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WASHINGTON
Washington—Whenever political
wiseacres begin to talk about Presi
dential "dark horses” somebody is
sure to bring up the name of John
R. McCarl, Comptroller General of
the United States. That sugges
tion is generally met by a practi
cally unanimous chorus of: "He
would make a good President, if
he could be elected, and he would
make a fine candidate, if he could
be nomnated. But has he a
chance?”
What brings Mr. McCarl into the
limelight just at this time is the
fact that his 15-year term of office
expires on the 30th day of June
this year. This raises, among other
questions, the question of whom
President Roosevelt will appoint in
his place; because the outgoing
Comptroller General is not eligible
for re-appointment.
If Congress were in session or
June 30, the President would have
to make a permanent appointment
to be confirmed by the Senate. But
Congress will not be in session, and
that leaves the President free tc
make an interim appointment oi
anybody whom he chooses to name*
regardless of Senatorial wishes. Thf
interim appointee will hold office
until the next Congress meets
when the next President, either Mr,
Roosevelt or his successor, must
submit the name of somebody tc
fill the job for another 15 years.
INTRODUCING MR. McCARL
There are wheel-horses in th<
present Democratic administration
as there were wheel-horses in pre
vious Republican administration:
who would prefer to see a man ir
the Comptroller-General job thal
would take a more lenient view ir
the spending of the taxpayers
mony. But that is just what Johr
McCarl has always refused to do
Me hasn’t played ball at all the wa>
the politicians who were responsibk
for having him put in the office ex
pected him to play.
The idea of having a Comptrol
ler-General, to see that all money
spent by the Federal Government
was used in precisely the way
Congress prescribed, that no discre
tion should be allowed to any Fed
eral officer or bureau and that he
should be responsible only to Cong
ress, was originated by the Repub
lican majority in Congress during
1919-20.
It came as a result or tne more
or less unregulated spending of the
Wilson Administration in war time.
President Wilson vetoed the first
bill creating the office of Comp
troller-General, because it prohibit
ed the President from removing the
incumbent from office and gave
the executive no control or super
vision of his activities. Senator
Warren G. Harding was one of the
leading advocates of the idea of an
independent accounting officer.
Promptly after Mr. Harding be
came President, in 1921. the office
was created by act of Congress and
Mr. Harding picked John McCarl
to fill it, because McCarl had al
ways been a staunch Republican
wheel-horse. He had been a lawyer
in Nebraska, where he still main
tains a voting residence at Mc
Cook; he had been Secretary of the
Republican Congressional Execu
tive Committee through one or two
campaigns, and at the time of his
appointment he was private secre
tary to Ge#rge W. Norris, of Ne
braska.
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Hi ise Passes
Kerr Tobacco
Compact Bill
N. C. Congressional Dele
gation Implores
Governor
SENATE TO APPROVE
Interstate co-operation to control
tobacco production was approved
by the House.
After strong Republican opposi
tion forced a roll call, the House
passed the Kerr, Democrat of North
Carolina, compact bill by a vote of
189 to 117 and sent it to the Sen
ate.
The measure would give congres
sional consent to agreements be
tween tobacco States to regulate
production, substituting a system
of State control for the Federal
regulation which ceased when the
Supreme Court invalidated the
agricultural adjustment act.
Proponents contended a system
of control through States was nec
essary to supplement the govern
ment’s new soil conservation pro
gfatii as it relates to tobacco. *
Opposition) was based upon the
contention that regulation of agri
cultural production was "un-Am
erjcan, and that the compact pro
posal was merely a plan to cir
cumvent the Supreme Court’s de
cision.
Before passing the measure, the
House expended it by approving
an amendment offered by Repre
Isentative Duncan, Democrat of ^''w
Missouri, to provide that other
States than those mentioned in a
model Virginia State control act
may negotiate tobacco compacts.
