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A NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE UPBUILDING OF ROWAN COUNTY
FOUNDED lg32—105TH YEAR ~ SALISBURY, N. C., FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 4, 1936 VOL. 104 NO. 19 PRICE 2 CENTS
The belief is growing in Wash
ington that President Roosevelt’s
trip to South America may prove
to be one of the vital turning
points in our national history,
something which historians of the
future will refer to as the begin
ning of new era in world affairs.
Back of the President’s attend
ance at the conference of American
Republics, which is being held at
Buenos Aires, a definite purpose to
bring the entire Western Hemi
sphere into a new agreement for
cooperation in peace, common de
fense in war and the free exchange
of commodities between the nations
of the two Americas at all times.
The logic of such a lineup is
quite obvious. This country does
not want to be involved in Eu
ropean political affairs nor in Asia
tic politics. Neither do the Repub
lics of the South. War is breeding
to the East and to the West. The
American continent is separated
from these warlike regions by the
Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific
Ocean.
Also to the South of us lies a
great opportunity for peaceful de
velopment if mutual trade. South
America is the natural market for
American manufacturers and the
United States is a natural market
for South America’s raw materials.
Likewise, South America offers
to the adventurous, pioneering spirit
of our youth as great opportunity
for exploration and development as
our West did in the early days of
our continental expansion.
A GREAT AMERICAN EMPIRE
It is not to be wondered at,
therefore, that President Roosevelt
should cherish the dream of a unit
ed Western Hemisphere, which
could conceivably be entirely self
contained and free to develop a vast
empire with a new type of culture
and civilization, in no way depend
ent upon either Europe, Asia or
Africa. If that dream should be
realized then the President’s visit
to Buenos Aires would, indeed, be
a historical occasion.
Secretary of State Cordell 'Hull
has the same vision. He is meeting
the President at the Argentine capi-j
tal and will remain there through
rout the international conference to
participate in the discussions which
he hopes v/ill result in the forma
tion of an All-American League of
Nations.
That American business and in
dustry is at least hopeful that some
thing will develop from this con
ference to broaden our export mar
ket and render the opportunities
which South America offers more
readily available to North American
capital and enterprise, is indicated
by the fact that Harper Sibley,
President of the Chamber of Com
f merce of the United States, flew
down to Buenos Aires last week to
attend the conference. Sibley also
plans an extended airplane tour of
the principal South American coun
tries and capitals.
All the reports that come into
Washington indicate that the Latin
American peoples and their govern
ments have shaken off the fear of
aggressions on the part of the "Co
lossus of the North.” This was a
fear mainly fostered by self-seeking
politicians of a type now rapidly
losing influence in the southern
continent. At present the /oad is
clearer than it has ever been for
such a Pan-American understand
ing, if not alliance. Such as has been
the dream of far-seeing statesmen
for many years.
THAT EUROPEAN TANGLE
It is no secret that the whole
problem of foreign relations is one
which is giving the Administration
more concern than almost any
domestic question.
The State Department is inclined
to feel that the civil war in Spain
may result in precipitating general
European hostilities, since both Mus
solini and Hitler have announced
their recognition of the rebels un
der the leadership of Gen. Franco
as the de facto government of
Spain and Great Britain has an
nounced that it will resist any at
tempt on the part of the rebels to
interfere with British commerce in
Spanish ports.
The rebellion in Spain is defin
itely a fascist movement, to set up
a government of the same dicta
torial type as those of Italy and
Germany, while the existing gov
ernment of Spain is distinctly
Communistic and has the backing
of Soviet Russia.
It is not difficult to imagine a
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Southern Expansion At New/Peak
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Month’s Total
Is $88,644,000
Industrial, Construction
Awards Reach $859,
423,000 For This Year
Baltimore.—A new surge of
industrial expansion during Novem
ber set all-time records for con
struction and engineering awards
in the sixteen southern States.
The Manufacturers Record re
ported that awards for the month
totaled $88,644,000 and for the 11
months of the year, $8 59,423,000
—the largest totals in the South’s
history for these periods. Of the
monthly total, industrial awards
amounted to $44,415,000, approxi
mately half.
"Steel interests, power companies
paper manufacturers, rayon produ
cers, all refiners and a widely diver
sified list of other industries con
tributed to the November figure,”
the industrial journal related.
Outstanding among the products
was the $3 5,000,000 expansion pro
gram of the Bethlehem Steel corpo
ration, mostly at its Sparrows Point
plant, near Baltimore.
In this connection, the publica
tion mentioned a $30,000,000 pro
gram announced in October by the
U. S. Steel corporation for its sub
sidiary, the Tennessee Coal, Iron,
and Railroad company, in the Bir
mingham area, and an expected $2,
000,000 expansion at Gadsden by
the Gulf States Steel company.
