Says Inflation
Bad For Labor
Prices Would Increase
Before Wages, Green
Declare 5
Washington — William Green,
president of the American Federa
tion of Labor, in a statement op
posing agitation for currency in
flarion, declared that labor would
insist on wage increases immediate
ly
Currency inflation questions arc
"of grave importance to labor,”
Green declared, adding that infla
tion "will seriously affect the eco
nomic and social welfare of the
masses of the people.”
"An increase in wages,” he as
serted, "should precede an increase
in oommodity prices.”
The federation, Green said, has
"determined to safeguard the in
terests of the wage earners by in
sisting upon increases in wages im
mediately.”
Green’s statement, issued by au
thority of the federation’s execu
tive committee, said that “an in
crease in the price of articles which
enter into living costs is bound to
follow the inauguration of cur
rency inflation.”
Green asserted that labor leaders
"propose to call upon labor to be
gin the fight immediately for wage
increases and to use such legitimate
influence and power as may at
their command to bring about the
restoration of the buying power of
the masses of the people.”
Route One Itemsj
Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Thompson
and Marshal Lemons spent Sunday
as guests of Mr. and Mrs. S. H.
Morgan of Wood leaf.
H. Morgan has purchased a radio.
W. B. Myers with wife and chil
dren visited George Powlas the sec
ond.
Frank Sides of Kannapolis visited
George Fink recently.
G. R. Fink is spending some
time in the home of Mrs. Heglar
of Cabarrus County, he being called
on acount of the illness of a grand
son.
Horace Shaver has been sawing
wood with his outfit.
BLAMES BIRTH CONTROL
New York—Birth control is
back on the fall in sales of certi
fied milk here, Dr. John L. Rice,
city health commissioner, said.
"Build up the birth rate if you
want to sell more milk,” he advised
the Certified Milk Producers of
America in annual convention.
MEN WANTED for Rawleigh
Routes of 800 families in South
east Davidson, Stanly Counties
a-'d Salisbury. Reliable hustler
should start earning $25 weekly
and increase rapidly. Write to
day. Rawleigh, Dept. NCB
197-S, Richmond, Va. f-7-28
BETTER
25—USED CARS—25
FEBRUARY SALE
Cars in warm, dry building
ALL THESE SPECIALS—LOTS
WITH 1936 LICENSE
’27 Chevrolet Coach_$65.00
’28 Chrysler Coupe_65.00
Oldsmobile Coach_45.00
’26 Dodge Sedan_35.00
’29 Pontiac Coupe_145.00
’29 Plymouth Seflan_165.00
’29 Chrysler Sedan_175.00
’29 Chevrolet Roadster_95.00
’29 Chevrolet Coupe_125.00
Also many late moleds.
McCANLESS MOTOR CO.
122 E. COUNCIL ST. PHONE 59
SALISBRUY and KANNAPOLIS
TURKEY GOES MODERN —
Miss Kemaly Pasha of Turkey
takes first prize at St, Moritz,
Switzerland, for her Parisian
get-up. What a contrast with
the typical baggy raiment ol
Turkish women!
FOREMOST BEAUTY EX
PERT—Hazel Rawson Cades,
i of Woman's Home Com
' panion, starts work on Hand
book of .Beauty which win
reach almost three minion
| women. t
PANACEAS PCj* FARMERS—
Senator Borah and George N.
Peek of the late-lamented AAA
have new prescriptions for agri
culture.. Borah in Collier's ad
vises the farmers to stick to the
home market; Peek in The
1 Country Home, end neat farm
magazine, urges the value of
world markets.
'FAinnON FROM BTHIOFIA—
American beyinet mken «*«' the
ylianeA hnA-Araat •( Had*
Selassie's shock t rasps aa aaw
style Motif.
*r^r*?*rrrr*-*
* FALLS 20 FEET,
* STILL SLEEPS *
%- _______ >*■
* Tarboro, N. C.—Mamma *
* has a terrible time getting *
* Sonny Creech, 11, out of bed *
* to go to school. *
* Sonny is the kind of sleeper *
* who wouldn’t budge if you *
* fired a cannon off in his room. *
* Asleep on an upstairs back *
* porch, Sonny rolled out of bed, *
dropped off the porch and— *
* kerplunk—landed 20 feet be- *
* low. *
* Mamma Creech heard the *
* crash and found Sonny on the *
* back porch—still asleep. She *
* put him back to bed. *
a -it * -:=
Bruno Aide
Named By 2
New York—Governor Harold
G. Hoffman of New Jersey holds
an affidavit from two Welfare Is
land prisoners identifying a New
York gangster, a former suspect
in the Vivian Gordon murder, as
the aide of Bruno Richard Haupt
tnan in collecting the $50,000 Lind
bergh ransom, the Evening Journal
said in an exclusive dispatch from
Trenton.
