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FOUNDED 1^32—105TH YEAR SALISBURY, N. C., FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 4, 1936 VOL. 104 NO. 6 PRICE 2 CENTS
This is distinctly the political
off season in Washington, for most
of the best political prophets and
soothsayers are hanging around the
Presidential candidates or following
their trail through the country. But
there are still some who foregather
at the National Press Club and some
of these have lately been putting in
their spare time figuring out the
Cabinet changes which are due after
the next presidential election.
If Mr. Roosevelt is reelected it is
the general belief in Washington
that one of the first of his Cabinet
members to be changed will be Har
old W. Ickes, Secretary of the In
terior. Mr. Ickes probably will be
moved upstairs by being appointed
Controller General of the United
States, the post which has been va
cant since July 1, when the term
of John McCarl expired.
Another Cabinet member who
may be shifted to some other post
is D3n Roper, Secretary of Com
merce. Mr. Roper is personally
well advanced in years and is in
clined to take the ultra-conserva
tive view of problems in his de
partment. He has a strong politi
cal following in the South.
OTHER CABINET POSTS
It is also believed to be on the
cards that Mrs. Paul Wilson, offi
cially known by her maiden name
of Frances Perkins, Secretary of
Labor, will be shifted. Madam Sec
retary Perkins has been on the spot
for a year or more. To some ob
servers it seems as if she had done a
good job and preserved a sane mid
dle course in the management of her
department. But a sane middle
course is not pleasing either to or
ganized labor or to organized em
ployers. She does not go the whole
distance with either group.
Claude A. Swanson, Secretary of
the Navy, is also expected to retire,
for no other reason than that of
greatly impaired health and advanc
ing years. George H. Dern, Sec
retary of War, to whom the Presi
dent refers affectionately as "dear
old George,” is likely to retain his
post.
Nobody has suggested for a min
ute the possible retirement of Hen
ry A. Wallace as Secretary of Agti"
culture. He is regarded as trailing!
very close to the President in his1
outlook upon the farm problem,;
and probably will be continued if
the President retains his office.
Some dopsters surmise that strong
pressure will be put upon Mr.
Roosevelt, if victorious, to get rid
of the Secretary of State, the ven
erable Cordell Hull, of Tennessee.
There seems to be no reason to
anticipate any change in the At
torney Generalship. Also, Secretary
of the Treasury. Secretary Henry
Morgenthau, Jr., stands very high
in presidential favor, partly because
of his conduct in his office and
partly because of a long and warm
personal friendship.
And one of the present Cabinet
members who is certain to be con
tinued in office, as the gossip here
see it, will be his campaign man
ager, James A. Farley, Postmaster
General.
THE LANDON CHOICES
Of course the field for specula
tion as to Mr. Landon’s probable
Cabinet if he should be elected is
wide open for anybody to guess in.
The only thing that seems certain
at this stage is that if Mr. Landon
comes to the White House, John
D. M. Hamilton, Chairman of the
Republican National Committee,
will come into the Cabinet in some
capacity. If tradition is followed,
he will be Postmaster General.
Speculators along these lines are
in quite general agreement that the
man for Secretary of Agriculture is
Senator Lester J. Dickinson of
Iowa.
If Mr. Landon, assuming he be
comes President, follows the prece
dent set by Mr. Roosevelt of nam
ing a woman to a Cabinet post, the
best bet at this time would seem to
be Miss Natalie Couch, of New
York, probably the nearest to being
national leader of organized Repub
lican women.. And she might a:
well go to the Department of Laboi
as anywhere else.
For Secretary of the Treasury
these Washington gossips believe
that John H. McCarl, of Nebraska
former Controller General, woulc
do.
For Secretary of State the sugges
tion is offered that the Republicar
best qualified for the job and mosi
likely to be eager to get it is Sena
tor Borah of Idaho. Foreign rela
tions are his specialty and have beei
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City To Get Highway Radio System
Resettlement Administration To Continue Work
Program Will
Be Curtailed
Many Projects Dropped,
But New Deal Agency
Will Not Be Liquidated
Hold Up Land Buying
Washington.—Although the Re
settlement administration has drop
ped 30 of its approved projects
and intends to drop more, an aide
to Secretary Wallace said that the
New Deal has no intention of
"liquidating,” the agency.
"While I cannot speak officially
for resettlement,” said Paul Apple
by, secretary to the Agriculture
department head, "I know as a
matter of person information that
President Roosevelt intends, on his
return from the drought areas, to
call upon Resettlement for an ex
panded and intensified land plan
ning program.”