Other large industrial contracts
included one for the first unit of a
$7,000,000 plant the Brunswick
Pulp & Paper company is building
at Brunswick, Ga., and a $5,000,
000 plant of the Kieckhefer Con
tainer corporation of Belair, N. J.,
on the Roanoke river near Ply
mouth, N. C.
The Manufacturers Record said
that while the power industry is
facing keen competition of Federal
projects,” it had started forward on
important additions. Among pro
jects listed as just beginning or con
tracted for were:
Duke Power company, $3,000,
000 addition at its Riverbend steam
electric generating station on the
Catawba river near Charlotte, N.
C., the Louisville Gas and Electric
company, $1,800,000 addition to
its Canal Street station
Rayon projects started or con
templated include: DuPont Rayon
company, addition to its plant at
Ampthill, near Richmond, Va., the
Viscose company of Virginia, a
large plant near Front Royal, and
William J. Carter and associates, a
$750,000 silk and rayon goods
plane at Greensboro, N. C.
Furniture Makers
Announce Wage
Boost
High Point.—The Briggs Manu
facturing company, one of the larg
er furniture manufacturing busi
nesses in the city has announced re
vision of wage schedules by which
increases averaging 10 per cent in
the firm’s total pay roll will be
came effective Thursday.
This is the third furniture man
ufacturing plant in the city to an
nounce a wage revision within the
past few days.
State To Lose $3,000,000 Tax
Fund Will Go
Into Treasury
At Washington
N. C. Among 22 Others
Failing to Enact Laws;
Ample Notice Given,
Says Board
Washington.—The North Caro
lina treasury will lose the $3,000o
000 that will be collected January
31, 1337, from employers for un
employment insurance, so far as the
Social Security board is concerned.
Chairman John G. Winant reveal
ed.
This tax is now accruing and by
January 31, 1937, each and every
employer in the State who has
eight or more persons on his pay
roll must pay the Government one
per cent for 1936. Under the So
cial Security act. States having
enacted an unemployment Social
Security act acceptable to the board
by December 3 1, of this year, will
be credited with funds, thus en
abled to distribute the money as
part of the unemployment insur
anre.
Thus far 22 States have failed to
pass such laws, among them being
North Carolina, and Governor J.
C. B. Ehringhaus has declined to
call the Legislature together to en
act a law to match the Govern
ment tax on the grounds that the
expense of an extra session would
be too great.
. Asked at c press conference it
the Social Security board would ask
Congress to amend the act so that
these 26 states may retain the un
employment insurance fund, Win
ant said that the board would not
do so, acting on the theory that
"all States have had ample notice
of the provisions of the law.”
Attention then was called to the
fact that the North Carolina Leg
islature had adjourned before the
Social Security act was enacted by
Congress, and that a resolution in
tended for State participation had
been held inadequate.
Chairman Winant declared that
he felt that fhe States had had am
ple notice, and again a question of
constitutionality had been raised as
to any change in the law that
would be favorable to States re
taining this 1936 fund for thai
year’s credit.
Thus far North Carolina has
taken no steps to participate in the
Social Security act, though the
machinery is being set up in the
State to enroll workers for old age
benefits under Title II of the act
of Which old age assistance pay
ments will begin in 1942.
Workers now are being enrolled
by the Social Security board fol
lowing distribution of cards by
postal employes. Chairman Win
ant said that employers had shown
decided co-operation in filling out
cards to reveal the number of em
ployes on their pay rolls.
Send Out $2,500,
000 In Yule Pay
To Teachers
Raleigh—The State Department
of Public Instruction sent out ap
proximately 30,000 vouchers—the
last to be distributed before Christ
mas—which will distribute some
|$2,500,000 to teachers, school
truck drivers, and mechanics, and
persons and firms who supply gas
oline and fuel to the State’s schools.
TO HOLD DEMONSTRATIONS
FOR LEAF SPOT
Demonstrations for the control1
of leaf spot and leaf scorch diseases
have been placed with strawberry
growers of the Rose Hill, Warsaw
and Calypso communities as a re
sult of heavy damage by these dis
eases this year.
PLANE RESCUES
BOY — John ■ Barnett,
1t year# old, safely
home with his aunt,
after his rescue by a
plane from a row boat
adrift in Flushing Bay,
New York City.
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YOUNGEST MAYOR I
VISITS MAYOR OF s
NEW YORK — Daniel |
Kampan, 17, of Boystown, |
Neb., a village of orphan |
boys, who Is reported to |
be the youngest mayor in I
the world visits Mayor La
Guardia. The orphan I
boys’ village has its own i
government. 1
THOMAS J. FOSTER,
father of correspond
ence education and
founder of the Inter
national Correspond
ence Schools, who died
recently at the age of
93 at his home in
Scranton, Pa. Mr.
Foster organized the
UC.S. in 1891 and lived
to see the Schools en
roll more than 4,250,
000 students.
| FARM HOME EX
PERT—Miss Ellen
Pennell, who has
been named Home
making Editor of I
The Country Home
Magazine. She has
had long experi
ence in both home
economics and edi
torial work, and is ;■
recognized authori
ty in the field.
