LIBRARY OP PATAWRA fOl I FfiF. The Cari >una Watchman cr:rLlt, A NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE UPBUILDING OF ROWAN COUNTY FOUNDED 1832—104TH YEAR SALISBURY, N. C., FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 27, 1936. VOL. 104 NO. if. PRICE 2 CENTS. Washington — While President Roosevelt is away on his annual fishing trip in Florida waters, the boys on Capitol Hill are doing some serious work trying to draw up a new tax bill which will raise the additional $800,000,000 a year that is necessary to bring the Govern ment budget into balance. They have taken as the basis from which to start the President’s proposal to tax corporate -reserves, but the more they study it, the less likely it seems that they will adopt the Treasury plan as submitted. There are two reasons for this hesitancy. One is considerable doubt as to whether it will really raise the necessary revenue and, sec ond, the question whether it would be good public policy to draw down corporate reserves to a point where big industries might not be able to carry on through another depression, as so many of them have done, by the aid of that part of their profits which they had put away for a rainy day. "RAINY DAY FUNDS” The United States Steel Corpora tion, for example, has a reserve of more than $250,000,000 which on the face of it looks pretty big, but the corporation last year paid out over $7,000,000 in dividends on its preferred stock, although it earned only a little less than $1,200,000 profits. The difference came out of the reserve. U. S. Steel is only one of many corporations which have followed a similar practice throughout the depression years, and as these are studied, the feeling grows that it would not be good economics to go as far as the Treasury has proposed. The Ways and Means Committee of the (House will draft the first bill and the Senate Finance Com mittee will redraft it. The best guess now is that the resulting measure will leave the net tax bur den on corporations about where it now is but will put a heavier tax burden upon the recipients of corporate dividends, thus hitting mainly the income-tax payers who now pay on incomes of from $10,-| OOO a year up. j Politically chi* drill look good co the average voter who does not re gard himself as being affected by taxes which he does not pay di rectly, and it will not give the big industrial incorporations any excuse for reducing employment of cur tailing operations. The last thing that Congress wants to do is to pass any laws which would tend to check the rising tide of re-employ ment. NO BOAT ROCKING There has been an increase of about three percent in industrial employment since last May, accord ing to the latest figures of the National Industrial Conference Board. At the same time there has been an increase in the average wage of industrial workers from $21.75 a week to $23,500 a week. Those figures do not show as great an increase in employment and wages as most folks would like to see, but they do indicate a definite trend and the feeling on Capitol Hill is to be very careful and not to put over any new legislation which would check this rising ten-| dency. The most confused situation in (Continued on page Four) 25 Millions In Federal Money Is Owing State - I Washington—Almost half of the $55,759,000 allotted to North Car-j olina from 193 5 Federal emergency appropriatons remained to be spent. The Treasury department report ed an unexpended balance of $25, 415,000 credited to the State. The largest unexpended balance was in the special authorization for highway and grade-crossing construction. Only $194,000 of the $9,5 54,000 allocated for this work had been used. More than $5,600,000 of the $9,672,000 works relief money earmarked for the State remained, with an unexpended balance of $3,791,000 of the $4,141,000 in public works loans and grants, and of $1,139,000 in the $12,000,000 allocated the State for CCC camps. Only $360,000 of the $1,668,000 rural rehabilitation fund had been spent. All the State’s $10,621,000 FERA money haeen used. State Leaders Backing Democratic Meet Parf Chiefs Approval J. Wallace Winborn and Miss Cobb Indorse Green Pastures Convention Charlotte—J. Wallace Win borne, chairman of the State Demo cratic executive committee, and Miss Beatrice Cobb, national com mitteewoman from North Caro lina, have anounced their endorse ment of the seven-State Democratic rally which is to be held in Char lotte early in June, it was learned from Haywood Robbins, general chairman in charge of the meeting. Mr. Winome’s indorsment was contained in a letter received at local headquarters of the rally. Mr. Robbins said, while Miss Cobb called over long distance telephone to assure the local backers of the meeting that she is heartily in favor of the gathering. Chairman Robbins will go this week to Raleigh, where he will confer with Governor Ehringhaus, Mrs. Bess Phoenix, State president of the Young Democrats, and other officials about the arrangements for the rally in Charlotte, he said. The rally, which will be known as the "Green Pastures” rally, is to bring together the Democrats from Virginia, North and South Caro lina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, and Florida. The chief speaker, if present plans go through, will be President Roosevelt, and the meet ing is expected tc prove -i mecca for Democratic stalwarts from all over the South and many : States. . The Mecklenl^rj^?