Ray _ P Chairman
Successor To
Be Named
Saturday
Mr. Lyerly To Resign Since He Has
• Taken- Charge Of "Nazareth
Orphanage At Crescent
Several Possible Successors Mention
ed; Meeting Will be held In Court
house Saturday Afternoon
Ray P. Lyerly will resign Satur
day as chairman of the Rowan county
Republican Executive Committe, ac
cording to information reaching The
Watchman late Thursday night.
This action will be taken it is stat
ed as Mr. Lyerly has assumed the
superintendency of the Nazareth
Orphanage Home at Crescent, N. C.,
to which office he was recently elect
ed.
A meeting of the Republican
executive committee will be held in
the courthouse Satufday afternoon ^
it is stated.
Mr. Lyerly was elected several
months ago as chairman to succeed
John L. Rendleman, Jr., who lead
his party to victory in this county
in 1928 for the first time iri, half a
century. Mr. Rendleman served as
chairman of his party for four years,
his term beginning in 1928.
Several probable successors have
been mentioned. Among these are:
W. H, Hobson, .G C. Peeler, J. M.
Waggoner, A. L. Kluttz, E. A. Good
man, C. W. Isenhour and R. C.
Jennings. Mr. Jennings is a member
of the state executive committe and
it is understood that he would be
most acceptable to James S. Dun
can, state chairman.
3-CENT STAMPS TO BE SOLD
IN BOOKS OF 12 AT 37 CENTS
The only postage stamp book to be
issued by the United States postoffice
department, since the postage rate on
lrst class mail went up to three cents,
will be a book containing 12 of the
three cent stamps and these will be
sold at 37 cents, the price of the
stamps plus one cent for the little
protection book.
The department issues the . three,
cent stamps in roll form, the kind
used in stamp selling machines and
some concerns, such as drug stores
may use these for the accommodation
of customers, tearing them from the
roll in such quantities as are des red.
The stamp machine from which the
old two cent stamp was dispensed are
not usable for the three cent stamp
as there is no way of putting the cor
rect shange in and the workings of
these machines will have to undergo
change before the three cent stamps
can be sold from machines. It is very
likely that when these machines are
changed they will provide for the de
positing ol a dime and getting three
three-cent stamps.
When, the two cent stamps were
sold a nickel deposited in one of these
machines produced two two-cent
stamps, allowing the place operating
the machine a penny profit on either
two two-cent stamps or four one cent
stamps. Of course the one cent stamp
side of the machine is all right yet ac
one cent stamps are still serviceable
on post cards or three of them on a
letter.
WHITE CEDAR STUMPS
USED TO PRODUCE OIL
Marshfield, Ore. — Glenn Parr
chemist, claims to have perfected and
discovered a method of extracting
oil from white cedar stumps.
His plant turns out 24 gallons of
oil daily, he said. The stumps are
blasted and removed leaving the land
clear for cultivation. He operates
in logged-off areas.
SWIMMING RATTLER
FIGHTS MAN IN BOAT
Madria, Cal.—A fight betwees
rowers and a swimmn g rattlesnake
was described here by L. J. Palmer.
Palmer said the boating party, com
posed of himself and twoi friends,
encountreed the snake on Don Pedro
Lake.
The reptile coiled on the surface
of the water, Palmer said, and charg
ed the boat several times, but was
driven off.
_ THIRD
IN AVIATION FIELDS
Richmond, Va.—Virginia, with 38,
has the greatest number of landing
fields among Southeastern Statej.
A Department of Commerce re
port on the status of landing fields
showed Florida topping the list with
60, and Georgia second, with 42.
The 36 Virginia fields included 11
municipal airports, 8 commercial
fields, 7 auxiliaries and 1 each for the
Army, Navy and Marine, Corps.
MAURICE CHEVALIEIL
■Jf I. '
HAS THE HAPSBUR.G
^•lip;' LIKE THE EX-KING
—^OF SPAIN AND GEN
ERATIONS OF ROYALTY
WAS A PRISONER
in a german camp
DURING THE WAR J
STARTS HIS CAREER AS
A SINGING CLOWN.
Strange Facts from the Lives of Players in "Love Me Tonight,” Playing at
the Capitol Theatre Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
Republicans May Lose
Jobs With High Point
Resolution Passed At A Special
Session Of City Council Or
ders Their Ousting
AFFECTS MANY FIREMEN
Including The Fire Chief And Other
Trained Men—Will Keep City
Manager
Somewhere between a dozen and
25 employes of the city of High
Point, many of them trained firemen,
will bow their official necks to the
partisan government axe and lose
jobs for the so-called sin of "being
Republicans,” according to an edict
issued at a recent and an unadvertised
and special session of the city council.
