The Carolina Watchman 1“;:,
_A NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE UPBUILDING OF ROWAN COUNTY
FOUNDED 1$32—I05TH YEAR SALISBURY, N. C., FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 6, 1936 " VOL. 104 NO. IS PRICE 2 CENTS
Watchman To Publish Page Funnies
Four Cartoons,
Four Comics, to
Run Weekly
Features Are Considered
Outstanding Cartoons
And Comics In Weekly
Field.
Beginning this week, The Watch
man will carry in each issue a full
page more of comics and cartoons,
They are js follows:
"Little Buddy.”
“Detective Riley.”
"Dash Dixon.”
"The Goofus Family.”
"Facts You Never Knew.”
"Our Puzzle Corner.”
"Crossword Puzzle.”
"Your Health Comes First.”
This will mean the addition of
sight new features to be published
weekly by The Watchman in its
future issues. Four will be funny
somics, four interesting cartoons.
Exclusive rights to publish these
sartoons and comics in Rowan
County have been granted The
Watchman under contract with
Lincoln Newspaper Features of
New York.
These features have been added
n furtherance of the policy of the
sublishers of The Watchman to
nake it a readable and interesting
weekly newspaper.
All Democrats
Sleeted To Fill
State Offices
The following Democratic state
icket was swept into office with
inprecedented majorities:
Governor: Clyde R. 'Hoey, Shel
»y
Lieutenant-Governor: Wilkins
\ Horton, Pittsboro.
Secretary of State: Thad Eure,
»v 1I1LOI1.
Auditor: George Ross Pou, Ra
eigh.
Treasurer: Charles M. Johnson,
taleigh.
Superintendent of Public In
truction: Clyde A. Erwin, Ra
eigh.
Attorney-General: A. A. F.
ieawell, Chapel Hill.
Commissioner of Agriculture:
V. Kerr Scott, Haw River.
Commissioner of Labor: A. L.
detcher, Raleigh.
Commissioner of Insurance: Dan
Z. Boney, Raleigh.
Associate Justices of the Su
ireme Court: George W. Conner,
Wilson and William A. Devin, Ox
ord.
Tenth District Court Judge:
Marshall T. Spears, Durham.
Fifteenth District Supreme
'ourt Judge: Frank M. Armstrong
froy.
Senate: josian w. uaiiey, iva
eigh
House of Representatives—First
District: Lindsay C. Warren,
Washington.
Second District: John H. Kerr,
Warrenton.
Third District: Graham A. Bar
len, New Betn.
Fourth District: Harold D.
'ooley, Nashville.
Fifth District: Frank W. Han
ock, Tr., Oxford.
Sixth District: William B. Um
tead, Durham.
Seventh District: J. Bayard
dark, Fayetteville.
Eighth District: Walter Lam
ierh, Thomasville.
Ninth District: Robert L.
Doughton, Laurel Springs.
Tenth District: A. L. Bulwinkle.
jastonia.
Eleventh District: Zebulon
leaver, Asheville.
Two car lo .ds of lime, purchas
d cooperative'y, were delivered to
ditchell County farmers last
veek.
Democrats
Sweep
Rowan
Democrats swept Rowan count}
Tuesday and carried 26 of the
precincts in the county and Star
races, and 27 in the national con
test. A record-breaking total o:
over 17,000 votes was noted.
President Roosevelt carried th<
county by more than three to one
his vote being 13,086 comparei
with 4,170 for Governor Alfrec
M. Landon.
In the Governor’s race, Clyd<
Hoey, Democratic nominee, wa:
given 10,147 votes; Gilliam Gris
som, his opponent, obtained 6,fTT
Congressman R. L. Doughtor
led his Republican foe, Watt
Gragg, 11,401 to 4,812.
Incumbents in county officer:
were re-elected and include: Sherifl
J. H. Krider, who led the ticket
with 11,910 votes against 4,721
for his opponent; W. D. Kizziah
; register of deeds; J. E. Haynes
! auditor; R. L. Bernhardt, T. M
Byrd, J. T. Graham, O. L. Linr
and C. A. Long, commissioners:
Dr. W. L. Tatum, coroner; J. D,
Justice, surveyor.
