The Carolina Watchman
^A NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE UPBUILDING OF ROWAN COUNTY
FOUNDED 1832—104TH YEAR SALISBURY, FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 8, 1935 " ' VOL. 104 NO. 15 PRICE 2 CENTS
W4IHENCT0N
The President is back from his
holiday, and the wheels of politics
are buzzing again. .Interest locuses
now mainly on the coming session
of Congress which will begin Jan
uary 3. It will be the same old
Congress, but there is a decided
belief here that it will be a much
j more critical Congress, now that
the boys have had a chance to talk
things over with the folks back
home. Washington news for the
next six months will be the story
of a bitter struggle for political
advantage, not only on the part
of the Administration as against
the Opposition party, but on the
part of individual Senators and
j\ Representatives striving to insure
' -=>*h*tr own chances for re-elSction.
There will be plenty of contro
versial matter for the new Con
gress to consider. One of the first
things it is expected to do is to
pass the soldiers’ bonus, but with
out either the Patman greenback
provision, or any new tax plan to
provide revenue. The principle of
the Vinson bill for. a long-term
bond issue to raise cash for the vet
erans is now generally accepted.
/ SOCIAL SLCUKli I AGAIN?
There are many straws indicat
s ing' a lively controversy over old
- age pensions, going far beyond the
>4*HE«ent Social Security Act. Wash
ington is only jnst beginning to
i realize the voting strength behind
the so-called Townsend Plan, which
' is organizing local units all over
the United States and will be in a
position to put heavy pressure upon
v ICongress. There is little chance
that any universal scheme of, old
. age pensions will be adopted, but
/ the subject will certainly get an
- ' airing.
The forces back of the thirty
hour-week plan have derived new
strength from the action of the
Federation of Labor Convention,
.which advocated a Constitutional
■iS amendment giving the Federal
11 Government complete power to re- i
pJ'jgulate all industry and to fix
r , 4iours and images. It is not im
pi&sVble that such amendment,
I backed by the growing strength of
organized labor, may be submitted
to the states by Congress before
the next session adjourns.
Discussion of this will re-open
the old question of the NRA. It
is certain that strong efforts will
be made to put through some
modification of NRA. Washing
ton cannot think of NRA without
being reminded of General Hugh
\ Johnson, its aggressive former
I head, and General Johnson has
^m*ncd into the most caustic of all
critics of the New Deal. He has
lately been openly expressing him
self.
| AAA ACCEPTANCE
l The Presidential announcement
the AAA must be regarded as
j I a permanent arm of Government
l.' and not merely as an emergency
measure is looked upon here as a
clever piece of political strategy.
There cannot be any question that
the beneficiaries of AAA like it;
the recent ten-to-one vote for the
continuation of the corn-hog pro
gram is pointed to as convincing
proof, if W were needed, In
promising the farmers that AAA is
to be continued permanently, the
Administration puts the issue
squarely up to the Republicans
! who, it is conceded, must go along
with AAA or offer some accep
table substitute which has not yet
formulated.
' • 'X’he European war situation has
brought the question of national
defense again sharply to the front.
The next session of Congress may
bring a about a show-down be
tween the "peace-at-any-price”
- followers of Senator Nye, and the
“big navy” advocates, among
whom .President Roosevelt himself
has heretofore been numbered.
What .Our Government’s policy
will be may be partly determined
by the outcome of the Naval Con
ference which is to meet in London
on December 2. There is not even
the pretense of calling this a dis
armament conference. The expec
tation is that England, and most of
the other naval powers represented,
will jress for agreements permit
ting them to increase their naval
strength, and in that case it would
seem to be up to the United States
to do likewise.
When the police smell the reck
less driver’s breath, they frequent
ly conclude that he thirsted for
something other than righteous
ness.
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Democrats Register
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Parade Features Armistice Fete
Big Parade
Will Feature
Morning Bill
Speech, Football Game.
Dance Also Scheduled;
Hood To Speak
Plans have been completed foj
the Armistice Day celebration hen
Monday, under the auspices oi
Samuel C. Hart post of the Ameri
tan Legion.
Features of the event will be :
long parade, which begins at 10:3(
i. m. Floats by business, civic, anc
patriotic organizations will be en
tered in the parade.
Following the parade, Quay D
Hood, of Lancaster, S. C., will de
liver the Armistice day address.
A barbecue dinner will be helc
n the Rouzer building at noon.
At 2:30 p. m., Salisbury anc
Lexington highs will begin a foot
sail game at Boyden High School
Monday night a dance will be
tonducted in the Rouzer buildinig.
UJhl- IU MfcfcT
H. E. ISENHOUR
liov. Landon,
Will Address
Lutheran Men
Governor Alfred Landon, o!
Kansas, will be one of the speaker;
at Kansas City, Mo., at the fiftl
biennial convention of the Ameri
tan Federation of Lutheran Brother
hoods, according to Harry E. Isen
hour, of this city, who is presiden;
of this organization and who lef
Salisbury Tuesday to attend anc
preside over the meetings. Mr. Isen
hour will return to the city Mon
day.
