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TWO TAX BOOTLEGGER , AND END FISCAL TROUBLES, M'ADOO Former Secretary of Treasury Suggests Levy on Illegal Incomes in Letter to Senator Walsh. Also Believes Incomes of More than $100,000 Should Bear a Greater Part of Government1* Burden. Washington.?Taxing the bootlegger and drag peddlers to the full ex tent of their incomes was proposed last week by "William G McAdoo, former Democratic Secretary of the Treasury, as one way of ending the government's fiscal troubles. The suggestion was made in a letter to Senator Walsh. Democrat, of Mondatan, who had sought his views on new methods of taxation. Without discussing prohibition, McAdoo wrote if reports were true that bootleggers were making a billion and a half dollars annually it was the government's duty to "take the entire amount of such profits through taxation,'' "It may not be possible,*' he added, "to collect 100 per ceni. of the illegal income, but certainly the wholesalers?the crux of the problem, can be reached, and if they should be driven out of business the small operator or retailer will find it difficult to ply his nefarious trade. "Those who argue the government should not tax unlawful business, fail to realize that if incomes from or permitted to escape taxation, while incomes from lawful operations are not. the criminal is rewarded and the honest man is punished." In the House, meanwhile, Chairman Crisp of the Ways and Means: Committee appealed to the country to supply more taxes and urged Congross to approve a revenue bill to balance the Federal budget. He toid an unusually attentive and demonstrative house that a balanced budget was essentia* to economic recovery and that a $1,241,000,000 in additional revenue was necessary to eliminate the Treasury deficit in 1933. McAdoo in his message to .Senator Walsh, further suggested increasing surtaxes on the larger incomes, especially those above $100,000, but warned that the heavier this tax the "greater the inducement to owners of large incomes to escape it by investing in tax exempt securities." [ Declaring a larger portion of the nation's -war debt had been .paid than should have been justly "apportioned to the present generation," McAdoo suggested meeting the two billion-dollar Treasury deficit by funding 60 per cent, of it in long time obligations and raising the remainder through taxation. He opposed a tax on domestic gasoline. Plant Forest Trees j On Land Not Needed The planting of forest trees as a means of usir.g idle, fields, reclaiming eroded hillsides and beginning a reserve store of future wealth is urged upon farmers of North Carolina by R. W. Grabber, extension forester at State College, who says tree planting is in full swing now over the State. But while Mr. Graeher suggests t.linl fftnnai-o rviirrl.4 i I wugiiv vv? pmai nucs ua their idle fields ami eroded hillsides, he sees a pinto for the city mar. to plant trees also. These men who have definite businesses in town yet own farms which they conduct as a hfl&y ?r perhaps as a place on which to : u'?M a home away from the noise and dust and dirt, should also plant trees, says ?'I i. C?rac'ccr. First, lie iV>t.f the city man build his house, arrange the grounds, designate space for the flower and vegetable gardens, and then plar.t all the remaining land in trees. Such a system will prevent much worry and will leave the city perron with a better bank account after a lapse of from 15 to 20 years. Better still, the land will he taken out of competition with the farmer who must make his livelihood from the soil. There has been a great increase in the planting of forest trees this winter, Mr. Craeber says. He has given a number of field demonstrations to aid landowners in reforesting their waste acres and has forwarded orders for thousands oi seedling trees to the State Forest Nursery, These trees, principally pines of the va -untLica, may ue ootainea Qt j about the cost of packing them for j shipment. Trees suitable for the j mountain sections are somewhat J higher in price, he says. **SPEHT alu THEIR money To get away f rom the farm are wiSHIN* nowtheyhao ENOUGH Tb GET PACKfg/gg/ggSSBBSSBKBi Modern Architecl 5^1 The model building shown a1 East Side. On account of its econo ing a profit for the owners. A grot Juture, is to be taken across the cou Milwaukee. Cincinnati, Toledo, Roc ? Henry Ford to Put Eight |Cylinder Car on Market' iln March; Continues 4'sJ Specifications of the New Model Not, Yet Announced. Will Be Low in \ Price. Much Research at the Dearborn Laboratories. Detroit.?Henry Ford Friday an-; nounced creation of a new eight-cyl- J inder Ford to augment Uie present | model A four-cylinder car, and add-] r>i! tViflt in (inios ennn nc nvovv. 