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The Oldest Newspaper Published In North Carolina
The Carolina Watchman
"The Watchman Carries a Summary of cAll The TStgws”
FOUNDED 1832—101ST YEAR . SALISBURY, FRIDAY MORNING, AUG. 4, 1933 ’ VOL 101 NO. 1 PRICE 2 CENTS
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Business Leaders Adopt Blanket Code
Repeal Drive Will Begin This Month
Recovery
Plan Wins
Support
Practically All Busi
ness Houses In
City Join
New Wage Scale For
Employees
Designed To Increase
Employment And
Shorten Hours
Salisbury manufacturers, mer
chants, business men and operators
of all types of businesses are sign
ing or have indicated that they
will sign the National Recovery
Administration’s agreement or
"blanket code,” sponsored by Pre
sdent Roosevelt in an effort to in
crease, immediately, the purchasing
power of the great masses of A
merican people, and thus restore
prosperity.
The agreements have been dis
tributed in the city and since that
time every employer has been
studying the agreement, analyzing
it, speculating on the effect which
ir will have on his business. That
it will have a marked effect no one
will deny.
There is in evidence a marked
willingness to support the Presi
dent in his bold move for restora
tion of the Nation’s purchasing
power. But there is also evidenc
that living up to the N. R. A.
agreement will be a difficult thing
for many a business man to do, un
less prosperity does return, and
that almost at once, in order that
the increased expenses incurred
under the agreement may be cared
for out of increased business.
Because for one reason or an
other, there has been delay in
agreeing upon codes for the various
groups of industries, President
Roosevelt has found it necessary to
provide a blanket code to govern
all industries and businesses, until
such time as codes for the individ
ual groups may be agreed upon and
approved.
me DianKec coaes pruviucs uwi
every person employed shall re
ceive a salary of not less than $12
per week, with hours of employ
ment ranging from 3 5 to 40 hours
per week. Following is the blan
ket code presented for signature
under the head ''President’s Re
Employment Agreement” under
the Natidhal Recovery Act:
During the period of the Presi
dent’s emergency re-jemploymlsnt
drive, that 1s to say, from August
1 to December 31, 1933, or to any
earlier date of approval of a code
of fair competition to which he is
subject, the undersigned hereby
agrees with the President as fol
lows:
(1) After August 31, 1933, not
to employ any person under 16
years age, except that persons be
tween 14 and 16 may be employ
ed (but not in manufacturing or
mechanical industries) for not to
exceed three hours per day and
those hours between 7 a. m. and 7
p. m. in such worK as will not in
terfere with hours of day school
(2) Not to work any account
ing clerical, banking, office, service,
or sales employees (except outside
salesmen) in any store, office, de
partment, establishment, or public
utility, or on any automotive or
horse-drawn passenger, express, de
livery, or freight service, or in any
Continued on page four
Beauty at Fair
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Miss Druscilla Morgan, of J
McPherson, Kansas, winner of
the title of “Miss Kansas”, and
an honored guest at the Kansas
Day celebration at A Century
of Progress—the Chicago
World’s Fair.
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Auto Stealing
Racket Slumps
Of The 250,000 Cars Stolen Last
Year 90 Per Cent Of Them
Are Recovered
Some 25 0,000 automobiles were
stolen in the United States last
year and about 225,000, or 90
per cent were recovered.
That the auto stealing racket
isn’t flourishing as it did a few
years ago is disclosed in a survey
made by the American Automobile
Association which hails the pro
gress in curbing the activities of
organized rings of thieves as due to
stronger laws, greater police vigil-J
ance, heavier penalties and the in
creased difficulty in selling the'
stolen cars.
The survey showed that while
the number of cars stolen by or
ganized "racketeers” is steadily de
creasing, the theft of autos for the
purpose of stripping them of re-!
movable parts, and thefts by
"joyriders * who abandon the cars
in out-of-the-way places continue
a serious problem, particularly in
large cities.
The proportion of stolen cars
recovered increased from 71 per
cent in 1920 to 90 per cent in
1932. Reports from 70 cities
showed an average decline of 15.7
per cent in the number of car
thefts last year as compared with
1931.
KILLED BY JUMPING
COW
Grover C. Clevenger, 40, of near
Canton, was crushed to death
when a cow jumped from his
truck and landed directly on top
of him.
