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I OUNDED H»2-10OT YEAR SALISBURY, FRIDAY MORNING^ OCT.l>». . VOL 101 No. 10. PRICE 2
ign Under Way
__s Shorter Week
Circulation Of
Money, Credit
Badly Needed
Industry Nerds Aid In Meeting
Higher Payroll Expense
DRIVE STARTS MONDAY
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farm Administrators And *NRA
To Enter Into Price Fixing
Conferences Beginning Mon.
Hugh S. Johnson directed the
power of NRA’s influence toward
a "buy now” campaign to speed
the circulation of money and
credit.
He addressed manufacturers and
advertisers throughout the country,
noting the end of the "flat wallet
era” and urging full co-operation
in the "now is the time to buy”
drive officially set to start Mon-J
day.
Johnson’s move to increase credit
velocity was intended chiefly to
help industry meet NRA’S higher
payrolls, but it blended smoothly
with President Roosevelt’s deter
mind efforts to expand credit and
boost farm prices.
Further, it coincided with the
coming to Washington of Henry
Bruere, president of the Bowery
Savings bank of New York, who
boarded Mr. Roosevelt’s train a.* itj
headed toward the White House ]
from New York City. Bruere was .
•expected to co-ordinate the entire
credit expansion campaign.
Another step with the same aim
was the government’s request for
bids on 844,5 25 tons of steel rails
for 47 railroads. The public works
administration will lend the $25,
000,000 cr more buying price to
the carriers.
United States, Bethlehem and In
land Steel and the Colorado Fuel
and Iron company were the con
cerns to which Joseph B. Eastman
railroad co-ordinator, addressed re
quests for prices. Later, a number
of companies will bid on 245,221
tens of fastenings.
Johnson, expected back in his of
fice soon to direct personally the
buying campaign and reorganize
his administration for enforcement
work, cited to the manufacturers
statistical evidence that new pur
chasing power has been created in
recent months.
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lie M1U nuguai tactuiy ‘■“Y I I
ir.cnt was up 24 per cent over Aug
ust, 1932, and payrolls 40 per cent,
while July farm prices showed a
3 3 per cent boost.
"In view of these develop
ments,” Johnson said, "we believe
that the opportune moment is at
hand for American industry to
bend every effort toward increased
sales • . • Two courses of action
are absolutely essential. They are:
First, give the public attractive, up
to date merchandise fairly priced,
and second, aggressively promote
your products to the public.” ' j
At NRA headquarters today, the
wage and hour provisions of the
farm administration’s food and gro
cery code were opened for a public
hearing. Consideration of the
code’s price fixing sections begins
Monday bfore farm administrators.
TO START ZEP SERVICE
Akron, O.—Dr. Hugo Eckener
is seeking permission to use the na
val air station at Lakehurst as a
temporary terminal for a trans
Atlantic zeppelin service between
Germany and the United States in
the spring of 1935. Probably a
mooring mast will be placed near
’Washington for a summr terminal
and one at Miami for a winter ter
minal.
HURLS COW ON MAN, DIES
Little Falls, N. Y.—Ward Deck
er, 41, was fatally injured when a
train plowed into a herd of cow*
and hurled one of the animals
against him,
NEWS
BRIEFS
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$20,000,000 FOR HUGE DAM
The public works administration
on Friday allotted $20,000,000 for
construction of a huge dam for
p:wer and irrigation purposes at
,Bcnneville, Oregon, on the Colum
bia river. A $63,000,000 project
at Grand Coulee, Washington, on
the same river, had previously been
approved.
END FREIGHT SURCHARGES
A yearly reduction of $10,000,
000 in the nation’s railroad freight
bill was automatically effected
with the close of September when,
after 21 months of operation, the
surcharges permitted for hauling
nearly every type of goods, expired
and the regular rates again took ef
fect.
UNIVERSAL1STS NAME
BRYANT
The State Universalist conven
tion met at R,ocky M»lj,nt last
week. Rev. O. E. Bryant, Clinton
was chosen president.
JUDGE BUYS HIS
OWN TOMBSTONE
Kannapolis—Judge J. L. Boger
of Kannapolis recorder’s court has
had a monument erected to him-)
self here. j
The judge will be, 75 years old
icxt October 7. He isn’t expect-)
ng to die right away but—Well,
s he puts it himself, he knows he’s
$ot to die seme day.
As the judge knows exactly,
svhat kind of a monument he wants
after he dies. So he just went
ahead and ordered the kind he
wanted.
