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The Carolina Watchman |g“J _‘A NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE UPBUILDING OF ROWAN COUNTY FOUNDED 1832-104fH YEAR SALISBURY, N. C, FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 6, 1936. " VOL. 104 NO. 32. PRICE 2 CENTS. Washington—With the new farm bill out of the way Congress is trying to get down to a working schedule that will let its members get away before the political con ventions. A dozen or so highly controversial proposals, however are bound to come up for discussion, and nbody can guess very accurate ly as yet what the outcome is go ing to be. Senator Robinson, the Admin istration's leader in the Upper House, has announced that there are seven measures which he calls "live” bills whose consideration has been agreed upon t>y the Senate leaders. One of them is going to stir up a lot of debate. That is the rural electrification bill. There probably will be even more excitement when the bill to regulate chain stores gets on the floor. This would prohibit producers and distri butors of merchandise from selling cheaper to the chain stores than they do to individual retailers. It is one of Senator Robinson’s pets, with Senator Pattman actively in terested. It will meet with strong opposition not only from the chains and from manufacturers, but from consumer groups and from news papers. It has about an even chance of enactment as things look now. FOUR "LIVE” MEASURES The Coolidge bill to tighten the barriers against undesirable aliens and make their deportation easier is on Senator Robinson’s list. It has a good chance. The other four "live” measures, as the Senate leader sees them, are the Capper stock yards regulation bills. Senator Gore’s Panama toll bill, Senator Fletcher’s bill to increase the capital of the Commercial Credit Corpora tion to aid in the marketing of ag ricultural products and another Fletcher bill exempting from taxa tion all securities of banks held by the RFC. Since the passage of the bonus bill less is being heard of the so-called "pressure groups” and their in fluence on legislation. '^Pressure group” is just a fancy word for lobbyists. It does not imply Jm bery, necessarily, but the pressure groups work effectively upon the fears of members of Congress that they will not be reelected if they don’t give these groups what they demand. A short time ago one of the strongest pressure groups was the currency inflation bloc. It seems to be losing influnence and its par ticular measure, the Frazier-Lemke farm mortgage bill, looks to have a slim chance. The silver bloc, which was a very strong pressure group a year ago, is not so strong now. COUGHLIN AND THOMPSON Father Coughlin, who has been the spearhead of inflation, is not the influential figure that he formerly (Continued on page Four) 993 MILLIONS BONUSASKED Washington—Bonus applications already before the Veterans Bureau total approximately 993 million dollars, a check-up has revealed. The applications range from a maximum of a little more than $1,500 down to $125. Veterans’ Bureau officials re ported they were almost swamped with work as a result of the thous ands of applications pouring in daily. So far as they were able to determine from the corres pondence, most of the soldiers in tend to cash their bonus in full. Up to the present, the applications have averaged around $50 each. The government printing presses have already started turning out the bonus payment certificates, and officials said they were doing everything possible to expediate the work. The Treasury has an nounced plans are being formu lated to pay off quickly the sol diers’ certificates, and it is ex pected that when they go out the veterans will encounter little dif ficulty in getting their money. Under existing plans, the bonus certificates will be shipped by the government to the Federal Reserve banks in the various reserve dis tricts and given out by those in stitutions. Rural County Vote Results In Hard Jolt For Talmadge Majority Is More Than 5 to 1 For President Roosevelt POLITICIANS SURPRISED Donalsonville, Ga.