The Carolina Watchman '
A NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE UPBUILDING OF ROWAN COUNTY _
FOUNDED 1832—103RD YEAR SALISBURY, FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 7, 1934 ~ VOL. 103 NO. 19 PRICE 5 CENTS
DOUGHTON SEES TAX REDUCTION
' To In
WAfHBNCTOM
A Building Clash
Ickes and Moffett
Up To President
Uncle Sam’s Loans
On Foreign Debts
The big clash in the inside of the
Administration right now is be
tween Harold Ickes and Jim Mof
fett. Ickes, besides being Secretary
of the Interior and administrator
of the oil code is, as everybody
knows, head of the Public Works
Administration. Jim Moffett is
former Standard Oil vice-president
who is head of the Federal Hous
ing Administration. And the clash
is over fundamental policies of pro
moting new home building.
Moffett’s job is to try to get pri
vate capital into this field. He has
made better progress thus far than
anyone expected him to. But just
as he got things going along where
lending institutions were about pre
pared to put out several billions at
5 percent to finance new home
building, Ickes came out with a
broadcast declaration t h a t h e
thought the Government ought to
do this financing with public funds
at 3 percent.
That threw a scare into the lend
ing institutions. Wouldn’t they
look foolish offering money at 5
percent when the Government was
offering it on better terms—Ickes
even suggested "no down payr
ment”—and at 3 percent?
So Jim Moffett and the folks
who have money they want to put
to work want to know which of
the two policies is to be adopted.
Secretary Ickes is very close to the
Presidental ear. He also has built
up a strong following among mem
bers of Congress, most of whom
will follow anybody who will spend
public money in their districts.
Jim Moffett is not any kind of a
politician at all. He suffers under
the illusion that so many business
men have when they come to
that all they have to
Federal bureau.
The President himself will have
to make the final decision between
Jim Moffett’s plans and those of
Harold Ickes. Mr. Roosevelt has
been much interested in the pro
ject of getting building trade
workers back on the job without
using public funds to do it. But a
strong group of his advisers, in
cluding Ickes, Harry Hopkins, the
Relief Administrator, and some
others, protest that the Moffett
program won’t do the trick fast
enough. Looking forward to a
larger demand for direct relief this
Winter than ever before and realiz
ing that the longer men stay off
the payrolls of industry the lower
their morale sinks and the less like
ly they are to ever want to go back
to work at all, Harry Hopkins is
for anything that will provide
plenty of real work at real wages
and provide it quick.
John Fahey, head of Home Own
ers Loan Corporation, is wisely
keeping out of the controversy.
His appropriation of two billion is
exhausted, all ^having been lent to
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Most Photographed Model
a&a mam
NEW YOEK . . . Six years ago
Miss Grace Moore (above), came
down to New York from a Canadian
Girls’ School and started in model
ing. Now she ranks first as New
York’s most photographed model.
To Get Views
Of President
And Secretary
Ninth District Repre
sentative Will Confer
With Morgenthau
NEEDY VETS FAVORED
Washington.—"I am thoroughly
| convinced that there will be an eas
iing up of the tax burden”, said
Representative Robert L. Doughton
of Laurel Springs, chairman of the
ways and means committee, when
he reached Washington Tuesday to
meet with a sub-committee now
drafting the annual revenue bill to
i submit to congress in January,
j "Moreover, there will be no increase
in federal taxes unless it is absolu
tely necessary,” continued the
congressman.
i The North Carolina representa
tive said he would confer with Pre
sident Roosevelt and Secretary of
Treasury Morgenthau within the
next several days and get their
views as to what they thought will
be needed to run the federal ma
chinery during the next fiscal year
and then his committee would shape
Jts program accordingly.
Doughton will be here until the
week before Christmas in connec
tion with
ment of the bonus, Doughton said,
he would like to see a plan worked
iout for paying the veterans, espec
ially the needy ones.
Two specific proposals for elimi
nating minor taxation handicaps to
trade were discussed by internal
revenue spokesmen and members of
the bi-partisan subcommittee. They
were:
A plan to broaden the treasury’s
power of compromise in tax cases
jby revising an antiquated exemp
tion schedule to permit the depart
jment to soften the blow of delayed
'assessments in case of extreme
hardship.
A suggestion for repeal of the
capital gains tax on dealings of
non-resident aliens on American
stock and commodity exchanges,
with a view to reviving legitimate
transactions by foreign inteftests
frightened away by the capital
I gains levy.