E. C. Gregory was sent to the
State Senate; while the representa
tives in the house will be George
Uzzell, incumbent, and Walter
"Pete” Murphy, veteran legislator,
who served last in the 1933 legis
lature. W. V. Harris, county
judge, and John G. Kesler, solicitor,
were Democratic nominees unop
posed.
GOP Birthplace
Wrecked’
Ripon, Wis. — Vandals early
Tuesday ripped the front steps
from the small schoolhouse on the
Ripon college campus that is claim
ed locally as the birthplace of the
Republican party. Windows of the
building were broken and lime was
thrown on the walls.
Ship’s Crew
Rescued
London.—A surfboat Tuesday
took off the last of the 3 3 members
of the crew from the stricken
American freighter, Bessemer City
of New York. Driven hard on the
rocks at Pendennis Point, the ves
sel’s keel was broken, and Capt. A.
Herman, the last to leave his ship,
said, "she’s lost.”
Wallace Denies
Reports
Chicago.—Denying reports that
he favored limiting corn prices to
$1 a bushel, Secretary of Agricul
ture Henry A. Wallace asserted he
was interested in "maintaining the
income of corn belt farmers at as
high a level as possible year in and
year out without injustice to other
sections.”
MURDER AND SUICIDE
Tampa, Fla.—Peace Justice Leo
Walters said three children arriving
home late from school found the
bodies of their mother, Mrs. Louise
Green, 3 5, and a boarder, Edward
D. Akins, 40, sprawled on the
kitchen floor. Walters said the two
deaths were cases of murder and
suicide.
SOVIET PROPOSAL 'INSULT’
London.—Francisco Caheiros.
Portuguese delegate to the London
Spanish non-intervention commit
tee at a sub-committee meeting
termed Russia’s proposed blockade
of Portuguese ports an "insult.”
I In TAe WEEK'S NEWS'
PREPARED FOR WAR
EMERGENCIES — Not
quite a peaceful home
scene as mother and daugh
ter, wearing gas masks,
continue at their knitting
during the recent rehearsal
of air raid defenses In
Paris.
NEW INNOVATIONS —
Some of the 1937 car* show
many new Innovations. Pic
tured here is the 1937
Plymouth with new radia
tor grille. Bigger bodies on
new rubber - poise mount
ings, safety-styling, com
plete soundproofing, “air
plane" shock absorbers
and hypoid rear axles are
other Plymouth innova
tions this year
FRANKLIN 0. ROOSEVELT
re • elected President of the
United States.
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“EVERYTHING — including hair
from the neighbor’s dog’’ was found
in the dirt filtered from a residence
in New York. J. J. Donovan, Man
ager of General Electric’s Air Con
ditioning, told the National Sales
Executives Conference in New York
recently. Tiny shreds of steel rails,
plaster, coke, petroleum, sulphates,
and ammonia were found. Unless It
is filtered out, this stuff is breathed
into people’s lungs.
"YOUNG AMERICAN SINGERS
deserve to be encouraged," said
Mme. Lotte Lehmann, famous grand
opera soprano. “Students of every
kind need the encouragement of se
curity. I meet so many music stu
dents on my concert tours —and
wish they could all have the kind
ef encouragement that Is being of
' fered In the Camay $1,000 a year for—
life contest!” —
TUNICS FASHION FA
VORITES — Everywhere
milady goes she'll run
right into tunics of all de
scriptions. Ann 8othern
wears an unusually flatter
ing one made of wine red
wool. An eapeoially new
note Is the uneven hemline.
Bob Doughton’s Majority Is 26,929
±
Veteran Solon Wins
Easily Over Gragg
All of State’s 11 Demo
cratic Congressmen
Re-elected By Decisive
Margins, Survey Shows
—
chairman of the powerful ways and
means committee was re-elected bv
the largest majority since he sought
his first term 28 years ago.
His majority, based on reports
from all the counties, was 26,929j
over Watt H. Gragg of Boone, his
Republican opponent.
All 11 of North Carolina’s re
presentatives were re-elected by
overwhelming majorities over Re-!
publican opponents in Tuesday’s
ballotting, a survey disclosed.
Woman Clubbed
To Death
Rochester, N. Y.—A middle'
aged grandmother was clubbed and
seriously injured in her Irondequoit
home while two of her grandchild
ren huddled in the same room.
