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found of forecasting
the Administration’s course is by
studying the /personalities close to
the President and noting the rise
and fall of their influence with him.
After thar/he;guessing begin*—be
cause the/ is /such a wide variety
of men and women, holding such a
wide diversity 6f hews, all of whom
having the Presidential ear to some
extent, that nobody can be quite
sure whose influence is being ex
erted most strongly.
Secretary^ of the Treasury Mor
genthau has long been a close per
sonal frien® qf the President and he
is regarded here as having steadily
increased Ins influence in the White'
House. Mv Morgenthau is very
!-strong for getting down Govern
I ment spending^ coordinating the
work of tl^e emergency agencies
and working asf fast as possible to
[ ward bah'ncingj; the Federal Budget.
At th£ opposite end on the ques
tion of feconorhy is Harry Hopkins,
(Relief^'Administrator, who is also
f.sacrnely clo/se to the President,
and whose philosophy is for giving
everybody a job on some Govern
ment project.
PERSONNEL OF GROUPS
There is a strong group of con
servative Presidential advisers who
are extremely critical of Mr. Hop
kins' policies. Besides Mr. Mor
gcv.thaa,' these include Professor
Raymond Moley, who still has th<“
Presidential ear although he is out
of office; Frank C. Walker, who is
a definitely conservative influence
and is frequently Consulted by the
President^ and Postmaster General
Farley, who is the President’s most
trusted political adviser.
Then there are twov distinct
groups which are classed by these
conservatives as radicals. One of
them is headed by Professor Tug
well, who has built up a strong
following for his idea tHat the
Government should extend its con
trol over all large industries. Dr.
Tugwell is still welcome at the
White House. He has as his right
• hand man Gardiner C. Means, who
■'functions as a general adviser in
the AAA. Another group is head
ed by Professor Felix Frankfurter,
and the belief grows that this
group has gained more influence
with the President in the last year
than any other. The Frankfurter
theory of Government relation to
business is that business enterprises
should be prevented from becom
ing too large, and should be policed
by the Government to prevent
them from doing wrong, rather
than dictated to or controlled.
CLASH OF OPINIONS
Secretary Wallace continues to
have close and influential relations
with the President. Mr. Wallace
is a good deal of a puzzle to Wash
ington. As Secretary of Agricrl
ture he is regarded as doing a good
job. As a philosopher, he often ex
presses himself in ways which
would seem to back up the Tug
well theory of Federal control of
industry.
It is said some bitterness exists
in the Administration’s official
household between the conserva
tives and those of the Hugwell
Hopkins school of thought. On
the conservative side observers
list Secretary of Commerce Roper
and Secretary of the Interior Ickes,
neither of whom is believed to
have any particular influence with
the President.
Secretary of State Hull has
everybody’s respect, but is not a
particularly influential figure in
shaping Administration policies ex
cept in foreign affairs. Joseph
Eastman, coordinator of railroads,
is very close to the President and
regarded as influential. Jesse
Jones, head of RFC, is not a close
Presidential adviser, though he is
well liked as an efficient adminis
trator. -
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elination to follow the lead of his
conservative advisers, especially in
the matter of consolidating em
ergency agencies and centralizing
budget control.
The latest move in this direction
is the coordination of all the hous
ing agencies under Peter Grimm.
Mr. Grimm has been made Assis
tant Director of the National Em
ergency Council. He has been in
the real estate business in New
York all his life, and is highly re
garded las a public-spirited, for
ward-looking able citizen.
Mr,,.Grimm has been the back
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F. R. Asks Banks To Loosen Up
Plea Is M-'de
Forces To
Extend Credit
Speakers Demand That
The Government Keep
Hands Off Banks
PRESIDENT PLEASED
New Orleans.—The American
Jankers’ association Tuesday heard
requests^from President Roosevelt
ind heads of two Federal financial
igencies for an extension of credit
to busines^, industry, and real
tstate, after their own leader had
demanded government withdrawal ■
from the field of banking and
Dther private business.
Mr. Roosevelt’s request was
made in a letter read before the
bankers’ convention in which he
said, "All banks are now in a
itrong position.” His plea was
:choed in addresses by Jesse H.
fones, chairman of the Recon- T
itruction Finance corporation; and
Leo T. Crowley, chairman of the
Federal Deposit Insurance corpora
tion.
"I have watched with great in
terest the continued improvement
in banks throughout the country
during the last two years,” Mr.
Roosevelt’s letter said, "the prog
ress which I reported to the con
vention last year is being main
tained. Evidences of great recov
ery are at hand.
"Bank portfolios and deposits
reflect this.