ASLEEP FOR 33 MONTHS
Patricia Maguire, 29, asleep two
years and nine months dating from
February, 1932, has awakened to
consciousness, says a Chicago item.
The coma that has baffled medical
science was broken, and the mother
affirms that she alone had Taitb
that her daughter would be restored
her faculties.
Threatened Kidnap
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KENT, O. . . . State officials and
members of her family have re
vealed that an under-world threat
to kidnap Evangeline. Davey
(above), daughter Of Governor
elect Martin L. Davey, now baa
their attention
Building Jumps
64.1 Per Cent
Federal Reserve Optimis
tic On Wholesale And
Retail Trade And
Banking
Atlanta.;—Continued business
increases in the southeast were re
ported by the Atlanta federal re
WITfi Hnlr
showed further increases in the vol
ume of retail and wholesale trade,
in bank debits to individual ac
counts which reflect the volume of
business transactions settled by
check, in building and construe-!
tion, and in loans and deposits at
member banks.
Department store sales gained
18.2 per cent in October over Sep
tember and were 16.5 per cent
greater than in October last year.
However, because October had 27
business days and September only
24, daily average sales increased
only 5 per cent.
Wholesale trade increased 6.9 per
cent for the month and was 20.4
per cent greater than in October,
1933. Bank debits to individual ac
counts were 19.1 per cent greater
than in September and 18.2 per
cent greater than in October a year
ago.
Building permits issued at 20 re
porting cities showed a gain of 64.1
per cent for the first 10 months of
the year over the same period of
1933. They increased 49.2 per
cent from September to October
and were a little more than double
those for October last year. Con
tract awards for the 10 months’
period have been 91.8 per cent
greater than a year ago and increas
ed 12.8 per cent for October.
American Legion
Commander to Speak
Here Tuesday Night
Hubert E. Olive, of Lexington,
state commander of the American
Legion will be the guest speaker at
a meeting of the Samuel C. Hart
post of this city on next Tuesday
night, December 11th.
Commander Olive will discuss
the matter of the Soldiers’ Bonus,
explain why the Legion is asking
for the immediate payment of the
bonus, and he will be heard with
much interest by the members and
visitors of the local post.
An intensive membership cam
paign is now -under way, and all
ex-service men are urged to get
their dues paid up, and thereby as
sist the local post and in assuming
a prominent part in the work of the
Legion.
The local post is to serve an old
fashioned army "slum” supper,
with black coffee, at the meeting
next Tuesday night. All ex-service
men in this county, whether mem
bers of the Legion or not, are in
vited to attend, to enjoy the supper
and fellowship with old comrads,
and to hear the state commander.
Legion officers are anxious to as
certain Tiow many ex-service men
will attend the meeting next Tues
day night in order that sufficient
supper may be prepared, and those
planning to attend are asked to
communicate with Victor Yost,
commander of the local post, or J.
Lawrence Haynes, adjutant, not
later than Saturday, December 8th.
GOOD
MORNING
Ma—"The doctors now say that
low neck dresses ward off pneu
monia.”
Pa—"Well, where I had dinner
today I reckon some of the • girls
must be trying to ward off lumba
go” _
NO HELP
"Did that patent medicine you got
for Aunt Mamie cure her?”
"Heck, no. After she read the
label on the bottle she got four
more things wrong with her.”
HERE’S A PUZZLE
"Why do you weep over the
sorrows of people in whom you
have no interest when you go to
the theatric?” 1
"I don’t know,” replied the wo
man.
"Why do you cheer wildly when
a man with whom you are not
acquainted slides into second base?”
SAT ON
Mrs. Gayboy had friends to tea, |
one of them being the wife of a
learned professor. "I wish I knew
where George was,” remarked the
hostess, referring to her rather dis
sipated husband.
The professor’s wife drew herself
up. "I presume, miy dear,” she said
primly, "you mean you wish you
knew where he is”
"Oh, no, I don’t,” retorted Mrs.
and fearful headfche. I want to
know where he was.”
NOT ON THE JURY
A man went to a revival meet
ing in Boise and was pressed to re
pent. He wavered for a time, but
finally arose and said:
"Friends, I want to confess and
tell you how bad I have been, but
I dasn’t do it while the grand jury
is in session.”
"The Lord will forgive,” the re- |
vivalist shouted.
"Probably he will/’ answered \
the sinner, "but he ain’t on the'
grand jury.”
OUCH !