1 ? -J-"-" " ' ^ J one must be willing even ''for a time to do business without profit to start the normal processes of industry and business again," Specification of the new V-S were ! not announced but production starts I next week with the first showing! scheduled early in March. The price j was not disclosed, other than the new < ; model will be low in the price field. | Ford revealed that pians to place i the eight-cylinder car on the market! were delayed for a year due to the] depression. "You know the public has suffered j a lot," Ford said. "We now must take into account the public's pocketbook and while we developed a dandy new i improved model four we found the public wanted something more. That's j why we are now going to bring outi the eight." The new model takes the Ford named product away from the fourcylinder field for the first time since it abandoned the two-cylinder car. '"'Now the public has suffered a lot and has been very patient. It deserves a lot from the manufacturer. From now on the public's pocketbook gits in at every conference." Ford said. "There's something else that should be made very strong. In times like these everyone has id Lake- some risk, n\ake some sacrifice and even be wiiiing for a lime to~do business without profit in order to start the normal processes of industry and business again." The eight-cylinder car is the result of experiment at the Dearborn laboratories. Eights, twelves and even twen ty-four-ey li nder motors have been built, checked and scrapped to make way lor more radical changes n design, certain refinements and perfections. ll.u kVIIVIUUDIItV U1 UIU (l.cotlllliiui is the result of a flood of letters demanding. that the four-eylinder ear he perpetuated. Indian Admits He Stole Huge Sum of Money Lumbertoh, N. C.?Arthur Locklear, Indian, plead guilty m Robeson Superior Court here last week of breaking into the house of Harry { I Watson, colored, near Maxton, and j stealing from a trunk in the house j iii Feuriiary of lasryer.r ^IjpOO which ; [ Watson and his sisters had been saving over a period of years. Locklear, used as State's witness against seven other defendants charged with receiving, stated he had to leave .$100 because he had every penny he was able to carry away from the house. Following the robbery, he told Aug.), h'uilard, another Indian, and gave j him nearly half the amount he had. stolen, then got or. drunks, dividing' the money lavishly until he had no more. 3 I Finally when it appeared that officers were after him, Locklear took a train at the request of other's implicated and set out for Florida. While passing through Georgia, he gave a news butch a ?5 bill for a cool drink, became "fretted" when the butch was slow about returning his change and threw the conductor's brief case out the window while trying to hit the boy. The coiii! uotoi* arrested him and he was serving a term on the roads in that State when the Robeson officers went there for him. LUTHERAN SYNOD ENDS AT ALBEMARLE CHURCH FRIDAY Albemarle, N. C.?The 128th annual session of the North Carolina Lutheran Synod adjourned here Friday after Mount Moriah Church, near China Grove, had been selected a? the next meeting place. The date is to be set later by the executive committee. Rev. V. R. Cromer of Lincolnton was elected fraternal delegate to the South Carolina synod. Plans for placing church finances on a sound basis were discussed at the final session, following a report by J. W. H. Fntchs for the special stewardship committee on apportionments. TIIE WATAUGA DEMOCRAT?EV1 ture Replaces New York 1 i \ femsKastfs. s?. a-^BSjtrssn'.*- 'f bovc is to be erected in the heart of the my of construction, rooms can be rented f ip of models in which the one above is i ntry for exhibition in Philadelphia. Hartf< hester, Worcester and Cambridge. jWili Test Power of Press Col. Frank Knox, publisher of the Chicago Daily News, has been asked by Hoover to start nrnnnMn<1?? - -? -- r- IV wop prosperous citizens from hoarding in order to bring back prosperity. Lincoln Would Have Poor Chance With the Present GOP Chiefs Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania Believes Party Has Strayed from Lofty Ideals of Martyred War President. Springfield, 111.?If Abraham Lincoln were a candidate for President this year on his platform of human rights, -said