The Oldest Newspaper Published In North Carolina
The Carolina Watchman
"The Watchman Carries a Summary of cAll The TSlgws”
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FOUNDED 1832—100TH YEAR SALISBURY, FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 26, ^ VOL. 100, NO. 4 PRICE 2 CENTS
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Socialists Want Place On N. C. Ballots
soutOubilantas cottonsoars
y
65000 Names
On Petition
Are Required
Signers Sought
In This State
They Must Present Petition With
These Names And Hold State
Convention
Expect Confab To Be Called Within
Next Pew Days To Nominate
Electors
The Socialists in North Carolina
—nobody knows how many there
are, but there are some—want a
change to vote in the Presidential
election in November, and they are
trying to get the names of Socialists
electors put on the official ballot.
As matters stand now, there is no
way for a citizen of North Carolina
to vote for Norman Thomas for Pre
sident. Under the Constitution, votes
are not cast for the candidate himself
says that, in order for a party to have
its electors on the official ballot, a
petition must be signed by 10 per
cent of the total number of voters
in the last previous election.
Ten per cent means 65,000.
This would seem to disfranchise
the people who want to vote for
Thomas, but it appears that there
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Janies J. Corbett, former heavy
: weight champion of the world, now
i 66 years old, turns his interest to the
! ring game again*-'having obtained a
i license (o promote fights in New
York this winter.
McCormick Mansion Closed 1
i. J'%
The windows of the old Mc
Cormick home, 1000 Lake Shore
Drive, Chicago, are closed and dark,
its mistress, Edith Rockefeller Mc
Cormick having closed it to take up
her abode at a hotel. Financial re
verses ; unsatisfactory health and her
family widely scattered are the re
ported causes. Mrs. McCormick i$
the daughter of John D. Rockefeller
Sr.
TRUTHFUL AD
"Well, madame”, said the boarder,
as he was about to leave, "I can
testify that you are onje of the most
honest persons I have ever met.”
"That’s very nice of you,” said the
landlady. "I always try to please.”
"Yes,” he went on, "your honesty
is conspicious on the very front of
your house. Your sign says: 'Board
ers taken in!”
HERE'S HOW
She: "How do the freshmen keep
those, dinky little caps on?”
He: "Vacuum pressure.”
—Ax-l-Dent Ax.
SURPLUS
Teacher: "Where is the capital of
the United States?”
Smart Student: "All over the
world!”
SHE KNEW
Him: "Do you know the secret
of being popular?”
Her: "Yes—But mother 'says I
mustn’t.”
MUCH IMPRESSED
"I’m glad you’re so impressed,
ful that anybody could know as
much about money without having
any of it.”
KISS ’EM; FOOL ’EM
Some girls let a fool kiss them—
others let a kiss fool them.
AMERICAN PLAN
Traveler: "Is the hotel run on the
American plan?”
Clerk: "Yes, anj^ of the bell boys
will supply you with liquor.”
HANDICAPPED
Indignant Passenger: "Can’t you
run any faster than,' this, Conduc
tor?”
Conductor: "Yes, but I’ve got to
stick with my train.”
No! no! NO!!!
Him: "Come on, gimme a kiss.”
Her: "No, no, no!”
Him: "Aw, stop hoarding!”
LIBERAL OFFERING
Minister: "Mr. Brown, I under
stand that you did not make a
contribution to our foreign missions
this morning.”
Brown: "Well, I feel as if I had
already made sufficient contribution
_only last month my missionary
brother was eaten up by cannibals.
HARD OF HEARING
A certain sales manager with a
very loud voice was shouting in his
office one morning, and caused the
manager to ask his secretary: "What
is all the noise about
"Mr. Blank is talking to London,
Sir.”
"Well, why on earth don’t he use
the telephone.
AN ADVERTISER TO THE LAST
"Well,” said the dying business
man, "you better put in a clause a
bout my employees. To each man
who has worked for me 20 years, I
give and bequeath $10,000.
"But,” said the lawyer, "you
havn’t been in business 20 years.
"I know it, man, but it’s good ad
vertising.’’
SAM’S SHIRT
Head Barber: "How is it you nev
er seem to wear a {lean shirt, Sam?^
Porter: "W^ll, you see, mah wife’s
awful busy.”
Head Barber: "What does she, do?
Porter: "She takes in washin’
A BLOWOUT
Engineer: "What do you mean by
flagging the Limited?”
“I’d like to borrow a wrench, I
got to change a tire.”
National Essay Winner
Betty Asm Troy, 16-year-old
school 'girl of Stamford, Conn., was
the national winner of the George
Washington Bicentennial essay con
test in which more than a million
boys and girls competed throughout
the U. S. On her trip to Washing
ton, D.' C., Betty was presented' with
a special gold medal by President
Hoover.
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Wearsfi/K^^an Crown)
Miss Billie Haynie, 19, Detroit, is
old King Neptune’s Queen in the
Great Lakes region—having been fit*
tingly crowned from a bevy of bath
ing beauties for Michigan’s annual
water carnival.
Scientists Make Ready for Sun’s Eclipse, Aug. 31 st.