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A DESIGN showing the twinkling, jolly old face of
Santa Claus, popular symbol of Christmas, was
submitted by Walter I. Sasse of Brooklyn, New Yor»
'and was chosen for the 1936 Christmas Seal.
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SHIRTS FOR SPANISH TROOPS—Young girls and
older women sympathizers with the revolution in
Spain busily and happily work at their sewing
machines to make shirts for thi soldiers of General
Franco’s army.
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ELI STOPS CRIMSON drive at ■
Ihe Yale Bowl, New Haven,
Conn., in their annual football
classic. Yale won 14 to 13 and ^
captured the mythical Big Three gy
championship. (Insert) Larry
Kelley, Yale s great end, and '
candidate for All-America hon
ors, did his share to win for w„%
Yale in this, his last school game.|
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I HELEN HAYES—A new portrait
I of the celebrated actress who |
1 this season qualifies as Broad-f
H way s busiest lady Six nights and twc |
I afternoons a week she stars in "Victor- |
| ia Regina" and on Monday evenings in |
I addition she broadcasts over the NBC- 1
| Blue network in "Bambi." *s 11 g|g
A EUROPEAN FAN
DANCER: How do you
think she compares with
our own product?
i Hl3sN0RTH AMERICAN RACCOONS imported
England and kept in the London Zoo, are
If Wgmw fed by visitors. The unusual little animals sit
X eCr^P on their hind legs
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RADIO'S NO. 1 |
- a SHOW IN RE- I
HEARSAL—Jack
Benny and his I
p| cast look over |
f i\ their scripts pre- |
Kp paratory to go- |
||| ing on the air |
K? Sunday night p
■ over NBC's Red |
S network. Left to |
V right: Blanche |
Stewart, Walter |
WM Bunker, orches- |
j M tra leader Phil |
jHarris, tenor Kenny f
f Baker, Don Wilson, I
director Tom Har- 1
rington, Mary Liv- ||
ingstone and Benny. 1
40,000 School
Bus Shelters
Will Be Built
Raleigh.—State School commis
sion officials revealed plans for a
proposed WPA project to erect
40,000 school bus stations thruout
North Carolina to protect children
from raw winter weather.
Lloyd £. Griffin, executive sec
retary of the commission, said the
project would cost approximately
$800,000, of which the WPA
would be requested to furnish
$480,000 and the State’s 100
counties the remaining $320,000.
School funds are not available
for the work, he added.
The proposed stations would be
open sheds, measuring 6 by 8 feet,
and facing the south. They would
cost approximately $20 each
The State highway and public
works commission has agreed to
furnish gravel bases along the road
sides for all stations, Griffin said.
Scott to ‘Fire’
Women With Em
ployed Hubbies
Raleigh—W. Kerr Scott, com
missioner of agriculture-elect, said
he intended to discharge from the
State department all married wo
men whose 'husbands are employed
at "good jobs.”
At least one member of every
‘family combination’ wit/.in the
department also will be asked to
resign, Scott said, adding that sev-J
eral brothers and sisters now are
being employed.
The commissioner-elect said col
lege graduates and men and women:
reared in the country would be!
given the preference in filling va-j
cated positions.
Furniture Industry
Shows Good
Increase
High Point—The furniture in
dustry was employing 21 per cent
more workers and running a 35 per
cent larger pay roll at the end of
October, 1936, than it was a year
ago, it is revealed in a bulletin just
released by Seidman and Seidman,
certified public accountants.
"The index of furniture plant
activity at the end of October
stood at 8 5 compared with 81 in
September and 63 in October,
193 5,” the report shows. "The in
dustry had not previously reached
this ratio in plant operations at any
time since the fall of 1929.”
RECOMMEND FIRE BREAKS
TO PREVENT FOREST FIRES
The use of fire breaks and cat
tle grazing to prevent forest fires
has been recommended in Pamlico
County by Extension Forester R.
W. Graeber, following a trip of in
spection over the pine forests of
that county.
Landis Man Dies
Beneath Locomotive
Landis—Monday afternon the
railroad claimed its second victim
in as many days in this section
when A. Lawson Miller, 56-year
old Landis service station proprie
tor, died beneath the wheels of a
local freight train at Linn’s Cross
ing in North Landis.
The accident occured shortly be
fore 2 o’clock Monday afternoon.
Rowan County Coroner W. L.
Tatum, who with Corporal C. L.
Adams of the state highway patrol
and Deputy Sheriff L. E. Tatum
investigated the occurence, said.
Vliller approached the crossing on
l road parallel to the railroad
tracks and in the same direction
the train was moving.
The impact carried the light
:oups several hundred yards down
the track, scatering wreckage along
the right of way. Miller was alone
n the car.
Two box cars were in front of
the engine, the coroner quoted En
gineer H. L. Cline , as saying. Bert
Atchison was conductor on the
freight, which was number 61.