WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON, May 14—
(Autocaster) — Whatever final
form the new tax bill may take,
the necessity for raising additional
revenues was emphasized by Secre
tary Morgenthau, when he inform
ed the Senate Finance Committee
that the Federal Government de
ficit for this fiscal year will run
to $5,966,000,000. Mr. Morgen
thau arrived at that figure by in
cluding the entire bonus payments,
of some -2,000,000,000, in this
year’s expenditures, although much
of that money will not be paid
out until the next fiscal year,
which begins July 1. Neverthe
less, he made it very clear that the
Treasury is deeper in the red than
ever before and that something has
to be done about it.
Whether the plan which the
President proposed and which has
been shaped into a revenue bill will
produce the necessary additional
income is one of those debatable
questions to which nobody can give
a positive answer until after a year
or two cf experience. Probably
more serious attention would have
been given to such proposals as
that of Sen. La Follette, for broad
ening the income tax to include
small incomes and increase the lev
ies on large incomes, if this were
not an election year.
In an election year it is regarded
as bad politics for the party in
power to impose new taxes calcu
lated to touch the pocketbook of
the ordinary voter.
Farm Loan Bill Again
In the light of Mr. Morgenth
au’s statement it is clear that the
Government’s income must be in
creased by at least one-third, or
that expenditures must be reduc
ed in the same proportion. And in
an election year it is just as hard
for politicians to bring themselves
to curtail the distribution of pub
lic money as it is to widen the tax
range. Their inclination, on the
contrary, is all the other way.
This inclination to spend, ac
^^counts^^|^d|M^riftl of interest
razier-ixmKe
Bill. This
printing of
rrency, not
backed by anything but the Gov
ernment’s credit, to be used in
making loans on farm mortgages
at 1 1-2 percent. Though the
House is friendly to this plan, there
seems to be little likelihood that
the Senate will stand for it. It
gives a lot of the boys on Capitol
Hill, however, a chance to put
themselves on record as being
friends of the farmer.
The passage by the Senate of
the so-called Price Discrimination
Bill, otherwise popularly known as
the Anti-Chain Store Bill, does not
mean necessarily that this will be
come a law. It would put control
of a great deal of the distribution
of food stuffs and other commodi
ties in the hands of the Federal
Trade Commission, with arbitrary
powers to fix the discounts which
wholesalers might grant in consid
eration of large purchases. Back
of this bill a powerful lobby, or
ganized by wholesale grocery in
terests, has been at work for seme
time.
The wholesalers have been con
cerned over the loss of business,
due to chain stores, mail order
houses and other large distributing
organizations who can buy direct
from manufacturers and produc
ers as cheaply as the wholesalers
can, and often even at lower prices.
In the belief that chain stores and
mail-order houses are unpopular
with the voters, the Senate put in
any kind of a prohibition that any
body asked for that might affect
those institutions.
'T'l__
pect now for the enactment of the
Copeland Food and Drug bill than
at any time since this session be
gan. Administration influence is I
said to have been put behind the
measure, and if Congress can get)
around to it before adjournment,!
it may go through. j
Convention Surmises
Talk now is of adjlournment dur
ing the week of June 13, when
the Republican National Conven
tion will have finished its labors,
in all probability. The belief that
Governor Landon’s lead for the
Republican Presidential nomination
is too strong to be overcome, has
taken pretty firm root among
political observers and commenta
tors. Talk is now turning toward
the choice of the Republican Vice
Presidential candidate.
Prominently mentioned as good!
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Body’s Sensitivity
Causes Many Ills
Dr. Duke, Allergy Ex
pert, Tells How Cold,
Heat or a Scratch
Affect
Kansas City—A veritable new
Pandora’s box of diseases resulting
from byphersensitiveness to heat,
cold or slight effort, and simple
methods of relief for these suffer
ers. who have hitherto gone mostly
unrelieved because the factors
bringing about their ailments had
been unknown, were demonstrated
here at the scientific exhibit of the
American Medical Association on
the eve of the opening of the as
sociation’s eighty-sdvenoh [annual
session.
