Washington — Somewhere the
money has got to be found to pay
the bonus and to pay for whatever
farm bounties may be decided on.
Everybody at both ends of Penns
ylvania Avenue agrees that this is
so. The difference of opinion be
tween the White House and the
Capitol is as to where the money is
coming from. The President’s
inclination is to say to Gongress
"You got us into this mess by
passing the bonus over my veto;
now it’s up to you fellows to find
the money to pay it with.”
Mr. Roosevelt has been talking
recently about the necessity of new
taxes and it becomes more apparent
from day to day that the Admin
istration is becoming firm in its de
termination to put the financial
affairs of the nation on as solid a
basis as possible.
At the other end of the Avenue,
however, the boys on Capitol Hill
just don’t want to vote any kind of
new taxes in an election year. That
is the reason for the renewal of
loud inflationary talk. A year ago
it would have been quite possible,
given similar circumstances, for a
greenback measure, to have got
through both Houses of Congress
even over Presidential veto.
The prospect of inflation has
been so widely discussed, since then,
and the general public reaction
against it has become so evident,
that it is not now likely that any
thing of the kind will be attempt
ed.
CONGRESS HAS TAX PROB
LEM
As good a guess as any is that
the President will recommend new
taxes to yield close to a billion dol
lars a year, and that Congress will
not vote all of them. There is a
feeiing that an excise tax on proces
sors of agricultural products to take
the place of the AAA taxes would
have a bad reaction from consumers
in cities, but it is a pretty safe guess{
1 that somehting of this sort will be
| enacted. j
What Congress would like to do
would be to find some way of put-J
ting more taxes on business without
raising consumer prices. There is.
talk about higher excess profits tax1
on corporations and increasing in-:
sm- tercorporate dividend taxes. The
President is expected to urge new!
inheritance taxes, but that Congress
will adopt them is doubtful. Much
more talljjs heard of a general
manufacturer’s sales tax, and that is
entirely possible.
One of the latest plans being seri
ously discussed is for a law to
legalize lotteries and put a heavy
tax on them. That appears to a
good many of the city members,
but the rural districts are supposed
to be against it. On the other hand,
many members from the West and
South favor increasing the liquor
taxes, to which the city representa
tives are opposed.
Somewhere along the line, how
ever, a billion dollars more than
has been provided for must be
found, and the Administration defi
nitely does not want to have to do
any more important borrowing.
FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD
The personnel of the new Federal
Reserve Board is generally regarded
as being satisfactory even to such
critics as Senator Glass, who has
buried the hatchet in his feud with
Chairman Eccles.
Mr. Eccles’ influence at the White
House is steadily increasing. The
President relies upon him in finan
cial matters almost as much as he
does upon Secretary Morgenthau,
and both Mr. Eccles and Mr. Mor
genthau are determined that there
shall be no inflationary movements
so far as the Treasury and the Fed
eral Reserve System can control of
the monetary situation.
Politically, the current discussion
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Farmer Learns All About
Biting Hand That Feeds
Dunn—C. U. Skinner, farmer of
Dunn, Route 3, is a generous man.
The other day an itnerant white
man he knew called by the farm
and asked him to lend him a quar
ter, explaining that he wanted to
buy some lard. Skinner loaned
him the money.
Next morning two fine hens
and a rooster were missing from the
hen house. Traced, it was found
that the fellow who had borrowed
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Hoey Favors Referendum On Liquor Issue
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G. O. P. Convention Goes To Raleigh
Date Will Be
Chosen Later
By Committee
Resolutions Demanding
Special Session Of
Assembly
Greensboro—The State Repub
lican executive committee in ses
sion at the O. Henry hotel here
Wednesday selected Raleigh as the
place of the 1956 State convention
and passed resolutions demanding
that Governor Ehringhaus call a
special session of the Legislature for
action on three pieces of legislation.
The special session would be for
the purpose of repealing the State
sales tax, reduction of automobile
license plates to a maximum of
three dollars, and enactment of
legislation that would enable the
State to share in the benefits of
the national social security act.
The executive committee met in
the afternoon before the Lincoln
day dinner at the King Cotton
hotel, at which Senator L. J. Dick
inson of Iowa praised the qualities
of Lincoln.'
After the State executive com
mittee meeting, Chairman Meekins
said that there has been no change
in the proposal to set up State
headquarters in Charlotte and
branch offices, in Raleigh and Ashe
ville immediately after the State
convention.
Throughout the day, politics were
talked in hotel rooms and lobbies.
The consensus was that Mr.
Meekins will be re-elected State
chairman; that Charles A. Jonas
of Lincolnton will be re-elected
national committeman.
