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FOUNDED 1832— 100TH YEAR SALISBURY, FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 14, 1933 VOL. 100 NO. 37 PRICE 2 CENTS
19 Entrants if. Race
For The Cit> Council;
Voters To Pick Five
Primary will be held on Monday, April 24, with
the general election following on Tutsc’ay, May 2
heated contests in primary expected; both parties
may put out ticket.
Candidates for the city council
must file their notices 'with the
boards of elections of Rowan
*• county not later than midnight
tonight. Each candidate must
also pay an entrance fee of $5.00.
The primary will be held on
' Monday, April 24, while the gen
eral election is set for May 2.
To date, 19 have announced
their candidacies Nfor nomination
and election to the city council.
This number will be reduced to
five on April 24, for each party
in case two tickets are put out.
Practically all candidates who have
announced so far are Democrats.
when hiing notice or candidacy
with the board of election, each
candidate must sign an affidavit
stating his party affiliation.
Those who have announced are
as follows:
B. V. Hedrick.
C. F. Raney.
- -vst. .j Lindsay Shaver.
Haden C. Holmes.
Max L. Barker.
U. Ray Miller.
Geo. R. Martin.
Geo. E. Vogler.
H. A. Rouzer.
Henry W. Davis.
J. E. Hennessee.
Francis J. Murdoch.
E. B. Taylor.
U. S. Jordan.
A. A. Hartman.
O. C. Herrington.
E. H. Marsh.
W. F. McCanless.
Geo. E. Rusher.
JEWS APPEAL TO
CHRISTIANS
Paris.—Thousands of pamphlets
inviting Christians to join Jews in
an anti-Hitler protest were distri
buted at the doors of Paris church
es. The tracts said, "The Old
and New Testaments should unite
to combat these crimes unworthy
of our civilization.
DEADLOCKED ON BEER
Albany, N. Y.—Beer control
legislation in New York state slip
ped into a tight deadlock as the
warring factions in the legislature
persisted in a refusal to compro
mise. The controversy has sim
mered down mainly to the ques
tion of whether beer licensing shall
be controlled by a state board
appointed by the governor, or by
county boards.
Libby Holman and Son
Libby Holman, famous Broadway
torch singer and wife of Smith Rey
• olds who was mysteriously shot be
•■ot the birth of her son, permitted
this first photo to be taken of the
vifant who now weighs 7 pounds
V.'eighing less than 3 pounds at birtt
the child was kept in a baby incu
Uator
NEWS
BRIEFS
MAY REDUCE POSTAGE
The postoffice department is
completing a test to determine if
the larger volume of mail under
two-cent postage for letters would
not increase revenue and thus aid
in the plan of the koosevelt ad
ministration to end the depart
ment’s- yearly practice of piling up
a huge deficit. A deficit of $126,
500,000 is indicated for the year
ending June 30.
SHERIFF HELD FOR KILLING j
Sheriff R. A. Feaster is held in
jail at Winnsboro, S. C., for the
killing of Mrs. Ida M. Broom, 54,
The sheriff is- said to have gone to
the IW>m—|jpne to investigate a ,
disturbance. >nd to have shoe-hfas* -
Broom a?flpstruggled to disengage
the woman’s hold on his necktie.
MORRISON HEADS FOREST
WORK
Dr. Fred Morrison, director of
relief work at Raleigh, has been de
signated to direct action in North
Carolina in the employment of
5,000 or more men in reforestation
work. Those wishing to enlist
may do so at federal employment
offices in the larger cities of the
state.
DUKE OFFICER DIES IN
WRECK
J. A. Broadnax, Mt. Holly, as
sistant general superintendent of
the Duke Power company, died in
Nashville, Tenn., from injuries re
ceived the day before in an auto
mobile accident.
TWO KILLED BY ENGINES
Joe Hunt, 19, of Thomasville,
was crushed to death between a
Southern railway baggage car and
locomotive tender at Salisbury. He
and a companion were beating a
ride south. While playing on the
Southern tracks near his Greens
boro home, Herndon Johnson, eight
was hit by an engine and killed on
Sunday night.
THREE HELD FOR COUN
TERFEITING
Three are held at Rocky Mount
charged with the making and cir
culating of counterfeit quarters
and half-dollars. Picked up early
last week for circulating the coins,
H. G. Cuthrell implicated M. von
Milgrom and his son, Robert, and
the tlwo Milgrom* were arrested.
BLAMES BANKS FOR
SUICIDE
"The banks is the cause of this,”
wrote Mrs. Foster M. Myers, 70, of
Thomasville, and left the note be
I side her body. She ended her life
by hanging herself from a joist in
her home.
HE’S GRATEFUL
Gaetono Masotta, who has been
jobless and receiving aid from the
Woburn public welfare depart
ment, dropped in to see Edward F.
Forman, welfare agent at Boburn,
Mass., recently. He placed $312
on the counter. "That’s to pay
back the city,” he said, "for help
ing my wife and eight children.
