North Carolina Newspapers

: *** The Carolina Watchman L“, _____A NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE UPBUILDING OF ROWAN COUNTY FOUNDED 1832—104TH YEAR SALISBURY, N. C., FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY, 28, 1936. ‘ VOL. 104 NO. 31. PRICE 2 CENTS. WASHINGTON Washington.—The 8 to 1 deci-j sion of the Supreme Court, holding! the Tennessee Valley Authority Act to be Constitutional and with in the powers of Congress, has greatly heartened the Administra tion and its supporters. The deci sion is taken as clearing the way for Federal activity in other direc tions. It at least confirms the power of the Government to produce and dispose of < lectrical energy as .. by product to the control of na vigable wate'S; and is taken as re moving any doubts about the Con stitutional rights involved in the Passamaquad-’ Power Project, the Grand Coulee Dam and other im portant public works. This T.V.A. decision is the sec ond decision of the Supreme Court upholding one of the major fea tures of the New Deal. The first was in the gold clause suits. There is a general feeling here that the Government's housing program is not progressing as rapidly as was hoped. Two distinct sets of ideas on the subject are in sharp conflict. There is one faction in the Administration which wants the Federal Government to content itself with fostering building loans to private enterprises and guaran teeing mortgages. They maintain that private capital is ready to go ahead and put men at work if it can be assured that the Govern ment is not going into the hous ing field. On the other hand is the "social tninded” group, which holds it the Government’s duty to finance and build new homes for the under privileged everywhere. Until this conflict of viewpoints is dissolved, the outlook is that the new build ing program for 1936 will be about 200,000 family units, dwellings and apartments. A shrewd political observer re marked the other day that very few persons in or out of Congress understood much about the new farm aid program, except that it - means checks for the farmers. % The estimate of cash distribu tions to farmers this year is that they will run to at least $800,000, 000. About $200,000,000 will be distributed on existing contracts under the old AAA. Another $300,000,000 is expected to go to| the farmers by June 30 under thej new farm law. This distribution will begin in the cotton belt during March and swinging northward through the tobacco country into the corn, hog, and wheat regions as the season progresses. $300,000,000 will like ly be similarly distributed later in the fall. Recent developments indicate that only one of the four national farmer organisations is satisfied with the new farm aid plan. That is the Farm Bureau Federation. The National Grange, the Farm ers’ Union and the National Co operative Council are not giving any active support to the plan, but neither are they rising any objec tions to the distribution of funds to agriculture. Little progress has seemingly been made in developing a work able system of taxation to provide (Continued on page four) Democratic Ex. Committee Meets March 6 t f , _ *1 " 1 1 ■ ■ ^ i Picks Raleigh For Gathering Friday, 8 P. M. Date And Place of State Convention to Be Chosen FULL PROGRAM | The executive committee of the [Democratic party of North Caro lina was Tuesday night called by its chairman, J. Wallace Winborne of Marion, to meet Friday night, March 6, at 8 o’clock in the cham ber of the House of Representatives at Raleigh. The executive committee of the Party organization was called by Chairman Winborne to meet for the purpose of setting daces for the holding of precinct meetings and 335??^ DemocraticState co"* ^ 1936 *-*uc otate convention. -l. executlve committee will t m/ any Vac:,ncies at that me may exist in that body said Chairman Winborne. Y’ The Democratic plan or organ! tCru , ,C) wl,° telephoned on Charlo“e °bserver from Mari on and asked the calling of the Zt'no traduction of efforts to^ have C. I Shupmg of Greensboro replaced as Democratic National committee man, Chairman Win borne said no such efforts properly could come before the executive committee, since the National committeeman 3n National committeewoman were not the appointees of the committee, but on the contrary were named by the delegates from North Carolina to the Democratic National convention. "There is no vacancy in that of fice, either of National committee man or National committeewoman, and until such a vacancy should exist there would be no reason for bringing up this matter,” the party chairman explained. "The State committee has nothing to do with naming persons to these positions unless a vacancy should occur and then the committee would make recommendation to the National committee for the filling of the va cancy. But the persons named to