The tenth congressional race
was the subject of frequent com
ment. The feeling was general
that Mr. Jonas will make the race
only if C.JL Edney, who ran in
1934, voluntarily withdraws from
the field.
The resolutions were presented
by Louis Goodman of Wilmington
chairman of the resolutions com
mittee.
The committee dodged the liquor
question entirely. It was brought
before the committee only when a
Mr. Long, who said he lived in
North Carolina but operated a li
quor store in South Carolina, of
fered an amendment to the auto
mobile license reduction resolution
calling for State regulation of pri
vately owned liquor stores. It was
unofficially reported that the fu
rore caused by Mr. Long’s sugges
tion resulted in the tossing of a
much argued resolution on the
liquor question into the waste
basket.
REYNOLDS TO BUILD
GLASS STORAGE BUILDING
Winston-Salem—The Reynolds
Tobacco company announced it
would build a $100,000 tobacco
storage building with the exterior
to be of hollow glass blocks, the
first of such construction in this
section.
• Patronize Watchman Ad/er
tisers.
the quarter had stolen the chick
ens and borrowed the money to buy
grease in which to fry the chick
ens.
The following day another man
came by and wanted a sack to put
some corn in. Skinner gave him
the sack, and that night members
of the family caught the fellow fill
ing the sack with corn from the
Skinner barn.
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* Joseph Shanahan, riding a mo- *
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* half hour shooting as he *
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* the men captured, Shanahan *
* couldn’t let go of his pistol. *
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Shift Of Funds
Seen Chiefly
To Aid WPA
Various U. S. Agencies to
Be Drawn On For Em
ergency Use
Of the $4,880,000,000 work re
lief fund appropriated by Congress
last April, all but $173,068,903
has been allocated to various gov
ernmental agencies, Treasury De
partment figures showed.
From what agencies President
[ Roosevelt may with draw funds tc
reallocate to WPA, chief of the
spending agencies, by April 1, as
announced yesterday, officials in
charge of the work relief pro
gram declined to indicate.
WPA has received thus far $-1,
298,456,132. Allocations to other
agencies have been:
Bureau of Public Roads, $500,
000,000.
Department of Agriculture,
$65,181,823.
Commerce, $10,207,944.
Interior Department, Reclama
tion Service, $82,650,000; Puerto
Rico reconstruction program,
$32,152,380; other divisions, $13,
399,233.
Department of Labor, $1,079,
995.
Navy, $17,318,561.
Treasury, $18,541,066.
War Department, $145,438,567,
Alley Dwelling Commission, city
of Washington, $200,000.
Emergency conservation work
(CCC), $527, 289,000.
Library of Congress, $111,500.
Public Works Administration,
housing division, $101,373,050;
non-Federal loans and grants.
$339,373,712.
Rural Electrification Adminis
tration, $9,391,812.
Rural Resettlement, $162,129,
354.
Veterans Administration, $ 1 ,
234,120.
Employes’ Compensation Com
mission, $28,000,000.
Emergency relief, $928,039,460.
Administrative expenses (includ
ing Treausry and General Ac
counting office), $150,090,918.
Refund to PWA, RFC and oth
er agencies for advances to FERA
prior to enactment of $4,880,000,
000 work relief measures, and al
lotments to miscellaneous bureaus,
$320,500,000.
Hit-And-Run Driver
Draws 18-Months
At the conclusion of the evidence
Floyd W. Hutchins, automobile
mechanic of Kannapolis, hit-and
run driver who killed Ira Albright,
Rowan farmer, on the highway
near here last December 18, entered
a plea of involuntary manslaughter
in superior court and was sentenced
to not less than 18 months in the
State prison. On the stand Hut
chins said he was blinded by lights
of a passing car, did not see the
victim until he was 20 feet away.
U. S. Supreme Court
For Unfettered Press
The United States Supreme
Court in a decision Monday out
lawing the Louisiana state law tax
ing newspapers said:
"The newspapers, magazines, and
other journals of the country, it is
safe to say, have shed and continue
to shed, more light on the public
and business affairs of the nation
than any other instrumentality of
publicity; and, sine, informed pub
lic opinion is the most potent of
all restraints upon misgovernment,
the suppression or abridgement of
the publicity afforded by the press
cannot be regarded otherwise than
with grave concern.
"The tax here involved is bad,
not because it takes money from
the pockets of the appellees. If
that were all, a wholly different
question would be presented. It
is bad because, in the light of its
history and of its present setting,
it is seen to be a deliberate and
calculated device in the guise of a
tax to limit the circulation of in
formation to which the public is
entitled in. virtue of the consti
tutional guarantees.