SHEWS
BRIEFS
CHARGE DOPING
DWINDLE
Claiming to have proof that 200
)r more horses, competing in races
it various American tracks in the
ast eight months, have been dopeo
vith narcotics by racetrack swind
ers operating on a national scale,
ederal agents arrested seven hand
ers at Arlington park in Chicago.
> KILLED BESIDE ROAD
Martinsville, Va., authorities are
making every effort to find the
car which hit and killed three
boys lying asleep on the side of a
country highway, the night of
July 26. A fourth was injured.
The mangled bodies were found in
the highway by foxhunters.
CHICAGO ARRESTS
SAPIRO
Aaron Sapiro, Chicago attorney
known throughout the bright to
bacco belt as the chief organizer of
the ill-fated tobacco co-operatives,
is one of 24 persons charged in <3
blanket indictment in a Chicago
court with restraining legitimate
trade through terrorism, bombing,
acid throwing. Sapiro was named
because until on June 2 he had
been for nearly a year, counsel for
a laundry owners association.
DEATH FOR KIDNAPER
In the first death verdict in a
United States kidnaping case, Wal
ter McGee, leader of the ganj
which kidnaped Mary McElroy
from her Kansas City home and
held her for $30,000 ransom, wai
sentenced to die for his crim<
after a Missouri jury had convict
ed him.
GRANGE DEDICATES
HOME
The Pomona Grange of Gran
ville county dedicated its county
center, the first Grange-ownec
home in North Carolina. Louis J
Taber, master of the Nationa
Grange and Kerr Scott, master oi
the State Grange, were chief speak
ers.
GREENSBORO FORBIDS SUN
DAY BASEBALL GAMES
Despite the fact that there wen
before them petitions bearing th<
names of 6,000 persons favoring
Sunday baseball games in Greens
boro, the city council by unani
mous vote passed an ordinance for
bidding the playing of such game:
within the city limits.
LABOR LEADERS
ARRESTED
Five High Point labor leader:
were arrested on charges of in
citing 200 federal relief worker:
to riot in connection with theii
strike of a week previous. The ar
rests came as result of attempts tc
halt the relief workers whey they
went back to work.
New Sales Tax
Schedule Now
In Effect Here
Salisbury merchants, along with
merchants in all sections of North
Carolina, put into operation Tues
day a new uniform schedule for
tile collection ot the state sales
tax.
Since the adoption of the sales
tax there have been three sche
dules, and because of the confusion
of these schedules Commissioner of
Revenue Allen J. Xvlaxwell has an
lounced a single schedule that will
apply to all types of businesses.
Under the new schedule the tax
collected willl be as follows:
From 1 to 9 cents: no tax.
From 10 to 3 5 cents: 1 cent tax.
From 3 6 to 70 cents: 2 cents
tax. *
From 71 cents to $1.05: 3 cents
tax.
Above $1.05, the rate will be at
3 percent and application will be
governed by the major, fractions of
purchases.
The new schedule is on the basis
of accumulated sales, too, whereas
under the old schedules the tax was
i on each separate item,
i Another difference in the new
schedule is that merchants must
j show the tax as a separate itjn|
. tW
j announced price of merchandise as
, they were permitted to do so under
; the old schedules.
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{Report Reveals 15
Per Cent of Folks
In State On Relief
Fifteen per cent of the entire
population of North Carolina re
quired aid from public funds dur
: ing the month of June, in spite of
I the improvement in general busi
j ness conditions and the creation of
| work as a result of the federal
! works program, it is shown in in
! formation given out by the gov
ernor’s office of relief.
In June, 480,319 individuals
were given aid in North Carolina,
these figures including 92,272
families with an average of five
persons to the family and 18,95 9
, individuals not members of a fam
i ily, the figures show.
I Cleveland county had only 2.6
per cent of its population receiving
| public funds for relief, supplant
, ing Stanly county, which had only
i 2.8 per cent. Until June, Stanly
had shown the lowest percentage
of destitution of any county in the
state. Avery was highest in desti
tution, 40.1 per cent of its popula
tion receiving relief funds.