It’s a medium sized stone, stand
ing four feet high and seated on a
base twelve inches thick.
CRIMINAL UNDER ARREST
One of two men arrested :t
Charlotte, in pos'ession of a ma
chine gun, has been found to be
Art Austin, a criminal wanted in
several states for robbery and vio
lence.
FIND IIALIFAX EMBEZZLER
E. A. Matthews, Roanoke Rap
ids attorney sought since 1926 on
a charge of emebzzling has been
located in Honoluluu and his re
turn for trial is being sought.
DIRECT U. S. RELIEE. PLAN
President Roosevelt, while speed
ing to Chicago to address the Am
erican Legion, anounced a plan to
form a huge non-profit corpora
tion which will go into national
markets to buy food, clothing and
fuel for direct distribution to the
destitute, with Harry L. Hopkins
as director of the enterprise. The
plan is also expected to /relieve
markets of price depressing sur
pluses.
APPROVE 10 ROAD PROJECTS
Low bids totalling $383,039,
for construction of 10 road pro
jects in North Carolina by use of
public works funds, were approv
ed by the state highway and pub
lic works commission. The next
letting is set for October 17.
MODIFY SCHOOL BUS LAW
Answering a demand of state
wide proportions, the state school
commission last week modified its
order forbidding 'transportation of
children living within two miles of
a school, and permitting bus driv
ers to complete their loads to ca
pacity with smaller children living
inside the limits.
ROOSEVELT ENDS MINE WAR
Around 75,000 miners in the bi
tuminous coal fields of the steel
companies have returned to work.
President Roosevelt having secured
an agreement for the mines to op
erate under the terms of the coal
code recntly adoptd.
Commander-in-Chief
Col. Russel C. Martin, of Los An
geles, is to serve another year as
Commander-in-"Chief of the Grand
Army of the Republic, He was re
elected at. the 67th encampment at
8t. Paul.
SAFES BLOWN OPEN
The safe of Holshcuser’s hard
ware store at Rockwell was blown
open and the adjoining Peeler’s-gro
cery store robbed one night last
week, and the thieves also blew
the safe of the Richfield' Roller
mills at Richfield.
HEN LAYS EGG A DAY
FOR 16-YEAR RECORD
Xenia, Ohio—An egg a day for
all of her sixteen years is the pro
duction record claimed for a hen
ow ned by B. I:. Green, of Goes,
near here. Green says he purchas
ed the chicken when it was a, day
n'd. Since she began to lay -he’s
done it daily, Green says. I
Asks Mayors To
Send In Reports
—
President Urges Steps Bd Taken To
Give Work to Idle .
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Chicago—Mayors of! American
cities were invited bv| president
Roosevelt to send in th^ir requests
for shares in the $3,300,000,000!
federal public works fund, and
were promised prompt faction.
His message was read ti 80 muni
cipal executives attending the
United States conference! of mayors
just as they finished listening toj
charges that procrastination in dis
tributing the public works funds'
had put national recovery in the
doldrums.
"We are at the point now where
the states and municipalities inter
ested in public work projects should
ccme forward quickly with propo
sals which will give: immediate
work to their unempfoyed,” the
President’s message read.
"We want to cooperate to the
fullest possible extent, and I assure
you that after your projects have
been passed upon by the state ad
visory boards they will be acted up-’
cn in Washington with Jj minimum
of delay.
"We will match speed! with yrou,'
The money is available atjcl we want
to put men to work.” j .
The president’s messaae was a'
direct reply to the objections many
mavow, had brought «M$ie confer
ence against delavs in dlstribut'Ifig
the funds for public works.
Foils Kidnapers >
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Helen Ratoliellcr. society lieiroes o) !
Mew York, planning t'or wedding
wtis threatened, with kidnaping
Careful plans trapped the suspects, ■
nn-se, 23, and filling station man
COLORADO TOO YOUNG
FOR OLD AGE PENSIONS
Pueblo, Col.—Colorado is not
ild enough for most old age pen
sioners. TJo date, of 5 00 appli-l
:ants examined by the judge, only
:wo were born in Colorado.
Reason for the few native-born
tpplicants is seen in the provision
if the law that an applicant must
le at least 65 years of age. Sixty-;
rive years ago—1868—there were
mly a handful of persons in the
:ntire Rocky Mountain district.
One applicant is from ^Nevada,
md two or three from Wyoming.