Police of the Rochester suburb said
her assailant then hanged himself
i in the cellar of the house. Mrs. Lil
! lian Earl, 42, was the victim. The
jassailant was Frank Hess, 63.
FIVE DROWNED AS DAM
BREAKS
Bogota, Colombia.—Five persons
were believed drowned after the
Gachangca river broke through El
Rabanal dam flooding the Samaca
valley.
i
MOUSE WEARS DOWN SNAKE
AND KILLS IT
Walsenburg, Colo.—A rattle
snake, captured at the L. A. Busch:
ranch for high school science clas
ses, did very well on a diet of a
mouse every two weeks until it
was given a particularly agile one.
The.mouse, Mrs. Busch related,
kept dodging the snake’s lunges
until it wore it down, then nibbled
off its rattles and killed it.
Red Cross Gave Disaster Relief In
39 States Last Year; Rendered Wide
Range of Service to American People
The American Red Cross was
called on for assistance to 131,000
families as a result of disasters in
39 states during the past year, P.
D. Ross chairman of the Salisbury
chapter of the Red Cross, declared
yesterday in a resume of the year’s
work of that organization.
"On 105 occasions the Red
Cross was called upon during the
year to render aid in stricken com
munities,” Mr. Ross said. "This
involved assistance as a result of j
floods, shipwrecks, earthquakes,
fires, tornadoes, hurricanes, ty
phoons, forest fires, epidemics, ex
plosions, bombing, landslides, and
other types of disasters.”
Mr. Ross revealed that $5,232,-i
052.48 was spent by the Red Cross'
for this disaster relief, although at
the close of the fiscal year relief:
work in the spring flood and tor-j
nado zones was not completed.
Only nine states in the Union
i
escaped some type of catastrophe
during the year, he said. Assist
ance was also given in disasters in
insular territories.
"Since the Red Cross first began
carrying out disaster relief 5 5 years
ago,” Mr. Ross said, "assistance in
the form of food, clothing, medi
cal aid, shelter, and rehabilitation
of homes and families has been!
sent to more than 1,900 scenes of;
disaster, and during this time a
total of more Jnan $109,5 00,000'
have been expended in this work
of mercy.”
During the year 256,988 ex
service men came to the Red Cross;
for some form of assistance, Mr.
Ross reported. Through the same;
period 222,693 persons were given
instruction in first aid, bringing
the total number of first orders
who have been trained by the Red
Cross since 1910 to 1,173,494 per
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Natir/* /otes
l*Approval
/"Of Liberalism
V
GOP States Overturn
Traditionally Republi
can Commonwealths
Slide Into Democratic
Column; Landon Loses
Own and Holds Only
Vermont and Maine.
President Roosevelt Tuesday
piled up the biggest electoral ma
jority any candidate ever enjoyed
since the nation grew up.
So vast was his margin over
Landon that followers called it a
clear mandate for Mr. Roosevelt to
continue his liberal policies; even
some of his bitterest opponents said
every real American must stand be
hind the President.
Some reactions were immediately
visible. The stock market was
thrown into a buying whirl, with
some issues advancing to a new
five year high and only public uti
lity stocks the objects of heavy
Just two States, Maine and Ver
mont, with a total of eight elec
toral votes stood on the Landon
side. New Hampshire spent elec
tion night in the Landon column,
then climbed on the Democratic
bandwagon.
In the end, the President had
5 23 electoral votes, Landon 8. It
was the nearest approach to unani
mity in the electoral college since
James Monroe was re-elected in
1820 with only a single vote
against him.
A correspondingly top-heavy ma
jority in (House and Senate seemed
likely. The Democrats appeared to
be winning enough seats to give
them 75 of the 96 in the Senate.
House returns were slower but
with something like two score of
contests in doubt, the Democrats
appeared sure of going beyond 300
seats. In the upsets, they had taken
two Republican seats for every one
the Republicans had gained from
them. They had 3 08 members in
the last House.
Report 120 Cars
Stolen In State
Last Month
Raleigh.—The Motor Vehicle
bureau reported there were 120
automobiles listed as stolen in
North Carolina last month, the
largest number in any month in
several years. In September there
ported.
There were 63 of the cars re
covered during the month, along
with 25 stolen in previous months,
to make 88 tecoveries.