The Journal added that although
Governor Hoffman is convinced
this affidavit holds the key to un
cloaking the identity of Haupt
man’s "accomplice,” the news
paper has learned this gangster was
given a "clean bill of health” when
questioned by the New York City
police two years ago in connection
with the Lindbergh case.
Groom Leaves Parson
Quart Corn Likker
"Do you marry folks?” inquired
a prospective bridegroom from the
backwoods as he and his wife-to
be sauntered into Rev. W. H. Car
ter’s sanctuary marriage license in
hand.
"I do, and bless you too,” re
plied the minister, as he examined
the license and asked about wit-1
nesses for the ceremony. Two
witnesses appeared, the mothers
of both the bride and groom.
Parson Carter performed the
ceremony, and, as the happy couple
left, the groom handed him a pres
ent wrapped in heavy paper "I
think you’ll like that; it’s good,”
he remarked as he trotted off to
begin his honeymoon.
When the reverend opened the
package at home, the present
turned out to be a quart of good
old charred corn liquor. The
groom proved to be a well-known
moonshiner.
Arsenal Found
In Hotel Room
Winston-Salem—Four men were
held by police here Saturday night
after five revolvers, a pump gun
and a large quantity of ammuni
tion had been found in a hotel
room' which they allegedly occupi
ed.
The four men were listed by po
lice as James Maddrey, 46, of Ral
eigh; J. W. Bradley, 24, Brook
lyn, N. Y.; Wiley C. Jarvis and
James Matthew Gatewood, Wins
ton-Salem.
Two of the men, police said,
were arrested in the hotel room
and two others in an automobile
near the hotel.
Chief of Police W. F. Anderson
inid an investigation disclosed that
Bradley was sentenced in July,
1928, to serve 15 to 30 years in
Eastern State penitentiary at Phila
delphia for breaking and entering.
Anderson said no charges had
been brought against the prisoners
but that they would be held with
out bond until investigation is
completed.
Magnesium Eye
Sees Invisible
Chicago—A scientific eye which
is blind to everything but the in
visible rays that cause sunburn was
set on the trial of the common cold.
Its job will be to measure the
intensity of ultra-violet rays which
produce Vitamin A, one of the
prime factors in the body’s resis
tance to colds.
The ' 'eye” is a new type of
photo-electric cells, developed by
Prof. Robert Cashman, Northwest
ern university physicist. Its new
ness lies in the fact that it uses the
element magnesium.
"Electric eyes” developed in the
past were designed like radio tubes,
and coated on the inside with col
loids of alkali metals. They were
sensitive to the entire light spec
trum, both the visible range and
the invisibe infrared and ultra-vio
let.
The new "eye” looks like a
miniature diver’s helmet, made of
pure magnesium with a little round
window in front. Inside the win
dow is a tiny disc of nickel, to at
tract the electrons thrown off by
the magnesium when the light
rays strike.
The magnesium cell is blind tc
everything the human eye can see.
It reacts only to the "therapeu
tic” band of invisible ultra-violet
rays. This band, ranging from 2,
700 to 3,300 angstroms, includes
the rays that cause sunburn. Tht
visible spectrum starts at 4,000
angstroms.
. !■
Scenic Route
Work Begins
Additional Land Is Being
Acquired In Five
Counties
New equipment for beginning
actual construction of the scenic
parkway between Laurel Springs
and Roaring Gap has arrived by
rail in West Jefferson and is be
ing mov'd to Laurel Springs, where
it is understood it will be used in
rhe early construction of the lap
of roadway which lies in Allegh
any.
Ford King, of Boone, assistant
district engineer, says that the faci
lities of the state are being used
in helping move the heavy equip
ment.