these party positions are named by the North Carolina delegates to the National convention. That is the regular method of naming them.” Fink Is Renamed Head Labor Union C. A. Fink was re-elected presi dent of the Central Labor union at a meeting here Monday night. Other officers also re-elcted in clude: C. iHi. Bringle, vice-presi dent; J. A. Pinkston, corresponding secretary; Armond Lyerly, record ing secretary; G. L. Seamon, treas urer; H. G. Fisher, sergeant-at arms. Local ,^all Club To Play Six Games Weekly Will Insist Of Six Teams; 4 Have Entered Charlotte Latest to Gain Admittance; Others Be Offered Berth — PLAYS START MAY 12 Charlotte will have a team in the Carolina Textile baseball league this season it was announced following a session of the loop directrs held here Wednesday. Barm Hinson and Dr. E. P. White, of the Queen City, were here for the meeting, entering a club in the new circuit, along with Kannapolis, Concord and Salisbury. They pointed out that the team would represent the city of Char lotte and not any individual con cern. Three of last year’s teams, Mooresville, Cooleemee and Landis, decide.d to forfeit their franchises because of the adoption of a pro posal to play six games each week. They had fought vehemently for a four-game week. However, the remaining four teams will make overtures to Shel by and Valdese of the Western Carolina league as well as Gastonia in an effort to expand the circuit to six clubs. Dr. H. H. Newman, will contact baseball leaders at Shelby and Val dese while Dr. E. P. White, of Charlotte, will confer with Gas tonia fans. Pending these confer ences, the league directors will de lay any further action. They feel certain, however, that two other clubs will be secured in a very short while. Present plans call for the open ing of the league on May 12 with final games to be played on Labor Day to be followed by the cham pionship series. A proposal for a $450 weekly team salary limit was tabled. Negro Womann Killed By Train Frances Johnson, elderly color ed woman, was instantly killed in the southern part of the city Tuesday morning when she was struck by Southern passenger train No. 36, northbound, while she was picking up coal on the tracks. The engineer stated he blew his whistle and rang the bell but the woman apparently did not l.eed the warning. Blind—37—Leads NEW YORK . . . Mrs. Pradenee Patterson, 37, and totally blind since childhood, found time from her work, to take a coarse at N. Y. University- She ranked highest in her class with a year's average of 92.5- peieent. FAMILY TREE ENTERS CASE Pedigree Testimony Filed In Hearings On Set tlement of Rey nolds Estate Baltimore — Pedigree testimony recntly taken in Florida is schedul ed to be filed in circuit court here in hearings on the settlement of the $28,000,000 estate due the heirs of the late Zachary Smith Reynolds. The testimony has to do with of Smith Reynolds and biulder of! the North Carolina tobacco for tune. The case is before Judge Eli Frank. The proceedings were instituted in court here by the Safe Deposit and Trust company of Baltimore, trustee of the Reynolds estate. The company is seeking ratification by the Maryland courts of any settle m nt of the estate. The North Carolina courts re cently ratified a "family” settle ment of the estate. Smith Reynolds was fatally shot during a party at his Winston-Sa lem, N. C., home in July, 1932. Albert C. Ritchie j Dies In Maryland Baltimore—Albert C. Ritchie, four times governor of Maryland, died at his home here Monday of a paralytic stroke. He was 59 years old. Ritchie had been prominent in politics for 35 years. He was gov ernor of Maryland from 1920 to 1935. In 1932 he was one of the foremost candidates for the Demo cratic presidential nomination. I'tiends of Ritchie «;«ui he ap pi cntly had been in perfect health. He returned to his apart mo-t, where he lived alone, late that night after a drive near Balti more Ritchie’s last public address was made at an Epworth League meet ing a few hours before his death. He spoke on the construction and assailed centralization of govern ment in Washington. He gave no indication of illness during the speech. An elevator operator in the apartment build ing where he lived said Ritchie joked with him as he went to his rooms shortly after midnight and that he appeared in excellent spir its. AMERICAN BEAUTIES Another full-page picture of a lovely girl, reproduced in all its original colors from a painting by an eminent American artist will appear in the American Weekly (issue of March 1), the big maga zine which comes every Sunday with the BALTIMORE AMERI CAN. Get your copy from your favorite newsdealer. Pension Conference In Capitol Secret Doughton and Ehringhaus Confer on State Legis lation, But Reveal No Details Of Conversation ! _ Washington—Various interpre tations are being placed upon the