Extensive improvements has
been shown in the last month or
two in the state and still further
improvement is expected in July,
when the plans for public works
and other activities begin to be
realized.
Stanly county in June had 2.8
per cent of its entire population on
relief funds, as compared with 4.2
oer cent in May, the figures re
leased show.
GOOD
MORNING
When you see a married couple
coming down the street the one
who is two or three steps ahead
is the one that’s mad.
—
MEN DON’T need to powderi
their noses. The grindstone keeps
the sheen off.
Life isn’t so simple now. In the
old days you could tell a great man
by the fact that nobody could
translate his signature.
AND ANOTHER THING we
would like to know is, would you
call surf bathers dippy?
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NO DOUBT the letter of the
law is X. That always stands for
an unknown quantity.
SO LIVE that when your sum
mons comes it won’t be delivered
by a deputy sheriff.
ONE-HALF of the wotld
doesn’t know how the other half
got so much credit.
^ ^ LIVING IMAGE
„ "DonY you thiflira - that twins
have an advantage over the average
person?”
"Why?”
"Well, they can at least see
themselves as others see them.”
SAME AS IN OTHER LINES
"Have they surplices in your
church?”
"No, only deficits.”
SATISFACTORY PROOF
Professor—What is density?
Student—I can’t exactly define
it, but I can give you a good illus
tration of it.
Professor—The ’illustration you
have already given is enough—sit
down.
DIVIDENDS may be passed and
bonds defaulted, but you still can
get plenty of love interest out of
the movies.
—
I THE DIFFERENCE between a
painist and a grocer is the one fing
ers his scales and the other scales
his fingers.
FRANCE is recognized as head
of the European gold bloc. And
does that make France a block
head?
—
AS THE MODIST said to the
hairdresser: There’s gold in them
thar frills.
Harry—"But dear, don’t you
want to marry an economical
man?”
Doris—"I suppose so, but it’s
terrible being engaged to one.”
Teacher—"Correct this senten
ce: "It was me that spilt the ink’.”
Pupil—"It wasn’t me that spilt
the ink.”
Teachers Will Get
Smailer Salaries
During This Year
North Carolina teachers will re
ceive about $543 a year, $45 a
month for 12 months, or $68 a
month for the eight months of ac
tual teaching for next two years,
based on the estimate of the State
School commission that about $12,
5 00,000 of the $16,000,000 will
be available for teacher salaries, and
that there will be about 23,00C
teachers. These estimates were
reached following the meeting of
the commission last week. A
committee was named and will bt
meeting this week from a com
mittee of the state board of edu
cation to work out a salary sche
dule for teachers for the cominj
years.
Meanwhile, the school commis
sion directed that plans be made
for auditing the school funds fot
1932-33. State Auditor Baxter
Durham, armed with an opinion
from Attorney General Brummitt
that he would be liable on his bond
for $16,000,000 school fund, ap
peared to ask funds to conduct the
audit. The school machinery law
directs that the commission,-in con
junction with the., local govern
ment commission, shall "cause ar.
audit to be made” of the funds.
It is likely that a continuing audit
will result, instead of an audit at
the end of the year, regardless of
whether the state auditor or the
commission has it done.
School folks are taking the view
that the low salaries in these time
of inflation will reap great bene
fits from their plight for the next
two years, and that, though the\
will be hard hit by th low scale
while other things are expected to
soar, they will gain in sympathy
for their plight, resulting in a much
more favorable attitude from the
next and succeeding legislatures.
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I ECONOMIC MEET
| ADJOURNS
The world economic conference,
| in session in London for six weeks,
j adjourned on July 27 for an indefi
| nite period. "Results are not alway.'
measured in terms of formal agree
J ments. They can come equally
j from a free presentation of each
j nation’s difficulties and each na
! tion’s methods to meet its indivi
i dual needs,” said President Roose
velt in a message declaring the
conference no failure.
THREE CRASH VICTIMS
DIE
Bryant Williams, Henderson,
died from hurts taken in the col
lision of his car with that of Dr.
Oscar Troop, of New York City.
Ray R. Webb, 24, died at Morgan
ton from injuries received in a
headon collision of his truck with
a car driven by Walter Duck
worth. At Warsaw, J. C. Robin
son died of burns received when
his automobile caught on fire.