The convention began Thursday
of this week and will continu;
through Sunday.
Mr. Isenhour has been presideni
of this body since 1930.
Governor Landon is probabb
the outstanding Republican presi
dential choice for 1936.
Tribe To Face
Naval Gridmen
After taking a holiday on Mon
day afternoon, the Catawba Indian
got back to their drills in prepara
tion for their last out-of-State foe
the Naval Apprentice Shipbuilders
who will be met in Newport News
Va., Friday night.
The Redskins’ rousing 20-6 vie
tory last Saturday over the Woffor<
Terriers has hardly been forgottei
in the city of Spartanburg. Th
blocking an4 the allround play o
the Indians against the Terrier
was brilliant.
We are the dead.
Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn,
saw sunsets glow,
Loved and were loved,
and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
L b, Jobo Mc Cam
“In Flandcn Held*"
NEWS
BRIEFS
HOLC OFFICIAL MOVED
Charles H. Neal, assistant state
manager of the Home Owners Loan
corporation here, has been transfer
red to the Atlanta office of the
corporation as a regional supervisor
of loan servicing, it is announced
by T. C. Abernathy, state manager.
Mr. Neal’s headquarters will be At
lanta and he will have supervision
over the work in five states.
OKLA. LAWYER TALKS HIS
ARM OUT OF JOINT
Oklahoma City.—Cjharles B.
Holden threw his right arm out of
joint while arguing a case "before
the Oklahoma Supreme Court.
The attorney, gesticulating vig
orously, suddenly paused in his
argument. Other lawyers jerked
the arm back in place. Flolden
explained he injiired the arm play
ing football at the University of
North Carolina.
REPORT STOLEN AUTOS
I Raleigh.—There were 116 auto
mobiles reported stolen in the State
last month and 69 stolen cars re
covered, leaving a net loss to auto
mobile owners of 47 cars, the
motor vehicle bureau of the De
partment of Revenue announced.
OIL COMPANY ACCUSED
High Point.—Thirteen warrants
charging sale of misbranded and
adulterated gasoline under false
trade names were drawn here
against R. B. Gantt, Mr. arid Mrs.
R. B. Gantt and Willard Leathers,
Trading as the Piedmont Oil com
pany.
FOUR OF QUINTS WALKING
Callander, Ont.—Four of the
Dionne quintuplets toddled with
out support Monday while baby
Marie, tinest of the children, was
able to make her way a few feet
with the aid of one of her nurses’
fingers.
Stock Mart Prices Boom
Rush Of Buying
Speeds Upturn
| Advance is Most Rapid
In Year, With Leaders
Gaining $1 to $5 A
Share
[ New York.—A buying torrent
. swept stock market prices upward
. this week at a speed not attained
by the list in more than a year.
In the boom-time rush for favor
: ite equities, numerous gains of $1
to around $5 a share were record-.
: ed. During the first and last hours
of trading the ticker tape dropped
r 2 minutes behind floor transactions
. as blocks of several thousand shares
changed hands.
Traders came back from their
election holiday with their pockets]
crammed with purchasing orders.
The usual instructions were to "buy
' at the market,” and leading issues
spurted at the sound of the opening
■ gong on the New York Stock ex
i change. There were intervals of
• profit-taking, when the activity
> slowed, but the fast finish found
, the majority of stocks not far from
> their best levels of the session.
Wall Street analysis differed in
- their opinions as to the whys and
i wherefores of the forward swing,
i Some thought the revival of bullish
: sentiment might have been pred
: icated on the results of the voting,
i These believed the victory of the
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“Tell Why" And
Win A Prize
V
In order that readers of The
Carolina Watchman may become
better acquainted with Salisbury
merchants and with the advantages
of Salisbury as a trade center, The
Watchman will conduct a "Tell
Why” letter writing contest over
the next three weeks in which the
general public may compete.
With valuable prizes offered for
the best, letters received "Telling
Why” it pays to patronize local
merchants, the contest will offer
every man, woman and child an
opportunity to secure one of the
prizes which are being offered.
Rules of the contest will appear
in next week’s issue of The Caro
lina Watchman together with the
closing date of the contest. Every
one is invited to submit as many
letters as they may care to and each
and every one received will be
judged according to their merits.
YOUTH IS CONFINED IN CAR‘
FOR FIVE DAYS
Charlotte.—Joe 1 (Shelton will
wait a long time before crawling
in a box car again. Last Friday he
crawled into one at Maxton and
hid behind bales of cotton. Train
men later sealed the car and start
ed it traveling.
Tuesday detectives discovered
young Joe, weak from his five-day
imprisonment.
Radio Buying
Creates lobs
Philadelphia.—Radio production
and sales are 50 to 100 per cent
over last year, according to latest
estimates, while auto sales are 22
per cent above, and index levels
for general business are 14 per
cent over 1934.
