The majority leaders in Congress
are trying to speed things up so as
to adjourn by June 6. The (only
two pieces of legislation which are
labelled "must” are the new tax
bill and the relief appropriation.
And not all is clear sailing for
either of them.
The outlook now is that the tax
measure as it finally gets onto the
statute books will amount to a net
increase in corporation taxes of
from 7 to 10 per cent. Not many
members of either house will under
stand clearly just what the affect
lof the new law will be, and con
siderable doubt will be expressed
as to whether it will be raised the
necessary additional revenue. How
ever, it will be a stop-gap which
may reduce the amount which the
the Government will have to bor
row to carry over the next fiscal
year.
RELIEF AND HOW
The relief appropriation has been
complicated by the desire of many
influential leaders ir both Houses
to prescribe how future relief mo
ney shall be spent and by whom.
Secretary Ickes would like to have
the spending of it, and Mr. Ickes
has worked himself into 3 very
powerful political position.
Inside the Administration, how
ever, there is forming an anti-Ickes
"bloc,” and unless Congress pre
scribes differently, a situation may
develop in which neither Mr. Ickes
nor his chief rival, Harry Hopkins,
Federal Relief Administrator, will
have the final say. The talk is that
Jesse Jones, Chairman of the Re
construction Finance Corporation,
has been picked by the President
to be the boss of both Mr. Ickes
and Mr. Hopkins in all future pub-1
lie works, relief and other emer
gency spendings.
The cancellation by the Supremel
Court of the Guffey Bituminous j
Goal Act has naturally revived dis
cussion of the question of a con
stitutional amendment to give the
Federal Government powers which
it now does not have to regulate
** business and industry inside I6f state
lines. While constitutional revision
sentiment is running high, public
expression in favor of it is being j
softpedaled. The President and his
supporters in and out of Congress
don’t want to complicate the Pre
sidentential campaign by bringing
the Constitution issue to the fort.
LAJtJUK. Kt,LAllL/IN3 ACl
The strongest demand for giving
the Federal Government more pow
er now seems to be centered in the
ranks lof organized labor. Fabor
leader feel that the Fabor Relation !
Act will declare unconstitutional
when it reaches the Seupreme
Court, and the same apprehension
seems likely to result in the aban
donment by Congress of the 3 0
hour week bill, the Ellenbogen bill
for regulation of wages and hours
in the textile industry and the
Wash-Healey bill which would give
Washington complete control ox
hours and wages of all concerns
having Government contracts.
That a constitutional amendment
may nbt be necessary to extend fed
eral powers in case Mr. Roosevelt
was reelected is being pointed out
by some observers. An alternative
that is now b';ng seriously discus
sed is the suggestion that Congress
could really enact laws extending
the rights of trade and industrial
associations to cooperate vountan
ly for the mutual regulation of such
questions as hours and wages of la
bor, apportionment of production,
etc.
An example has been provided
in the recent artion of the railroads
in getting together and reashing an
agreement with their employees, in
anticipation of the consolidation of
all the railroads of the nation into
few national systems. This con
solidation has been the dream of
far-seeing railroad men for years,
and has been the particular hlobby
of Joseph C. Eastman, Federal co
ordinator of railroads.
RAILROAD PROBLEM
The principal obsticle in the way
of the acceptance of Mr. Eastman's
plan of railroad consolidation has
been the problem of how to take
care of the railroad employees
would be dropped from the pay
rolls, br shifted to other parts of the
country.
The plan upon which the railroad
companies and the railway laboi
brotherhoods have agreed provides
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State
Primary
Ticket
FOR U. S. SENATOR
(Mote for One)
Richard T. Fountain
David L. Strain
William H. Gnffin
Josiah W. Bailey.