"I am gratified, as' I am sure
every member of the American
Bankers’ association is gratified, to
know that all banks now are in a ,
strong position, and I hope they
will take full advantage of the
new banking act and provide cred
it where it can be done upon a
sound basis to business and in
dustry and to real estate.”
The President said he was sure
that with co-operation among
banks, business, and government
—and mutual confidence—“we
will soon solve our remaining prob
lems.”
N. C. Car Total
Hits New High
Raleigh.—More automobiles are
being operated in North Carolina
now than ever before, if registra
tions mean anything.
Up to November 12, 503,686
pairs of tags had been issued for
motor vehicles in the State this
year, which exceeds all previous
annual records.
In--1929 during the entire 12
months there were 503,521 cars li
censed and during 1934 the total
was 464,473.
Youth Is Killed
While Hunting
Near Salisbury
Willie Thompson, 16, negro,
killed while hunting near the city
Wednesday.
His brother, W. P. Thompson,
12, was with him at the time,
and said he heard a shot while his
brother, who had the only gun,
was on the opposite side of a
thicket. The load entered Willie’s
throat and brought instant death.
Officers detained the brother
pending a further investigation.
Cotton
Census report shows that there
svere 6221 bales of cotton ginned
in Rowan County from the crop
af 1935 prior to Nov. 1 as com
pared with 5126 bales ginned to
Nov. 1 crop of 1934.
_Mrs. Thomas A. Edison Now a Bride
HOT SPRINGS, Va.. .. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Everett Hughes (above),
are spending their honeymoon here. Mrs. Hughes is the widow of Thomas
A. Edison, famous inventor. Mr. Hughes of Franklin, Pa,, is ft retired
steel executive. They Were neighbors and childhood sweethearts at Lake
Chautauqua, N. T. in the 1870’s.
Eight Children Die As
Alexis Home Burns
The eight children of Mr. and
Mrs. Hubert Cunningham, ranging
from the ages of one to nineteen,
were burned to death early Wed
nesday morning at Alexis, 15 miles
from Gastonia.
Mr. and Mrs. Cunningham were
burned in an effort to warn their
children of the blaze which started
about 1 a. m., but were not serious
ly hurt. It is said that the moth
er saw two of her children in the
burning room where seven of them
were sleeping, but the furious
flames drove her back when she
tried to reach them.
The six-room two-story house
burned to the ground. The Cun
ninghams had been living there only
about six months. Origin of the
blaze was undetermined, but it
was thought that it originated in
the upper part of the house. The
family was sleeping down stairs.
Large crowds visited the scene.
Employes of a Gastonia undertaking
firm removed the charred remains
of the bodies. The remains of two
of the children—it was impossible
to ascertain which two due to the
condition of the bodies—were
found near the front of the house,
indicating they must have almost
made good an escape through the
front when the roaring flames
trapped them. >
Coroner L. C. Kincaid said he
considered an inquest unnecessary.
| Jimmy and Betty |
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NEW YORK . . . A close up of
former-mayor Jimmy Walker of
N. T. and his wife, the former
Betty Compton, upon their return
here after his three-year self im
posed exile in Europe which started
amid the Seabury investigation.
“Walker says he wants no part of
polities" for the present,' at least
CANCEL THAT CALL
First Little Boy—I forgot to ask
you to my picnic party tomorrow.
Second Little Boy.—Too late
now. I’ve prayed for a blizzard.—
American Boy.
$40,721,000 Earmarked
For N. C., Bailey Says
Raleigh. — Federal emergency
funds allotted to or earmarked for
North Carolina total $40,721,000,
Senator Josiah W. Bailey announced
in a statement Tuesday.
The memorandum furnished by
the senator was described as an
official statement furnished by the
office of Harry L. Hopkins, Fed
eral WPA-ERA administrator.
News from Washington has in
dicated North Carolina’s quota was
only $7,400,000, which happens to
be only the WPA allotment, the
senator explained. He added that
allotments have been made thus
far with a view to further allot
ments in 1936 and not on a final
basis.
In their arguments to Federal
relief authorities, Senator Bailey
and Governor Ehringhaus contend
ed during the summer that North
Carolina was entitled to $100,000,
000 on a population basis and $70,
000,000 on the basis of its relief
roll.
After a conference with Hopkins,
the Governor and Senator with
Congressman R. L. Doughton issu
ed a statement in which they said
they had been assured North Caro
lina would receive its just share
of the emergency funds.
The allotments listed in Senator
Bailey’s statement follow:
Department of Agriculture:
Bureau of Public Roads, $9,544;
soil conservation service, $1,199,
000; entomology and plant quar
antine, $73,000; forest service,
$450,000; plant industry^ $4,000.
| Social Security Boss
_«a*$^8Ssso_
WASHINGTON . . . Frank B.