<7wij era tic club is sponsoring the rally with Chairman Robbins, originator of the idea for the meeting, acting as director in active charge of all arrangements. Mr. Robbins said that he is now engaged in widespread correspond ence with promient Democrats who have evinced interest in the rally and that in a few days he will an nounce committees to have charge of the various operations relative to putting on the meeting. Lincoln Man To Aid Party James A. Abernethy To Be Associate General Chairman of Demo crats Rally Charlotte—As the first step in organizing for the huge seven state Democratic rally which will be held in this city early in June Haywood Robbins, general chairman, an nounces that he had appointed James A. Abernethy of Lincolnton, vice president of the North Caro lina Young Democrats, as associate general chairman to aid him in put ting on the rally. Mr. Robbins communicated with Mr. Abernethy over the phone and received the prominent young businessman’s acceptance 'of the appointment. Mr.Abernethy in dorsed the rally as affording an excellent oportunity to consolidate the Democratic strength in the South and promised to work hand in hand with other members of the organization group in making the local meeting a success. The meeting, which is to be known as the "Green Pastures” ral ly with the slogan, "All With Roosevelt,” will draw from Virgin ia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, and Florida, already Democratic party leaders from these states are prom ising their support, the general chairman said. FLU CAUSES SOHOOLS TO CLOSE Warsaw, Mo.—Schools were closed here because more than 20 per cent of the 275 pupils were ill of influenza. Senate Passes Agriculture Supply Bill 205 Millions Are Provided Upper Branch Adds 30 Millions and Sends Measure to House Washington—The Senate passed the $205,364,000 Agriculture ap propriation bill and swelled to over $5,000,000,000 the amount appro priated so far this session. The Agriculture bill was the sixth of the 11 regular appropria tion bills. While the sums carried in the total appropriations exceeded the amounts in the regular appropria tion bills in past sessions, almost half of the $5,192,611,000 total was made up from the $1,730,000, 000 appropriation to pay the bonus, and $440,000,000 for the soil con servation bill. Upon passage by the Senate, the Agriculture bill went to confer ence with the House for consider ation of Senate amendments add ing to it about $39,000,000. Overriding House action, the Senate added $1,000,000 to the bill to help finance the planting of 95,000,000 trees in the 100-mile wide shelter belt through the Mid West. Other principal additions [included $10,000,000 for soil ero sion study and development of wa tershed nursery stock; $10,000, 000 for purchase of timber areas, and $7,728,000 for eradication of bangs cattle disease and bovine mastitis. The last was added on motion »f Senator LaFoJlctte, Progressive )f Wisconsin, over the protest of Senator Russell, Democrat of Georgia, in charge of the measure, that the $11,3000,000 originally al lowd in the bill was sufficient. LaFollette argued it would be "tragic” to lose ground already won against the diseases in past Federally-financed campaigns. Senator Glass, Democrat of Vir ginia, owner of dairy herds in Vir ginia, attacked the appropriation as financing a "miserable slaugh ter” for a disease "which I don’t believe exists.” An amendment by Senator Copeland, Democrat of New York, was accepted adding $4,500 to the bill to send weather bureau ex perts to school to learn latest scien tific weather reporting data to aid in safe flying. Recent hearings before the Senate commerce sub committee on safety in aviation, Copeland said, had demonstrated the need of improved weather re porting. Added also was $6,000 for study and eradication of pecan nut dis eases and an appropriaton of $221, 000 for Japanese beetle control was increased to $3 50,000. As passed, the bill carried $60, 000,000 for Federal-aid highways, $7,082,000 for forest highways and trails, and $2,500,000 for build ing highways over unappropriated publ". domain and Indian reserva tions, the latter added by the Sen ate to the sum voted by the (House. City To Vote On School Tax May 15 A special election has been order ed here for May 5, by the city council in its session last week to vote on the question of a special tax of 10 cents on the $100 valua tion to provide a ninth month for the school term here. The school board petitioned the council following action taken here recently. AIR RESERVE CORPS FAVORED Washington—The House mili tary committee voted unanimously to report favorably the bill by Chairman McSwain, Democrat of South Carolina, to create an air re serve trainng corps. Men between 17 and 24 with high school educa tion would be eligible for ground training at flying schools. Proposed Tax Being Fought Tar Heel Delegation Of Fire Insurance Agents Appeals to Doughton Washington—Representative R. L. Doughton, as chairman of the ways and means committee faced a delegation of fire insurance agents from his home State this week who ■ hastened to Washington to save che j surplus of fire insurance companies