A Broadway monologist who had
worn a dent in the concrete be
tween broadcasting stations finally
became so desperate that he phoned ,
the program director of a second
rate station with this appeal: “Say,
my family’s starving and I need
money right away. For $200 I’ll
give you a stunt that will make
your station the most talked about ;
in years—I’ll commit suicide in ,
front of the mike.”
“That’s a great idea,” snapped i
the executive, “Come right up and ;
I’ll give you an audition.”
Clerk—My wife and I find it
very hard for two persons to live .
on my salary. (
Chief—Well, what do you ex- ,
pect me to do, get you a divorce?
—Passing show.
FULL O’ CONFIDENCE
Rub—What did your new smok
ing set cost?
Dub—I don’t know yet. My
wife gave it to me!—Life.
DESERVES A MEDAL
"I understand he holds a record of
some kind.”
"Yes. He is the father of seven,
and he once reassembled a Sunday
paper in four minutes.—Life.
NO IMPROVEMENT
Visitor—I see you have got all
your daughters off your hands.
Father—Yes; but I have to keep
their husbands on their feet.—An- :
swers. i
Garage Propi)ieto|r—Police sta)
tion?
Voice on 'Phone—Yes. What’s
wrong? I
"I’ve got a suspicious character i
here. He wants to pay cash for a <
second-hand car.”—Answers.
, Rebaptize or Resign
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LOUISVILLE . . . The Kentucky
Baptist Ass’n., found the immer
sion of Dr. Henry Noble Sherwood
"(above), President of the George
town (Ky.) College “irregular’.’.
| Now they demand he be rebepiiaad
i'or resign.
Home Owners
May Be Helped
Lambeth Sees Possibility
Of Help For Those
Whose Applications
Were Dropped
Washington.—Possible relief for
distressed home owners of North
Carolina whose applications for
loans are now in the hands of ap
praisers and barred because they had
not reached the legal division of
the Home Owners’ Corporation
before November 15 was promised
Representative Walter Lambeth of
Thomasville.
The eighth district congressman
conferred at length with Chairman
John H. Fahey of the HOLC.
"I stressed the fact that these ap
plicants are people for the most
part in distress and who, owing to
their situation had been unable to ;
comply with all of the provisions '
required to get loans on the way
ind before the legal division at ,
this time,” said Mr. Lambeth. "I j
:ound Chairman Fahey very sympa- ]
thetic, and he is of the opinion that ]
iome plan will be worked out to i
tare for these distressed home own- ]
:rs;,” 1
"I found that it would require -
two billion dollars to lend what is
isked by home owners whose appli
tations are suspended, and that the
riOLC has on hand only $800,
)00,000, which will be required to ]
tare for applicants whose papers are <
tefore the legal divisions. He j
thought congress might make an i
ippropriation to care for especially ,
listressed cases.” ]
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delebrates 102ND. birth- j
DAY c
Mrs. Alice Council, "Hickory’s j
tieloved old lady,” celebrated her c
!02d birthday Saturday by receiv- c
ng intimate friends and members s
>f her family. t
NEWS
BRIEFS
IWENTY LOSE LIVES
Eleven of a crew of 31 at Ma
rila on Sunday were saved when a
■notorship sank. Of the six ty
phoons visiting the island, the
leath toll now amounts to a possi
ble total of 400 lives.
NEGRO DENTIST SLAIN
H. K. Culler, negro dentist at
Orangeburg, S. C., was slain near
bis home Saturday. He lived alone,
and indications are that robbery
was the motive. A suspect is be
ing held for investigation.
KILLS HIS TWO CHILDREN
Heber Westqver, 28, killed his
2-year, and 4-month old children
by deliberately shooting them Sat
urday, in order to prevent his wife
from having custody of them after
he left. Continued bickerings be
tween husband and wife in their
Indiana, Pa., home led to the sad
end.
GOVERNOR NOT TO
INTERFERE
Bascom and Lester Green and
R. E. Black have lost their appeal
and will have to meet their sen
tence to the electric chair for the
murder of T. C. Barnes, banker at
Taylorsville,, more than a year ago.
The governor is quoted as having
stated that he will not interfere
with the execution.