Three types of tobacco—flue
cured, dark flue cured, and burley
—are affected by the Virginia
statute, which would become effec
tive when Tennessee, Kentucky,
North Carolina, South Carolina,
and Georgia, the other States in
which these three types are grown,
enacted similar legislation.
The House also wrote into the
bill authorization for $300,000 of
Federal funds to be advanced to
co-operating States to administer
their control programs. An ap
propriation for this purpose was
stricken out when a point of or
der that it had not bee., lonsidered
by the appropriations committee
was sustained by Speak*. Byrns.
Although the bill ■, passed by
the House would authorize the ad
ministrative cost advances, the
money would not be available until
an appropriation was approved.
As soon as the bi.l passed the
House, the North Carolina congres
sional delegation asked Governor
J. C. B. Ehringhaus t0 call a special
session of that State Legislature
to enact compact legislation.
Representative Robert L. Dough
ton, dean of the North Carolina
delegation, said he hoped Ehring
haus would convene the Legisla
ture at the earliest possible date "in
order that appropriate legislation
may be enacted whereby the grow
:rs of tobacco may realize full bene
fits of this legislation for their crop
this year.”
Doughton said there was "little
doubt” the Senate would concur in
the House action. The Senate agri
culture committee already has re
ported favorably a similar measure
introduced by Chairman Smith,
Democrat of South Carolina.
Tornado Death
Toll Is Over 400
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THIRTEEN IN N. C.
Death And Destruction
In Wake Of Storm In
Seven States
North Carolina has been visited
by the storm god within the past
week in which life and property
jhave been exacted to pay toll in
l both life and property. On last
the city of Concord and there laid
waste to many homes, business
houses and uprooted, twisted and
destroyed many of the majestic elms
and other fine trees along Main,
Depot and other streets of that usu
ally quiet little city. Fortunately
no lives were lost, but property
damage will run into the hundreds
of thousands of dollars. The light
plant was damaged and put out of
commission for a number of hours,
the water was cut off on account
of broken water mains and other
calamitous hindrances were brought
about by the terrible blow, which
swooped down on the sleeping city
within a twinkling and without
warning. Concord has about re
gained normalacy at this writing,
except that hundreds of houses were
! damaged so badly that families had
j to be removed. Several of the
homes were totally destroyed, and
it was said for several days there
were at least one thousand people
who were homeless until temporary.
I arrangements could be made, to
take care of them.
It was about twelve hours later
that the city of Greensboro wasj
struck by a storm of tornadic force;
that came without warning Thurs-,
day evening at 7:15 o’clock. The
destructive elements swooped downj
on the city in the southern extrem
ity near the old Guilford county
j fair grounds, going in a northeast
erly direction through the street
j parallel with the railroad. Lum-j
iber yards, warehouses, homes, busi-,
i ness blocks, immense trees, automo- j
I biles and everything in its path
| went whirling and tumbling, block
ing streets and wrecking homes.
Thirteen people were killed, several
in their homes. Besides those kill
ed there were reported as many as
1149 people in hospitals with in
juries more or less serious. While
the fury of the storm lasted but ai
few moments, and, people werej
struggling for safety, fire broke out|
jin several places where the houses,
had been demolished. Two women j
who had sought refuge in a cellar,;
were burned to death. Electric
wires were down and the current
had to be cut off in order to pro
tect people from being electrocut
ed. Gas pipes broke, and the fumes
perhaps helped add to the toll of
death and forced workers from
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Veteran Returns
Bonus To Help
Re-Elect F. D. R.
Washington—Democratic head
quarters announced the receipt of
a letter from a World War veteran
contributing his bonus money to
help re-elect President Roosevelt.
The veteran was William G.
Voorhees of Richmond Heights,
Missouri, grandson of Indiana’s fa
mous Senator Daniel W. Voorhees.
"He fought hard, and not for the
love of money, but for the good of
his country,” the veteran said of
his grandfather.
"To me, the bonus to be paid
before due is against my principle,
and even though I do not have so
very much coming, and even at
this time I am without a position,
I am quite willing to assign my
bonds over to the national Demo
cratic committee so that it may
help the cause, and help the re
election of President Roosevelt.