Kansas is the. native state, of a few
nhers. Indiana and Missouri are
:he native states of most of die
applicants.
Virginia Joins
The Repealists
32nd State To
Favor Repeal
Bi.,bop Can non Fails To Cast A
Vote In FI is Home State.
On Tuesday Virginia voted near-'
ly two to one for repeal of the 18th
amendment, the list of states favor-'
ing abandonment of prohibition S
now stands at 3 2, with none op
posed.
On next Tuesday, October 10th
Florida will vote, and on Novem-j
br 7th referendums will be held in
North and South Carolina, Ohio,1
Kentucky, Pennsylvania and Utah.'
If four of these states decide for
repeal the prohibition amendment j
will be nullified as soon a° |
state conventions formally pass on
repeal, probably during the first
week of December.
The Old Dominion, one of the,
bulwarks of proljibitin since 1914,;
turned thumbs down on the amend-:
ment it had been the second to rati
fy. At the same time it recom-|
ended the repeal of the Layman
act, state dry law.
Bishop Cannon who was in the
thick of the battle in 1914 when'
Virginia voted for state-wide pro
hibition and who continued his
militant, championship of the dry
cause after the Mth amendment
had been written into the constitu
tion took no active part in the re
peal campaigning.
He neither voted by mail nor ap
peared at his home precinct, Black
! stone, which joined most of the
state’s communities in opposing;
prohibition, state and national.
Another good co-educationai in
stitution is a son old enough to ask'
questions. j
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A Modern Alice
Charlotte Henry, of Brooklyn,
N. Y., has been chosen from 7,000
applicants to portray “Alice” in
Wonderland, as it goes to the screen.
Higher Coal Prices
Appear Probable
Washington—Higher prices for
bituminous coal likely will go into
effect within a few days.
Having almost completed disd
cussions and negotiations among
themselves, operators from the vast
Appalachian region were nearly
ready today to talk over their pro
posals for increases with NRA of
ficials.
Increased prices for Coal from
other outlying regions will be pub
lished as soon as the cod* admin
istrative machinery is set up«
Concord Man Kills
Self; Also Wounds
His Sweetheart
Walker Davis, 26-year-old tex
tile worker, is dead and Pauline
Hughes is critically wounded, the
result, is said to be of the girl’s re
fusal to marry him.
Aftr drawing his week’s pay at
a textile mill, Davis was reported
to have hopped a taxicab and gone
to a filling station near Concord,
operated by the girl’s relatives.
The couple met there and were
engaged in a long conversation, of
ficers reported. Later Davis, shot
the girl through .the breast, police
were informed, and then walked
down the road.
A short distance away his body
was found, a gunshot wound in the
middle of his forehead. Miss
Hughes’ condition was so critical
that officers did not attempt to
question her, but they said it was
a case of suicide and; attempted
murder.
McKEE IN NEW YORK RACE
New York City’s mayorality race
has been thrown into a turmoil by
the entry of Joseph V. McKee as
an independent Democrat to oppose
both Mayor John P. O’Brien,
Tammany Democrat, and Fiorello
H. LaGuardia, Republican and fu
sion candidate.' As former presi
dent of the board1 of aldermen, Mc
Kee initiated many economies in
city government.
SON HELD FOR FATHER’S
DEATH
Will Snow, 33, of Walker town,
is held for the slaying of his father,
W. T. Snow, 62. He claims to
have hit his father in self-defense
when the father attacked him with
a knife.
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GOOD
MORNING
"Take it from me, the only dif
ference between you and a donkey
is that a donkey wears a collar.”
"Well I wear a collar.”
’Then there’s no difference at
all.”
Lockett—Do you know what I
think.of married life?
Keyhoe—Are you married?
Lockett—Yes.
Keyhoe—Yes, f know.
It is just like a woman to com
plain that home-life is narrow ant!
then sit for hours at the movies be-1
tween a couple of fat citizens.
Respect tor gray hair makes no
dividends for the d/e industry.
We are willing to admit history
repeats itself. It doesn’t have to
drag out the Ran /ears to seven!
to get the i'jt.a across.
When a man says he idolizes his
wife that doesn’t mean she has a
mouth but speaks not.
ITS A BIRD STORE
"Something?”
"For the canary.”
"Eh?” ,;
„ ‘Give me some grand opera seed.
--Louisville Courier Journal.J*- ■
'ANYTHING TO OBLIGE
Beggar—I haven’t seen a bite to
eat for a fortnight.
