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FOUNDED 1832—100TH YEAR SALISBURY, FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 23, 1933 VOL. 100 NO. 47 PRICE 2 CENTS
Bonding Co. Denies Lyerly Liability
HUNCjfCOTTON CUT DRIVE MONDAY
Tax Levy
Invalid)
Claimed:
Answer Filed In City’s 1
Suit To Recover
$25,000.00
IS 22 PAGES LONG
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The Hartford Accident and In
demnity Company has filed answer
to suit recently instituted by the
City of Salisbury to recover ap-;
proximatelv $25,000.00 alleged j(
to have been embezzled by George
M. Lyerly from the city while
serving as tax collector and treas
urer.
Answer to the complaint filed (
by the city is a voluminous brief
consisting of 22 typewritten pages..
A brief summary of answer filed
by defendant being as follows:
1. Denial of any and all liability.!
2. Alleges that no valid levy of
taxes was ever made during period
referred to in complaint. 1
3. Alleges that Lyerly had no
authority to collect any of the i
sums alleged to have been embez-j
zled and that the city was not en-,
titled to receive same.
4. Alleges that on November 27,
1929 the city council placed in
effect a new regulation relieving
Lyerly either as treasurer or tax,
collector of the duty or authority j
to receive, collect or handle any
city money whatever and imposed |
said duties on the general cashier, i
The defendant company further!
alleges:
(A) That it was‘the duty of the
plaintiff prior to and during the
period alleged to have been covered
by defendant bond, to provide an
opportunity to all persons owning
property in the city of Salisbury
to list for taxation the property so]
owned by them ip said city of Sal
isbury, to furnish blanks for the
purpose and a tax lister who would
afford to every property owner in
the city the opportunity to list his
property; that at no time duringj
the period covered by this defend-\
ants bond, nor for some years prior |
thereto, were the property owners,
of the city of Salisbury afforded
an opportunity to list or return
their property for purpose of tax-1
itlnn rhp answer alleges.
(B) That it was the duty of
the plaintiff, after affording to the
property owners of the city of Sal
isbury the opportunity to list their
property for taxation, to revise, if
necessary, the assessment roll based
thereon and endorse the same with
an order directed to the City Tax
Collector for their collection that
upon information and belief the
plaintiff failed to endorse any as
sessment or tax list or roll with
an order authorizing the collection
thereof; that it failed to place any
tax list or tax or assessment roll in
the hands of said tax collector or
any other person for collection,
and it likewise failed for some
years prior to and during the en
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NEWS
BRIEFS
LIRE 10,000 ON N. C. ROADS
With the $11,000 available for
STorth Carolina road building under
he federal public works program,
cme 10,000 men will be emploved,
stimates the state highway chair
nan. First contracts will be let in
fuly.
F EXT I LIST DIES IN WRECK
Harry Dribben, New York textil
st, was instantly killed, and J. F.
dardin, mill superintendent of
Greensboro, was badly hurt in the!
iverturning of a car five miles west!
if Morehead City. A tire blew!
lut and the machine catapulted1
nto roadside thickets.
GREENSBORO BOY
SUICIDE
Frank S. Dupuv, 16, killed him-'
;elf with a pistol shot into the
•ight temple, in the home of1
jreensboro relatives. A note gave!
10 cause for his despondency. I
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HELD FOR ATTACK ON
2HILD
Sam Curtis, 3 5, is held in jail
ianford in default cf $5,000 bond
or attempting a criminal assault
in a 12-year-old girl.
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2VT N. C. COTTON HEAVILY
I. O. Schaub, extension dean at'
state college, has been designated
itate chief for action in the week
beginning June 26, to retire 40’' ■
OOO acres of cotton in the state,’;
n line with the federal farm credit
idministraticn’s plan to retire 10,-;
000,000 acres in the cocton states.
ODELL BOYLES SENTENCED
Convicted of attempt to extort
$20,000 from Joseph F. Cannon,
of Concord, by threats to kidnap
Cannon’s sons and granddaughter,
Odell C. Boyles was last week sen
tenced by Judge Ackerman in
Atlanta federal court to serve ■
years in prison.
MINISTER DIES IN CRASH
In collision of two autos at
Wendell, June 15, Rev. J. Frank
Armstrong, Rutherfordton, was
fatally hurt and Rev. E. C. Kolb,
Windsor, injured. *
OFFERS AID TO BANKS
The federal farm credit admin
istration is prepared to aid closed
banks in securing cash on farm
rrfortgages by full payment and
converting the mortgages into the
new long-term and low-interest
loans by the department of agricul
ture. Some $50,000,000 is to be so
paid to Wisconsin banks at earl)
date.
$150,000,000 FOR CROP CUTS
The department of agriculture
is planning to pay cotton and
wheat farmers $150,000,000 in
bonuses and rentals for acreage re
duction of the present crops.