Some patients have been found
to be so supersensitive to slight de
grees of cold, heat or physical ef
fort, the exhibit shows, that even
social conversation resulted in se
vere digestive disturbances. Other
symptoms, the report adds, art
asthma, hysteria, many varieties of
skin disease, functional heart dis
orders, headache, paralysis, phobi
as epileptiform attacks, sun stroke,
convulsion, collapse, coma and
shock. Death sometimes results, it
is declared.
The condition is known as phys
ical allergy, as contrasted with the
well-known forms of plain allergy,
in which a person is supersensitive
to certain food or other substances,
in which case the illness is produced
by a chemical reaction in the body.
wjiLUam w D«if JWRis city.Tiot
ed authority on allergy.
Physical allergy, Dr. Duke re
ports, may be brought about by
three factors, cold, heat and ef
fort, or merchanical irritation, such
as a scratch. He suggests the name
"thermophilia” for the ' condition
of altered readability to the ef
fect of heat and effort or of cold,”
and the word "actinophilia” for
the condition of altered readabil
ity to the effect of light. The
third condition he names tenta
tively "scratch sensitiveness.”
POPE ASSAILS COMMUNISM
Vatican City — Pope Pius XI
vigorously denounced international
communism when he received a
group of Hungarians headed by
Cardinal Seredi, Hungarian pri
vate. He said:
"Communism, today’s common
enemy, is endangering everybody
and everything from the home to
the state. It already has pene
trated important centers with
violence or rickery.”
The pope urged the world "to
have faith in the Vatican, as the
Vatican has faith in God, to de
fend the cause of civilization
against this menace so that we
can hope to enjoy the benefits of
real peace and order.”
6 Must Die
For One
Slaying
Record Penalty Passed On Young
Thugs For New York
Crime
—
New York—Six lives was the
price set by the law for the life
that Edwin Esposito gave in de
fense of a collection of nickel sub
way fares.
County Judge Peter J. Brancato
| sentenced to the electric chair the
i six men convicted of slaying Es
posito during a holdup.
It was the first time in the
nation’s history that six persons
’ were given the death penaty to
gether for a single murder. Those
I who will die are: Salvatore Scata,
'18, Joseph Bolognia, 23, Theodore
di Donne, 30, Dominick Zizzo, 22,
j Eugene Bruno, 20 and Sam Kim
mel, 19.
| They were sentenced to the
I Sing Sing death chair, doomed to
die the week of June 22.
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Million Donors of
$1.00 Each Aim
Of Democrats
The Democratic National Com
mittee hopes to swing into its post
convention Presidential campaign
with more than $1,000,000 in the
war chest.
v This, was disclosed by commit
tee officials when they announced
plane to enroll 1,000,1)00 Demo
crats as "Roosevelt Nominators”—
at $1 each. Each is to get a cer
tificate.
These "Nominators” are to
gather at mass meetings, rallies,
barbecues, picnics and smokers
throughout the country the night
of June 27 to hear the party’s
Presidential candidate accept the
nomination at Franklyn Field,
Philadelphia.
Soldier Field has been engaged
for the Chicago rally. New York
Democrats probably would gather
at a baseball park, officials said,
radio loudspeakers are to be in
stalled at every rally. Boxing
matches and musical programs are
being arranged for some of them.
The committee owed $378,000
last December 31. This debt has
been entirely wiped out from the
$327,000 netted so far from thej
Jackson Day dinners and the surnj
Philadelhhia put up for the con- i
vention. The committee expects)
to clear $150,000 from the conven
tion program.
Triple superphosphate used by
H. M. Morgan of Bumcombe coun
ty on his small grain to be follow
ed by grass and clover this sea
son shows excellent results to
date.
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Soviet Women Say ILL ns Block Social
Aid; Labor Chiefs Promises to Halt
Moscow—Accusations that local
trade union leaders were interfer
ing with the voluntary efforts of,
wives of industrial executives to
improve living conditions among
the workers were a feature of the
opening meeting at the Kremlin of
the first All-Union Conference ofj
Engineers Wives.
