The Oldest Newspaper Published In North Carolina
The Carolina
* "The Watchman Carries a Summary of ^All The T^ews”
FOUNDED 1832—100TH YEAR. SALISBURY, FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 9, 1932 VOL 100 No. 6, PRICE 2 CENTS
Fifteen Seeking DivorceDecrees
CITY WOOLS T
Sup. Court
To Convene
Here Monday
100 Criminal
Cases Docketed
Judge T. B. Finley, OF North Wil
kes boro Will Preside Over Sessions
OF September Term Of Court
Trial Of Docket Will Consume First
Week, Is Believed; Many Civil
Cases To Be Heard
Fifteen persons are seeking the dis
solution of the bonds of matrimony
at the September term of the Super
ior court which convenes in Salis
bury Monday, with Judge T. B. Fin
ley, of North Wilkesboro, presiding.
The divorce cases are set for trial
Friday of next week. Various
grounds are alleged, five years separ
ation and statutory allegations pre
dominating.
me cnvorce cases ronow:
Fred W. Pirie vs. Josie Pirie.
Flora C. Maupin vs. W. C. Maup
in, Jr.
Ina Pauline Day vs. James Arthur
Day.
Carrie Ellenburg vs. John W. El
lenburg.
L. M. Morris vs. Annie Morris.
Estelle Kellar Towell vs. O. K.
To well.
Lonriie Lee Myers vs. Carrie Eliza
beth Myers.
Edna Pearls Bentley vs. John Wes
ley Bentley.
Charles Lindo Yarborough vs. j
Myrtle Williams Yarborough.
James Rufus Clark vs. Connie El
. ler Clark,
Mary M. Warford vs. George W.
Warford.
Glenn Grant vs. Lettie Grant
Willie E. Hackett vs. Dan Hack
ett.
Eugene D. Buckner vs. Jacobs
Buckner.
John Ray Lyerly vs. Sadie Evelyn
Lyerly, --- -
Following is a complete summary
of the 100 criminal cases scheduled
for trial:
Abandonment 4
Non-support —- 4
Larceny and receiving - 16
Violation of prohibition law - 13
Housebreaking —- 1
Breaking and entering and lar
ceny and receiving - 3
Nuisance - 1
Carnal knowledge -.- 1
Seduction ___1— 4
Worthless check _ 6
Rape -+_ 1
Assault bn female _T—T— 2
Driving car while drunk _ 2
Malicious maiming, beatyig horse 1
Assault with intent to kill - 1
Please turn to page three
To Wed John DL Ill
Miss Blanchette Hooker, New
York, is to be the bride of John D.
Rockefeller 3d. She is the daughter
of a civil engineer. The engagement
has just been announced, the wedding
to take, place in the falL
Striking Illinois Miners Overflow Highway
Photo shows but part of the ten to fifteen thousand striking Illinois coal
miners after their retreat from Coulterville and Franklin county, where
deputies armed with machine guns met them and routed the picketing
caravan.
Combat The Cancer
Above, Dr. A. J. Allen, Cancel
Research Department of U. P.
School of Medicine, Philadelphia,
who discovered how to produce in
ternal violet ray in treatment of can
cer, and below Dr. Ellice McDonald,
head of the department, and who
made the announcement to the Amer
ican Chemical Society. The discovery
consists of an organic solution which
when injected into the body and acted
upon by X-ray radiates ultra-violet
lights which are deadly to cancer.
Twice at Once
“Vfoiat we want,” said Billy Jones
and Earnie Hare of radio fame, “is a
good close-up picture of us looking
“down” on Wall street—also to show
how much we look down ... and we
don’t think you can take it.” The pho
tographer won. Here are the boy9
looking down from the 67th floor,
and in the background the new Sixty
Wall Tower building, third tallest in
the world—and from the top of which
| the picture was taken
Good
Morning
PRINCIPAL EVENTS OF THE
PAST 1.5 YEARS
The World War,
Bobbed Hair, -
Short Dresses,
Silk Hose,
No Hose,
Thin Dresses,
Hoover Prosperity,
The Moratorium,
Lipsticks, —
Assorted Taxes,
The Atlantic Ocean.
AN EVOLUTION
My dear Miss Smith;
Dear Miss Smith;
Dear Mary;
Mary Dear;
Dearest Mary;
Mary Darling;
Mary, beloved;
My soulmate;
Darling Wife;
Dear Mary;
Hello, Mame;
Pay to the order of Mrs. Mary S.
Doe . . .
X is the Roman notation for ten.
X is the mark of illiterate men1.
X is a ruler removed from the
throne.
X is a quantity wholly unknown.
X may mean Xenon, a furious gas.
X is a ray of a similar class.
X mas is Christmas, a season of
bliss.
X in a letter is good for a kiss.
X is for Xerxe*, a monarch renow
ned.
X marks the spot where the body
was found.—Annapolis! Log.
Joe: When I first got in to the
Copley, I thought that I had forgot
ten my ticket. I had some fright.
Moe: Yeah, I noticed her.
First Neighbor: What is your son
taking at college?
Second Neighbor: All I’ve got.
A lot of fellows are caught in the
act who are not vaudeville perform
ers.
"Are you a good sport?”
"Yes.”
"Then let me lean against you.”
Father, dear father, come home with
me now,
The sheep’s in the meadow, the hay’s
in the cow,
Little Boy Blue has found your corn
And Little Red Riding Hood’s pants
are torn.
