also burned. The
value of the building has been esU-
mated at $18,000.00. They only
had $8,000.00 insurance on the
property. A larger policy was said
to have been recently dropped.
L. G. Patterson and F. L. Skin
ner operated the warehouse la.st
■sea.son and they are reported to
have had $1500.00 insurance on their
2400 baskets, their floor trucks and
other property, including some
scrap tobacco.
The warehouse covered approxi
mately one-sixth of the city block,
fronting on Fifth street. This was
the third major fire on that block
in the past several years, the oth
ers being the Center Brick Ware
house and the T. S. Ragsdale 'To
bacco company’s redrying plant.
The fire was discovered shortly
after midnight Saturday morning
and by that time it had gained
considerable headway. The nig-ht
watchman gave the alan-n and by
the time the fire trucks arrived, the
whole interior was ablaze, so rapid
ly did it spread. The Selma Fire
Department was called and they
sent a truck. Together the fire com
panies fought the blaze, but the
fire had gained so much headway
that they could do little except pre
vent the spread of the flame-. They
succeeded, however, in saving sev
eral colored houses around the
warehouse by thro-wing streams of
water upon them. Even at that, two
houses that were nearest the ware
house, were very badly burned.
Ask For Delay
On Mortgages
House Resolution Calls On Gover
nors To Halt Foreclosures.
Attempt to Limit Alcoholic Content
to 2 Per Cent Is Rejected; Com
mittee Adopts Amendment to Pro
hibit Sale to Children.
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Wasliington, Jan. 23.—With
House moving- toward early con-
■sideration of bankruptcy legislation,
a re.solution was introduced today
calling upon governors to delay
farm mortgage foreclosures - until
Congress can act on i-emedial mea
sures .
The measure was put up by Rep-
resentative^ Kleberg (D., Tex.). It
asked governors to issue proclama
tions asking district judges to with-
hoUf action in farm mortgage cases
until Congre.ss acts.
Speaker Garner said today tlie
LaCuradia-McKeown bankruptcy .bill
would probably be taken by the
House for con.sideration at an early
date. A report on the bill was being
drafted by Chairman Sumners of the
judic’ary committee which approved
the legislation la.st week. The mea
sure i.s designed to furnish relief
both to hard pressed farmers and
busness men.
Washington, Jan. 23.—The Collier-
Bla’ne 3.05 per cent beer and wine
bill wa.s formally reported to the
Senate today its judiciary committee
and sent immediately to the fin
ance committee for study of its
taxation provisions.
Walter Lee Is Shot
To Death by Negro
Clinton, Jan. 22.—Walter Lee, well
known Samp.-on county farmer, wa.s
shot and instantly killed by Richard
Allen ,negro, at the home of Allen
in Mingo township about 11:30
o’clock last night.
Allen went to the home of Frank
Blackman, justice of the peace ,im
mediately after shoot’ng and sur
rendered. He i.s now in the county
jail here and will be given a pre
liminary hearing ne.xt Tuesday. Al
len.. state that he. -was awakonod
by his dogs bark’n,g. That he took
his gun and went to the back door,
opened it and fired the gun without
looking- out. When the gun fired
he heard something fall and went
out to inye.stigate, he .=a’d. The body
of the victim wah about five feet
from the door steps with the back
of the head blown away.
Lee was about 25 years -old and
IS survived by his widow and two
chUdren. Allen also is about 25 and
married.
Miss Elizabeth Kellv
Is Dead At Franklin
Prominent Figure in
Life of State For a
Years.
Educational
Number of
Washington, Jan. 231—The Collier-
Blaine bill to leagilize 3.05 per cqnt
beer and wine won the approval to
day of the Senate Judiciary Com
mittee after an atempt to l-mit the
alcoholic content to 2 per cent was
rejected.
The committee adopted an amend
ment to prohibit sale of the 3.05 per
cent beverages to children, or mo
tion of Senator Borah (R., Idaho.)
The Volstead law modification pro-
po:fal now goes to the Senate, but
promptly wUl be referred to the Fi
nance Committee for consideration of
its provision levying a tax of $5 a
barrel.
The move to cut the alcoholic con
tent permitted by the bill was made
by Senator Bratton, New Mex-'co,
Democrat, but was rejected by the
committee 8 to 6.
An amendm.ent offered by Senator
Dill (D , Wash.), to prohibit adver
tising the beverage in dry states was
adopted.
The vote to report out the bill
favoi-able was said by Senator Rob-
mson (R., Ind.), to have been 8 to 6.
The committee’s vote -was reached
in an executive session, of less than
an hour and a half.