Bane (above), is the man named by
the Social Security Board to direct
the work ef assembling the great
mass of information and give tech*
nical advice to stat^bfficials on un
employment, old age, pensions and
children's aid.
Department of Commerce: Cen
sus bureau, $86,000.
Department of Labor: United
States employment service, $4,000.
Treasury department, $127,000.
War department: Quartermaster
corps, $44,000.
Civilian, conservation corps: $11,
000,000.
Resettlement administ ration:
$600,000.
Rural electrification administra
tion: $303,000.
Veterans’ administration: $96,
000.
Works progress administration:
7,400,000.
Direct relief: $9,791,000.
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Baptist Hold
105th Session
At Asheville
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Immense Throng Of
Delegates Hear Ad
dress By Maddry
Dr. Charles E. Maddrd, secre
tary of the foreign mission board
of the Southern Baptist convention,
who has just returned from! a world
tour of his denomination’s! mission
fields gave the principal address be
fore the 105th session which has
just been held in Asheville.
He praised the personnel of the
men and women who had gone out
to the end of the earth and declared
that the type of work that they
were doing was on a parity with
anything being done at hoitxe.
Dr. Zeno Wall, president of the
convention, said this was his third
year as president, and at no time
had Baptist conditions been more
pleasing.
The Reverend Richard K. Red
wine, pastor of the First' Baptist
church at Hickory, preached the
convention sermon Tuesday after
noon at 4 o’clock before a packed
auditorium in the First Baptist
rKnrrVi nf Ashpville. 1
Mr. Huggins of Raleigh; general
secretary of the convention, made
a report which he declared to be
the best report that any North
Carolina convention has heard since
the year 1930, declaring tl at every
one of the 22 objectives which had
been set for the convention at the
beginning of his period of'service
three years ago had been to some
considerable extent fulfilled.
The Baptist pastors’ convention
adjourned after one of the most sat
isfactory meetings that has been
held in years. Before adjourning
they elected,the following officers
for the organization for the follow
ing year: Rev. Hugh B. Anderson
of Durham, as president; Rev. J.
L. Price of Siler City, vice-president
and Dr. Trela D. Collins of Dur
ham as secretary and treasurer.
Beginning at 8:30 o’clock Wed
nesday morning the Baptists of
North Carolina celebrated the 50th
anniversary of their orphanage
work in this State. It is the
largest orphanage in the South and
is thought by many to be the best
one in the South. Superintendent
I. G. Grier directed the Wednes
day morning program, and the
featured speaker was Miss Mary
Misenheimer of Lexington.
Wednesday afternoon the entire
convention moved as a body out to
Mars Hill college, a Baptist insti
tution 20 miles out in the hills.
There amid the everlasting hills on
the campus of one of its several
educational institutions, the dele
gates assembled and heard the ad
dress on Christian education de
livered by Dr. Luther Little, pastor
of the First church in Charlotte.
GOVERNOR’S HOG BET MAY
NOT BE FUNNY AFTER ALL
St. Paul, Minn.—The.pig that
made front pages—as the payment
of gubernatorial wagers—may
cause Governor Clyde L. Herring,
of Iowa, to write out a pardon for
himself, he said.
The governor refused to become
worried, however, when informed
he had been charged with gambl
ing in Iowa as a result of the bet
he made with GovT Floyd B. Ol
son, of Minnesota, on the outcome
of the Iowa-Minnesota football
game last Saturday.
The governor earlier had person
ally paid off the bet he lost, herd
ing a prize 26 5 pound Iowa pig,
"Big Boy Floyd of Rosedale,” into
the Minnesota capital.
Meanwhile, in Des Moines, Mu
nicipal Court Judge J. E. Mershon
signed a warrant for Herring’s ar
rest, acting on information filed
by Virgil Case, secretary of the
Social Justice club.
Iowa gambling statutes list bet
ting as a misdemeanor and set for
penalty as a fine up to $500 or a
jail term up to one year, or both.
! |_Mighty Proud of Her Triplets_|
IPSWICH, Mass. . . . Authorities on the subject say that triplets are
born to cows “perhaps once in every million births’’. Therefpre this
Guersney eow on the Argilla Farm, here has a tight to be extremely proud
of these fine triplets of hers.
NEWS BRIEFS
PITT COUNTY LIQUOR
STORES SHOW PROFIT
Greenville.—In the report of
the Pitt county ABC board for
operation of the liquor stores from
July until November 1, a net pro
fit of $20,664.76 or 24.6 per cent
of the $84,011.42 net sales was
revealed. The cost of merchandise
was given as $$4,023.30 or 64.30
per cent of the net sales. Operat
ing expenses covering administra
tive expense, selling cost, insur
ance, freight, rents, and other
items were $9,799.36 or 11.67 per
cent of the net sales.