move whereby Representative Rob ert L. Doughton, as dean of the North Carolina delegation in Cong ress, called the secret conference Wednesday with Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus over the proposed State legislation on the social security plan and other matters, with the report that the Townsend old-age pension plan was a factor. The conference was blank so far as finding out what happened is concerned, because Senator Bailey, who was chosen as spokesman for the delegation, would say only that the conference "was satisfactory,” while Governor Ehringhaus, for himself, said the State would "cross that bridge when we get to it.” The parley lasted several hours and was held in the mahogany lined rooms of the chairman of the ways and means committee in the Capitol, and was well attended. But what was done still remains a secret. It is known, however, that North Carolina cannot meet Uncle Sam half way in paying off old age pensions until the Legislature meets, and it does not convene un til next year. Meanwhile, the Townsend orga nization is growing in North Caro lina, and the two senators and 11 House members continue to receive petitions to vote for the Townsend plan, even with an investigation committee already o. ganized to in vestigate how the Townsend plan campaign is carried on, and the na tional organization in Washington declaring it has nothing to hide. In States where the Legislatures have already acted or are planning to act at once to meet the govern ment on a 10-10 basis, members of Congress do not have so much trouble with petitions. / Damn Honors Metal Pioneer of the Charles Mar the electro i Alu minum company and by out-of town visitors. The program was initiated by W. G. Dotson, chief chemist of the company here, who outlined briefly the purpose of the occasion and paid tribute to Charles Martin Hall and to the founders of the Alumni num Company of America. The principal speaker of the af ternoon -^as Superintendent S. A. Copp, of the Carolina Aluminum company, who described the life of Charles Martin Hall. Elaborate program folders, tinted with aluminum, were available to all present, and were handed out by local Boy Scouts who acted as ushers. Bandmaster L. W. Gabriel and the members of the band organiza tion here, and the Golden Jubilee Singers furnished the music of the afternoon. Seize Rum Car After Wreck Albemarle—A four-car automo bile wreck near Richfield late Sun day night resulted in serious in jury to Walter Holland, employe of a local automobile concern, and led to the destruction of one of the largest hauls of liquor ever captur ed in the county. * Holland’s car crashed into the rear car of a three-car liquor con voy, parked on the road without lights, doing damage to all four machines. All of the cars were new Ford sedans. Two of the booze cars carrying three men and one woman were able to get away before officers arrived. The other car was brought to Albemarle. The captured car had approxi mately 200 gallons of moonshine liquor in half gallon jars, and per sons who viewed the wreck be fore the other two cars made their getaway stated that both were heavily loaded with the contra band. Los Angeles—A Civilian Con servation Corps enrollee killed a companion, and seriously injured another at a camp in Monrovia canyon. Sheriff’s deputies started a search for a camp musician, ap parently temporarily :nsane. Wealthy Widow Weds A Former North Carolinian Under a recent Washington date line there appears the following in marriage of B. Fritz Smith, some times of Raleigh, and New Bern, to Mrs. Laura Sadler Piez, a widow who inherited a fortune of seven million dollars from her former husband, the late Charles Piez of Chicago and Washington. Although the wedding occurred Saturday under unusual circum stances, the facts did not become generally known here until later. Mrs. Piez entertained a large party at her apartment at the fash ionable Shoreham Hotel here on last Friday evening and at that time it was announced that the wedding would occur at the 'ame place at 11 o’clock the following morning. However, the party lasted until a very late hour and the participants were not on hand at the scheduled hour. Considerable uncertainty as to whether or not there would be a wedding ensued and the Rev. J. Luther Frantz left the hotel. Late in the afternoon the couple decided again to be married and, unaccom panied, sought the minister out at his home in southwest Washington, which is far removed from the fash ionable home of the bride. The ceremony was performed there with only strangers as witnesses. Mr. Smith who is 38 years of age, has also been married before, having been divorced from his first wife the former Miss Kate Nor wood, of Salisbury. Ms new wife is some 12 or 15 years older than he is. New York—The Great Atlantic and Pacific chain stores, which