Governor Gifford Pinchot ot Pennsylvania Thursday night, he wouldn't "'get to first base with the controlling powers of the Republican convention in Chicago." Addressing the Mid Day Club's observance of the 123d anniversary of the Civil War President's birth, the Pennsylvania governor, frequently mentioned in the news as a presidential aspirant, asked: "How many of your national leaders can declare with Lincoln: 'I have never had a reeling; political u: otherwise, that did "not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.' Can Mellon? Can Hoover?" Friday's celebration of Lincoln's birth was characterised by Governor Pinchot as an "empty tribute, a use less gesture, if \vc lose sight of all he worked for and fought for and gave his life to." Governor Pinchot described Lincoln as "essentially a man of the people, not because he was born in a log cabin or spit rails in his youth, hut rather because his thoughts were tne fHpugnts 01 tne people, his desires their desires, and his whole purpose ah'J action were aimed to protect and fur:her the people's welfare. In that spirit he held that the first duty of our government is to guard the people against every group and every interest that might try to take their liberty from them." "As Lincoln understood liberty, the- Pennsylvania executive said, "this nation is net a free nation today." Many New Names Are Added to Democrat List Despite "hard times" the circulation of the Watauga Democrat shows a healthy growth. The county newspaper is considered a necessity Tri most households, and seventy-one brandnew "slugs" were placed in the mailing list the last of the week, carrying the following names: Charlotte Chamber of Commerce, H. L. Coffey, A. D. Blair, Dr. J. C. Farthing, Mrs. O. L. Hardin, F. W. McCracken, J. Wilson Norris, Dr. J. D. Rankin, T. J. Jackson, D. G. Edmisten, Sam Norris, Bart Norris, E. J. Norris, Mrs. D. F. Lookabill, Alfred Adams, D. A. Klutz, Rev. G. S. Buchanan, Mrs. R. O. Banner, Bert Mast, Miss Hattie Vines, R. J. Anderson, R. A. Thomas, I. D, Shull, Clint F?gor=y Mrs. E. A. Adams, A. i5. i^uner, n. l. r-yon, Mrs. Addle B. Little, Frank, Winkler, Mrs. J. N. Davidson, Dr. L. E. Farthing, Mrs. F. P. Moore, E. C. Robbins, G. II. Tatum, A. L. Baird, Miss Gladys Swift. Don Farthing, Dr. Chandler, F. M. Richards, Mrs. Bertha Johnson, L. M. Robbins, Professor R. M. Brown, Hartley Hunt, Mrs. Grace Trexler, A. P. Widenhouse. G. M. Trivett, James H. Bryan, Captain Alfred A. Mordecai, Miss Annie S. Bowie, T. C. King, Rev. Wagner Reese, Miss E. Boogher, H. M. Ashley-' James C. Baird, W. D. Rogers, Joe Mast, Mrs. J. A. Edmisten, Rev. D. M. Wheeler, Lot F. Greene, Dr. L. R. Bingham, J .H. Trivett, A. C. Payne. D. N. Trivett, J. C. Hayes, Miss Louise Coffey, R. H. Sutherland, J. A. Lay, J. Polk Todd, Mrs. Moses H. Cone, I. N. Corpening, Mrs. A. P. Wilder, G. W. Mains. ERY THURSDAY?BOONE, N. C. i ^ renement Buildingo 1 ! u. t V--.^ ' . .. . . slum district in New York's lower or $10.95 a month or even less. Icavr.cluded, showing the homes of the >rd, Los Angeles, Buffalo. Cleveland. * , Mail Flier in the Air Taw TViomsnfl Hours j : Cleveland.?Out at Cleveland air| port they call him the "Magellan i of the air mails." i lie is Warren D. (Bill) Williams, I who has flown more than ten thousand hours, delivering mail for Uncle Sam. Only two other fliers in the world boast a longer sendee record. When he entered the air mail service in 1920, there was no municipal airport at Cleveland, now the largest in the world. There were no lighted airways to guide pilots through fog and storm. There were no emergency landintr fields, no w?*at.hpr r^norfe to warn of approaching storms, no radio-equipped ships. But despite the absence of these agencies of safety, Biil Williams survived the early stages of air mail service. He has experienced the thrill cf a mid-air collision, the sudden crumpling of a wiog, the breath taking moments that follow the tug on the parachute ring. Each time he j escaped disability, although one time, : after a propeller broke in mid-air, ho spent several weeks in a hospital. He was born in Savannah. Ga., served with an army unit during the World War, flew the experimental j mail route between New York and Washington, am] then Was trans; ferred to the Chicago-Cleveland di| vision, llis acute "weather eye" is * respected by all pilots.. PICKLE First girl: I have no confidence in men. t Second girl: But why not, dear? 1 First: Every time I go to a dance with another boy I find my own boy j friend there with another girl.?Tit- 1 Bits. M!!!!!l!!!!!li!ii!!!i!Mii!iif!i!!i! H New 1932 Life I GOODYEAI ?" FoU Price of Each in Orermlee Each Pair* p .29x4.40-21 $3.95 ?3.83 ?: ! zn4iO*2G 4.?"i 4>:i = 30x4.50-21 4.57 4.X3 = 128x4.75-19 5.IX 4-9* = -29x4.75-20 $.20 5.01 \ . 