T?_1 *_r> T>.1J_* - _•
i^aiiivi >_/• if. c/aiunm) an ajju
tant administrator of the,Resettle
ment organization, which Rexford
G. Tugwell heads, told reporters
the agency was revising all of its
budgets as a result of expenditures
required by unforseen drought re
lief needs.
He added a final announcement
of additional projects to be made
for about two weeks.
Baldwin said also that all proj
ects upon which, actual construc
tion had been started would be
completed, because "obviously we
could not let a community remain
half constructed.”
From Appleby came an assertion
that, if the next Congress enacts
the Bankhead-Jones bill to create
a farmers’ home corporation to
help farm tenants buy homes, ini
tial work in that field likely would j
be done by the Resettlement ad
ministration.
Officials said, however, there'
had been disagreement between re-j
settlement and the Department of,
Agriculture over which should'
handle the proposed corporation.
Spokesmen for Resettlement said
its land purchase program, along
with some other projects, including
"model” suburban developments
not actually under way, would be
held in abeyance pending addition
al appropriations. They said the
government is obligated, however,
to buy 8,000,000 acres already un
der option.
Baldwin reported that, through
the change in plans, the resettle
ment agency appeared able to as
sist a maximum of 160,000
drought-hurt families, in addition
to 600,000 families who were aided
by the agency last year.
He said about $70,000,000 to
$75,000,000 now appeared avail
able from current funds for emer
gency grants and loans in the
drought area.
Motorists Pay
Half N.C.Taxes
Motorists of North Carolina this
year will pay more than one-half
'of the taxes paid into the North
I Carolina coffers, C. M. Byers, di
j vision manager of the Standard Oil
Company of New Jersey, reports.
! Mr. Byers declared motorists
I would pay in taxes $20,000,000 or
more than 53.5 of the taxes derived
from all sources.
He said that with prevailing
prices of 21.93 cents a gallon, one
! third of the sum paid for each
gallons of gas goes into the State
and Federal treasuries. The com
bined taxes total 7.2$ per gallon.
He declared that improvements
■ in refiring, priduction, and distri
■ bution have made the tax a "pain
■ less tax.” Otherwise, hed eclared,
i the cost of gasoline would be ex
Kisses Hitler
Ni^w’YORK . . . The Olympic
games hr Germany made a hit
with Mrs. Carla De Vries (above),
of Norwalk, Calif. . . . She was
there and being near Fuehrer
Adolf Hitler, in his loge at the
stadium, she planted a kiss on his
unsuspecting countenance.
N. Y.’s Safest Motorist j
NEW YORK . . . The New York
State Bureau of Motor Vehicles
has discovered the name of New
York’s safest driver. He i3 E. P.
Macaulay (above), of Schenec
tady, who has driven a car 37
years and covered 1,021,000 miles
without accidents, arrests, nor
even a scratch on a fender.
A Tyler Weds Cowboy
NEW YORK . . .. Miss Margaret
G. Tyler; 24, ; (above), grand
daughter of former President
Tyler, went West this season.
Now comes word that she has be
come the bride of Clifford Glenn,
22, Montana cowboy and they are
now on honeymoon.
Speedboat King
RED BANK, N. J. . . . For the
third year in succession Melvin
Crooks, {above), of Montclair,
N. J. has won the National Sweep
stakes for Powerboats. He sent
his “Betty V." along here to a
new world record of 63.114 M.P.H.
to win the 1936 title.
DOLLAR DAYS FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
•-:_ _
Unusual Values
To Be Offered
This Festival
September 7th Will Be
Observed As Labor
Day; Majority of
Stores To Close
Citizens Urged To Buy
Bargains
Salisbury Merchants will observe
Dollar Days Friday and Saturday.
This was decided by the directors
of the Salisbury-Spencer Merchants
Association.
Merchants of the two cities will
display the best merchandise of the
late summer and fall at the lowest:
possible prices. They will also ex-j
hibit the best merchandise of the
year for sale.
It was also determined that Sept.
7 would be observed as Labor Day,
according to a custom of long
standing. All the stores, generally,
will close on that day, with the ex
ception of grocery stores, which
will remain open several hours dur
ing the morning hours.
Citizens of Rowan County are
urged to take advantage of the un
usual values offered by the local
merchants on Dollar Days.
Progress On
Highway
Concord.—Excellent progress is
being made on the grading for alt-|
ternate U. 'S. Highway 29, and the
steel-concrete overhead bridge over
which the road is to re-enter the
practically complete, W. J. White,
present highway at China Grove is
resident State highway engineer
said.