"I want my small amount to help
keep the high traditions of a won
derful President.”
Report Damage
To Peach Crop
Southern Pines—Sandhills peach
growers estimated that freezing
weather last week damaged their
crops from 5 to 90 per cent.
The fruit crops in the section
south of Hoffman appeared to bear
the brunt of the damage with a
loss estimated as high as 85 per
cent.
Growers in the west end section
of Moore county said the loss there
will run from 5 to 90 per cent,
depending on the orchard locations.
The orchids between Eastwood
and West End were not hurt.
Growers in the Southern Pines
section said their loss will not ex
ceed about 30 per cent—the equi
valent of the regular pruning.
Unnamed ‘Friend’
Gives $1,000 To
Catawba Fund
An unnamed friend from a near
by city has contributed $1,000 in
cash to the Catawba college en
dowment fund, it is announced by
Dr. Howard R. Omwake, president.
The college is seeking to raise its
endowment to $5 00,000 and Dr.
Omwake states that be hopes ’’this
gift will be an inspiration to oth
ers to add to the fund.”
ILLINOIS SET FOR PRIMARY
Chicago—The 1936 Illinois pri
mary campaign rolled into its final
week in a cacophony of oratory
fully up to the requirements of a
State which likes its policies noisy,
colorful, and freely fought to the
last minute. Next Tuesday, the
voters will settle the issues at the
polls.
Wants Future Wars Bonus |
Lewis J. Govin, Jr., Louisville,
Ky^ National Commander of
“The Veterans of Future Wars
Ass’n., Vho proposes to demand
immediate payment of $1,000 for
fiobtins: in future wars.
“Stone GitT* Happy
I
i ROCHESTER, Minn. . . . Mias
i Nona Cloyes (above), “stone
girl,” has been assured she will
completely recover Within a year
from scleroderman, an illness of
rigidity and hardening of the
skin.
Options Taken
For Acquiring
153,000 Acres
Largest Area to Be Part of
Blue Ridge Parkway
WILD LIFE REFUGES
Washington—Announcement by
the Resettlement (administration
that it had accepted bptions to pur
chase 8,500,000 acres of poor land
to cost $35,815,852 revealed that
153.000 acres have thus far been
contracted for in North Carolina
to cost •
The area upon which options
have been obtained in South Caro
lina is 171,803 acres costing $1.
250,000.
The expenditure of $2,316,000 in
the Carolinas to convert worn out
land into forests, parks, wild life
refuges, and grazing areas shows
that the states will share bounti
fully as purchases are closed on this
property and additional areas are
acquired.
In Alleghany, Surry, Ashe, Wa
tauga, Wilkes and Avery counties
7.000 acres have been purchased.
This area will be doubled later.
It is one of the 137 projects be
ing carried out over the country.
This area is to be made a part
of the Blue Ridge Parkway, link
ing the Shenandoah National park
and the Great Smoky Mountain
National park.
In the sancl hills counties ot
Montgomery, Richmond, Scotland
nd Moore, an area of 60,000 acres
has been acquired for a combina
tion of uses, including forestry,
grazing, recreation and wild life
conservation as dictated by the
nature of the land and needs of
the immediate localities.
Similar uses will be made of 30,
000 acres in Bladen county, while
the Mattamuskeet project in Hyde
county has been extended to in
clude 50,000 acres for wild life and
water fowl refuge under the bu
reau of biological survey.
The Crabtree project in Wake
county, now only 6,000 acres, is to
be extended and made a public
recreation area supervised by the
Federal park service.
N. C. Bankers Should
Be Greatest Boosters
New Deal Says Hood
Raleigh—North Carolina bankers
should be the greatest boosters of
the New Deal in the United States,
Gurney P. Hocid, state banking
commissioner, believes.