In order to provide recreational
a>eas along the route of the park
to-park highway which will con
nect the Shenandoah and the
Great Smoky Mountains National
parks, some 7,000 acres of land
along the route of the parkwaq in
North Carolina is being purchased
by the resettlement administra
tion. This land is now in process
of being acquired in Alleghany,
Surry, Wilkes, Watauga and Avery
counties. Similar recreation sites
along the route of the parkway in
Virginia, amounting to a total of
9,fOO acres, will probably be pur
chased in Floyd, Patrick and
Ftanklin counties, it was indicat
ed.
runus iur me purcnays aiiu uc
velopment of these tracts of land
along the parkway route are being
provided by the resettlement ad
ministration as a part of its "bet
ter land use” program. The actual
development of these recreational
sites will be under the direct super
vision of the National Park service.
It is regarded as likely that addi
tional sites will be acquired along
the entire route of the parkway
through North Carolina, although
resettlement officials declined to
comment on this angle. If this is
done, the parkway will become a
vertiable national park in itself,
with camp sites, picnic tabels, foot
and bribe trails, likewise fireplaces
and sanitation facilities at frequent
intervals along the parkway. For
in addition to these special recrea
tional areas now being provided
by the resettlement administra
tion, the rignt of-way for the
parkway is to be about 200 feet
wide, with case nents extended as
much as 1,000 feet on each tide.
All of this land is to be developed
under the supervision of the Na
tional Park service. It will be de
faced with advertising signboards,
hot dog stands, filling stations and
so forth, unless permission is grant
ed by the National Park service ana
unless they conform to definite
rules and specifications.
By means of these special rec
reation areas, those who enjoy
camping out .and "roughing it”
may pitch tite r camps while trav
eling from one park to another.
States Attractions
Widely Advertised
The State of North Carolina has
received valuable free advertising
throughout the nation in the cam
paign conducted by a large insur
ance company at a cost of from
$25,000 to $30,000.
Advertisements placed by the
Northwestern Mutual Life Insur
ance company in the Saturday Ev
ening Post, Time, and the Nation’s,
Business,wi th a combined circula
tion of nearly six million copies,
contain the following:
"You can live in health-giving
North Carolina—the land of the
long-leaf pine. Climate has been
kind of the citizens of the hospit
able Tar Heel state. The clean
bracing air of her mountains and
pine forests—the cool summer
nights and mild winters—have won
world-wide fame Thousands have
moved to the country around Pine
hurst, and to 'The Land of the Sky’
around Asheville, to find health,
rest, and recreation.”
This recognition from an out
side company and widespread ad
vertisement of the State’s advan
tages will go far toward winning
for North Carolina a definite place
among the states and such a cam
paign may well attract many resi
dents.
• Patronize #Watchman Adver
tisers.
;,Ticls£ -:S ■
Hearing Is Closed
In Klumac Case
A two-day hearing in which the
plaintiff, Cannon Mills, Inc., pre
sented its evidence was completed
here Wednesday in the litigation
against Klumac Cotton Mills of this
city. Hubert E. Olive of Lexing
ton was the referee.
Principal witnesses for the plain
tiff, who is suing Klumac for $ 5 0,
000 unpaid balance on a note and
for about $162,000 balance on
open account, included Charles A.
Cannon of Kannapolis, Hearne
Swink and Fred A. Williams.
Mr. Cannon is chairman of the
board of Cannon Mills, Inc., New
York selling agency, Swink is sec
retary of Cannon Mills company of
Kannapolis and Williams is presi
dent of the selling agency.
Klumac filed a counter suit
against the selling agency, alleging
damages of $687,500 for a breach
of contract and some $175,000 al
leged recoverable for usury. Klu
mac, through its secretary-treasurer
and principal stockholder, W. F.
McCanless, at a previous hearing
testified that the selling house ran
the Klumac plant for six months in
1934, violated its contract and
charged an unlawful rate of inter
est both on the note and open ac-l
count.
Attorneys for both sides will fi'e
briefs later with the referee.
9 Seconds Required
To Snuff Out Jenkins’
Life In Gas Chamber
Raleigh—Ed Jenkins, 49-year
oa Bessemer City white man, died
in North Carolina’s lethal gas
chamber last Friday, the first white
prisoner to be executed with hydro
cyannic gas east of the Mississippi
river.