1 rAnfma! I uiiu ai I BO? S Washing, Polishing Gi iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiHfiiiiiiiiiiiiiii Writer and Lawyer Say I They Were Run Out of; Kentucky and Beaten Upj i N'cw York Men Who "Were Carrying Food to Needy Miners, Receive Injuries at Hands of County Officers Near Line. Knoxville, Tenn.?Two members of a group of New York writers who went into the Kentucky coa! fields to distribute food and clothes among , needy miscis came here Friday with bruised heads and stories of floggings and deportation from the town of Pineville, but officials of that com- ( munity discounted their reports. Waldo Frank, New York novelist, , confined to his hotel room here with a bandaged head and suffering from what Dr. E. R. Kemp, of Knoxville, diagnosed as a "lacerated puncture; of the occipital region of the skull.1';! said he and .Aiian Taub, a New York J lnwynr. were slugged with heavy wca- ' pons by unidentified assailants aTil Cumberland Cap, Tehii. The attack1 occurred, they said, just after they, had crossed into Tennessee after being escorted from Fineville by county, officers. But Pineville officials, including. Mayor J. M. Brooks, issued state-; merits, saying the writers left Pine ville of their own free will and that they had no knowledge of the floggings. Taub corroborated Frank's story of Jhe beating. 1 Frank, chairman of the group oi writers who took three truck loads of food to Pineville, said the party! was ordered from a hotel there near!midnight and was taken in an automobile to Cumberland Gap, where I all lights were turned out. Frank alleged he and Taub. attorney for the International Labor defense, st^pp^d from their car and immediately were struck with heavy instruments by members of the escorting party. Their injuries were not considered serious. Mayor Brooks said the only trouble he had heard of "was that, some members of the party had some difficulty among themselves." TEN PRISONERS TRANSFERRED FROM MOUNTAIN CITY JAIL Elizabeth ton, Tenn.?Due to the nver-crowded conditions in the Johnson County jail at Mountain City, I en prisoners already under sentence and awaiting transfer to the State penitentiary, have been brought, to the Carter Bounty jail hero for safekeeping. The prisoners were trJed ;..t the j last session of circuit court and have! been confined in the Johnson County jail since that time. HliSiiS B 28s Why Not buy a Set? 29* S|g32 c 29x1.10-21 1 $3.95 $3.83 Each Each in Pairs B9HUSHL time Guaranteed I SPEEDWAY Fall Price of Each in Ortrsfxe Each Pairs v 129x5.00-19 $5.39 $5.23 1 I ">a-r ftft.on f ae c ta J WMNW ' 7?"V4T t 31x5.00-21 5.72 5.56 J 31x5.25-21 6.63 6.43 | 30x3Vi 3.37 3.46 ] ! Ti?A r A? 1 1111: LUI A. E. Hodges, Manager NE AND BLOWING RO reasing, Battery Service, S lllllllllllllllllllllilllllllllllllllillDIIIIIIIIIIII FEBRUARY 18. 1932 FORMER MILLIONAIRE HELD FOR WORTHLESS CHECK Xeu York.?Tall and uisting-uished in appearance, Joseph H. Hoadley, who once juggled millions in Wall Street, was convicted Friday of passing a bad check for $),037. The hearing disclosed that Hoadiey, now tiv, had borrowed petty sums from a restaurant proprietor, Angeio Pizzi. for room and board. Pizzi brought the Charges. It was testified Hoatlic-y asked Pizzi to hold the check, saying he was loir.g ;> .Montreal collect $100.. 000. The former millionaire said he still would repay tne amount, it *;!%&r? time. Beginning as a mechanic's apprentice in San Francisco years ago, he had a spectacular rise, organised traction and transit companies, and dealt in cotton. PASTIM E THEATRE "Flase of Good Shows" Friday and Saturday, February 19-20 \ % TOM TYLER ?IN? "God's Country and the Man" 'dnday and Tuesday, February 22-23 Louise Dresser and William Collier Jr. IN "Stepping Sisters" Wcdnes. and Thursday, Feb. 24*25 Helen Twelvetrees and Ricardo Cortez IN "BAD COMPANY" ADMISSION 10c and 25c Westerm^^FJectric SOUND SYSTEM Lifetime Guaranteed EE GOODYEAR PATHFINDER 1 Full I Price of Keeli in == Oversize Each Pairs ? [4.40-21 $4.79 $4.6$ j= .1.50-20 S.J5 5.i9 [4.50-21 5.45 5.Z7 = 4.75-19 6.55 6.16 = 5.00-19 6.65 6.45 = 5.25-21 S.1S 7.-1 == 550-19 8.46 8.Z5 EE UNEIN J <5. Sat. Itwlvoor PlVloKI-n-PA?*Ji ?? J. B. G. Radio Programs ~ TRADE IN 1 Cld t??AW *?_ ? a? 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