made strenuous objection to the Florida chain store tax law, have no intention of withdrawing from the Florida field, F. W. Wheeler, execu tive of the company said this week. frS-S-sS-*#**** * LICENSE CLERK * * RESIGNS AFTER * * DRUNK ARREST * * _ * * Raleigh—Carl E. Stanley, * * Jr., a clerk in the State di- * * vision of highway safety whose * * duties included preparation of * * lists of revocations of licenses * * for drunken driving and other * * convictions, resigned a few * * hours after he was arrected * * and charged with driving * * while intoxicated here. * * Stanley was arrested by Ral- * * eigh police. * ■|c*-*:**4**4s>f*4: N. C. Spends More Than Its Income Expenses of State First Seven Months of Fiscal Year Are $60,062,196 Against $52,825,806 Taken In Raleigh—The State of North Carolina spent $60,062,196.37 the first seven months of the current fiscal year and took in $52,825, 806.-78 the same period, the com bined statement of the auditor and treasurer for January shows. At the end of January, however, the State had $22,538,164.75 cash in its treasury, most of which was reserved for special purposes. The general fund with receipts of $22,130,036.96 for the fiscal year to February 1 had a balance of only $1,124,752.91 at the end of January, more than three-quarters of a million dollars less than at the end of December, although only $18,696,786.80 had been spent. Explanation of the small balance was the cash overdraft of $2,310, 497.25 in the general fund at the beginning of the fiscal year. The highway and other special funds showed a seven-month cash Lalance of $20,665,387.47, though receipts of $37,930,159.41 were less than four million dollars above expenditures of $34,129,019.98. The highway fund and these speci al items had a cash balance of $16, 664,248.23 in January as compar ed with expenditures of $3,329, 234.90. The special funds took in $5,621,524.53 and spent only $2,988,266.84. The treasury also contained $181,571.10 reserved for warrants outstanding and $1,566,453.27 for disbursing accounts. The total State debt remained at $167,789,000, more than half of which, $92,771,000, represented highway bonds. | Would Tax ChildlejTj mm i CHICAGO . . . Prot. T. G. Dick inson (above), of tbs University of Illinois faculty, fa advocating that taxes to asst old-age no—ions bo levied — baobskirs, oplustow and -kildleas married couples. II. S. To Push Power Plans Washington—A— Pacific north west power agency to harness the Columbia River was proposed here on the strength of Supreme Court approval of Government sale of electricity from Muscle Shoals by the Tennessee Valley Authority. While some observers saw warn ing signals in the court’s refusal to pass directly on constitution ality of the TVA, Administration leaders predicted widespread devel opment and distribution of cheapei P°WCf Young Democrat Committee To Meet Saturday Mooresville—Ben S. Houston has announced that the executive com mittee of the Young Democratic Clubs of North Carolina wiR be held in Statesville Saturday night at 7 o’clock at the Vance hotel. Mayor Houston is chairman of the Ninth district and at a confer-1 ence with Jack Joyner of States ville made all preliminary arrange ments. Mrs. Bessie B. Phoenix, oresident of the State organization will pre side. This, said Mr. Houston, is the first time the State committee has met anywhere outside of Raleigh. __I *** :'r * * & Jf- i> jj. .j. * SOFA 'STUFFED’ * WITH CONVICTS * * Columbia, S. C.—Supt. J. * * S. Wilson of the State Peni- * * tentiary tells this one: * * Some overstuffed furniture, * * manufactured at the prison, * * was ready to be shipped to * * out-of-State points. * * Two Negro convicts, load- * * ing a couple of sofas on a * * truck, thought the furniture * * was awful heavy. * * The truck driver also got * * suspicious and called a guard. * * A convict was found be- * * neath the cushions of each * * sofa in a space from which * * the springs had been removed. * ****** * * * * President Promises Aid For Brave Little Cripple Cambridge, Mass.—Brown-hair ed, 15-year-old Dorothy Porter, for nine years a sufferer of infan tile paralysis, counted a host of new friends. Messages of sympathy and cheer poured into the home of the plucky little girl • who waited five hours Saturday night on the steps of Har vard college’s Fly club to see Presi dent Roosevelt. With a smile and a few words, she won the presidential promise of aid in obtaining admission to the Warm Springs foundation in Georgia. There she hopes to find a cure. Life has been happy for Dorothy since that night. Many of the friends her courage brought her then have called to visit. Among them were two of the President’s sons, John, and Franklin, Jr. Others sent gifts. Police Chief Timothy F. Leahy has obtained a complete report of Dorothy’s case and will forward it to the President.