I from taxation, under the new tax j program, just as has been done for life insurance companies and banks. In the delegation were Ross M. Sigmon, of Salisbury, E. F. Allen, of Lenoir, Albert S. Stevens of Greenesboro, and Gilbert Hendrix of Concord. As pointed out by Mr. Stevens, as spokesman for the party, the present plans of the committee are to report a bill which exempts all fiscal institutions like banks and trust companies, life insurance com panies and all mutual and joint stock companies other than fire in surance companies, which are tax ed. inis Dill strikes at the very ot fire insurance companies,” said Mr. Stevens. "It is necessary for fire insurance companies to carry a large surplus which should be tax exempt in order to meet losses in great fires J and other disasters. Had it not ! been for the comfortable surpluses : carried by the fire insurance com j panics when the great San Francisco fire occurred, they could not have met losses promptly as they did and co-operated in rehabilitating the Golden Gate City. Our position is that it is just as important to ex empt fire insurance companies as it is life insurance companies. No one can conjecture just when a great fire will take place and it is absolutely necessary for fire in surance companies to carry a great surplus for just such contingencies as those for which they are organiz ed.” Mr. Doughton heard the dele gation in detail, and said he would place the views of the delegation before the committee. Liquor Car Is Captured After Chase In County An automobile in which was found a city license tag of Char lotte and 174 gallons of "moon shine” was captured Sunday night near Faith by State Patrolman C. R. Adams and Deputy Sheriff A. J. Shuping after the former had driven his patrol car through four m.'Jes of a blinding smoke screen in pursuit of the liquor car. The d: \er made his gttaway, having a small lead on the officers. The liquor car was parked on the highway with' a flat tire but the driver "took off” notwith standing when he was spotted by the officers. i | To Coach Cornell ITHACA. N. Y. . . C*rl Snavely (above), #ew football coach of Cornell, succeeding Gi) Dobie, is being acclaimed a good selection by football coaches throughout the land. His winning records at Buckneli and North Carolina landed the job for him. Headquarters Of Clyde Hoey Is Busy Place Candidate to Start Cam paigning Next Week Raleigh—T . Olive, State manager of Clyde R. Hoey’s cam paign for the Democratic nomina tion for Governor of- North Caro lina, opened headquarters on the ninth floor of the Sir Walter Hote! here on Monday , March 16. Three days laser he the hote management that have t( have twice as much T!»5In as he started with. "I had no idea we would have tc expand so early”, said Mr. Olive. "Of course I knew that Mr. Hoey is one of the most popular leaders the Democratic Party has ever known but I must confess that the enthusiasm indicated by the num ber of visitors we are having this early in the campaign is beyond all expectations. "The rank and file of the Demo cratic Party is not only anxious to work for Mr. Hoey, they are ’raring to go’.” Mr. Hoey and Manager Olive told newspapermen that the candidate’s speaking tour would begin about April 1. "You know this is a new experi ence for me,” said Mr. Hoey. "I {Continued on page five) * >'r * * Hr 9fr i'r * 9fr * * SET OF TRIPLETS * * ADDED TO TWO * * SETS OF TWINS * * _ * * Kingston, Tenn.—A set of * * triplets, two girls and a boy— * * has been added to the two sets * * of twins of Mr. and Mrs. * * Luke Nix, farm tenants living * * three fniles east of Kingston. * * The triplets—named Ella, * * Della and Thomas—Mrs. Nix * * is 34. * The parents, who have been * * married 11 years, now have * * ten children. 551 * * * * * * * * Pick Reynolds For Maine Talk Will Deliver Keynote Speech at Democratic State Convention Washington—Senator Robert R. Reynolds of North Carolina, has been selected by the national Democratic committee to deliver the keynote speech at the Maine Democratic State convention, to be held in Lewiston, next Tuesday, March 31. This convention marks the opening of the national Demo cratic campaign. Eyes of the nation will be cen tered on this convention, as it sig nifies formal opening of the na tional Democratic campaign, as the iMaine elections are held in Sep tember. Senator Reynolds consent ed to accept this invitation at the urgent request of the Democratic national committee, Governor Brann, and the chairman of the Democratic national committee, following a conference with Gov ernor Brann and other prominent leaders of the Democratic party at Washington. Mr. Morgan stated that the se curing of Senator Reynolds as the 1 keynoter would spur the Democrats in that section to great enthusiasm and that the convention would be attended by delega^, .not only from Maine, but from all over the New England States, on account of this being the first shot to be fired in the national Democratic cam | paign. Is** > New State Grange Head Addresses Rowan Group Ben F. Wilson of Mebane, re cently elected master of the North Carolina Grange, was the chief speaker Wednesday at the meeting of the Rowan county Pomona Grange with the Patterson Grange in western Rowan as host. Wilson discussed the Grange pro gram in the State and nation