—In the na tion s first presidential primary test, Democratic voters of this rural Georgia county Wednesday called for the renomination of President Franklin D. Roosevelt over his arch critic, Governor Eugene Talmadge. The expression came through ballots cast in overwhelming num bers by voters of Seminole county, in the extreme southwest corner of Georgia, for the present occupant of the White House to be renamed by the Philadelphia convention. In a primary without binding re sult, the first unofficial returns j gave 745 votes for Roosevelt and 136 for Talmadge. The Donalsonville precinct voted 297 for Roosevelt and three for Talmadge, in unofficial early re turns. News of the trend brought ex pressions of surprise in political circles in Atlanta, in view of the fact that only Tuesday another county, Pierce, called off a presi dential primary. i naun i neara aDout it, saia Governor Talmadge in Atlanta, "I doubt if the Talmadge folks had I much chance to get out and vote.” Marion Allen, Georgia campaign manager for Mr. Roosevelt, hailed the Seminole result "as evidence of what the voters throughout the State would do” if a state-wide pri mary were called. "I wish to congratulate and ex press my sincere appreciation to the loyal Democrats of Seminole coun ty in giving our great President such a wonderful and overwhel ming victory,” Allen said. N. C. Revenue Showed Gain February Receipts Show Increase Over Same Month in 1935 Raleigh—Revenue receipts of the State of North Carolina during February aggregated $4,113,793.21, a gain of $1,098,001,46, or 36.41 per cent, over the $3,015,761.6$ collected in February 1935. Receipts for eight months of the fiscal year totalled $35,327,510.71, a gain of $2,490,915.32, or 7.59 per cent, over the similar period last year. In the general fund franchise, in come, sales, beer and miscellaneous levies all showed February in creases, as compared with a year ago, and each division of highway revenue was up. The sales tax brought in $712, 287.03 last month, compared with $552,694.24 a year ago, and for eight months it had yielded $6, 918,432.66, compared with $5, 227,564.25 last year. It occupied first place as a source of general revenue. License revenues from automo biles last month were $934,328.71, compared with $366,303.48 in Feb ruary 1935, and gasoline tax yield was $1,343,826.26, compared with $1,240,077.70 a year ago. WPA Rolls Are To Be Cut Down 11-- • Slash Begins During March Will Continue Till June* Announcement Fol low* Relief Parley Washington—A new White House conference on unemploy ment, described by President Roose velt as a still inconclusive discus sion of whether industry could take on more men, stirred speculation in the capitol. It was followed swiftly by an announcement by Harry L. Hop kins, Works Progress administrator, that WPA would start this month to trim its rolls from a February high of 3,037,440 to a minimum of 2,310,100 by next June 30. The administration anticipated, Hopkins asserted, that 200,000 per sons would be placed in private or other employment each two weeks between now and July 1. The White House meeting fol lowed only a day after the Ameri can Federation of Labor reported j 12,600,000 were jobless in the na tion, with the biggest December-! January unemployment rise in five years. .earner in tne day, congressional i circles revived talk of possible ac-j tion on the Black-Connery bill to require a 30-hour week in indus try. President Roosevelt told his press conference he had a general dis cussion on unemployment at lunch eon with Secretaries Roper and Perkins, and Major George Berry, co-ordinator for industrial co-op eration, and hinted that further talks would be held. Asked about the A. F. of L. re port, he observed that employment always dropped off in January. In another official quarter it was said the whole problem was ex plored with a view "possibly” to ward seeking a new angle of at tack. As to next year’s relief budget, Mr. Roosevelt said it was based only upon taking care of needy employables, indicating that States would be expected to continue car ing for unemployables. The relief request he added, will be forwarded to Congress some time between March 10 and March 19. In his tax message today, the President reiterated his hope to achieve a balanced 1936-1937 bud get except for relief needs—est mated unofficially at around $2, 000,000,000. Mr. Roosevelt told reporters on* of his problems was to find enough money to keep the work-relief pro gram going for the remainder of this fiscal year, which expires June 30. Me said the administration nas not transferred any money lately hrback Murray made. She seeks tion from other relief projects, but that it is scraping the barrel to tide over May and June. Relief headquarters estimated that 14,000,0000 persons are sup ported by the 3,800,000 “employ ables” holding work-relief jobs, and that about 6,000,000 persons are on direct relief. Salisbury Airport Is Leased By R. I. McKee Robert L. McKee, who has been with the Eastern Air Lines for the last eight years at. various eastern seaboard points, ha^ leased the local Municipal airport for three years from the local commission for the purpose of providing personal and mechanical service)to aircrafts op erating to and from here, Both he and his wife are licensed pilots. Two Lose Lives In Auto Crash 20 Others Injured In Other Auto Accidents During Week-End Two persons were killed and at least 20 injured in four week-end automboile accidents in Rowan county. The two fatalities