With strong Democratic, .support df
the bill, leaders have predicted that •
it w’ll reach a vote in the Senate
this- -sesskm. it already has passed
the House in ^ffment form, provid-
fng for 3.2 per cent lEeerT*'
President Hoover, according to h’s
friends on Capitol Hill, is prepared
however, to veto the bill.
He ha.s not expressed, his views
publ’.cly.
Sponsors of the bill have express
ed confidence that its constitution
ality would be upheld.
Instead' of attempting to define
what con-titutes an intoxicating bev
erage, it merely confines the penal
ties of the Volstead law to wine and
beer of more than 3.05 per cent by
weight. This is 3.8 by volume.
The 3.05 per cent I’mitation is bas
ed on an official British commis
sion’s report that beer of that con
tent is non-mtoxicating.
Franklin, Jan. 22.—Miss Elizabeth
Kelly ,of Franklin, a leader in
educational work ’n North Carolhia,
died at 11 o’clock tonight at her
home here.
She was a past, president of the
State Teacher’s Association, a mem
ber of the State Board of Equaliza
tion, chairman of the Macon county
Red Cross and assistant county
school supervisor of Johnston coun
ty-
Funeral sei-vices will be conducted
at 11 o’clock Tuesday morning hero.
Miss Kelly i.s survived by her moth
er, Mrs. Eliza Kelly and two sisters,
Mrs. Octa Kelly Greenwood and
Mrs. Lassie Kelly Cunningham.
NOT ALTOGETHER FAIR
Some days ago the mayor of
Rocky Mount ' proudly announced
that within three years it would
probably |)e unnecessary to levy any
wafd»i»appeals.
Dividend of 7 P«ii* Gent
Declared by Railroad
Miss Kelly was the most widely
known woman in the field of public
education in North Carolina. She
was the only woman to serve a.s a
member of the State Board of
Equalization, sitting upon that body
from its organizaton. until about two
years ago, when ill health forced her
retirement.
A native of Macon County, she
was 52 years of age at the time
her death.
taxes whatever in his city. Profits
from city owned electric and gas
plants will be sufficient to take care
of the city’s running expenses. This
in effect means that electreity and-
gas consumers will have the whole
burden on their shoulders while the.
rest of the cit’zenship goes free of
taxation. It seems to .us that a fair
er way would be to lower rates foe
electricity and gas and continue tor ■
levy taxes in the usual way.—Beau
fort News.
Seen Along The
MAIN DRAG
(BY H. H. L.)
Directors of the North Carolina
Railroad company declared a div-'
idend of 7 per cent at'their annu:^!.-
meeting held in Greensboro a f^W
days ago. {.
The dividend is payable 3 1-2 (per
cent February 1st and the remain
der August 1st.
^ice' On the phone—Is that Mr.-
Orlando’s sepond wife?
“No, I’m ,his third; you’ve got the
wrong number!”-
Rastus Jackson ,a thouroughlp
married darky, was one day ap
proached by a life insurance agent.
“Better let me write you a poli.cy,
Rastus,” suggested the agent, diplo
matically.
“No sah,” declared ■ Rastus em
phatically. “Ah ain’t any too safe at
home-as it am!”
BOGUS 50 CENT PIECES ARE
f^SSED IN CABARRUS COUNTY
Concord, Jan. 23.—Bogus 50-cent
pieces, crude replicas of the coin i.«-
sued by the Un’ted States treasury
department, made an appearance in
this county during the week-end,
Ch^ef of Police B. F. Widenhouse
stated this morning.
Three of the counterfeit “hives,”
identical save for date, were accept
ed at an outlying filling stat’on
Saturday night and later turned ov
er to Chief 'Widenhouse. The basic
sub-tance of the metal ’s believed to
be lead, with aluminum filling. The
MAT WALL on his way to the
clerk’s _office~CLAHENCE HARP
ER leaves the M. D. long- enough
to hear Clay Williams, head of the
Reynold.^ Tobacco compr.ny, speak
before the Finance Committee in
Raleigh—STAR says Clay is .some
speaker—DR. VICK is missed from
the, M. D. these days—The doctor
has been on the sick Ikt for sev
eral day.s—DR. HINNANT saw the
Micro boys wallop Four Oaks here
Tuesday n’ght—C. B. was also on
hand to “root” for his team—We
miss DR. MAYERBERG from the
M. D. Hurry up and come back.
coins are much lighter than the doc—DEANS serving “water” to
bona fida issue and their -worthless- basketball girls Tuesday night—
ness is easily detected when they are Cl,EVE HINTON back a§-ain after
viewed in the light.-
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