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A NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE UPBUILDING OF ROWAN COUNTY
FOUNDED 1832—104TH YEAR SALISBURY, N. C., FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY, 21, 1936. VOL. 104 NO. 30. PRICE 2 CENTS.
Washington.—The boys on Cap
itol Hill, have made up their minds
to get through and go home by
May 1. Whether that means any
thing or not remains to be seen.
It is not likely, however, that the
President will throw any new lig
islative proposals in at the last
minute. He is just as anxious to
have Congress go home as the boys
are to get back and look after
their political fences.
Congress has quite a few things
to do, however, before it quits.
The 'boys have to put through
some kind of a farm aid bill, devise
some now tax schemes which won’!
have too serious political repercus
sions and, just before they leave,
they will have to make another
big relief appropriation.
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will not bother about is fixing up
a permanent neutrality law. The
reaction against the ideas of Sen
ator Nye and his committee has
convinced mose of the members
of both houses that any attempt to
prescribe in advance just what the
United States may or may not do
in case of another general war
would be as futile as most at
tempts to peer into the undisclos
ed future. Also it might get us
into the very trouge which it would
attempt to avert.
Another thing that is apparent
ly off the cards is old age pen
sions a la Townsend. This looked
like a live issue in December, buf
the attitude now is to let it li£
until after election. With the old
age assistance plan in the Social
Security Act, it is figured that
the states will have no trouble in
taking care of the really needy old
folks, and that is as far as this
Congress or the Administration ii
inclined to go.
congress ana tne Aamimstration
have been hearing so much criti
cism, during the last few weeks,
on the subject of free spending, that
there is now a considerable degree
of harmony between the legislative
and executive branches of the gov
ernment in the matter of appro
priations. One effect of the reac
tion against spending was the an
nouncement the other day by the
President that he is not going to
use the last billion or so which
had been voted for the Works
Progress Administration. He will
have to come back to Congress for
a further relief appropriation for
the period peginning July 1, and
this may run to 2 billions.
The farm aid bill as passed by
the Senate combines in one meas
ure several diverse elements. It
provides for control of soil eros
ion, of which eyerybody is in fa
vor. It also provides for the re
plenishing of worn- out soil by the
planting of grasses and legumes.
Everybody is for that. It provides
bounty payments to farmers for
doing these things.
It seems to be a settled policy,
which both major parties will un
doubtedly indorse at their June
conventions, that farming should
be regarded as a preferred occu
pation, entitled to a large measure
of government aid. Therefore, there
is no serious objection to paying
farm bounties for the purpose just
mentioned.
Where the fight will come will
be over the provision of the bill
which undertakes to continue con
trol by the Department of Agricul
ture over crop production. Excep
tion is taken to this by member!
of both parties on the ground that
it is an attempt to evade the Su
preme Court’s ruling that the con
trol of agriculture is not within
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Electric And Gas Rates Lowered
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Sunday School
Heads Are Re
Named At W-S
Three-Day Convention of
State Association Clos
ed Wednesday
Dr. P. E. Lindley of High Point,
president, and all other officers of
the North Carolina Sunday School
association were re-elected at the
annual meeting at Winston-Salem.
The organization closed a three
day convention there Wednesday
night.
Rev. Shuford Peeler of Salisbury
was re-elected executive secretary.
Dr. H. Sheldon Smith, Durham;
J. A. Bodine, Wilmington, and Rev.
iJ. L. Thornburg, Statesville, were
re-elected vice presidents; B. V.
Hedrick, Salisbury, treasurer; and
Mrs. H. A. White, High Point, re
cording secretary.
Eelected members of the execu
tive committee were: R. L. Pope,
Thomasville, chairman; T. A. Av
era, Rocky Mount; Clyde R. Hoey,
Shelby; Herbert W. Coyle, Burling
ton; F. O. Clarkson, Charlotte; C.
F. Finch, Thomasville; Marvin Sni
der, Salisbury; Mrs. W. B. Lind
say, Charlotte; Charles .W Gunter,
Gastonia; Dr. J. Henry Highsmith,
Raleigh; Miss Lucy H. Pell, Greens
boro; John S’prunt Hill, Durham;
Mrs. Cameron Morrison, Charlotte;
Professor D. J. Bowden, Elon Col
lege; R. A. McCuiston, Winston
Salem; HI C. Dennis, Henderson;
Miss Maud Reid, Raleigh; C. F.