EASTMAN HAS HIGH POST
Joseph B. Eastman, long the
most liberal member of the inter
state commerce commission, was
named by the president as the co
ordinator to effect wideflung con
solidations and economics in he
nations railroad system.
Do You Know The Answer?
Turn to back page for answers
1. What is the genus homo?
2. When a body combines with
oxygen and is seemingly destroyed,
what is the process calledJ
3. Name the largest city in Wis
consin.
4. What month and- day has been
substituted for March 4, by con
stitutional amendment foi the in
auguration of future Presidents?
5. What river was spanned by
the famous Milvian bridge?
6. Whc svrote "Comedy of Er
rors?”
7. What and where is Tutuila?
8. For whom is Cornell uni
versity named?
9. What is fiat money?
10. What is the derivation of
the word comet?
1IUIJ_I
Picking the Dental Charm Girl—Miss
, Dylian Dillard, (left) Northwestern
! Diversity coed, of Birmingham.
! Ala.,- has been chosen' the “Dental
Charm Girl” for a. Century of Prog
ress Exposition, where she appears
as "Miss Ipana,” Frances Ingram,
famous beauty consultant, is shown
rwith Randolph Bishop, artist, ]
Ing on the winner’s^,“dental
Dr. Harold
Willis Dodds, i
professor of
politics, is the j
new president of j
Princeton Uni- *3
versify. He is 44 Wm
years old the sec- SE
ond head of that’ ®
school not a w
Presbyterian di
vine. Woodrow
Wilson was the
first.
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Joe Savoldi, former Notre Dame football star
and now a wrestler of the first magnitude,
knows that wrestling makes extraordinary de
mands of the human body. That’s why he eats
canned pineapple in some form daily. Food
research says this fruit contains more known
dietetic values than any other.
Cordell Hull, Secretary of
State in the Roosevelt cabinet,
heads the U. S. delegation to
the World Economic Confer
ence at I»ndon. Early prom
ises for agreements of far
reaching importance faded
away as the conference
convened.
*A White Hula skirt is a 11)33
accessory to the one-piece bath
ing suit that is meeting with
great popularity this summer.
Miss Betty Treat, at New York
girls* camp, demonstrates how
the Hula is worn while ashore,
for a romp.
Twenty-three of America's most noted aviatrixes, which included housewives,
mothers, society girls and even a registered nurse competed in the air races at New
York for the Annette Gibson cash award. Henrietta Sumner of Los Angeles won
Hying 45 miles in 17 minutes.
Open Home Owners Loan Corp.
Here July First; P. S. Carlton
Tendered Post Chief Counsel
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Plans are underway to open the
state offices of the Home Owners
Loan Corporation here not later
than July 1, on the third floor of
the post office building.
Congressman R. L. Doughtoni
several days ago advised Ross M.
Sigmon, chairman of the Rowan
county Democratic Executive
Committee, that the state head
quarters would be located in Salis
bury.
Alan S. O’Neal, of Winston
Salem, formerly with the R. F. C.,
will be head of the institution in
this state while P. S. C triton,
prominent local attorney and!
former chairman of the Rowan j
county Democratic Executive I
Committee, has been tendered the
post of chief counsel.
The Home Owners Loan Cor-|
poration is a $200,000,000 institu-j
tion. Much business is expected to
be handled through the Salisbury
state office.
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EUROPE PAYS EIGHT PER
CENT
On June 15 the European na
tions paid only 8 per cent on the
$144,180,000 due in war debt in
stallments. Finland was the only
one to pay in full. Great Britain
paid $10,000,000, Italy $1,000,
000 while France, Poland, Belgium
[and others defaulted.
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Coolidge-Woodring ;j
Miss Helen 0oolidge, of Fitchburg,
Mass., daughter of U. S. Senator
Marcus A. and Mrs. Coolidge, is to
become the bride of Assistant Secre
tary of War, Harry A. Woodring of
Kansas and former governor of that
state
FOUR DIE IN MORGANTON
FIRE
Fire swept rapidly through a
Morganton mill home early Sun
day, taking the life of Bill Smith,
72, Bill Smith, 27, Bill Smith, Jr.,
five, and Alice Smith, 45.
WILMINGTON FIRE CHIEF
KILLED
Fire Chief Charles ScHnibben,
of Wilmington, died from hurts
sustained when his car turned over
three times. Fie was hastening to a
fire.
Rheba or Aimee?
Rumor at Los Angeles, has it that
Rheba Splivalo, above, “The Angel
of Broadway” will succeed Aimee
Semple McPherson-Hutton as head
of the famed Angelus Temple them
The latter is now on a world tour.
LOBBY COST $82,006
A total of $82,006 was spent
for lobbying activities in the last
sitting of the general assembly,
with $53,696 paid to 67 specially
employed lobbyists and expenses
of $28,310 paid to 94 persons.