' So heavy has been the demand
for new radio sets that officials of
the Philadelphia Storage iB-attery
Company report an increase of
over 2,000 workers employed ir
the Philadelphia plants when
Philco radios are made.
Youth Drops
Dead Riding
His Bicycle
\
Albert Herman Van Poole, IS
dropped dead Sunday afternoor
while riding his bicycle on a local
street. The funeral was held
Monday afternoon at the First
Baptist church.
His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mel
ton Van Poole of East Henderson
street, and the following brothers
and sisters survive: Chalmers, M
B., Jr., Mary Ruth, Betty Cree and
Gladys Louise Van Poole.
He was buried in the Chestnut
Hill cemetery.
N. C. Projects
Are Approved
Raleigji.—Capus M. <Wayiiick,
chairman of the Highway and
Public Works commission, said he
had been notified President Roose
velt has approved projects for
North Carolina highways, roads
and streets which it is estimated
will cost $2,73 5,483 in Federal
funds.
Waynick said the State’s appor
tionment under the $200,000,000
works program highway allocation
was $4,720,173, leaving $1,984,
000 worth of projects to be in
cluded in other programs.
WAKE MAN NEAR DEATH
AFTER ATTACK; 2 HELD
Raleigh.—Herbert O’Neal, who
lives near Raleigh on the Wake
Forest road, was found uncon
scious on the doorstep of his home
and Coroner L. M. Waring ordered
*J. G. Nolin, operator of a roadside
lunchroom, held on a charge of at
tacking O’Neal.
The coroner said he was told
O’Neal had only a slight chance to
recover.
O’Neal had served sentences for
bootlegging, Wake officers said,
and they were investigating reports
he was robbed of about $300 after
being assaulted.
J. B. Blake was ordered held un
der $100 bond as a material wit
ness in the case.
Kpite Split,
KentuckyAgain
Returns to Fold
31d-Age Pensions Over
whelmingly favored;
Vote Offsets Gain
In East
PRESIDENT PLEASED
Louisville, Ky.—A. B. (Happy)
Chandler, Democrat who had the
upport of President Roosevelt, piled
up an apparently insurmountable
ead over Judge King Swope, Re
publican, in their race for governor
>f Kentucky Tuesday.
Kentuckians wrote into their
:onstitution authority for the legis
ature to enact old age pensions.
KENTUCKY MAY OFFSET GOP
GAINS IN EAST
Kentucky elections tellers count
id a growing lead for Democracy’s
gubernatorial candidate, A. B.
(Happy) Chandler, forecasting a
possible offset to Republican vic
tories in the east.
Safely in control of the New
York and New Jersey State as
semblies and victorious in electing
a mayor in Philadelphia and a sup
erior court judge for Pennsylvania,
Republican leaders claimed voters
in those States had repudiated the
New Deal.
Chairman James A. Farley of the
Democratic national committee saw
it otherwise. He asserted that
papular vote totals in Ngat-Yack.
would give Democratic candidates
a plurality of some 500,000.
"Accepting that the New Deal
was the issue”, he added, "New'
York State voted in favor of it by
the large majority of 500,000.”
Farley insisted that Republican .
gerrymandering had made it im
possible for the Democrats to elect
i majority of the assembly except
:n landslide years.
Adding to the complexity of the
Democratic factional fight in the
Kentucky campaign, the New Deal
ssue was very emphatically raised
ay some Democratic spokesmen,
vho appealed for Chandler votes as
aallots indorsing the Roosevelt ad
ninistration. Swope avoided any
mention of the New Deal in his
ipeeches.
nrti <• i i r r r t
ine icuu uciwccn L-diiiAm auu
Chandler began when the lieuten
ant governor turned against the
state sales tax which Laffoon had
Fathered, and then defeated a Laf
foon-backed candidate for the De
mocratic nomination.'
Laffoon campaigned actively
against Chandler, denouncing him
as “a crooning, dancing young
man,” who had betrayed his admin
istration. The Governor supported
other Democratic nominees, how
ever.
PARTY LEADERS DIFFER IN
INTERPRETING VOTE
Washington.—National Republi
can and Democratic leaders found
such divergent meanings in Tues
day’s State election as claims that
the New Deal had been both repu
diated and indorsed.
From G. O. P. spokesmen came
contentions that the election of
Republican-controlled Assemblies
in New York and New Jersey in
dicated waning support for the
Roosevelt administration.
Promptly, the Democrats re
sponded that, nevertheless, their
candidates polled a plurality of pou
ular votes in New York and nortl>*r\
ern New Jersey. Thus, they raid,
the voters approved the New Ileal.
The Republicans thoughp Phila
delphia’s election of a Republican
mayor was significant, too, but the
Democrats pointedly noted that the
G. O. P. plurality, 338,000 in 1932,
was 47,000 on Tuesday.
While other party leaders were
quick to voice their conclusions,
President Roosevelt at Hyde Park
stood by a policy of not comment
ing. Friends who knew his mind,
however, said he felt the election,
ofra Republican Assembly in New
York despite a Democratic popular
plurality was nprmal.