Lady—Mary, show him our leg
of mutton.
HE'S CRAZY
Insurance Inspector—Would you
mind telling me if there is any in-!
sanity in your family, lady?
Wife (a policy seeker)—Well,1
no not exactly. Only my hus-j
band thinks he’s boss at home.!
Hummel, Hamburg.
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BIG DIFFERENCE_ i
"i understand the two candidates
carried on quite an epistolary
bombardment.”
"No, they didn’t use no pistols,1
thev just wi*it letters back ^nd
forth.”
KNOWS FROM EXPERIENCE \
"It’s hard to collect money in
these times.”
"How do youu know? Are you
a collector?” I
"No, but a lot of other people
have tried to collect money from
me.”
TAKE NOTICE
Mother: Don’t you want to be
the kind of girl that people look up1
to?”
Edna: "Naw I wanna be the
kind of a, girl that people look
around at.” j
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REAL STUFF
Grocer: "Would you like some,
wax beans?”
Sweet Young Bride: "Nix on1
ycur lousy imitations. I want real
>»
ones.
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AGE THERMOMETER \
Dear Editor: "When does a man
reach old age?”
Dear Subscriber: "A man is
not old so long as his coattail cov
ers the seat of his pants.
WHEN EGGS RUN SMALL.^
Mrs. Newlywed was complaining
to the grocery man about the small
size of the eggs he was selling her.
"That just goes to show how
fresh they are”, he explained.
"I'don’t understand,” said the
sweet young thing.
"Why”, the dealer went onj
"the farmers I get my eggs of- are
so anxious to rush them to me while
they’re fresh that they sometimes
take them off the nest too soon.” {
"Oh, f see. Thank you, so
much!” said the sweet young thing.
Less Hours;
More, Pay
Speaks Before Federation And Is
. Roundly Cheered By A Large
Gathering.
WORKS BOARD SCORED
Frances Perkins Tells Federation
Shorter Week and Higher
W age Necessary.
Washington— The demand of'
William Green, president of the
American Federation of Labor, for
shorter working hours and higher
minimum wages than are now be
ing incorporated in NR A codes
was given the direct support of
Secretary Frances Perkins.
The cabinet member, whose ap
pointment as secretary of labor the
icderation’s high command had op
posed onlv a Few mnnrlac mo
before rhe annual convention of
the organization with a stalwart de
mand for strengthening the voice
of organized labor.
3X e cannot stop with the pres
ent minimum wages and maximum
hours of labor,” Miss Perkins said,
as the 5 00 delegates and their
guests cheered.
"We n»ust go on with a unified
purpose to an ever improving
standard pf living a.nd assurance of
economic security for all our people
and sufficient leisure to enable us
to enjoy the blessings which our
resources and our equipment can
make available to all of us.”
A few hours before Miss Perkins
arrived her message of co-operation
to the federation, eight national
and international unions hid join
ed in a- denunciation of the hand
ling of the $3,300,000,000 public
works program with its potential
millions of jobs.
The resolution which they asked
the convention to approve said that
"through the laxity or the ineffi
ciency of those entrusted with the
expenditure” of the money, thous
ands of industrial workers "are in
suffering and want.”
The resolution proposed an ap
peal to President Roo:;evelt "for
the removal of those public offi
cials who cither through their laxi
tv or their inefficiency are respon
sible for much of the present un
employment unless those new in
charge can show their willingness
to carry out the intent of Cong
ress.
Squirrel Season
Is Now Open
Raleigh—Squirrel hunting season
opened October 1 ill over North
Carolina, except in a few counties
which by local laws opened earlier,
and will extend until November 30
in the west and until December 31
in central and eastern zones, the de
partment of conservation and de
velopment announces.
The first part of the split sea
son for doves ended October 1, and
hunting of them is prohibited un
til November 20, then the season
starts again. Deer hunting, which
began September 1 in the eastern
zone, opens in the west October 13
and will close in all zones on the
same date, December 13. Bear
season, -which is continuous in the
eastern zone, started October 1 in
western and central zones.
The opossum and raccoon sea
son does not start until November
1 in all zones, except that earlier
hunting is allowed in a few coun
ties by local laws. The main sea
son, for quail, rabbit and wild tur
key, opens in the western zone No
vmber 13. and in the central and
eastrn zones) November 20.
The danger in making a god of
money is that nothing can be wrong
if you are doing it for your good<