SOCIALISTS DENIED OFFICE
Munich, Germany. — Socialists
were barred from all municipal of
fices by orders of the Nadi state
government.
GOOD
MORNING
/ WONDER
A woman’s love is true forever;
A man’s is short and false.
For when my mama hugs my pa,
He wipes his mounth and coughs!
! can not understand why Pa
Does not like Ma’s embrace.
! know it can’t be just because
She’s got "snuff” stains on her
face!
THE REASON FOR THAT
She—What kind of a car have
you?
He—I’ve got a Dawn.
She—A Dawn!
He—Yes, it breaks every morn
ing.
"Do you remember when a girl
was proud of having a wasplike
waist?”
"I ought to remember it; that
was when I got stung.”
LITTLE WILLIE may be right.
He told teacher the future tense
of "to get” is "to. have.”
SERVING NOTICE
Mr. Meeker: "Striking a woman
is the last thing I would do.”
Mrs. Meeker (sternly): "It -surei
would be if I was the woman.” :
GREAT GAME
Late Arrival at ball grounds:
."What’s the score?”
Friend: "Nothing to nothing.”
Late Arrival: "Say that must be
a good game. Huh?”
Friend: "Don’t know. It hasn’t
started yet.”
Judge—This lady says you tried
to speak to her on the dock.
Sailor—It was a mistake. I was
looking for a shjipmate’s girl,
whom I had never seen before, but
who’d been described to me a
handsome blonde with classic fea
tures, fine complexion, perfect fig
ure, beautifully pressed, and—
Witness—I don’t care to prose
cute the gentleman. Anyone might
have made the same mistake.
WELL, THERE IS this to be
said for controlled currency: Not
many married men will notice the
difference.
Father—"Isn’t that young man
rather fast?”
Daughter—"Yes, but I don’t
think he’ll get away.”
IT ISN’T the interest investors
mind losing so much as it is the
principal of the thing.
Headline: "Husband Leaves in
Midst of Wife’s Bridge Party; Dis
appeared.”
Just a fugitive from the chin
gang.
ONE OF LIFE’S sad experien
ces: Always to find that the eleva
tor that isn’t crowded doesn’t stop
at your floor.
10 Million
Reduction
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Requested
Farmer Offered Mon
ey To Plow Up
Part Of Crop
TAX LEVY AUG. 1
A campaign will be started in
the south next Monday when grow
;rs will be asked to sign contracts
to rent cotton lands at from $6 an
icre up, depending on the average
past yields and estimated produc
tion of the land this year.
The farmer can either offer to
take an outright cash payment for
plowing up portions of his crop or
can take a smaller rental and ob
tain in addition an option on about
2,400,000 bales in an amount equal
to the estimated output of the land
he retires from production.
These options will be offered him
at six cents a pound or nearly three
cents below the current market
price. He may order these options
exercised at any tithe up to next
January, his profit being the differ
ence between the six cents and the
price cotton is selling for at the
time he sells.
secretary w aiiace saia operation
of the whole plan was contingent
upon the degree of co-operation
shown by growers during the week’s
campaign to obtain contracts.
Unless Wallace is certain that he
can take a large amount of cotton
out of production, equivalent to at
least 2,000,000 bales production, he
is not prepared to proceed further
with the plan.
However, he indicated that he
was confident of the success of the
campaign and his associates said
there was virtually no doubt but
that the plan would be employed
and that about $100,000,000 would
be distributed in rentals to growers
in the next few months.
Wallace will use about $54,000,
000 from the $200,000,000 made
available by the farm act and sub
sequent laws to acquire full title to
cotton on which government loans
were made by the farm board and
other agencies. He is making set
tlement for the cotton, which is
under the control of the new farm
credit administration, at the rate
of 9 % cents a pound.
Wallace, in whose name the pool
cotton will be held, may sell any
portion of it he desires up to March
1, 1936, when the law requires that
he must complete disposition of it.
While fixing a 2,000,000,000-bale,
minimum, Wallace hopes to take
out of production land capable of
producing at least 3,000,000 bales
The rate of the processing tax
will be announced shortly before
August 1 and after Wallace has
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Sales Tax To Go Into
Effect On July First
! On July 1, the new three per.
j cent general sales tax will go into
effect in North Carolina at 12:01 j
A. M., with the hope of raising ap
proximately $9,000,000 a year in|
revenue, going far toward balanc-,
ing the 1933-35 budget and sup
porting the state’s eight months
school term.
The tax will be levied on all re
tail sales of merchandise except
those of "necessary foods.”
Entitled, "Emergency Revenue
\ct—to provide for the deficit in
aperating expenses of the state gov
ernment and protect its credit; to
provide a balanced budget for the
tnsuing biennium; to provide addi
tional tax relief through a uniform
state-wide public school system
without any tax on property,” it
was enacted by the 193 3 legisla
ture.
"The tax was levied as a license
or privilege tax for engaging or
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