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U. S. TREASURY ASKS LOAN
The government''is asking again
for a loan of the people’s money,
to the amount of 900 million dol
lars. This is to meet the heavy
relief load of the emergency re
ief program. More than half the
imount is to finance maturing
oans. New issues are being offer
ed for those maturing December
15.
ilSTER OF MRS. LINDBERGH
DIES
Mrs. Aubrey N. Morgan, sister
>f Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh, died
n a hospital at Pasadena, Cal., fol
owing a long illness. Her mother,
drs. Dwight W. Morrow, widow
if the late U. S. ambassador to
dexico, flew from her home at
ilmwood, N. J., last week to be
t the bedside of her daughter..
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Receives Charter
The Terminal Workers and;
height Handlers of Salisbury andj
ipencer have organized and have
ust had their charter installed by I
L F. of L. Organizer, R. R. Law
ence, assisted by Vice President
:ink of the State Federation of
.abor, C. L. U. secretary Pinkston,
Irother Shaver and others. The
rganization is making splendid
irogress and expects to report a
omplete membership at an early
late. R. E .Davis was elected pre
ident and W. A. Hannah secretary
reasurer.
Railway Express Co.
At Gastonia Robbed
By Bandits Yesterday
At 4 o’clock yesterday after
loon, the American Railway Ex
jress Company of Gastonia was
•obbed of about $800 in cash,
£700 in Travelers Cheques and an
ndefinite number of valuable ex
press money orders.
Two men entered the express of
’ice and at the ponit of guns forc
:d the two employees to submit
:hemselves to be bound and gag
ged. The men were described as
jeing about 5 feet 11 inches in
leight and weighing between 150
ind 160 pounds. Both men wore
lark hats and one had a tan over
mat and the other a black one.
They escaped in a black Hup
mobile sedan bearing New York li
cense tags.
The bandits have not yet been
apprehended although police from
nearby cities are on the lookout
for anyone answering to this de
scription.
John D. Messick Heads
Salisbury Kiwanians
John D. Messick, superintendent
of the Spencer schools, was elected
president of the Kiwams club here.
He succeeds Milton Whitener, and
will take office January 1.
Bankhead Act
Poll Isolated
FovS>ec. 14th
o*
Prer.yfk Indications Arc
La^! Will Continue For
Another Year
FAVOR ‘YES’ BALLOTS
Washington.—Eight, days hence
one of the most unusual proceedings
in agricultural history will take
place throughout a farming belt ex
tending from the Potomac to the
Rio Grande and westward to south
ern California.
Across the fields from which
they just picked the last bolls of the
nation’s chief export crop, as esti
mated 500,000 cotton planters wil
troop to about 8,000 polling places
open December 14 from 9 a. m. tc
5 p. m. to vote on whether the gov
ernment shall continue to tax over
nrnrliiri-Inn
Federal agents will hand each f
ballot bearing this question:
"Are you in favor of continuing
the Bankhead act for next year
(June 1, 1935 to May 31, 1936)?’
Below it are blank squares label
led "yes” and "no.” The voter wil
mark his choice.
Present indications are that there
will be so many more x’s in the
"yes” square than in the "no” that
President Roosevelt' will proclaim
the Bankhead plan effective for
another year. In that case, cotton
produced in excess of AAA allot
ments will be taxed again at the
rate of about 5.6 cents a pound.
A similar poll will be conducted
, among tobacco farmers as soon as
the Bankhead vote is counted and
announced. They are asked to de
cide whether the Kerr-Smith act,
in many respects comparable to the
Bankhead law, shall be continued
throughout 193 5. Like the cotton
men, they probably will give the
necessary majority for continuance.
For the first time in their lives
many southern negroes will exer
cise their franchise. The AAA pro
mise to see to it that racial and class
prejudice do not keep tenant farm
ers and share croppers from express
ing their feelings. In this alone, if
in nothing else, the balloting will
be unique.
Tl-lA/fnmnliio A »-»
peal recently completed a straw poll
of cotton farmers which indicated
support of the Bankhead act at the
December 14 referendum, although
the plan was defeated in the test
vote. An overwhelming majority
of producers, the poll indicated,
favored compulsory control. Many
observers concluded that the ad
verse vote on the Bankhead act re
flected a reaction against adminis
trative complexities.
Chairman Pat Harrison of the
senate finance committee predicted
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| Buddy Also Wallops |
CHICAGO . . . Buddy Baer
(above), 240 pound kid brother of
world champion Max Baer, would
rather be a crooner than a fighter.
It is reported that some of Frank
Ketter’s seconds “kidded" Buddy
about his vocal aspirations ... so
Buddy knocked Frankie out in 25
seconds in the first of four scheduled
rounds.