The only thing worse than "Ath
lete’s Foot” is the athlete’s brain.
"How would you like to try para
chutting?”
"I’d jump at the opportunity.”
Scene From Farm Holiday Strike Center
Roadside scenes where pickets of the “Farm Holiday Association” at
Council Bluffs, la, and Blair, Neb., threw up a blockade against farm
produce, livestock and grain being delivered to market, in an effort to get
higher prices. Upper photo shows a truck load of hogs which refused to
stop on its way to Council Bluffs. Lower: “Farm Holiday” pickets sleeping
at the roadside after 24 hours of duty.
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News Briefs
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RALEIGH GETS BANK ^
Raleigh has been chosen as the
site for the Agricultural Credit cor
poration to be established in the third
federal land bank district. The new
bank will have a branch at Macon,
Ga.
CHAPLIN BOYS PREVENTED
Charlie Chaplin’s two small sons
will not appear in movie films. The
judbe decided that Mrs. Chaplin
could not enter a contract for their
appearance without consent of her
husband, under terms of divorced de
cree.
SCHOOL DORMITORY BURNS
The 60-room dormitory for girls
at Mountain Park Institute, Elkin,
N. C., was destroyed Friday night.
$25,000 damages. It was a frame
structure, partially covered by $10,
000 insurance. Fire occurred during
renovation for fall term.
WINE TO HOSPITALS
Henry Heath, convicted in Greens
boro city courts with possession of
intoxicating beverages, told the judge
that the 15 gallons of' wine were
made for medical purposes and sug
gested that it be given the hospitals
Judge Rives followed the suggestion
and ordered it distributed among the
hospitals.
POLICE CHIEF SHOOTS MAN
C. T. Monjoy, 26, was shot in
the back and critically wounded by
George Allen, chief of police of
Kings Mountain when he was being
chased by the officer on the Shelby
highway. Montjoy was allegedly
driving an automobile while under
the, influence of liquor.
HELD FOR MURDER
Ed Childs, 30, was shot four times
by William Russell, 22, near Cram
erton on Saturdaay night. Childs died
in the Gastonia hospital Sunday af
ternoon. The fatality grew out of
an altercation at a chicken stew near
Cramer ton, when J. A. Russell, 49,
became involved in a personal con
troversy with Childs.
THOMASVILLE, PLANT BURNS
The Boyles veneer plant at Thom
asville, was destroyed by fire early
Sunday with a loss estimated at
$125,000, partially covered by in
surance. The plant closed about two
weeks ago when a walkout of its em
ployees occurred, in sympathy wtrii
strikers from other plants. Three
months ago, the same company lost
another plant by fire valued at $40,
000. No evidence connects the loss
with the strikers.
The Devil’s Shoestring
The "devil’s shoestring,” a here
tofore Texas weed pest,, is likely to
serve a great good to mankind, re
ports the Department of Agriculture.
The weed contains poisons fatal to
insect life. Experts are now trying to
extract the juices in quanties to be
used as an inexpensive insecticide. If
successful it will bring wealth to
Texas and take the pla<5e of ten mil
lion pounds of pyrethrum flowers
now imported each year.
Off The Movie Lot
i fc iii m mi
An informal picture of pretty June .
Collyer, taken the other day as she
dined in a Hollywood cafe, far away
from the Klieg lights—and while
being “just herself.”
Over 4,000
Will Enroll
Opening Day
Expect Several
Hundred Increase <
Teaching Staff Numbers 124 For *
White And Colored Schools Fo*
1932-1933
Boundaries Will Be Same As Prevailed
Last Year; County Schools Have
Already Begun Work
The city schools will open Mon- ;
day, September 12, to begin • the
1932-193 3 school year.
Over 4,000 students are expected*
to attend the opening day.
The teaching staff, in both the
white and colored schools, totals 124.
Registration and classification ox
beginners has been underway during
the week.
Announcement has been made that
the school boundaries effective last
year will also prevail in 1932-1933.
Superintendent C. C. Haworth,
who came to Salisbury from Burling
ton this summer, is in charge of the
preparations being made for the ap
proaching scholastic year.
Catawba College opens also Mon
day. Over 400 students are expect
ed to matriculate.
County schools opened Monday
with an enrollment of 4,210. This
figure represents an increase of around
300 over last year’s enrollment.
In the city schools last year 4,034
enrolled the first day. An increase of
several hundred is expected Monday. .
LIGHTNING KILLS SMALL
GIRL
Agatha Sampson, 14, of Gretna,
Va., was instantly killed by a bolt
sf lightning Friday night. Her twin
sister standing nearby was uninjured, ■
DAVIDSON SHERIFF UNDER
KNIFE
G. V. Bodenheimer, sheriff of
Davidson county, underwent a ser
ous operation in a Greensboro hospi
tal last week, and is promised recov
;ry if no complications set in.
ARRESTED FOR SUNDAY
SPORTS
On August 17, the city council of
Charlotte adopted an ordinance pro
aibiting the playing of sports on
Sunday. Six prominent sportsmen of
Charlotte were arrested for playing
:ennis Sunday, and now the sports
men are said to be putting through
i test case of the ordinance, and will
ippeal to the higher courts for de
:ision. * -
Three Time Winner
Miss Margaret Ravior, Philadel- x.
phia, for the third successive year
won the Fifth Annual 10-mile swim
in Lake Ontario in the record time y-‘
if 5 hrs., 22 mins., and 18 seeds.
\lso, a cash prize of $3,000.