"A free press stands as one of
the great interpreters between the
Government and the people. To
allow it to be fettered is to fet
ter ourselves.”
Willard Dowell
May Seek Office
State Auditor
"Willard L. Dowell, executive
secretary of the North Carolina
Merchants Association and recog
nized as probably the most active
and powerful opponent of the sales
I tax in North Carolina, may become
a candidate for the office of State
! Auditor in the appraching Demo
1 cratic primary,” said Mrs. W. F.
Rattz, secretary of the Salisbury
Spencer Merchants Association.
"Mr. Dowell is deeply interested
in unemployment insurance, old
age pensions and ot’jkr social se
curity measures, and the fact that
j the State Auditor is a member of
j the Council of State according tc
j the law passed at the last Legisla
j ture any system of unemployment
insurance for North Carolina must
be devised by the Council of State,
undoubtedly makes the office of
State Auditor more attractive tc
j Mr. Dowell than it otherwise would
! have been,” continued Mrs. Rattz.
1 "Mr. Dowell has made a special
| study of the Federal Social Security
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eral states bearing on the subject
and he is not only anxious that
North Carolina shall fully partici
pate in available Federal social se
curity funds, but that whatever
security measures this State adopts
shall provide the maximum of
benefits for these for whom they
were intended.
"There is one thing sure,” con
tinued Mrs. Rattz, "if Mr. Dowell
becames a .candidate for State Au
ditor he will poll a tremendous vote,
not only from the merchants
throughout the State to whom he
has rendered splendid service for
the past eight years, but from the
people generally, for he has con
sistently championed their rights at
every session of the Legislature for
a decade. In fact, every one who
knows Willard Dowell knows that
he is an able, efficient, industrious,
and honorable gentleman, and to
my mind, they are the qualifi
cations a State official should pos
sess,” concluded Mrs. Rattz.
Belk Purchases
Raleigh Land
The Belk company has purchased
the old Yarborough hotel lot in
Raleigh and will erect there a
handsome new building for its Ral
eigh store, it was learned from W.
H. Belk, head of the company.
The lot extends from Wilming
ton street to Fayetteville street and
runs 110 feet through the block.
Mr. Belk said definite plans for the
new building have not been com
pleted, but it is expected to be
erected this year.
A BARGAIN
Morrison—Doctor, what would
you call this fever of mine?
Lady Doctor—I’d call it a bar
gain. Yesterday it was 104 and
today it is reduced to 98.
147 In Congress
Will Get Bonus
Washington.—With 147 war
veterans in Congress, Senators and
Representatives will receive approx
imately $100,000 from the bonus.
Thirteen members of the Sen
ate and 134 members of the House
are World War veterans, Senator
Minton (D.), Indiana, will receive
$1,583, almost the limit allowed by
law. He was in the war from the
first until the last.
All the Senators who will re
ceive baby bonds for the bonus
certificates intend to keep diem.
They are, besides Minton, Senators
Steiwer, Tydings, Clark, Black,
Maloney, Burke, Connally, Gibson,
Schwellenbach, and Duff.
Most House members receiving
bonds, said they planned to hold
them, but some said they were
pretty broke, and would cash
theirs immediately.
To Preach At First
Methodist Next Week
Bishop William F. McDowell, of
the Methodist Episcopal church,
who has the reputation of being one
; of the greatest preachers in Am
erica, will preach each evening dur
ing next week at the First Meth
odist church. All the Methodist
churches of Salisbury, Spencer and
East Spencer combined in the invi
tation to Bishop McDowell and not
only the members of these churches
but the general public is invited to
hear this great preacher. "Per
sonal Religion” will be the prin
cipal theme of the meeting,
j Bishop McDowell’s first sermon
will be next Sunday morning at 11
i o’clock but after that all the ser
| mons will be at 7:30 o’clock in
| the evenings. Special music will
j feature each service.
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Hoffman Asks
WilentzToFace
Bruno
Trenton, N. J. —Gov. Harold
G. Hoffman has requested State
Attorney General David T. Wil
entz to accompany him on a visit
to the death house in a dramatic
plan to force a confession from
Bruno Richard) Hauptmann^ re
prieved murderer of Charles Au
gustus Lindbergh, Jr.
The face-to-face meeting be
tween the phlegmatic carpenter
and his fiery [prosecutor in the
Flemington trial, a high state of
ficial dijglosed, is intended to
take place before the question of
a second reprieve is finally deter
mined.
The Governor has already
strongly hinted that he intends t<
ads Wilentz to fonsent to a fur
ther delay of Hauptmann’s execu
tion, although at the same time hi
has promised not to override th<
attorney general’s veto of such ac
tion.