People living in the New England states will have the opportunity of
seeing a total eclipse of the sun on August 31, weather permitting, the last
that will be visible in the U. S. until 1970. The duration of the eclipse will
vary from 90 seconds to almost 3 minutes at certain favored points. Scien
tists are making great preparations to obtain photographs which may dis
close new scientific wonders. Photo shows Orestes H. Caldwell, president
of the New York Electrical Society, pointing out the path of the eclipse as
described in his radio broadcast a week previous to the event The eclipse
will be seen throughout the U. S. as a partial eclipse with varying degrees
of obscuration. _
Uncle Sam’s Great Olympic Champions
Dominating, the Olympic Games at Los Angeles, Hack Sam’s athletes
shattered world and Olympic records in event after event Here are shown
the super-champions in the track and held events, sons and daughters of
which the nation is proud. Photos show—Left: Ralf Metcalf, Chicago, who
finished second to Eddie Tolan, Detroit right in the 100 and 200 meter
dashes; right (center figure): Mildred "Babe” Didriksoo, Texas, who won
two firsts and world records in the javelin throw and 80-meter haftllcs
for women; Bottom, left: The Olympic Champion (10 events), the
Decathlon: James A. Bausch, Kansas City; right: Bill Cay, Pine Bluff,
Ark., record breaker in the heart-breaking 400-meter dash.
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News Briefs
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HELD FOR ATTACK ON GIRL
Police are bolding W. J. Lawrence
man of some prominence in Raleigh
on a charge of criminally attacking
Miss Lynda Naomi Morgan, young
woman of Cary on the outskirts of
Raleigh.
Miss Morgan is under the care of
a physician and not allowed to come
to trial to give testimony against the
defendant. The police had only one
side of the case. They said the
couple had gone for a ride and that
the assault on the young woman oc
cured in Lawrence’s automobile. Her
condition was said to be serious.
HIGH POINT COLLEGE IS
PLEDGED OVER $50,000
High Point college went beyond
its mark by $1,000 in its drive for a
$50,000 emergency fund drive. An
nouncement of the successful com
pletion of the campaign was made at
a dinner held at the Sheraton hotel.
Reports of pledges with those hereto
fore made amounted to $50,659.
Members of the committee quickly
added enough to make $51,000.
Dr. Gideon I. Humphreys, presi
commission. The funds are the first
used of the $5,700,000 federal
special allotment to the state.
VETERANS OPPOSE HOOVER
The North Carolina veterans com.
mittee of 70 in a report given to the
press by Stanly Wohl, of Greensboro,
secretary, called on "every exservice
man in the United States” to use the
ballot in November "to smash the
national Republican administration
now in power.” The committee of
70, he said, has members in every
county in North Carolina.
CANNON OPPOSES HOOVER
Bishop James Cannon, Jr., who
helped carry southern states for
President Hoover in 1928, assailed
the prohibition stand set forth in the
President's acceptance speech as "sur
render to the speakeasises, ■ bootleg
gers and nullifiers of the constitu
tion.”
inc Disnop attacKca tnc rf»!ucm
for not demanding more men and
money from Congress for the enfor
cement of prohibition, and asserted
that, as a result of the acceptance
speech. Mr. Hoover may lose the elec
toral votes of several states.
TO BE TRIED FOR SON’S MUR
DER
George Lane, 39, will be tried on
charges of murdering his son, Wood
row, at the October term of Superior
court.
The Perquimans county fanner
said a falling tree ^killed his 17-year
old son but police said he died from
effects of a blow on the back of the
head.
N. C. BANK RESOURCES DROP
Resources of 294 N. C. state banks
decreased by $22,891,128 in the half
year ending June 30, with total re
sources left at $199,927,842. Indus
trial bank resources dropped $3,770,
484 down to a total of $15,828,587.
KILLED BY WOODSAW
The frame of a woodsaw gave way
near Roxboro and Alonzo Nelson, 21.
dropped against the blade. He died
45 minutes later from a severed arm
and head injuries.
CAUGHT BY FALLING TREE
A massive oak fell across the body
of Floyd Fink, 23, of Catawba coun
ty, causing instant death. Fink and
three other; had felled the tree. It
caught on another and kicked back
wards.
Three - Cent
Gain Noted
Since June
Railroads Report
Traffic Gains
New High Spots Reached By Cotton;
Further Advance of $2.50 Per
Bale Is Made
Farmers Will Benefit This Year From
Low Cost OF Production It
Is Reported
Another sensational rise was re
ported in the cotton market yester
day.
With 3-4 inch middling cotton
selling for 8 1-4 cents and inch sta
ple bringing 8 1-2 cents, every man
who has a stalk of cotton in his
patch, every man with cotton in the
warehouse had reason to be optimis
tic.
Every cent or fraction thereof
market rises from now
vance to 10
to be sitting
Figured on a
8 government report ot 11,306,000
bales for the current season, the ad
vance from five cents to eight cents
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Tom K. Smith has been awarded
$1,000 and made chairman of the
Citizens Relief and Employment
Committee at St Louis for having
contributed most to the welfare of
his community.
| Now Leads Cubs I
Charles Lmmm, 1st Daseman, is we
new manage! of the Chicago Na
tional League Cubs, replacing Roger
Hornsby, who resigned Grimm’s ap
pointment pleased Cub fans and
player*