COVERS RETREAT j
Ada, Okla.—A burglar entered
the Baptist church here through an
unlocked window, removed the
door to the church office from its
hinges, opened the safe by working1
the combination, took out $15,
closed and locked the safe, replaced
the door on its hinges and escaped
through the window. Police Chief
Roy Kel'er said also the burglar
wore gloves.
ONCE TAMED LIONS; NOW
IT’S CANARIES
Oakland, Cal.—Frank Hill, once
world-famous lion and tiger tamer
from London to New York, Coney
Island and the Pacific Coast, domi
nating as many as fourteen lions at
a time, now spends his time here
training a canary bird and his pet
dog.
52 Young Women
Take State
Waitress Course
Raleigh.—The State employment
service has started a program to
provide more courteous and effici
ent waitresses in public eating
places of North Carolina.
Fifty-two young women took a
:ourse in Durham last week under
restaurateurs there and 30 took the
examination at its end, with 25
making exceptionally high grades.
F. D. R. To Give
Report Sunday
Washington.—With the drought
draining funds available for the un
employed, President Roosevelt an
nounced that he will discuss the re
employment of relief workers by
private industry in a report Sunday
on his drought tour.
Aides here said the President
would return to the White House
and broadcast his impressions on
the parched mid-west from 9:45
and 10:15 o’clock (E. S. T.) Sun
day nivht.
They added he would make a
"special announcement” regarding
private re-employment.
This aroused immediate specula
tion and recalled that, just before
leaving for the west last week, the
President allotted $1,500,000 to
the United States employment ser
vice to provide better information
for private employers regarding the
jobs that men now on relief can
fill.
Announcement of Sunday’s
speech likewise drew attention to
that section of Mr. Roosevelt’s re
vised budget summary dealing with
relief finances, and to the long
range rehabilitation program re
commended by the drought com
mittee which conferred with him
in the west.
MOOSE SCENT FIRE F-vST,
DEER SLOWLY
The mighty moose of Northern
Minnesota’s forest are less likely to
be caught in forest fires than the
deer. Dr. T. S. Surber of the State
game and fish department says the
lumbering big animals can scent the
smoke danger miles distant—and
act accordingly—while deer become
panicky.
HAWAII HONORS HERO
MONARCH
Honolulu, T. H.—It cost Hawai
more than $12,750 to celebrate the
biennial of its most famous Poly
nesian hero, King Kamehameha
Funds for the celebration last Jul}
were appropriated by the territoria
Legislature and donated by loca
business houses.
Southern Road j]
Boiler Inspector
Retires ]
Thomas Robinson of 602 North
Main street, traveling inspector of j
boilers for the Southern Railway,
was retired Monday afternoon after
4J years of service with the com
pany, and becomes the first mem- ]
ber of the mechanical department
of the Spencer shops to retire under
the railroad pension act recently
passed by congress.
"Uncle Tommie,” as he is af
fectionately known, is a boiler
maker by trade.' He Was bora in
Liverpool, England, on May if, '
1865. He first entered the services '
of the Southern at the old R. and
D. shops on January 1, 1891, which :
were located where the freight de- i
pot here now stands. Since then,
he has been in continuous service, j
He is a mason and Shriner.
1
Hickory Police
^ 1
Hickory.—Apparently Hickory; 1
police believe in performing their j
duty, no matter if they have toj
pin a ticket on the automobile be- j
| longing to a member of the city,
council, which was exactly what ]
j happened here the other day.
Several truthful citizens declared -
John G. H. Geitner found a ticket j
pinned to his automobile as he 1
started to enter it Saturday after- i
j noon. Mr. Geitner pulled the tick
et off, carried it into the City Hall,
leaving it along with a dollar bill, i
MULE DODGES BOLT
Tarboro.—A Tarboro mule duck
ed a bolt of lightning.
The middle animal of five feed
ing at the same trough, the mule
was the only survivor when lightn
ing struck.
The owner’s explanation: He
ducked his head into the feed
trough at the crucial moment. i
MORE VISITORS AT NATION
AL PARK
Crater Lake National Park, Ore.
t—Visitors to this national park
(have increased over 80 per cent to
! date over the same period last year.
Total for the season is 135,000
visitors, which exceeds all season
totals since 1931.
TRAIN FOR WAR
Manila, P. I.—Even municipal
school boards are entering into the
spirit of the Phillippines Common
wealth National Defense Act. Und
er the law, elementarv school hnvc
will be given elementary military
. training, while girls will be trained
. for nursing work and similar voca
tions.