FOR GOVERNOR
(Vlote for One)
Clyde R. Ffoey
Sandy Graham
John Albert McRae
Dr. Ralph W. McDonald
FOR LIEUTESANT GOVERNOR
(Vk>te for One)
George McNeill
Paul Grady
Wilkins P. Hornbn
FOR SECRETARY OF STATE
(Vote for One)
Stacey W. Wade
Thad Eure
M. R. (Mike) Dunnagan
FOR AUDITOR
(Vote for One)
Geo. Ross Pou
Gaxter Durham
Willard L. Dowell
Charles W. Miller
FOR TREASURER
(Vlote for One)
Helen Robertson Wohl
Charles M. Johnson
FOR SUPERINTENDENT OF
PUBLIC INSTRUCTION
(Vfote for One)
Clyde A. Erwin
A. B. Alderman
Gilbert Craig
FOR COMMISSIONER OF
AGRICULTURE
(Vlote for One)
W. Kerr Scott
William A. Graham
Primary election, June 6, 1936.
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l^sCj up'vu
Back from the mountains of
Watauga and Ashe, where during
the day he spoke flo audiences in
the court rooms and courthouse
yards of the two counties, Clyde
R. Hloey Monday night carried his
fight for the Democratic nomina
tion for Governor into Winston
Salem, the home town of one of
his (opponents, Ralph McDonald.
The crowd is Winston jammed
the courthouse.
Former Lt. Gov. Rufus A.
Dcughton, "the grand old man of
Democracy,” introduced Ffoey to
his Winsuon-Salem audience.
"I present to you the only man
time and again has saved the
Democratic party in this state” he
said. "I present to you the only
man who can weld all classes—
which one man now seeks to di
vide—under the banner of the
Democratic party.”
The crowd doared its applause,
and throughout the speech inter
rupted Hoey with cheers and ap
plause.
The major part of Hoey’s address
dealt with his plans for the future
progress of the State, but he also
gave considerable attention to the
Rloosevelt administration, for
which he had high praise, and to
Dr. McDonald whom he called
"the Herbert Hiover of North
i Carolina.”
HOW TAX EXPERTS ARE MADE
(The Greensboro News)
Forsyth county tax records indicate that Ralph W. McDonald
made a voluntary tax return or listing of taxes only three times since
becoming a resident in 1928. The tax department was qompelled to
pick him up as an unlisted delinquent for the years 1929, 1930, 1932.
193 5. Tax collector advises he was compelled to levy in order to
collect first three mentioned delinquent taxes. This Information is
not given as campaign propaganda but is furnished tbiany reputable
citizen of North Carolina same as similar inquiries regarding any other
Forsyth County tax-payer.—Vernon W. Flynt, tax supervisor in reply
to a telegram from the FTarnett County News.
And it is not given at this juncture as campaign propaganda per
se; statements by county taxpayers of taxation delinquency on the
part of any other gubernaorial candidate will be given the same prom
inence.
1
We are using this primarily as a preface to asking the question if
the delinquents of North Carolina donstitute any considerable part
of those untapped sources from which Dr. McDonald aims to make up
the shortage when he repeals the sales tax. If so, we hasten to prophesy
his disappointment. The general run of college professors list their
taxes; and even if they did not, their combined payments would not
amount to more than about .05 per cent of the $10,000,000 which
the sales-tax levy will produce this year.
As to whether such delinquency renders Dr. McDonald unfit for
Governor we are not going to say. Many a good citizen, we daresay,
has forgotten to list, and college profs are notoriously absentmindei.'.
But we do think that after having been levied on three times and then
elected to the legislature—where he himself admits having qualified as
a taxation expert—he ought to have attended to the matter in 193 3.
There are, we think, sufficient other reasons for not voting for
Ralph W. McDonald, for governor, and we confess that any decision
we may have reached has been arrived at before hearing from Super
visor Flynt; but if Dr. McDonald will find a machine candidate who
has four times failed to list in eight years, we’ll agree to vote against
him, too.