My 'Wife has been willed a lot of
money.”
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1 House of Rockefeller - )
The Rockefellers, John D., Sr., and 1
John D., Jr., are seldom photo i
graphed together This photo from !
Ormond Beach, Flu., most unusual
and interesting, ivaa taken late in j
March.
Ruth Judd Denied
Reprieve;. Will
[fang April 21st.
Phoenix, Ariz.—The Arizona
Board of Pardons and Paroles re
fused to grant Winnie Ruth Judd
mother reprieve in the "trunk mur
der” case, in which she is under
sentence to hang April 21.
The plea of the condemned wo
man for 42 more days of life was
rejected summarily during a brief
executive session of the three board
members. An announcement said:
"The application of Winnie
Ruth Judd for a reprieve from
April 21 to June 2, as presented
by her attorneys, was considered
by the Board and is denied.”
CONDUCTOR CRUSHED
STEPPING OFF TROLLEY
Chicago^—For 25 years James
Watson, a street car conductor,
saw passengers risk their lives by
stepping off a car and then walking
around behind it without looking
for traffic from the other direction.
And yesterday he did the same
thing himself, and was killed by a
truck.
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SERB SURVIVED BY r AMlLi
147; RULED LIKE EMPEROR
Belgrade.—Betchir Makitch, the
Serb who has just died at the age
of 100, is survived by a family of
147. Until his death he. ruled over
this family like an emperor. He
selected his children’s brides and
husbands, and induced them to live
on his property.
Now the little village is self-su
ficient, and every member of the
family is prosperous, according to
the standard^ of the region.
NUMBER OF SUICIDES
A number of suicides were re
corded in North Carolina last
week. Among them was that of
James S. Williams, 57, formerly a
shipping merchant, who killed
himself at his summer home near
Wilmington, Friday, with a pistol
shot into the temple. Edgar Hay
wood, 5 5, for 22 years clerk of
the Montgomery county court,
went to the courthouse basement
on Friday and killed himself with a
pistol shot into the head. An audit
of his accounts had been underway
for two weeks. On the same day
the body of Mrs. W. M. Saine, 74,
was recovered from the Catawba
river near Hickory.
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Easter Bunnies Right On Time
Easter bunnies will be right on time this year, as always These two
maidens were slightly in doubt so they went out and around and about and
did they find bunnies, well yes! So now Sara Belle and Evelyn Tiffany,
maidens fair of foottight fame, want all good little boys and girls to
know that they have the evidence and that Easter bunnies and ail their
friends will be right on the job on Easter morning.
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> Matrimony Splash ]
Georgia Coleman, Olympic diving
champion, has splashed into matri
mony, becoming the bride of ‘ ‘ Uuf ’ ’
Gilson, amateur golfer of Jackson
Mich. She is honeymooning is
Florida as shown in the photo.
DRY CONCEDES WET -
VICTORY
A victory for Wiscon anti-pro
hibitionists in Tuesday’s referen
dum on repeal of the eighteenth
amendment was conceded by the
Rev. Warren Jones, state superin
tendent of the Anti-Saloon league.
SENTENCE MURDERER’S
ADVISOR
Brownsville, Texas.—Earl Dod
son, 17-year-old high school boy,
who furnished arms and advice to
a student flyer for an airplane
murder a thousand1 feet above the
earth, was sentenced to eight years
imprisonment.
ORPHAN, 21, ADOPTED;
MADE $300,000 HEIR
Indianapolis —A fortune of
$300,000 was placed at the finger
tips of Theodore Freeman, twenty
one-year-old ( orphaned student.
The youth became the sole heir to
the fortune of Dr. and Mrs. Flarry
J. Thompson when they complet-j
ed the formality of adopting him.
Thompson and his wife became at
tached to the orphan when he lived
a;t their home while attending high
school.
Primary Not I
Necessary In
East Spencer
A municipal primary will not
be held in East Spencer this year
as the number of candidates for
the mayor and board of aldermen
and for the school committee who
filed before midnight April 12,
did not exceed ten in either group.
The general municipal election
will be held on Tuesday, May 2.
A mayor, five aldermen and five
school committeemen will be elect
ed.
F. R. Sifford, incumbent, is un
opposed for the office of mayor.
Following is a list of the can
didates who will be voted on May
2:
Mayor: F. R. Sifford.
Board of aldermen: C. C. Kirk,
J. PE Blackweider, W. E. Harkey,
H. Q. Sides, C. O. Gobble, C. J.
Cope and J. C. Van Poole.
School Committee: Dr. T. W.
Seay, G. H. Boger, R. L. Gobble,
E. D. Brown, S. R. Secrest,. and
A. G. Sides.
Cocktail Is Seen
As An Aid To
Building Of Blood
London.—The cocktail finds in
the Lancet, famous medical jour
nal, a staunch champion.
Study of the causes of low-blood
pressure has led medical experts tc
vaunt the virtues of the Manhat
tan and the Martini.