Ritchie, Concord; Ira G. Shamel,
Winston-Salem; A. E. Tate, High
Point; E. F. Craven, Greensboro;
C. S. Wallace, Morehead City;
and W. L. Ward, Asheboro.
President Is
Now A Pythian
Local members of the order
Knights of Pythias, will be inter
ested in the announcement that
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, presi
dent of the United States was for
merly initiated into the fraternity
as a member of Columbus lodge,
No. 323, on the evening of Febru-]
ary 19, 1936, under the auspices of
the above named lodge.
Arrangements were made for the
conferring of the Ranks of Knight
hood upon the President at the
White House, the iniatory work be
ing done by Supreme Lodge officers.
Richard L. Mears of Wilmington,
Supreme Master of Exchequer, and
well-known to Salisbury Pythians,
acted as Vice Chancellor during the
initiation ceremonies.
REPORTS SON MISSING
New York—James V. Auditore,
president of the Port Shipping com
pany, and intimate friend of for
mer Mayor James J. Walker, report
ed to police his 19-year-old son,
Dominic, has been missing since
February 9.
May Enter Penrose, 2nd |
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DEVON, Pa. . . . Boise Penrose,
2nd, (above), nephew of the late
U. S. Senator and G.O.P boss, is
expected to soon announce himself
a Republican candidate for congress
from the 4th, Pennsylvania district.
Shut Roads To
Heavy Trucks
Freight Vehicles Barred
From Bituminous Sur
face-Treated Roads
Raleigh—The State Highway and
Public Works commission have
closed for 3 0 days every bituminous
surface-treated highway in North
Carolina to all truck traffic in ex
cess of five tons gross a vehicle.
The order, which affects 3,700
miles of highway, was unprece
dented in the State’s road history.
It resulted from recent weather
conditions that have done an esti
mated $3,000,000 damage to the
roads and at the same time cut
gasoline revenue by $1,000,000.
"The sub-base of practically all
surface-treated highways has been
so softened as to render heavy
traffic thereon destructive of said
roads,” the commission stated in
a brief preamble to its order.
The ordinance, violation of
which is a misdemeanor under
State law, is effective on the roads
as soon as signs are posted ordering
heavy traffic off. It does not ap
ply to buses.
Cash To Pay
Bonus Voted
By Senate
Washington—The Senate passed
an appropriation bill carrying 2
billion eight hundred and eighty
nine million seven hundred and
fifty-one thousand nine hundred
and five dollars, including 1 billion
seven hundred and thirty million
dollars to pay the bonus, 440 mil
lion dollars for the new soil subsidy
farm program, and 879 million
seven hundred and fifty-one thous
and nine hundred and five dollars to
run the independent offices of the
Government in the next fiscal year.
Inclusion of the farm appropria
tion was carried out so quickly
that it passed almost unnoticed.
Senator Byrnes (Democrat) of
South Carolina, proposed the
amendment immediately after he
had won approval of the bonus ap
propriation.
The bill now goes back to the
House for approval of the bonus
and farm amendments and a few
other minor changes. Besides a flat
appropriation of 440 million dollars
for the farm program, the Byrnes
amendment reappropriated 30 mil
lion dollars of unexpended money
in the old AAA fund for soil sub
sidies.
WOMEN PASSENGERS
UNHURT
Laurel, Md.-A. L. Thomas
received slight injuries when th(
automobile he was driving struck
the rear of a bus on the Washing
ton boulevard about four miles
north of here. No one on the bus
was injured. It contained 10 wom
en passengers.
Firm Robbed 3 Times
On Consecutive Nights
Windsor—Sheriff Fred Dunstan
denies that Windsor is a sleepy
town, but he is not emphatic about
it. Disputants offer this tale as
more or less contrary proof.
Thieves robbed the wholesale
store of E. E. Bohen on three con
secutive nights last week. Thurs
day night they got $100 worth of
hams and flour after ripping a pad
lock from the front door. Bohen
put on a new padlock and felt se
cure.
Friday night the robbers return
ed, removed the new fastener, made
the same entrance, and bundled
} $900 worth of cigarettes into an au
tomobile left in front of the place.
This time Bohen was mad clear
through. He padlocked again and,
in addition, placed an iron bar
across the inside of the door.
"And left the lights burning, too,
Ed,” advised the sheriff, which is
what Bohen said.