The 'resolution sSrhicfi at first p're-'
sented involved the chief and Repub
lican members of the fire department
was broadened so as to include every
Republican on the High Point payroll
and although no clerk was present at
the session it was understood to have
been passed unanimously by seven of
the nine council members who were
present.
The resolution is:
"That the city manager proceed
at once to release in a manner not to
impair service now rendered by the
city, all workers who can notbe class
ed as Democrats and to fill the vac
ancies with Democrats who live with
in the city.”
It was suggested that the test of
Democracy which is to be applied to
those who work with the city be in
accordance with the rules and regu
lations of the High Point Democratic
executive committee. However, no
such criterion was understood to have
been formally adopted.
When the firing is to begin no one
knows just now. Mr. Knox wouldn’t
say.
BRIDGE KILLS TRAIN RIDER5
The old Shober’s overhead bridge
which carries North Ellis street across
the railroad tracks of the Asheville
division of the Southern Railway ad
ded two more victims to its long list
of casualties Sunday morning.
One of them, identified as Troy
Ward of East Flat Rock, was knock
ed from a west bound freight train
and his body was found beside the
track sometime later.
His companion’s body was discov
ered on top of the train as it passed
Hickory and was taken off at Mor
ganton. Papers indicated he was
James Cannon of East Flat Rock and
had been working in a High ' Point
hosiery mill.
Ward is a son of Mallard Ward of
East Flat Rock and had in his pocket
a pay envelope from a Hendersonville
hosiery mill, the envelope containing
a small amount of change.
BANKS ON WHEELS
SERVE OHIO FOI.K
Washington Courthouse, Ohio.—
Banks in armored auttomobiles, re
miniscent of the huckster’s vegeta
ble wagon, go to the doors of villag
ers in this section, where many small
banking houses have been closed.
The rolling banks are branches of
the First National Bank of Washing
ton; Courthouse and the First Nat
ional Bank & Trust Company of
Springfield, Ohio.
They visit small towns in Clark
and Fayette County. The mobile
banks observe semi-weekly schedules
to the respective communities.
HIDES BANKROLL, BUT CAN’T
FIND IT
—
Stanton, Mich.—Mrs. Anna Car
ey hid her $2,850 bankroll in her
home—too well. Unable to find
the money, she reported it stolen.
Deputy Sheriffs spent three days
helping her recover $10 and $20
notes from different hidnng places
in the house.
400-POUND JURYMAN
TOO HEAVY FOR CHAIR
Providence, R. I.—Courthouse at
taches were thrown into temporary
confusion when, after Walter V.
Kennedy had been chosen as a juror,
no chair could be found to acoro
modate his .400 ,^pounds of aycjirtU*
pois.
Finally a spacious bench solved
the problem.
COW EATS HIS PANTS
New Orleans.—A cow ate up O.
Faucheau’s only pair of Sunday pants
and today the family appealed to
charity for pants for "papa” so he
could go to church—his only recrea
tion from farm duties
BLOODY GERMAN ..ELECTION
HELD
The German reichstag election en
ded in a bloody campaign in which
over 100 were killed. The election
result in strong gains for the fascists
led by Adolph Hitler. They now hold
229 of the 589 seats in the parliam
ent, and are the strongest single par
ty.
MORTGAGE SALE OF REAL ES
TATE ON MILLER’S FERRY
ROAD.
By virtue of the authority con
tained in a certain Mortgage Deed of
Trust executed by L. A. Doby and
wife, Bettie A. Doby, to P. S. Carl
ton, Trustee, dated October 2 5, 1924,
and registered in Register’s Office of
Rowan County in Book of Mortgages
No. 91, page 194, default having been
made in the paymennt of the note se
cured thereby, and request of fore
closure having been made by the hold
er thereof, the undersigned trustee will
sell at public auction to the highest
bidder for cash at the Court House
door in Salisbury, N. C., on Monday,
the 26th day of September, 1932,
at 12 o’clock, noon the following des
cribed real estate:
About one and one-half -miles North
east of Spencer, adjoining the lands
of Smithy Brothers, D. E. Snider, and
being part of the T. P. Johnston land,
and bounded as follows, to-wit:
8 Beginning at a stake, the north
east corner of schoolhouse lot; thence
South 65 deg. East 6.72 chains to a
stake on Smithy’s line; thence with
said line South 17J4 deg. West 20.60
fchains to,a stake, Smithy’s corner;
thence North 72 deg. West 3.41 chains
to a stake, D. E. Snider’s corner; thence
with Snider’s line North 1714 deg.