The accusations were accompani-!
ed by a prompt admission by high j
union officials that bureaucracy!
was inexcusably hampering the:
valuable work of the women and1
by promises to end the interference j
There were also intimations from1
the Communist party leadership^
that the bureaucrats would be
ousted as the obstructors of the
Stakhanoff movement had been.
The sting of the women’s charg- i
es lies in the fact that promotion
of social welfare and the workers’
recreation and cultural life is the i
chief function of the Soviet trade
unions, since they have very re
stricted power to bargain with the
employer, which here is the State.
The women’s attacks today indicat
ed that the failure of the unions in
many places to fulfill their social
duties had created a need that the
the women volunteers had filled
and that union obstructionism had
been dictated by jealousy.
Thus Eugenia Vesnik, wife of a
netallurgical director at Krivoi-rog,
told how women had organized a
kindergarten along with many
>ther improvements in the face of ,
opposition by the chairman of a
;hop committee who said he could .
rot respond to the women’s i
'whims.” Eventually the shop ;
tommittee tried to take over opera- .
ion of the kindergarten, but the j
women resisted and finally won ;
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Rival Keynoters Discuss Political Conventlbns | j
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WASHINGTON . .. Above are the two men who will sound political
keynotes which will get Republican and Democratic conventions under
way during June. On the left is Senator Alben W. Barkley of Ken
tucky who will be the 1936 Democratic keynoter at Philadelphia.
June 23 and on the right is Senator Frederick Steiwer of Oregon
Republican keynoter at Cleveland, June 9.
Wild West Riders
Give Program
Here June 24-27
Major George W. Scott, manager
and owner of the 4-Bullet ranch,
Pawnee, Okla., has leased the
Rowan county fairgrounds for
June 24-27, inclusive for the pre
sentation of his wild west show,
he announces. .
A number ©f features will be
presented, he says, by cowboys,
cowgirls, wild horses, steers, edu
cated horses and clowns. The pony
express, the untimely er.d of the
horsechief, the pioneers wending
their way to the west, the old
chuck wagon and the herding of
cattle at night, will be among the
features, states Major Scott.
The Rowan Memorial hospital
will receive a percentage of the
receipts, it is announced. Major
Scott has been here several days
arranging for the approaching
event.
BIRD CAGE USED TO HIDE
PLATES OF COUNTERFEITERS
Havana—The trail of a local
counterfeit gang led Cuban police
to a bird cage hidden under a high
way culvert near Havana.
They found engraved plates for
reproducing fraudulent American
banknotes of $1, $2, $5, $10 and
$20 denominations. The city has
been flooded with spurious money
for several months.
PART OF SKULL FOUND IN
RIVER
Danville, Va.,—Possibility that a
fragment of a human skull found
floating in Dan river this morning
may be that of Claude Bolt, West:
Virginia produce merchant, who
disappeared from Mount Airy, N.
C., on April 22, was expressed by
police here today.
Officers said they expected Com-j
monwealth’s Attorney Frank P.
Burton of Patrick county to come
lere tomorrow in connection with
ais investigation of the case, bring-j
ng relatives of the missing man. I
rhe piece of skull had apparently
aeen sawed from the top of a man’s
lead, and there was a hole where!
t had been crushed apparently by
ome heavy weapon. The frag-j
nent was covered with dark hair,
iprinkled with gray. Bolt’s hair
vas described as being of that col
>r.
Bolt disappeared, leaving an as
istant at Mount Airy, ostensibly
o go to Patrick county to examine
load of potatoes offered for sale.
\iter waiting all night for his em
>loyer, the assistant returned home
nd gave the alarm. An extensive
earch has been in progress since.
American Fights
As He Takes
Photographs
Jibuti, French Somaliland,—Ex-1
periences of John Dored, Para-'
mount News-Associated Press pho-l
tographer in Addis Ababa, were;
related today when he and his wife!
arrived here.
