North Carolina Newspapers

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 (Continued on page two) 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 wATfHM AN Boosters ForA ▼ ▼ A 1 Vi llTirll 1 Greater Salisbury _ A NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE UP&UILDING OF ROWAN COUNTY__ FOUNDED 1832—104TH YEAR SALISBURY, N. C., FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 14, 1936. VOL. 104 NO. 29. PRICE 2 CENTS. Hoey Favors Referendum On Liquor Issue -! 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. ******** * POLICEMAN FREEZES * * TO GUN—LITERALLY * * _ * * Philadelphia — Policeman * * Joseph Shanahan, riding a mo- * * torcycle sidecar, chased two * * men in an automobile for a * * half hour shooting as he * * bumped over snow-covered * * streets. The chase over and * * the men captured, Shanahan * * couldn’t let go of his pistol. * * He was taken to a hospital * * with a frozen right hand. * ******** 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 a 11 .11 e . i A *43 Wtll *43 me 1*4 W 3 VAX Lilt 3CV - 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. I 1 I* THANKS A LOT * ' * _ * * A. H. CALDWELL * 1245 North First Ave. * Tucson, Ariz. * ' * Feb. 8th, 1936. * i * The Carolina Watchman, "r I* Carolina Watchman Pub. Co. * ! * Salisbury, North Carolina. * ■ * Gentlemen: * * About this time of year it * * becomes my very great pleas- * * ure to renew my subscription * * to that old true and tried * * friend "The Watchman,” a * * weekly visitor in our home * * for many many years—(the * * memory of man runneth not * * to the contrary. * I * I am therefore jenclosing * * $1.00 to pay up to Feb. 1st, * * 1937. * * Yours very truly, * * A. H. Caldwell. * * * * * * * * • Watchman Classified Ads are Profit Producers. *»*+. ***■* * PRESIDENT’S HEALTH * FINE AfTER 3 YEARS * * ' * * Washington—Dr. Ross Me- * * Intyre, White House physi- * * cian, Revealed that President ' * Roosevelt, weighing 180 * pounds, is feeling fine. Dr. * * McIntyre said: * * "The President’s health is * * better today than it was when * * he came to the White House.” * *•*»»**» 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.