Predict Good
rimes, No War,
Drought In ’37
Chicago.—The star gazers forsee
;ood times and no drought in 1937.j
At least that was the pronoun-]
:ement of the leader of the AU
Vmerican Astrological convention,
D. M. Davidson of Chicago, as the
:onsensus of the 500 astrologers
neeting here.
Although he said the purpose of
:he convention was to discourage
ndiscriminate predicting and put
istrology on scientific standards,
Davidson consented to disclose the
istrologers read in the heavens that:
The general economic outlook
or American during the next year
s good. 1
The average citizen is going to*
ade well.
There will be a boom in real es
ate.
There will be no recurrence of
his year’s disastrous drought which
tar-augurs believe was caused by
n excess of ultra-violet radiation
rom the sun.
There will be no general Euro
>ean war for at least a year.
Japan will not advance on China
intil 1940.
"We want to put astrology where
t belongs—on a scientific basis,”
Davidson said. "We are meeting
;o discuss ways by which astrolo
gers all over the country can get
:ogether. If we obtain facts and
lata and record them properly,
:hey will stand scientific tests.”
Mrs. Max Heindel of Oceanside,
Calif., addressed the convention on
low crime might be reduced by
:he use of horoscopes. She cited the
loroscope of a well-known criminal
ivho, she said, might have changed
lis life if he had been subjected to
:he proper training suggested
:hrough astrology.
WPA Allots
$100,000 For
State Projects
Raleigh.—The WPA announced
it had allocated more than $100,
000 to four new projects, with
sponsors providing about $30,000
if the money.
Winston-Salem was given $14,
709.50 for work at Miller airport,
Burlington $7,831.65 for street
improvements, Albemarle $46,
144.94 for water lines, and Macon
county, $51,343 for road work.
WINE GRADING URGED
Berkeley, Cal.—Pointing out that
there is no way of grading wines at
present except the personal opinion
of the taster, Dr. W. V. Cruess of
the University of California, ad
vocates a rigid set of standards sim
iliar to that of applying to the can
ning industry.
Station Will Be
Placed Here In
Near Future
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Strategic Posit: ^ i City
Lands Rr G>* ^olice
Vs
Announcement was made this
week of the location in Salisbury
of one of the five transmitting
radio stations of the state-wide
short-wave police radio systems au
thorizel in North Carolina.
Others will be located at:
R aleigh *
Williams ton
Elizabethton
Asheville.
Location oi the system at Salis
bury was attributed to the fact
that Salisbury is probably the most
strategic point in North Carolina,
when considered in relation to the
population of North Carolina, as
over half a million people reside
within a radius of SO miles of Sal
isbury.
This station will be separate and
apart from the local radio police
system.
Each of the five units will be
specially constructed and will re
quire 25 or 30 acres of segregated
land for the unit.
It is understood that the Salis
bury unit will be constructed at the
Salisbury airport or nearby.
The station js expected to be in
operation within 90 days from
September 1.
An exceptionally large grounding
system will be required for each
unit, it is stated.
Tests (were made over a month
ago, and Salisbury wa^de&ted as
one of the sites at that time.
Costs of the station will be paid
by the road betterment fund of
North Carolina, it is stated.
It will cost the State of North
Carolina approximately $165,000
to set up the system and around
$35,000 annually to operate the
same.
13,785 Tried In
Higher Courts
71 Per Cent Of N. C.
Defendants Convicted,
Report For Last Year
Reveals.
Raleigh.—Attorney General A.
A. F. Seawell reported that 13,785
persons faced charges in superior
courts of North Carolina last fiscal
year with 71 per cent being con
victed.
In 1934-3 5 there were 14,036
defendants in the courts.
Prohibition law violators last
year totalled 2,812, a slight drop
from the 2,970 in 1934-35.
There were more persons charged
with breaking and entering, forg
ery, gambling and lottery and vio
lations of motor vehicle laws last
year than the year before.
Thirteen were charged last year
with first degree murder and 356
with murder in the second degree.
Forsyth’s superior court led the
State in cases, with 830, while Guil
ford handled 689, Mecklenburg
598 and Wake 5 89. Durham had
452, Buncombe 301, Cabarrus 298,
New Hanover 312, Wilson 383,
Edgecombe 211, Gaston 354, Hay
wood 327, Johnston 205, Nash 214,
Pitt 232, Rockingham 212, and
Wilkes 223. Other counties had less '
than 200 cases each.
In inferior courts 13,459 were
tried on dry law charges, a gain of
1,800 over the 11,695 in 1934-35,
and 4,459 faced motor law charges,
compared with 1,783 the previous
year.
Say, "I Saw It in
THE WATCHMAN