So Saturday night the intruders
made their third visit. They got
the padlock off as usual but found
the bar too annoying. Maddened
perhaps, they went around back and
shinnied in through an open win
dow. They had brought two large
spike hammers with them, which
they had left behind, and, under
the glare of a 200-candle-power
electric light, they wielded these in
an anvil chorus for a half hour on
the store safe. It finally cracked
and they emptied it of $200 in
cash.
Sunday Bohen was quite put out
again, and that night he sat wait
ing for the ambitious thieves with
a shotgun. He had picked the
wrong night. They didn’t come
back.
Tax Collectors To Soon
Visit 129 N. C. Towns
t
To Aid Taxpayers In Filing Returns; Deputy Will
Be In Salisbury March 1 to 8
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Deputy collectors of the Stati
Department of Revenue will visil
129 towns and cities in every sec
tion of North Carolina from Feb
ruary 23 through March 16 receiv
ing income tax returns.
A. J. Maxwell, State commis
sioner of revenue, Wednesday re
leased the itinerary the collectors
will follow. The department has
80 men assigned to the big task of
taking the returns and collecting
payments of the tax.
Maxwell said collections without
penalty would continue through
March 16, since March IS, the fin
al date, falls on Sunday this year.
Penalty for late filing of returns
is S per cent with interest of one
half on one per cent a month, with
the minimum penalty to be $ 1. If
failure to file returns is wilful,
however, heavier penalties are pro
vided.
The dates for the deputy to be in
Salisbury is March 1 through the
8 th.
The itinerary arranged for other
towns in this immediate section are
as follows:
Albemarle, March 9-10; Badin,
March 6; Concord, March 13 thru
16; Kannapolis, March 12-12;
Lexington, March 13-14-16; Lin
colnton, March 9-10; Mocksville,
March 9; Norwood, March 7;
Statesville, March 12, 13 and 14;
Mooresville, March 10-11.
Additional income tax informa
tion may be found on page three of
this paper.
Damage Great
To State Roads
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Weather Damage To N.
C. Highways Placed
At $3,000,000
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Raleigh.—Charles1 Ross, genera)
counsel for the Highway and Pub
lic Works commission, observed i
that even if the weather damage
to the highway system this win?
ter is $3,000,00iT "it represents
only one per cent of North Caro
lina s investments in highways.
"We have had prorably the most
destructive weather conditions
from a road point of view we havei
had in 30 years,” Ross said, "but
it seems to me an occasion for
alarm.”
"Our maintenance budget is on
the basis of ordinary or average
weather conditions,” he continued.
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Salisbury Civic Clubs
Hear Davidson Prof.
Lt. Col. John W. Rhett, profes
sor of military science and R. O.
T.C. instructor at Davidson college,
spoke Tuesday before a joint meet
ing of the Rotary, Civitan, Lions
and Kiwanis clubs in observance of
national defense week.
He stressed the unpreparedness
of the United States at the be
ginning of the six major wars in
history and advocated an adequate
national defense program as one of
the best peace policies the nation
might follow.
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Sen. Reynolds
To Speak At
College Tonite
Members of the International
Relations club of Catawba College
have invited Senator Robert R.
Reynolds to make an address on the
subject of "Foreign Relations”
tonight in the college auditorium.
The junior North Carolina Sena
tor accepted the invitation and his
secretary sent word that the Sena
tor would be glad to speak in Sal
isbury. The public is invited to
hear him discuss this most interest
ing subject.
The International Relations club
was organized under the auspices of
the Carnegie Endowment for In
ternational Peace, and current liter
ature on internetional affairs is sent
to the club here and the public is
invited to use this literature which
is in the college library.
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* Washington — The U. S. *
* biological survey, appealing *
* to the country to spare its *
* wild ducks, is going back to *
* the days of the country *
* "schoolmarm” to point the *
* lesson of kindness.
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* one house in the neighborhood, '
* then at another, and no family *
* allowed her to go forth show
* ing signs of poor treatment. *
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| Eastern Winter Queen ~
HANOVEB, N. H. . . . There’s
plenty of ‘ ‘ winter ’ ’ up this way for
the 26th annual Dartmouth Winter
Carnival. The election of Queen wit
nessed the coronation of Mias Ann
Hopkins (above), daughter of Presi
dent Hopkins of Dartmouth College.
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POWER SALE
IS UPHELD BY
HIGH COURT
W ashington.—The Supreme
Court held the Tennessee Valley
Authority Act—TVA—to be con
stitutional in so far as it applies
to government production and sale
of power at Muscle Shoals.