Death "to all intents and pur
poses” came to Jenkins, a 250
pound man, nine seconds after he
first inhaled the deadly vapors, a
signed statement of three physicians
who witnessed the execution read.
However, seven and one-half min
utes elapsed from the time the so
dium cyannide pellets were drop
ped into the sulphuric acid solution
before the prisoner was "officially”
pronounced dead and his heart
stopped.
Dr. G. S. Coleman, prison phy
sician, Dr. W. C. Davidson, dean
of the Duke University Medical
school, and Dr. F. M. Hanes, pro
fessor of the Practice of Medicine
at Duke, all said Jenkins "died
painlessly and the method of exe
cution was humane.”
Jenkins, one of the largest men
ever executed in North Carolina,
made no statement about his case
after he was led into the gas
chamber at 10:37. He requested
J. Winder Bryan, assistant warden
who directed the execution, to send
some packages he had left in his
cell to his widow, Mrs. Bessie I.
Jenkins, in Bessemer City.
Jenkins died without a blindfold,
making that request after he was
strapped in the chair.
Ancient Traditions
Preserved By Army
Berlin. — Hohenzollern military
tradition is proving stronger than
the new nazi conception of demo
cracy, as far as the form of ad
dress is concerned.
The hidebound rule of the army
is that a superior must be address
ed in the third person. A private
may, for instance, not say "herr
corporal, are you going home for
your furlough?” He must say, "is
herr corporal going home for his
furlough?”
The rule goes right through the
heirarchy. A lieutenant must ad
dress a captain in the third person,
a captain a major and so on.
The archaic form of address
which began in the 15 th century,
has been abolished in civil life ex
cept when addressing someone of
royal rank or someone enjoying
the title of "excellency.” Even
here, however, it is becoming more
and more the custom to use the
second person. In the army alone
the third person form of address
is mandatory.
Curiously enough, the one excep
tion to the rule is the commander
in-chief of Germany’s armed forces
—Adolf Hitler. Even the private
in the rear rank can and indeed
must say to his "Mein fuehrer,
will you please step this way?”
the same request addressed to Gen
eral Werner Von Blomberg would
have to be put thus, "will the Herr
| Fog Liggett Slaying
i——I
ji PA&ik K
MINNEAPOLIS . . . Above is
court picture of Isadora Blumenfel
alias Kid Cann, liquor salesman, ;
his trial started for the alleged sis
ing of Walter Liggett, crusadi
publisher, shot down following new
paper attacks on racketeers a
officials.
* JUDGE’S CASH s
* AND LAWYER’S "
* PIPE STOLEN •“
» _____ >i
* Lexington—Judge J. A. *
* Rousseau and Solicitor H. L. *
* Koontz have learned intimate- *
* ly about thieves since they ’
* opened Superior Court here.
* The solicitor, an ardent pipe
* smoker, left a pipe on a win
* dow sill in the prisoner’s room
* at the court house for a few
* minutes.
* It was gone when he went
* back to look and had not been
* recovered at last report.
* Judge Rousseau reported
* that while he slept very sound
* ly in his hotel room at Greens
* boro the door, which he had
* bolted inside, was forced and
* several dollars taken from his
* trousers pockets.
Chemists Find
Wines Inferioi
Manufacturers and Bot
tlers Found Breaking
Pure Food Laws
Washington, D. C.—In the Na
tion’s Capitol and nearby cities
there is a traditional demand foi
blackberry wine. Three New
York State firms had no black
berry wine but they did have
grape wine. Some of those they
colored artifically, labeled "Black
berry Type Wine,” and shipped in
barrels to Baltimore.
A Baltimore bottler transferred
the wine from barrels to bottles
and it become "Blackberry Wine,”
although the composition was not
changed. The Food and Drug Ad
ministration seized consignments
of the wine under both names in
and around Washington and as far
south as Georgia. Government
chemists found tartaric acid in all
of the samples. This acid is not
normally present in blackberries
but does occur in grapes. Black
oerries owe their tartness chiefly
to isocitric acid.
Other shipments of so-called
California Muscatel, Sherry, To
tay, and Port were found to be
nis-branded as to variety and state
ind to contain only about 75 per
cent of the amount of alcohol in
iicated in the labeling. Those also
,vere seized under the Food and
Drug Act, which forbids the use
n labeling of any statement, design
>r device which is false or mis
eading in any p rticular.