"I sent my wife to the British
legation,” Dored said. "Then I
hired twelve former body guards
of the Emperor as a crew for my
light truck.
"We drove about the city photo
graphing the looting and shooting,
repulsing numerous attacks and re
turning the attackers’ fire. Toward
evening the town became so mad I
all at once that we had to dash!
outside the city, taking pictures!
all night of the capital in flames.
"The next day we fought the
attackers again,' and had to use
machine guns and rifles, losing
four men in that engagement.”
ADMITS KILLING TWO
LITTLE GILRS
Waterville, Maine.—James H.
Folsom, 3 5, farm hand who Sheriff
H. E. Burnell, of Portland, said
confessed asshultin^ and killing
two little girls, pointed out to po
lice officers today the scene of one
crime here and a previous one in
nearby Fairfield.
Sergeant Harold Maguire, of the
Portland police, said Folsom led the
officers to a clump of bushes where \
the body of Mary Proulx, 7, was
found.
McGuire said he later pointed
out where the body of Annie K.
Knights, 12, of Fairfield, was
found. The Knights girl was;
strangled and criminally attacked
October 7, 193 5.
CONTAGIOUS HLS
INCREASE IN N. C.
Raleigh.—Cases of diphtheria
and scarlet fever increased in North
Carolina last week, the division of
epedemiology reported today.
There were 19 new cases of diph
theria reported last week, compar- ,
ed with nine the preceding week,
and 23 of scarlet fever, compared
with 17 the week before.
Three typhoid fever cases were i ]
listed last week, compared with :
none the week ending May 2 and '
three in the corresponding week
last year. <
Two cases of infantile paralysis, i
compared with none the week be- )
fore, were listed and eight menin- i
gitis cases last week doubted the <
reports of the week ending May
9. Prevalence of measles, chicken- i
pox and whooping cough decreas- <
sd. t
O. L. Eller of Avery county 1
says the brick brooder is the most £
satisfactory method he has evet J
asej to brood baby chicks. r
May Run
Couzens As
New Dealer
Michigan Democrats Consider
Move As Old Guard Repub
licans Fight Senator
Washington—Senator Couzens,
Independent Republican of Michi
gan, may become the Democratic
nominee for the Senate and also
run on an independent Republican
ticket. He was been suggested by
some prominent Democrats of
Michigan as their choice following
increasing Ippjposition among the
Old Guard and industrial leaders
in Michigan to his renonaination
by the Republican party.
According to reports from Michi
gan, the opposition to his nomina
tion is so formidable that much
doubt exists whether Mr. Couzens
can overcome the combination
against him in the Republican
primaries. National) Democratic
leaders, upon the suggestion of
Michigan Democrats, are reported
to have indicated to the friends of
Senator Couzens that they would
welcome his running on their tic
ket.
Their reason for this, it is said,
is that Senator Couzens has sup
ported most of the administration
policies and execrised his political
h dependence in a constructive way.
His nomination by the Democrats,
with his name also on an indepen
dent Republican ticket, Michigan
Democrats report, would assure
victory to the Democrats in the
ejection for Governor and give
them control of the State Legisla
ture.
MRS. .W M. LINKER DIED FRI
DAY AT SALISBURY HOME
Mrs. W. Murray Linker, 73,
well known Salisbury woman,
mother of Mrs. Margaret Linker
Wyatt, rural school supervisor of
Davidson County, died Friday
night at her home, 516 East Bank
street, after a long illness.
The funeral was held at St.
John’s Lutheran church Sunday
afternoon at 3 o’clock, where she
had long been an active member,
conducted by the pastor, Dr. M. L.
Stirewalt. Interment was in the
Chestnut Hill cemetery.
She is survived by the following
children: Mrs. H. W. Tysinger,
Mrs. Curtis Wyatt, Mrs. W. H.
Peeler, all of Salisbury; Mrs. A. F.