were the first of the year for the coun ty. Joe Allison, 20, negro, of Iredell county, was killed Saturday night near Bear Poplar when, riding on the running board of a car driven by Freddie Tucker, negro, the car sideswiped an automobile operated by Roger Harrison, white. Ed Caldwell, who was in the Tucker car, suffered injuries from which he died early Monday. Four persons in the Harrison cat and six in the Tucker automobile were bruised and cut. Harrison is under bond and Tucker is in jail pending an inquest. Sunday afternoon the car driven by R. E. Ridenhoui of Concord, with Mrs. Ridenhour and her sis ter, Mrs. Nell Edison* as passen-1 gers, went out of control and over turn down the Landis-Mooresville highway. The women received hospital treatment at Mooresville. Sunday night, a car driven by Claude Christie of near this city, collided with one driven by Welker Cline, of near Concord, four miles south of the city. Dwight Hath cock, Henrietta Hatcock and Mar garet Forrest all suffered injuries, while Christie had cuts on the tongue and lip. Christie was charged with reckless driving, State patrolmen said. A car turned over twice after skidding 60 feet and rolling down an embankment near Spencer Sat urday night. Five men were bruis ed and cut, but none was seriously hurt. They were: Coy and Frank Ramsey, James Cook, Jim Smith and L. L. Sweet. Marine Corps To Accept 28 During March the U. S. Marine Recruiting District Headquarters, Post Office Building, Savannah, Ga., will accept twenty-eight ap plicants of superior physical and educational qualifications, single, between 18 and 25 years of age and not less than five feet and six inches in height, it was announced by Major Ralph E. Davis, the Of ficer in Charge. There are also vacancies for musicians who are qualified to play either trumpet or drum, it was an nounced. The Savannah office considers applicants from Virginia, North and South Carolina, Southeast Georgia and Florida, and is the: only office where applicants in these states are examined. Full information and application blanks will be furnished upon request te young men desiring service in the Marine Corps, Major Davis stated. «■****»** * TOO MUCH 'BALONEY* * * PRISONERS STRIKE * it * Tulsa, Okla.—Women prison- * * ers of the county jail have * * gone on strike against bologna. * * According to Marie Kelley, * * spokeswoman for the prisoners, * * they won’t eat again until the * * source of the controversy has * * been scratched from the jail * * menu. She snapped: * * "Baloney! I’ve eaten so * * much of that stuff I can bark * * better than I can talk.” * it******* --1 ! I Proves FREDEIHCKSBURa, Va. , . "Big Trpin" Walter Johnson, one of «sabaU« pitching {mortals, proved that the legend of George Washington haring thrown a silver dollar aeross the Rappahannock irer here when 11-year old, was entirely possible. In two out of hree attempts We on Washington’s birthday, Johnson threw silver toilers across the 272 foot stream. His throw was 317 feet Poet, Dead Many Years, Helping Couples To Wed Baton Rouge, La.,—A poet’s de sire to provide for young couples the matrimonial romance he himself never knew is stiBj finding fulfill ment after more than a century. Nearly a score df young women of West Baton Rouge parish have recently married with the material assistance and figurative Messing of Julian Poydras, whose body has lain for many years in an obscure grave in the quaint old French cem etery of St. Francis in Pointe Cou pee. More than 100 years ago Poydras at the age of 84 looked back upon a life in which he had come to Louisiana as a young and penniless Breton sailor and risen to wealth as a planter and author, but in which he found no wife to share his success. Before he died he willed $30,000 to provide dowrie or "dots” for young women whose marriages might be impeded for lack of dow ries under the prevailing French custom. West Baton Rouge parish, perpet uating tradition and following the terms of his will has distributed the interest accumulated from the fund to dowries to 17 brides in the latest apportionment. Only the in terest is used, the principal remain ing intact. Parish authorities refused to di vulge the amounts each young bride received toward her dowry. Poydras’ reasons for leaving the fund are legendary and varied. One story that the girl he loved died before he accumulated enough money to marry her. BABY ASLEEP 6 MONTHS Erie, Pa.,—Doctors shook their heads sadly over baby Maxine Yar rington’s crib, for her future is anything but bright, even if she should awaken from the deep sleep which has held her six long months. Dr. H. B. Emerson said: "Because of her long confine ment, Maxine will be a life-long in valid when and if she awakens.” The physician declined to make any other prediction on the out come of the