East 13.30 chains to a stake, Snider’s
corner; thence North 72 deg. West
3.41 chains to a stake, D. E. Snider’s
corner on line of school-house lot;
thence North J7J4 deg. East with line
of school-house property 7.90 chains
to the beginning, containing 9.55
acres, more or less.
P. S. CARLTON,
Trustee.
This, August 25, 1932^
Aug. 26—Sept 23.
/
Rate Hearings
Are Scheduled
Four electric utilities companies,
doing probably 90 per cent of the
electric business in the state, have
been asked to have representatives
meet with the North Carolina Cor
poration commission during the last
week in August and first week in
September with a view of arriving at
a reduction in rates for service, to be
followed by hearings of gas and tel
ephone' representatives.
The companies and dates,, with
there or four day intervals, in case of
long drawn out periods, follows: Car
olina Power and Light Co., August
23; Durham Public Service Co., Aug
gust 26; Southern Public -Utilities
Co., and subsidiaries prior to consoli
dation', September 1; Tide Water
Power Co., September 6.
The commission directs these com
panies to have representatives meet
with it for conferences and "to be
prepared to present such facts and
data, in writing duly verified, rela
tive to the operation of your com
pany as may be pertinent to an in
quiry in,to your rates of charge for
service and particularity with refer
ence to a reduction in such rates.”
These companies handle about 90
per cent of the electric current han
dled by about 48 companies, and the
smaller ones may be heard later. The
commission plans to follow probably
by hearing the three gas companies of
the 15 in the state which do about
80 per cent of the business, and still
later six of the 80 telephone com
panies, which do about 85 per cent of
the state s Dusiness, n.. jch,
mission clerk stated.
Smaller companies may be heard
more rapidly after the larger ones
are completed.
Telegraph companies may not be
included, since this state has a 30
cint rate for a 10-word intrastate
message, a rate few if arty other
states enjoy, Mr. Self said. The con
ferences will be open to the public.
STATE DAIRYMEN
HELD CONVENTION
YESTERDAY **’
The third annual convention of the
North Carolina dairymen’s association
was held yesterday at the Rowan Coun
ty Fair Grounds. Representatives
from as far west as Canton and as
far east as Wilmington were present,
there being from 150 to 200 present.
The meeting was called to order by
the President, H. G. Ashcraft, of
Charlotte, J. A. Arey of State College
dairy extension department was in
charge of the program. The address of
welcome was made by Mayor B. V.
Hedrick and the response was deilver
ed by Prof. R. H. Ruffner of State
College.
A very interesting morning session
was had and after lunch a mock trial
was held. E. E. Barringer was charged
in the Bovine Court with possessing
a scrub bull. He was defended by At
torneys William Harris and George R.
Uzzell. Ihe prosecuting was in tne
hands of Attorney Charles Price, Dem
ocratic nominee for county prosecu
tor. The Court was presided over by
J. Allan Dunn, present county prose
cutor. After much evidence for both
sides was heard the Court adjudged
the defendant guilty of having a 400
pound scrub bull.
The judgment of the Court was as
follows: "The defendant adjudged
guilty of possessing a scrubiniferous
bovine, said bull to be shot at sun
rise, stuffed afterwards and presented
to the Smithsonian Institute as the
horrible example of the type of bull
not to be kept by farmers and dairy
men; and the defendant to show at
the next annual convention that he has
planted his farm in lespedeza, purchas
ed a billygoat to eat the briars with
which he fed his scrub bull, and to
show by three prominent stock rais
ers that he has purchased three reg
istered bulls, to-wit: a Guernsey, a
Holstein and a” Jersey.”
PAY OVERDUE; KILLS
SELF AMONG IDLE
Cbicdgo.—Whlje four jobless
men slept within| 20 feet of him,
Charles Efner, 57, office and credit
man for the Laramie Fur Company,
19 South Wells Street, shot himself
to jleath in Lincoln Park.
He| left a note stating that he was
"tired of working every day and get
ting nothing for it.”
“Have you any old clothes?’ asked
the man at the door.
"What’s the matter are you blind?”
snapped the broke brother, just be
fore slamming the door.