Blue, of Laurinburg; John Isaac
Linker, Glen Rock, N. J.: J. Bur
ton, W. Murray, Jr., and R. White
Linker, all of Chapel Hill; J. Dodd
Linker, of Clemmons.
Mrs. Linker was the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Calvin H. Earnhardt
and spent her youth in Gold Hill
and Rockwell. She moved to Salis
bury 38 years ago. Her husband
died in 1916.
Eighteen grandchildren and her
great grandchild, Sallie Blue Lytch,
of Laurinburg, also survive.
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Byrd Names
Them in Letter
Asserting There Are
Many Others
Washington—Senator Byrd, in a
letter written to Secretary Mor
genthau of the Treasury listed
eleven large corporations that, he
said, would have paid no taxes at
all on their 1934 earnings and di
vidend distribution if the Revenue
Bill now pending in Congress had
been in effect.
He explained that he was un
able to obtain the comparable fi
gures for 1935, and he hoped that
Mr. Morgenthau could supply
them.
Mr. Byrd is one of the Demo
cratic members of the Senate Fin
ance Committee who originally
favored the Tax Bill as it passed
the House. His opinion was
changed by the more than a hun
dred witnesses who in testimony
before the committee have op
posed the measure, which would
levy on undistributed surpluses of
corporations.
Saying that the list could be
"greatly expanded,” he declared
that the following "financially
strong companies” which he said
were now paying 15 per cent,
could on the basis of 1934 incomes
"completely avoid taxation.”
American Telephone and Tele
graph Company.
American Tobacco Company.
American Smelting and Refin
ing Company.
General Electric Company.
Goodyear Tire and Rubber
Company.
International Harvester Com
pany.
National Biscuit Company.
National Dairy Products Com
pany.
Ohio Oil Company.
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Com
pany.
Texas Company.
The corporations that would
have escaped all taxes were those
that paid out dividends in excess of
their net income in that year, ac
cording to Mr. Byrd. He added a
list of thirteen corporations that
had paid out practically as much
as they had earned in that year, he
said, adding that their taxes under
the pending bill would have ranged
from one-fourth of 1 per cent to
4.4 per cent of their net income.
He included still another list of
sixteen corporations whose taxes,
he declared, would have run from
5.22 to 9.37 per cent of their net
income. They were firms that
paid out substantially less in divi
dends than they took in as net in
come in 1934.
Nitrate of soda applied to cot
ton just after chopping and be
fore the following cultivation
should be doubly valuable this sea
son due to the late planting.
Population of U. S. A. 127,521,000
July 1, 1935, Up 3.9 Per Cent in 5 Years
Washington.—The estimated po
pulation of the United States on
fuly 1, 1935, was 127,521,000 as
:ompared with the official Federal
:ensus figures of 122,75 5,046 on
\pril 1, 1930, an increase of 3.9
per cent, according to figures made
public by William L. Austin, dir
ector of the Bureau of Census.
The shift of population from the
ast to the west noted in 1930 has
lowed down or decreased, while
elatively small increases are shown,
n most of the States south of the
)hio and east of the Mississippi,
fhere has been some increase in
irban population due to distressed
onditions in the farm sections and
he droughts.
In 1930 the actual population of
slew York State was 12,5 88,066
nd the estimated population on
uly 1, 193 5, was 12,889,000. Pen
sylvania was the next most popu
lous with 10,066,000 as against 9,
631,350 in 1930.
New Jersey’s population in
creased only slighty, from 4,041.
334 in 1930 to an estimated 4,
288,000 last year.
The greatest increase was one of
22 per cent in the District of Co
lumbia, attributed to the influx of
Federal employes during the pres
ent administration.
In Georgia the increase was 13
per cent, in South Carolina 15.7,
in Tennessee 11 and in Florida 9.9.
The smallest increases were in
Ohio and Louisiana, each with 0.9
per cent.
Regional shifts in population
were said to account for the de
creases listed for eleven Spates—
Arizona, California, Kansas, Michi
gan, Mississippi, Montana, Nebras
ka, New Mexico, Rhohe Island,
South Dakota and Wisconsin.