Net losses of commercial banks,
he said, for 1932 amounted to
$475,698.23. Net loss in 1933 to
taled $936,608.96.
Hood also revealed a big increase
in last year’s profits of industrial
banks.
In 1932 net profits were $5 0.
539. For 1933 they were $46,
759, but in 1934 they jumped to
$78,657. Then came 1935, and
net profits for the industrial banks
soared to $268,475.
Too Much Love
Gets Mr. Love
Into Calaboose
Edenton—Too much love has
landed William Love, young Mur
freesboro civil engineer, formerly
of Boykins, Va., in the Hertford
county jail at Winton in default of
$2,000 bail on a charge of bigamy.
Sheriff Parker arrested Love in
Murfreesboro soon after he had
started housekeeping with Mrs.
Love No. 2, formerly Miss Mary
Benthal, a local relief worker to
whom he was married by Rev. E. L.
Wells, of the Edenton Baptist
church. Mrs. Love No. 1, who
married Love in Petersburg, Va., a
year ago heard of Love’s latest love
affair, located the newlyweds and
Squire R. H. Underwood took her
complaint. The sheriff did the
rest.
Urges Workers
To Form Union'
Thomas F. McMahon, interna
tional president of the United Tex
tile Workers of America, spoke
■here Monday night before a public
j meeting sponsored by the Central
Labor Union, and declared that a
'great opportunity presented itself
to the workers, through organiza
tion to better equalize the profits
accruing out of t/ieir labors.
The speaker recalled the progress
of the labor unions in the last few
years, and urged workers to organ
ize for their own good; to boost
[legislative measures designed to aid
them; and to support their friends'
for political offices. J
Other speakers included John
Peele of Greenville, S. C., thirds
vice president; and H. A. Adams,!
hosiery organizer. R. R. Lawrence,
State president of the Federation
of Labor, presided.
Bans Nudes Of
Pioneer Women
Austin, Texas—There will be no ]
nude memorial to the pioneer wom
en of Texas if Lieut. Gov. Walter
F. Woodul has his say.
"Pioneer women may not have
been clothed in silks and satins,
but they were clothed in modesty,”
he said, protesting the statuary,.
Spirit of the Pioneer as depicted
by William Zorach of New York.
On the campus of the State Col- ,
lege for Women at Denton, Zorach'
would place a family group of j;
nudes as a memorial to pioneer
Texas womanhood.
"There will be no nude statue,” ,
declared Woodul, also chairman of (
the Texas Centennial commission
of control. He was supported by
L. W. Kemp of Houston, chairman
of the advisory board of centennial
matters.
• Patronize Watchman Adver
tisers. 1
Rovaltv To Front I r
k.
ROME, Italy . . . Crown Princes:
Marie Jose (above), sharing the lo
of all nurses, is now aboard the ho;
pital ship, Cesarea, off 'he East Air’
can coast, where she is ministerin;
the wounded from the front.
Hoey Making
Few Promises
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Realizes Promises Easy
To Make And Hard
To Keep
FREE TEXT BOOKS
Raleigh—"One of the things 1
will work for as soon as I take of
fice is free text books for the child
ren in our schools,” declared Clyde
S. Hoey, candidate for the Demo
cratic nomination for Governor, in
a public statement made last week.
"We already provide free tuition
and free transportation to and
from the schools,” he continued,
"and in order to complete the pro
gram we must provide free books.
The text books are the tools the
children must have to do the work
required of them and if the State
is to provide an equal opportunity
for all children to receive an edu
cation, the State must provide the
books as well as the schools.”
The candidate said that he had
made a study of the book problem,
discussing it with the State school
authorities, and had come to the
conclusion that the books would
cost the Sta- H00ut ?65Oj0og a
year and that he believed the system
could be inaugurated within a
short time.
"But it must be remembered
that these benefits, like others, can
not be provided without money
and the State can get money only
through taxation,” Mr. Hoey said.