A. AND N. C. RAILROAD
ASKS PERMIT TO OPEN
Washington.—The Atlantic and
North Carolina railroad company
has petitioned the interstate com
merce commission for authority
to resume operation of 96 miles of
line in North Carolina.
The line traverses the counties
of Carteret, Craven, Jones, Lenoir
and Wayne and is owned by the
state of North Carolina. The ap
plication said present conditions
require continued operation of the
railroad for the public welfare.
26 PERSONS MEET VIOLENT
DEATHS IN CABARRUS CO.
Kannapolis.—Twenty-six persons
have met violent deaths in Ca
barrus county since the first of the
year, and 13 of these lives were
claimed in automobile mishaps,
Coroner N. J. Mitchell reports.
Of the 13 killed in automobile
mishaps, the coroner pointed out
that five of this number had suf
fered fatal injuries when struck
by vehicles, while the others were
killed in collisions.
Nine persons met death in cases
pronounced as "murders,” the
coroner stated.
RULING IS MADE ON SAFETY
GLASS LAW FOR N. C.
Raleigh.—Wade Bruton, assist
ant attorney general, has issued a
ruling based on the 193 5 automo
bile safety glass law holding that
machines held in stock by North
Carolina dealers on January 1,
1936, which are manufactured or
assembled prior to that date do
not haVe to conform to the new
statute.
The new law requires that every
car manufactured or assembled on
or after next January 1 and sold
in this state must be equipped with
socalled safety glass. The revenue
department is now working on re
gulations for enforcement of the
law.
BODY OF SLAIN BOY
FINALLY IDENTIFIED
1 Whiting, Ind.—The body of a
14-year-old boy victim of a degen
erate, found buried in the sand on
the southern shore of Lake Michi
gan a week ago, was positively
identified as that of James Canty,
of Pittsburgh.
The identification- was made by
the boy’s mother, Mrs. Isabella
Canty of Pittsburgh, who came
here after identifying a newspaper
picture of the victim as that of her
son.
BABY BORN WITH FULL SET
OF TEETH
San Diego, Calif.—The one-day
old daughter of Mrs. Mddred Arm
strong had an appointement with a
dentist today! Born with a full set
of teeth, the six-pound baby, held
in awe by the medical profession,
was forced to relinquish all but two
of her teeth because they were
crooked. Physicians who examined
the infant ,said it was the first time
in local medical history a baby had
been born with a full set of teeth.
TUBERCULOSIS TAKES
HEAVY TOLL
Raleigh. — North Carolinians
numbering 1,818 died during last
year from tuberculosis of the re
spiratory system, while 1,937 or
119 more died within the State,
although residents of other States,
the State Board of Health reports.
All forms of tuberculosis caused
2,143 deaths in 1934.
Of the 1,218 dying who were
usual residents of the State, 763
were white and 1,05 5 were colored,
and of the 1,937 who died within
the borders of the State, 851 were
white and 1,086 were colored, the
report shows.
AUTO SALES IN OCTOBER IN
N. C. UNDER LAST YEAR
Raleigh.—The State motor ve
hicle bureau reported that 4,838
new cars and 1,091 new trucks
were sold in North Carolina dur
ing October.
in me nrst iu mourns mis year
new car sales aggregated 46,197
and new trucks sales 11,934, com
pared with 40,046 cars and 9,700
trucks sold in the similar period
of last year.
In September this year 4,384
cars and 1,364 trucks were sold
and in October 1934 there were
6,974 car and 1,915 truck sales.
18,720 AT WORK ON WPA
JOBS IN STATE
Raleigh.—George W. Coan, Jr.,
State works progress administrator,
telegraphed Washington authorities
that there were 18,720 persons
employed on WPA projects in this
State on November 9.
The administrator, replying to a
Federal inquiry, said it was ex
pected to have 27,000 working by
November 16 and a full quota of
34,600 by November 23.
Coan said he advised Washing
ton that factors which presented
difficulties to (retard "the WPA
program were continuation of the
ERA works program in North
Carolina and seasonal private em
ployment in tobacco, pean it and
fisheries work in the eastern part
of the State.
CORN CROP ESTIMATE IS
REVISED DOWNWARD
Washington.—The corn crop
this year was reported by the
Agricultural department in its
preliminary production estimate
as 2,211,268,000 bushels.
A mpnth ago 2,213,319,000
bushels were indicated. Last year’s
crop was 1,377,000,000 bushels
and the 1928-3S average produc
tion 2,562,000,000.