The court again divided, this
time 8 to 1, with Justice McRey
nolds dissenting.
Four other justices—Stone, Rob
i erts, Cardozo and Brandies—con
curred in the majority opinion, al
though they were of the opinioi
that the suit should have been dis
missed by the court on jurisdiction
al grounds.
The court’s decision was limitec
to the facts involved in the case ol
Wilson Dam, and did not cover the
whole far-flung range of TVA ac
tivities, which includes not only
power development, but flood con
trol, navigation and a vast scheme
for social betterment in the Ten
nessee watershed.
These phases will be dealt with
by the court if and when the occa
sion arises. Other challenges on
specific phases of the TVA are ex
pected.
However, on the main question
—whether the government has the
right to develop and sell power gen
erated at Wilson Dam—the court
answered in the affirmative, and to
the extent the government won a
notable victory.
Administration leaders were elat
ed.
Catawba Enrollment
Is Highest In History
Indicating that the enrollment,
3 88 students, was the highest in the
history of the institution, Dr. How
ard R. Omwake, president of Ca
tawba college, in his annual report
to the trustees here Tuesday stated
that tVe major objective of the col
lege now should be to build the en
dowment of the college to the point
where further dependence upon
church support would not be nec
essary.
Seventy-nine students are now
being aided by the college in meet
ing their expenses.
Father At 96
New Bern, N. C.—For the sec
ond time in 14 months ninety-six
-year old George Hughes is expect
ing to become a father.
Hughes announced his expecta
tions to J. Gaskell McDaniel, asso
ciate editor of the Kinston Morn
ing Herald, saying the event is dut
in May.
After the birth of the othei
child, 14 months ago, Hughes’ cas<
was authenticated by medical rec
ords and an account was publishec
in the American Medical Journal
The child was named Franklir
Roosevelt Hughes.
Cummers To
'4e $529,000
in New Rates
Duke Power Company Is
Announcing Readjust
ments In Schedules
EFFECTIVE SOON
The Duke Power company has
arranged readjustments in its retail
rate schedules for electricity and
gas which, based on 1933 consump
tion, will result in savings to its
customers of $329,000 annually,
officials have announced.
The readjustments have been ap
proved by the North Carolina Util
ities commission and the South
Carolina Public Service commission
and will be effective on meter
readings after March 1. They will
be applicable to a number of re
tail schedules affecting customers
served by the Southern Public Util
ities company before its merger in
to the Duke Power company.
In electric service, said Duke of
ficials, the main saving will be in
residential service. This total will
be $203,000. Savings in commer
cial lighting will amount to $173,
000 and savings in retail power will
be $103,000. Savings in residen
tial gas service and in commercial
; gas service will be $22,000 and
$28,000, respectively, it was an
nounced.
Principal North Carolina towns
■ affected by the readjustments are:
- Charlotte, Winston-Salem, Greens
i boro, Salisbury, Burlington, Hick
- ory, Hendersonville, Reidsville,
• Thomasville, Mount Airy, Marion,
Lenoir, Elkin, North Wilkesboro,
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Uncle Sam Is
Against Plan
Unwilling to Agree to
Smaller Battleships
London—The United States is
unwilling to agree to smaller battle
ships until experimental building
has shown how to make such ships
safe from aerial as well as subma
rine attacks, an American spokes
man at the four-power naval con
ference said.
This explanation of American ob
jections to a French proposal to
shave the maximum battleship
tonnage below 3 5,000 tons dispell
ed a previous misconception that
Washington favored bigger battle
ships because of great distances in
the Pacific and a scarcity of re
fueling bases.
The spokesmen said experimen
tation may show that lighter ton
nage can be safely accepted and
if so, the United States might be
willing to reduce its present de
mands.
At American headquarters it was .
agreed that political uncertainty is
holding up the progress of the con
ference.
"A 35,000-ton ship, as big as it
is, would look like a baby com
pared to what might be built if
there is no agreement,” the spokes
man asserted.
Negro Is Nabbed
Under Auto
Willie Armstrong, negro, was
captured by police Sunday night at
! 10 o’clock hid underneath a car in
the Raney-Cline Motor company
' here Twice before he has broken
: into the same establishment and
■ stolen an automobile.
I He had pulled hismself up on the
. rigging under the car in order to
i avoid detection. He was placed in
the county jail.
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