In the meantime we hardly know what to do with the statement
Dr. McDonald is said by the Harnett News to have made in a speech
it Lillington that he had made an intense study of taxation for the past
1 5 years.
And he’s the naan who would be governor of the Great State of
North Carolina, a man not interested in government, except from a
personal standpoint, a man who violates the law by failing to list his
property for taxation.
What a Governor he would make!
Fairest Farmerette
OMAR,
shaen (above), traveled out to
California and there won the title
of the National Farm Bureau’s
fairest farmerette at the Inter
national Exposition at San Diego.
Eure Predidts
Own Victory
Candidate For Secretary
of State Confident of
Being Nominated
Thad Eure, candidate for the
DenVocratic nomination for secre
tary of state, declared he was obn
fident he would be nominated over
his two oponents, Stacey W. Wade
the incumbent, and M. R. Dunna
gan.
Mr. Eure is one of the better
known young men in North Car
alina politics. 'He has served in the
House of Representatives of the
General Assmbly and also as prin
cipal clerk of that body, and more
recently he has been escheats officer
for the State.
OUR OWN
SNAPSHOTS
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: DIVIDENDS FOR
| DRUGGISTS — |
Small retailer now
8 assured of profit on
purchase of even a
single package of |
merchandise under |
new “dividend cer- |
tificate” sales plan 5
announced by J. M.
Olwyler (left) vice- 1
president, Forhan
Co. Retail Drug
Associations are co- |
operating in first i
move of ntanufac- |
turer to put small |
buyer on equality J
I basis with large S
| competitors.
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&\ Two best-known cripples in
: !• the American League, Hank lijlS
^ Greenberg left, Tiger, slug- g/
'S ger and Joe Cronin, Red Sox
manager console each other
... on their injuries.
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In a test for ruggedness, this |
Calrod electric cooking unit p
was hurled from an Army |
plane traveling 185 miles per |:
hour at 1,200 feet. Ten minutes 1
> Ir.icr it was plugged in to a "i
ti . let electric re-)'e r ml
functioned properly to cook an
entire meal.
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These descendents of the fierce
warriors of ancient Persia are not
playing musical instruments, they
are enjoying the staff of life
“Bread”.
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WHY THE WILD WAVES ARE WILD—Five beauties go for a
stroll along a beach on the Pacific Ocean. (I-r) Louise Small, New
Orleans; Irene Bennett, Enid, Oklahoma; Jill Deen, Kansas City;
Ann Evers, Clarksville, Va; and William Francis, New Orleans.
Contest Will
Come To Close
Saturday P. M.
Bankhead
Succeeds
J. W. Byrns
Hon. Joseph W. Byrns, speaker
of the House of Representatives,
died suddenly Thursday morning at
12:15 o’clock of a heart attack fol
lowed by a cerebral hemorrhage.
Mr. Byrns was seleted as speaker
to succeed the late Speaker Rainey
in 1934.
Representative William B. Bank
head, of Alabama, was elected
speaker of the House Thursday to
succeed the late Speaker Byrns.
I
I
Salisbury’s
HOLC Office
to Greensboro
The North Carolina State office
tof the Home Owner’s Loan corpor
ation will be moved from Salisbury
to Greensboro at once, it was an
nounced by T. C. Abernethy,
State manager.
Abernethy said the district of
fice at Greensboro will be close,
and the stfork taken over ii
Greensboro territory by the Stat.
office, and the Greenville distric
office will be closed and the worl
consolidated with that of the Ral
eigh district office. ,
Abernethy announced that the
action was being taken in accord
ance with a resolution of the board
of directors of the Home Owners’
Lloan corporation at Washington,
and is in the interest of economy.
The corporation will complete its
lending activities on June 13, and
in the future will handle only the
[ servicing and collection of loans
heretofore made and the upkeep
of property.
The move will not affect the
district offices at Charlotte and
Asheville.