and called attention to a membership contest under way at the State' meeting in Raleigh December 9. | ^_ ' i Lake Lure Be Closed To Fishing Until June 11 Lake Lure—According to townj officials here, the lake is being j closed for all fishing from April 1 j to June 11, by lease arrangements \ with the Carolina Power corpora tion, owners. The practise of closing Lake Lure one month longer than the State regulations provides for as| an added protection to the game] fish was inaugurated by the town board three years ago and has proved a popular idea with its many patrons. Ex-Marshal To Race Doughton Anti-Borah Men Are Elected Delegates Te National Republican Conclave Watt H. Gragg of Boone, a for mer United States district marshal, was nominated by the Republicans of the Ninth Congressional district, in convention here Monday as their candidate for the United States. He will oppose Hon. Robert L. Doughton of Laurel Springs, Demo cratic congressman for the past 26 years, in the coming election. Presidential choices were inject ed into the election of delegates to the national convention in Cleve land, O. Two nominees who de clared themselves opposed to Sen ator William Borah were elected, they being H. S. Williams of Con cord and Charles E. Welch of Ashe county. Robert H. McNeill of Iredell county was defeated. His request was that he be allowed to vote his convictions. Alternates to the convention are Thomas H. King of Allegheny county and B. M. Bowen of Salis bury. Baxter Linney of Lenoir was named presidential elector. H. S. Williams of Concord was named convention chairman, and Grant Bauguess of Jefferson, sec retary. Eight nominations for places on the State executive committee were indorsed, and await action by the State group at the convention in Raleigh. They are George Cheek of Allegheny county, Carl B. Graybeal of Ashe, G. W. Kluttz of Caldwell, Gales Linney of Alexan der, Neil S. Sowers of Iredell, G. C. Peeler of Rowan, M. L. Ross of Cabarrus, and N. A. Cooper of Stanly. Chairman Williams was the prin cipal speaker and after urging unit ed action on the part of *he Re publicans, advocated that they sweep the Democrats out of power and "correct the mistakes of the past few years.” Gragg was given the privilege of naming the congressional district chairman who will also be his cam paign manager. days Sunday Schoolers Make Rare Court Cases Judge John M. Oglesby of Con cord made an inspring address be fore the Rowan county Baraca Philathea union here Sunday at the Oakdale Baptist church, near Spen cer. He challenged the homes, schools, churches, Sunday schools, and other organizations to exert proper Influences on the youth of ' the nation. He said that in his 11 years on the bench, he had never seen a j foung man before the court who lad attended Sunday school regu- • arly with his father. Report Of Cotton Ginned In County; ■ 1 ■ ~ ■ • ( E. B. Marsh, special agent, states: j Census report Shows that there < vere 10,995 bales of cotton gin- ] led and to be ginned in Rowan bounty from the crop of 1935, ] is compared with 12,191 bales gin- ] led from the crop of 1934. NOW THAT’S DIFFERENT 1 Lowell, Mass.—For 25 ye^rs the ' VTerrimac’s flood waters left one ' Lowell home unscathed. Last ; week as they lapped at the front . loor a WPA worker suggested to die housewife it was time to leave. >aid she: "Don’t be silly. I’ve liv id here 2 5 years. The water never :omes near.” "Madame,” he re :orted, "I came here by boat.” She eft. House Takes Up Collection Of $44 For Mother Ousted From Gallery Washington—Their sympathies aroused, House members violated their own rules to take up a collec tion to help a Tennessee tenant farmer’s family, the mother of which once was asked to leave when she nursed her baby in the House gallery. Before Speaker Byrns stopped the collection, $44, including one bright silver cartwheel, had been contributed to buy food and medi cine for the Everett Parkers, now living wth their five children in one bare room almost within the shadow of the capitol. Representative Dunn, Democrat of Mississippi, brought the family’s plight to representative’s attention and identified the mother as the one who was requested to leave last session when attendants noticed she was nursing her baby as she listened to the floor debate. Just before the House approved an additional $3 50,000 relief ap propriation for the District of Co lumbia, Dunn, his voice booming, began to/'paint to you a picture so appalling, so miserable, so abso lutely shameful, as it concerns our nation in the matter of charity.” He told how Parker came to his office, clad in overalls and suffer ing from shell shock, and said he could not get job or relief for his family. Parker went to one District ex ecutive, the Missippian related, 1 who told him: "You are from Ten nessee and you ought to be back : there on the farm.” "God knows,” Dunn shouted, ; when I heard that I wondered how ; many other big executives in the city of Washington ought to be back on the farm following a hard tail mule.” "It is,” he added, "just a propo sition of pure, unadulterated and damnable red tape that will let a man starve to death and a mother be crucifed with her own flesh and ! blood at her breast. Whenever motherhood in this nation is cruci fied on a cross of poverty, God help all of us.”