! Taking Off Into The Unknown
1_ .xmm* ——
When slim little Prof. Auguste Piccard, Belgian scientist, climbs into
the air-tight ball-basket attached to his balloon and sets off for stratosphere
heights—he sails into space never before explored by man. In his first trip
he attained an altitude of over 10 miles. Photo shows Prof. Piccard enter
ing gondola, and his assistant. Max Cosyn, before the start of their second
trip from Switzerland in mid-August __
Roosevelt Outlines His ,
Political Principles
Cheering his criticisms of Repub
lican party policies and its leaders,
a crowd of some 25,000 persons heard
Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt ex
pound his nine "fundamental” econo
mic remedies, which he said were for
the protection of the "great mass of
average American men and women,”
at Columbus, O., on Saturday j.fter
noon.
In the first road address of his cam
paign for the presidency, Mr. Roose
velt said that President Hoover’s ac
ceptance speech and the Republican
platform were "empty of hope.”
"I propose an orderly, explicit and
practical group of fundamental rem
edies,” Governor Roosevelt declared.
"These will protect not the few,
but the great mass of average Ameri
can men and women, who I am not
ashamed to repeat, have been forgot
ten by those in power.”
1. Prevention of the issuance of
"manufactured and unnecessary se
curities of all kinds, which are
brought out merely for the purpose
of enriching those who handle their
sale,” and a requirement that sellers
of legitimate securities disclose their
bonuses and commissions.
2. Full federal regulation of "hold
ing companies which sell securities
in interstate commerce.”
3. Federal authority in the regula
tion of exchange in the business of
buying and selling securities and
commodities.”
4. More rigid supervision of na
tional banks "for the protection of
depositors.”
5. Discouragement and prevention
of "the unrestrained use of bank de
posits in speculation, to the detriment
of local credit.” ,
6. Separation of investment bank
ing and commercial banking.
7. Separation of federal reserve
banks, whose funds, prior to 1929,
"were used practically without check
for many speculative purposes.”
Of the other two, the governor
said:
"Finally I propose two new poli
cies for which legislation is not re
quired.
"They are policies of far and open
dealing on the part of the adminis
tration with the American public.
"In the first place I promise you
that it will no longer be possible for
international bankers or others to sell
to the investing public of American,
foreign securities on the implied un
derstanding that those securities have
been passed or approved by the
st&te department or any ocJmjzt agency
of the federal government.
"In the second^place, I assure you
that high public officials in the next
administration will neither by word
nor by deed seek to influence the
prices of stocks and bonds.”
The governor pointed his attack
on the Hoover administration in this
manner:
“I sum up the history of the last
administration in four sentences:
"It encouraged speculation ' and
over-production through its false
economic policies.
"It attempted to minimize the
crash and misled the people as to its
gravity.
"It erroneously charged the cause
to other nations of the world.
"It refused to recognize and cor
rect the evils at home which brought
it forth, delayed relief, and forgot
to reform.”
Most of Anti-Smith Democrats
Here To Back Bob Reynolds
R. Lee Wright’s statement that
fully SO per Cent of the Democrats
who opposed Al Smith in 1928 on
account of his prohibition stand, will
repudiate Bob Reynolds, the Demo
cratic senatorial nominee, and vote
for Jake Newell, his republican op
ponent in the general election Nov
ember 7th, was pronounced as "just
so much hoo-ey” here yesterday by
prominent Democrats.
Belief was expressed here that fully
9S per cent of the 1928 anti-Smith
Democrats will be found in a solid
phalanix for Reynolds.
The Asheville lawyer, who like
Smith, is in favor of repealing the
18th amendment, apparently is quite
popular here, having carried the
county over his dry opponent, Cam
eron Morrison, in the recent primary
by a wide margin.
N. C. FATHER HAS HIS
OWN SON ARRESTED
Bakersville.—Jeter McCurry, far
mer, takes great pride in the fact that,
he is a law-abiding citizen. There
fore, when he learned that his son,
Carson- 18, had forged several
checks,, he swore out a warrant for
the arrest of his own son. The boy
was arrested , and* placed in jail to a.
wait a hearing.
Kokomo, Ind.—An unidentified
bandit was killed by W. U. Lyons,
filling station attendant, during an
attempted holdhp.
The slain robber was about 21
years old.
FIVE-YEAR DIVORCE
SURPRISE TO WIFE
Chicago.—Discovery that she had
been living with her husband for
five years after he had secured a
divorce without her knowledge, Mrs.
Elizabeth Pearson, 6125 Henderson
Street, filed a bill for review asking
that his divorce be abrogated on
grounds of fraud.
The divorce was granted by Jud
ge Thomas Lysch while the couple
were living together.
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