Hoffman first suggested the
death-house duel in a private con
versation during the court of par
dons hearing on Hauptmann’s mer
cy plea last January 11. It was
again brought up when the Gov
ernor conferred with the attorney
general on the legality of the first
reprieve granted Bruno, which
expires next Saturday.
Wilentz indicted he would want
to consult Supreme Court Justice
Thomas W. Trenchard, who pre
sided at the trial a year ago, be
fore visiting Hauptmann. Wil
entz left for a month’s vacation
in Florida without making a final
decision.
On at least one occasion, when
the [governor brought up the sub
ject of prosecution representation
during a second death-house visit
to Hauptmann’s sell, Wilentz is
understood to have suggested that
Prosecutor Anthony M. Hauck, Jr.
of Hunterdon county might be a
better man to "get the truth” out
of Bruno.
Wilentz’s argument was that his
cross-examination of Hauptmann
during the Flemington trial had
permanently antagonized the for
mer German machine gunner.
Policemen Will
Hear Reynolds
Washington—Senator Robert R.
Reynolds has accepted an invita
tion from the president of the Law
Enforcement Officers of North
and South Carolina to deliver the
principal address at their meeting
at Statesville March 29.
Senator Reynolds has been nam
ed an assistant adjutant general,
with the rank of brigadier-general,
on the staff of the commanding
chief of the United Confederate
veterans. This was bestowed upon
Senator Reynolds by Liei nant
General Harry R. Lee, general com
mander of the United Confederate
Veterans, Nashville, Tenn.
ICY ANSWER
Coach—Which spjairts do you
like the best?
Kitty—Those who know when
its time to go home.
So He Declares
In /s Opening
l/npaign Talk
"■ /iyg He Is Personally
Dry But Is Willing For
Referendum
ADVOCATES REPEAL
SALES TAX IN STATE
Chariot:*—Repeal of the state
sales tax on the "necessities of
life,” including foodstuffs, was ad
vocated by Clyde R. Hoey, of Shel
by, in an address formally open
ing his campaign for the Demo
cratic gubernatorial nomination of
North Carolina.
The slender, gray-haired former
United States Congressman made
his initial campaign blast in the
Mecklenburg county court house.
Hoey emphasized his personal
convictions as an ardent dry, but
he expressed a willingness for a re
ferendum on the liquor question.
"I have never advocated the sales
tax,” Hoey said. "I continue to
regard it as an emergency measure
and I will not accept it as a per
manent fiscal policy for the state.
I believe that recovery from the
depression has proceeded far enough
and revenues from sources now
available under the present tax laws
have increased sufficiently—togeth
er with other sources as may prop
erly be made available—-that this
sales tax can now be removed from
the necessities of life, including
1 foodstuffs and meals at cafes, hotels
' and restaurants. I would favor the
immediate repeal of the sales tax on
1 these articles, and that without re
gard to whether or not any tax is
obtained from liquor.”
Turning to the state prohibition
issue, Hoey stated:
"I have been a life-long dry in
theory and practice. * * * I am
a Democrat and believe in the right
of the people to settle the liquor
question in accordance with their
own views. I am perfectly willing
for this matter to be submitted to
the people of North Carolina and
let them determine it at the ballot
box.”
Briefly, Hoey’s stand on other is
sues was:
Education: "I believe that a meth
od should be found to provide uni
fied control for our public school
system rather than the divisions
now obtaining and the multiple
control in effect.”
Economy in government: "I be
lieve that economy in government
in state and nation is still a virtue.”
( Continued on page Three)
Will A. Cline
Died Saturday
As a result of heart trouble and
other causes, Will A. Cline died at
his home on the old Concord road
last Saturday night about 10
o’clock.
Until his illness, Mr. Cline
maintained an active part in the
business of the Raney-Cline Mo
tor Company, of which he was a
member.
The funeral was held last Mon
day afternoon at 2:30 in St. Paul’s
Lutheran church, and interment
was in the church yard.
He married Miss Bessie Bostain
in 1904 who, together with five
children, survives. The children
are: Mrs. E. C. Safrit and Mrs. W.
H. Safrit, Salisbury; Miss Helen
Cline of the homeplace; W. A.
Cline, Jr., and Howard Cline of the
county. Four brothers and one
sister also survive: Jasper at At
lanta, Ga., Richard, Charles and
Junius Cline of Cabarrus county,
and Junius Cline of Cabarrus coun
ty, and Mrs. J. E. Correll. of China
Grove. Three grandchildren sur
vive as well.