The state of excess of sugar in
the blood resulting in diabetes ha;
been recognized on other ground;
for years, but only recently ha;
the state of excessively low blooc
sugar been understood, the journal
said. Tins latter state leads to feai
and incoordination of the muscles
"In adults,” says the Lancet
"it is more than probable that thf
wide popularity of the cocktail be
fore a meal is part due to the rebel
of hypoglycaemia (low blooc
suga_t) which it brings. The ex
haustion of athletes is also relievec
by sugar.”
TO VISIT IN S. C.
Miss Mary Ann Folger, of Spen
cer, will spend the Easter holiday;
with relatives and friends in Eas
ley, S. C.
GOOD
MORNING
SMILE
Even though your heart be sad,
Pry to smile, pretend you’re glad,
IYoubles won’t seem half so bad,
If you smile.
When you’re feeling very blue,
No one seems to care for you,
Here’s the best thing you can do—
Try to smile.
!:'
life is what we make of it,
Sorrows, joys, of each a bit;
You can make the best of it,
With a smile,
TO ONE HAVING LEFT
You think now . . .
I envy the pale foam-flowers
That garland your home -
There in the violta dusk,
I do . . .
But have you forgotten
Night writes strange secrets
On the surface of a silver lake?
Now when I am ready
I shall call you back
With a note,
Far sweeter than ever fell
From any bird’s throat.
—N. W.
OLD MAN TIRED FEELING
It’s Old Man, This, and Old Man
These,
Old Man River, Old Man Freeze,
Old Man Winter, Old Man Snow,
Old Man Hard Times, Old Man
Blow.
Old Man Chaos, Old Man Blues,
Old Man Business, Old Man Booze;
Old Man Norther, Old Man
West
How About Oldi Man Give Us A
Rest?
Hi—"What time is it by your
watch?”
Dee—"Quarter to,”
Hi—"Quarter to what.”
Dee—"I don’t know—times got
so hard I had today off one of the
handls.”
"I hear you dropped some money
3n the Stock Exchange. What were
you, a bull or a bear?”
"Neither. Just a simple ass.”
The pretty young kindergarten
teacher had been telling her pupils
all about the winds, their power
and different effects, and so on.
"And, children,” she went on
enthusiastically," as I came to
school this morning on top of the
bus something softly came and
kissed my cheek. What do you
think it was?” !
"The conductor?” cried the
children joyously.
Let us hope that the last of the
"Lame Ducks” also means the last
of the quacks.
"How did Emma get all mussed
up?”
"She was out with a crude oil
salesman.”
Bus Driver: "Madam, that child
will have, to pay full fare. He is
over five years of age.”
Madan: "But he can’t be. I have
only been married four years.”
: Bus Driver: "Never mind the
true confessions; let’s have the
money.”
Roosevelt Outlines
Plan To Refinance
Mortgages On Homes
President presents another major plank in his
“new deal” program; requests congress to pass
immediate legislation to aid “the forgotten man”
to hold mortgaged home.
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President Roosevelt Thursday
presented to the congress his plan
to refinance home mortgages. His
proposal would make two billion
dollars immediately available for
refinancing mortgages on homes.
The president proposed:
1. Creation of federal savings
and loan associations with a total
capital of two billion dollars, to
refinance mortgages on homes.
2. Issuance of bonds to thte a
mount of two billion dollars.
3. Reduction in interest rates <o
five per cent.
4. Bonds exchanged for mort
gages.
5. Refinancing limited to homes
valued at $10,000 or less.
6. Funds made available for
payment of taxes, the advance to
be retired with loan.
Gold Returned
The call for the return of gold
brought another $44,444,000 into
the Federal Reserve banks last
week.
The total reserve of these banks
now are $3,236,766,000—5 50,
000,000 more than when the bank
lioliday was proclaimed^
The Fedieral Reserve Board’s
weekly statement also showed that
bank deposits had returned $25 5,
000,000 and that only $14,228,
000 of the new money has been put.
into circulation. i
A DRINK OF WATER COST
HIM HIS LIFE
Braintree, Mass.—A drink of
water cost Roland T. Parker, Jr.,
his life.
He was drowned in Sunset Lake
when the ice broke as he lay on
it to drink from a hole in the
middle of the lake.
Firemen recovered the body 17
minutesi later, 'but thirtee hours’
work with a pulmotor proved fut
ile.
POLLARD TO GET MEDAL
New York.—Governor John G.
Pollard of Virginia, will be' pre
sented a medial by the Thomas Jef
ferson lod'ge of the Free Sons of
Israel Sunday in recognition of
"the principles of equality of all
peoples, as fostered and promul
gated by him in his state.”
Livermore’s Bride
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The former Mrs. Harriet Meta
Noble of Omaha, Neb., a concert
singer of note, is the new bride of
Jessie L. Livermore, long famed as >
the *1 boy plunger of Wall Street.' ’
This is the tLird marriage for both