strange case, diagnosed as encephalitis, lechargica, or sleep ing sickness. Things have been the same every day since the two-and a-half-year-old tot became ill after a convulsion last September. With her ibig (blue leyes wide open, Baby Maxine looks up with out recognition as Dr. Emerson and other physicians try to get some response to their sympathetic min istrations. Sometimes a noise in the nursery arouses her, but only to the extent she changes her posi tion in the crib. Contract Is Awarded For School Buildings L. S. Bradshaw and Son, contrac tors, have been awarded the con tract for the construction of three school buildings, bids being received Tuesday afternoon by the county board of education. The buildings are for the Wood row Wilson school in Kannapolis, the Bostian school in China Grove township and at Granite Quarry. The total of the general contract was approximately $57,000. There were six other bidders on the gen eral contract and 10 bidders on the heating and plumbing. The schools are a portion of the 12 new buildings approved by the PWA and jointly financed by the government and the county. Bids for the last four units will be received by the board on March 28. New York—Specific bequests totaling about $373,000 are con tained in the will of Charles Kling enstein, silk merchant, who died last Feb. 10. Sensational Spring Combination Offer Is Now Ready What a hit this year’s spring bargain offer is going to make with our readers. More nationally fam ous magazines, favorites with mo ther, dad, sister and brother. Magazines that will help you pass happy evenings, magazines that cover every subject under the sun. And don’t forget with each club you subscribe to, this newspaper is renewed for a full year. What a feast of good reading is ahead for our many readers through this great money-saving offer. It’s ready now-—turn to our an nouncement heatjed "Fi/11 ,Spieed Ahead” and see what big value you get for your money. You will want to take advantage of this bargain at once, so that your magazines will arrive promptly. Act today by bringing or mailing your order to the office. McKenzie Is Acting P. M. James H. McKenzie, W. F. Rattz and H. A. Rouzer were the three men who were eligible for the posi tion as postmaster of Salisbury af ter the examination recently given by the Civil Service Commission, and of these three James McKenzie received the highest rating and has been nominated to fill the place for the next term. The nomination was referred to the post office committee of the Senate and it is expected he will take over the post office March 15. Robert L. Doughton recommended his nomination to the President. P. N. Peacock whose term ex pired February 24 of this year was not a candidate and did not enter the race. Mr. McKenzie formerly was a hardware merchant in Salisbury. For several months he has been connected with the PWA. His father was sheriff of the county, and a brother, Locke McKenzie, followed in his father’s footsteps as the county’s chief peace officer and lost his life while in discharge of his duty. Other Tar iHteel postmaters nom inatd today were: Joseph A. Leigh, Belhaven; Fred M. Bradley, Old Fort; Fred M. Pearce, Wendell; and Arthur T. Newsome, Winton. Clue Links Bruno To Norfolk Goldsboro, N. C.,—George Cas teen, Goldsboro furniture salesman, said he had forwarded to New Jer sey State police at their request a paper on which was written "Auf wiedersehen, Dick Hauptmann,” which he found in a book left in a residence here by previous occu pants. Casteen said the request for the paper came from J. J. Lamb, cap tain New Jersey State police, who said handwriting experts would ex amine it to "ascertain whether these papers were signed by Bruno Richard Hauptmann.” Casteen said the house previously had been occupied by a family which lived in Norfolk, Va., about the time the search for the Lind bergh baby was in progress, but that he did not recall the name. Contract Is Signed For Armory Here Contract for WPA construction of a $24,568 armory for Company "C”, 105th Engineers North Caro lina National guard, was signed in Winston-Salem Wednesday after county and city officials conferred with Federal authorities. The contract was forwarded to Raleigh for approval by John D. Spinks, WPA State engineer. The city of Salisbury and Rowan county agreed to furnish one-third of the project costs for employment of skilled labor not on relief rolls, district WPA officials said. The WPA will supply materials and secure wage labor. * ********** * 80-YEAR-OLD MAN * * HAS 19TB BIRTHDAY * «■ _ * * Savannah, Ga.—Thomas A. !f * Cole celebrated his nineteenth * * birthday anniversary Saturday. * * Although he is 80 years old, * * this is the nineteenth time his * * birthday has rolled around. * * He was born on February 29, * * 1856. * ********