The State office of the organiza
tion will be quartered in the post
office building in Greensboro, and
the headquarters flor the enlarged
! Raleigh teritory will be in the
| post office building in Raleigh.
[ The State office, in addition to
: supervising the general activities
of the corporation throughout the
i State, will also have charge of ser
! vicing loans in the 14 counties
which now comprise the Greens
boro district. The Raleigh office
will have charge of the servicing
activities in 51 counties in eastern
North Carolina.
The Asheville office will con
tinue to serve 20 dounties, and the j
Charlotte office will continue to
serve 15 counties.
The moving of the State office
from Salisbury to Greensboro be
gan, arid Obernethy said he ex
pected the office (So be in full oper
ation in Greensboro by Monday.
HAWAII WARS
ON MONGOOSb
Honolulu—Hawaiian sportsmen
are obliged to protect game birds
before they can have the pleasure
of shooting them. They are now
installing a 60,000 acre bird res
ervation near Waianae. Oahu Is
lands, and simultaneously launch
ing a fight to kill off the mon
goose which otherwise would kill
the game birds before the sports
man had a pot sWot at them.
Hoey Lead Placed at
50,000; Graham
Picks Up
McDonald Losing
Ground Daily
Clyde R. Hoey will emerge vic
torious in the gupernatorial on
test in the June 6th primary.
This is the consesus of bpinion
of the political wiseacres.
It is also, in substance, the pre
diction issued by the Hoey head
quarters at Raleigh this week.
Based on returns from the var
ious counties in the state, it is fore
cast that Hoey will carry approxi
mately 70 bounties, including some
of the larger counties of the state.
All nine counties, in the 9th
Congressional District, of which
Rowan County is a part, are slated
to go for Hoey by substantial mar
gins.
Heavy gains by Hoey loces with
in the past three weeks have de
finitely placed him in the lead over
his three opponents.
McDonald will run second, it is
believed; Graham third and McRae
i fourth. Graham is credited with
j having made exceptional gains in
the state this week, especially in the
eastern part of the state. It is be
lieved that Graham’s strength will
j tar exceed that of earlier pedictions
n! Hloey’s lead was paced at 50,
e 000.
tj Hundreds of political candidates,
c I worn by weeks of intensive cam
. Ipaigning, neared the end of their
| first grind and election officials ex
a 1 pressed confidence a record-break
ing vote of upwards of 450,000
I would be cast in the Demlocatic
, State-wide primary Saturday.
[ North Carolina turned to the
primary in 1912 to select its Demo
catic nominees. Party veterans say
no other contest was marked by as
much political icratory as this
year’s.
j Three of the four gubernatorial
candidates, Sandy Graham, Cyde
i R. Hoey and Dr. Ralph W. Mc
Donald, have made scores of
speeches in every part of the State,
i Each man has had scores of talks
made for him by friends, and each
claims to have an active organiza
tion in every county.
The fourth man in the Gover
nor’s race, John A. McRae of Char
lotte, has also spoken in many
i counties but he says he has no (or
ganization, no paid poll-workers
I and no friends campaigning for
j him.
Election officials point to the
organization activities of the guber
natorial candidates, to record-break
ing registrations in several score of
the 100 clounties, and to the ac
tivity of seekers after othe offices
as they estimate the voting may
iexceed by 70,000 or more the 379,
1000 cast in the first primary of
i 1932.
Saturday’s balloting will mark
the end in many of the contests,
where a candidate gets a majority
of the vote, but in many others a
new campaign will start to lead up
to the >econd primary July 4.
As the Democrats vote through
out the State on candidates ranging
from township constable, justices
of he peace, and cotton weighers up
to Governor and "eastern” United
States senatbr, the Republicans in
scattered counties will select coun
ty and legislative nominees.
The three per cent sales tax con
tinues to be the major issue. Mc
Donald, 3 3-year-old native of Illi
nois and former college professor
at Winston-Salem, pledges elimi
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