Government
Workers Increase
Washington.—An increase of
1,438 employes in the executive
branch of the Federal government
during September was reported by
the civil service commission. In its
monthly report the commission
said there were 83 5,704 employes
September 30.
Burglars Get
Big Haul
New York.—Burglars cleaned
out one of New York’s most im
portant dental supply firms over
the week-end, looting the establish
ment of Fawcett and Fawcett, In
corporated, on Fulton street, of
precious metals, cash and bonds
valued in all at $25,000.
George E. Collier of Clarkton,
route 2, Columbus County, has a
small acreage of fall tomatoes that
he is selling rapidly at 5 cents a
pound.
One or the laws enacted by the
last Congress which is certainly
going to come in for strong at
tempts to clarify it and make it
more workable is the Social Secur-1
ity Act. There is little disagreement
in principle with the purposes of
the Social Security Act, but there
is a very general feeling, among
Democrats and Republicans alike,
that in its present form it is cumb
ersome, burdensome and unduly
complicated in its methods of ad
.ssmiefritiAn P iron Ifr _J
advocates are now predicting that
unless it is modified it will fall of
its own weight and that the pen
sions which it is intended to pro
vide will be lost unless drastic re
visions are made in the law.
There is also a strong feeling
that it should be extended in its
application to cover large groups
of workers who do not now come
under is provisions. In the present
set-up neither farmers, sailors, do
mestic servants, persons employed
by charitable and other non-profit
making organizations nor those em
ployed by any Federal, state or
municipal government or their in
strumentalities is subject to either
the tax .on payrolls or the future
benefits of the Act. The Treasury
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which are the members of the Fed
eral Deposit Insurance Corporation
are instrumentalities of the govern
ment and that therefore no bank
employees come under the benefits
of the Social Security Act.
A matter which is giving the
State Department more concern
than is publicly admitted is the
question of how to reconcile the
announced intention of Great Brit
ain to place large orders for mili
tary aircraft with American manu
facturers, with the neutrality laws
passed by the last Congress. Great
Britain is not yet at war, but is
preparing to meet Germany in the
air. Of this there is no question on
either side of the Atlantic. Ger-j
many has been building military
planes on a mass-production basis.
There are at least two German air-i^
, crafe factories each of which is
produemg more places |J
annually than all American airplane]
factories combined. But while Ger-|,
many is industriously rearming on
a Ford basis, Great Britain in its
leisurely way has been building
planes on a Rolls-Royce basis. '
Now the British air ministry and 1
the Cabinet have become alarmed
at their inferiority in the air. They 1
have lately placed an order for 700
bombing planes to be built at the ]
Canadian plant of one of the
American airplane companies, and i
have intimated that they are ready
to buy several thousand plages ' |
from other American companies, j
Two of the largest American air-j
plane factories are not just nowjl
too busy to take on large orders]
for planes. But these and most of j s
the others have been building mili-'l
tary planes to United States Gov
ernment specifications.
The question arises whether it!
would be a breach of the neutrality ['
laws to permit these companies toj
build the same kind of planes ford
Great Britain or to utilize any ofj
the devices which our army andj<
navy have taken part in developing, |
if they build planes to British spe-ji
cifications. It is understood here,'
that several very large orders for;!
military planes have been referred)
to the State Department by the^
manufacturers who want to accept
them, but who want to be sure that! <
they are withn their legal rights. !'
In the meantime, the British!
Government and some of the 1
British airplane manufacturers have!
purchased licenses under American ]
patents for numerous airplane parts.1
and equipment, so that even if
Britain’s replaning program is car-,1
ried out entirely on British soil, ^
there will be a large financial re- c
turn to the American airplane man
. nfacturers who own these natents. (
Also it is possible, in case the State
Department should hold that it (
would be improper for American(
even for a nation which is not at <
war, that more of these factories
will establish Canadian branches. : (
There is no question whatever in
the minds of the best informed peo- 1
pie in Washington that a great
European war is imminent and that ]
it will find the lineup very much
as it was at the beginning of the (
World War. At &iat time it was
Germany and Austria against prac- 1
tically all the rest of Europe. In
the beginning, Russia was fighting
Germany on the Eastern Front and (
Italy stayed out of the war for.]
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