Kriegsminister step this way?”
There is a military reason for
this keen distinction. Adolf Hitler
lever rose beyond the rank of a
ance corporal in the old imperial
irmy. As far as his military rank
is concerned, he has no right to
ttlaim the compliment of being ad
dressed in the third person. His
title of commander-in-chief is a
political and civil one and not a
military, in the opinion of the Ger
man army.
Old Maids At U.N.C.
Band Togetherln Club
Chapel Hill.—Apparently deter
mined not to be outdone by the
wives of married students, who re
cently organized a Carolina Dames
club, the women graduate students
in the University of North Carolina
here have organized an "Old Maids’
club and elected the ‘‘olloving of
ficers:
Miss Carlotta DeLonj, of Lewis
burg, W. Va., president; Miss
Katherine Barrier, of Johnson City,
Tenn., vice president; and Miss Pol
ly Jacobson, of Winston-Salem,
secretary and treasurer.
According to the "Old Maids,”
Treasury-Post
Office Bill Asks
Billion
[ Washington — Festooned with
reports that business was im
proving and that the banking situ
ation was "excellent,” a $989,
623,829 appropriation bill for the
Treasury and Post Office depart
ments was ushered into the House
Wednesday.
The billion-dollar bill alotted the
lion’s share of the requested funds
to run the vast post office machine
during the next fiscal year, with
about $211,000,000 going to the
treasury.
incorporated in the measure
were provisions for heavy increases
in the enforcement branches of the
two services—the postal inspection
wing, the coast guard, the secret
service, and the narcotics bureau—
with funds also for the transpacific
. air service and prediction of a
transatlantic service by April or
. May, 1937.
The appropriations committee
said the Post Office department’s
. part was "based upon a volume of
. business estimated to produce rev
. enue collections of approximately
• $705,000,000, and increase esti
■ mated revenues over the fiscal year
. 1936 of approximately $35,00#,
. 000.”
"The postal business is an accu
■ rate barometer of rising business
■ conditions of the country,” the
■ committee reported to the House,
"and the increase of postal reve
■ nues from $586,000,000 for the
fiscal year 1934 to estimated reve
nues of $670,000,000 for the
present fiscal year and $705,000,
' 000 for the next fiscal year testify
to the gradual improvement of
business conditions.”
Has Tough Time
Landing Himself
Behind The Bars
Charlotte—Well, Avery Sherlin,
31, finally landed in jail.
He said he was under federal
suspended sentence for stealing
pistfw'rfnvn a national guard unit f
at Berryhill, Va., that he was cold
and hungry,^nd figured jail would
be best. It’s an old story but—
Sherlin said he went into a
clothing store, just picked up a
suit and walked out (hoping to be
caught) but nobody said anything.
Still wanting to be jailed he pawn
ed the suit, got drunk and when he
got sober he was ?till free.
So he went to headquarters and
admitted his theft, his drunken
ness, told police of his violated
Roanoke, Va., suspended sentence
and 'the police laughed and told
me I woud have to do something
worth while to get in jail in Char
lotte.”
"I tried for work but couldn’t
get it,” Sherlin said, "and I
couldn’t get any charity, so I went
into a cafe, ate a big meal, got a
pack of cigarettes and told the
cashier to have me arrested be
cause I was broke. The cashier
just sympathized and said it was
all right. I insisted and finally a
cop was called and the cop said it
wasn’t against the law for a hun
gry man to eat.
"So I went out and got a screw
driver and found a jeweler’s win
dow and I unscrewed several screws
from the show case window and
finally I got it open. Nobody paid
any attention to me. I took a
handful of watches and circulated
them around and last night the law
came for me.
"Here I am in jail, warm and
not hungry. Here I am in a place
I’d been trying to get for four
days. Am I happy? Who wouldn’t
be?”
FLAYS BACKERS OF F. R.
Atlanta—Governor Eugene Tal
madge, elated over President Roose
velt’s request for repeal of the
Bankhead cotton act, lashed out at
Georgia’s congressional delegation,
all of whom are supporting the
President’s renomination.
leap year calls for a special Sa
Valentine’s day program but
was not announced just what f
the program would take.
Other plans of the club include J
a tea for all students and member 1
of the faculty on student faculty *
day, Februrary 13.