"You cannot repeal the sources of
revenue and still perform the de
sir able f vine cions of the govern
ment. We cannot have schools,
much less free text books, without
taxation.
kji course we couia get rid ot
the sales tax if we put the burden
sf the schools back on land, but I
im not willing to do that. That is
one of the reasons I have net anc;
svill not promise to seek the repeal1
of the sales tax next year. I will'
idvocate that it be taken off the
lecessities of life at once and I
vant it repealed altogether as soon
is possible. But I doi not believe it
:an be done by the next Legisla
te—unless we put the burden on
property, or cripple the schools.
"I realize, of course, that if the
lomination went to the man who
nade the most promises, I wouldn't
)e that man. But this campaign of
oromises doesn’t worry me tiny.
Lou see I have the advantage in
Bat I am a North Carolinian, in
Be first place, and have been an
ictive member of the Democratic
-’arty for more than 30 years. Con
equently, I know the people whose
mte I am seeking. I know that
hey are the sort of men and wom
m who will face the facts, who
tnow that you can’t reduce the
itate’s income and increase its ex
Jenditures, and who are not led far
istray by promises which their rea
oning shows could not be carried
>ut.”
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GOLD RING TELLS OF
TRAGEDY
Gainesville, Ga. — A brother
ought his sister, hoping against
lope. “My sister was wearing a
ilain gold ring on the third
inger of her right hand,” he said.
V friend poked among the mangled
•emains piled in a heap. Wtih a
tick he raised a frame of bones that
>nce was a hand. On the third
inger, all but molted away, was
i plain gold ring.
Duke Hospital Boon
To Charity Patients
Durham—The report of Duke,
hospital for 1935 has just been is-j
sued, showing that of the $475,-1
499.16 required to operate the hos
pital last year, $243,249.90 was
spent by the hospital on charity
patients, over 95 per cent of whom
were from 87 North Carolina coun
ties. It cost the hospital $50,090.
50 more to operate last year than
the previous year, and all of this in
crease was for charity patients.
Patients who required 100,969
days of care, an increase during the
year of 14,85 8 days, paid but
$193,026.5 5 toward their costs.
Their counties contributed $23,
381.44 and others paid $15,841.27
for them, the report reveals.
Since the costs of special tests
made in the laboratories, and that
for the diagnosis and treatment of
peorle who made 45,681 visits to
the Duke public dispensary are not
included, the amount of medical
care given was much larger than
the figures indicate.
During the past year 92.5 per
cent of the patients in Duke hos
pital have not been able to pay the
full costs of their medical care; 63
of their 93 counties have assisted
them in varying amounts. Money
contributed by the counties was 5.3
iper cent of the cost of care of
these patients; while churches and
cormunity friends contributed 3.5
pec cent. Patients themselves paid
3 8.9 per cent.
Out-of-State patients paid 72.2
per cent of their cost of medical
care. These patients came from 20
States and Canada.
Of the total cost of operating
Duke hospitals, 50.1 per cent was
for nursing and care of patients,
32.3 per cent for food, 9.7 per cent
for heat, water, telephone, and
maintenance of buildings, and 7.9
per cent of administration. During
the year the cost per day for treat
ing patients was $4.71 per patient.
Charge Hospital Refused To Admit
Dying Girl Because Dad Lacked Funds
Winston - Salem — James L.
Crimes of Winston-Salem charged
n a public statement that his 5
rear-old daughter, critically ill
ivith pneumonia, was kept waiting
n an automobile outside City Mem
jrial hospital here for 45 minutes
aecause he lacked $6 of having
:nough to pay a week’s fees in ad
vance.
Taken to another hospital later,
the child died the same night.
Grimes said he offered the hos
pital $15 and promised the balance
of the week’s charges of $21 imme
diately, but that the hospital refus
ed to admit the child.
Dr. J. B. Whittington, hospital
superintendent, said he was at
home and was informed of the
Grimes case by telephone, but did
not know it was an emergency.
The prepay rule was laid down
by the aldermen except for charity
and emergency cases.