Business Spurts Up In Bank Area
Shown In Many
Trade Indices
Carolinas District Hails Prosper
-ity’s Return; Construction
Is On Boom
The climb of business in the
Fifth Federal Reserve district to
ward a new era of prosperity has
begun to register definitely in most
of the trade barometers.
Gains in practically every direc
tion, some of the more pronounced
than others, were listed in the
monthly review of the Federal Re
serve Bank of Richmond covering
the Carolinas, Virginia, West Vir
ginia, Maryland and the District of
Columbia.
Commercial failures in the dis
trict for June were reported fewer
than in any other June since 1921,
and the district record was consid
erably better than the national
average.
During the first half of this
year, the number of insolvencies
compared with the first half of
1932 declined 29 per cent and the
aggregate liabilities involved drop
ped off nearly 3 8 per cent.
Employment conditions continu
ed to show improvement, with ad
ditional workers required in textile
mills, tobacco factories, coal mines
and scattered smaller industries.
"There was even a slight im
provement,’’ the review pointed
out, "in the demand for workers in
construction fields.”
Textile mills, the review con
tinued, operated full time and con
sumed more cotton than in any
previous month, production being
stimulated to some extent at least
by orders placed ahead of require
ments to escape payment of the
new process tax.
Cotton prices continued to rise
after the middle of June, and reach
ed a point about double the prices
at this time a year ago. The Re
view cited the national acreage re
duction campaign in this connec
tion.
Some increase in construction
work planned was noted, and the
review said the volume of retail
trade compared favorably with
other recent months and "in ac
tual units of merchandise sold pro
bably equalled if it did not exceed
the trade, in June last year.”
"Wholesale trade,” the review
said, "has improved notably dur
ing the past three months, especial
ly in dry goods, shoes and hard
ware.
"The agricultural situation at
present is the best for several vears
crops promising satisfactory yields
on the whole and the price situa
tion being much better than a year
ago.”
Make Plans
For Huge
Dry Rally
Wets Are Working
Quietly In North
Carolina
Election Will Be Held
November 7th.
120 Delegates Will
Be Named To N.
C. Convention .
The repeal-standpat fight in
North Carolina, with leaders of
thought divided on the question of
whether to remove the eighteenth /
amendment from the Federal con- L
stitution or leave prohibition J
as it is, will probably get under j|
way in a definite manner late in ^
August or —early in Sept-nitwF, 7
leaders of both camps predicted.
On September 3 a-big dry rally
will be held in Charlotte, but plans
for the event have not yet been
made, Francis O. Clarkson of
Charlotte, a member of the cam
paign committee of the United
Dry Forces, said. What sort of
activities are to be conducted by
the repeal advocates has not been
announced. Robert Lassiter is chair
man of the organization heading'
the repeal efforts in North Caro
linn. Walter Murphy of Salisbury,
former speaker of the North Caro
lina house of representatives, is the
executive secretary.
Under the law passed by the
recent North Carolina General As
sembly, an election will be held
November 7 to determine the
state’s stand. At this election de
legates will be named to compose
a constitutional convention, and
the delegates will number 120, the
same number as compose the
North Carolina house of repre
sentatives. Each county will elect
to the convention as many dele
gates as it has representatives in the
General Assembly.
The voters will have two bal
lots, it was explained with advoca
tes of retention of the eighteenth
amendment voting "No conven
tion.” If they win, it was pointed
out, there will be no purpose in
having a convention, for without
such a convention prohibition, as
far as North Carolina is concerned,
will remain in the national con
stitution.
If the advocates of repeal win,
however, it will be necessary to
hold a convention at which the
state can be put on record as op
posing the retention of the eigh
teenth amendment. The conven
tion will be called merely as a
formality and to comply with the
provisions of the recently enacted
law which provided the conven
tion method as the proper one for
passing upon the question of re
peal.
The delegates will be bound, as
in the case of the electoral college
in presidential elections, by the
vote of the electors. A delegate
elected on a repeal ticket could
legally vote against repeal, but he
wouldn’t dare do so, and vice
versa; although, if the prohibition
ists win, there will be no conven
tion, and by the same sort of ex
planation, if the repeal advocates
win and a convention is called, it
means that North Carolina is join
jing the repeal parade.