BOOSTERS FOR A GREATER CITY AND COUNTY . , I owan County Herald ' AND THE CAROLINA WATCHMAN . N/v FOUNDED 1 §32—105TH YEAR SALISBURY, N. C. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1937 VOL. 104 NO. 29 PRICE 2 CENTS OFFICIALS REQUESTING $100,000.00 Rowan Delegation Returns From Washington After Conference With WPA PROSPECTS ARE ENCOURAGING Prospects of obtaining in excess of $11,000 from the WPA to com plete the Rowan-Iredell drainage project are very encouraging, ac cording to the Rowan county of ficials who returned Thursday from Washington where they con ferred with Col. J. C. MeHaffey, executive assistant to WPA’S chief engineer. The delegation from Rowan was composed of the following offi cials: R. L. Barnhardt, chairman of the board of county commission ers; County Commissioners C. H. Long and J. T. Graham; W. D. Kizziah, regist ;r of deeds; Dr. C. W. Armstrong, county health offi rer and W. D. Alexander, district engineer of the state board of health. Rowan’s representatives were ac companied to the WPA headquar ters by Congressman R. L. Dough ton who joined in the request for additional funds to complete the project. ^ I Following the conference, it was : felt that n allocation for this j purpose will be made in the near I future. | - 'Employment - — | Secured for 4,076 | In This District | Employment has been secured . for a total of 4,076 workers in the Salisbury District by the N. C. State Employment Service since i July 1, 1936 according to the bien i nial report compiled in January of | this number 1,190 jobs were in pri vate industry and 2,886 on public ! works projects. ! The district of which Salisbury jis the head ranked seventh in total ! number of placements for this six ; months period. Those ahead in job placements were the Raleigh, Char j lotte, Greensboro, Kinston, Wins ; ton-Salem and Asheville Districts, i The Greensboro District placed a total of 9,039 and the ch«.lotte | District 4.998. ; Figures that are even more signi ficant are those that show the total j activities of the fifteen districts of the entire state for past two vears. Of 234,133 people who have passed through Employment Offices in search of work 212,983 secured jobs. Or, to put it more simply, for every 100 registrations there were nearly 84 placements made. Since June the heavy load of : choosing persons for works Pro i gress Administration Projects has j been taken off the hands of the | Employment Service and since that time the personnel of the service jhas been working over-time to make the Employment Service a more professional orgnization whose main purpose is to serve the em ployers and employees of private industry. E. Spencer First Grade Studies Farm Life Miss Leonard’s first grade of East Spencer school have been studying about the farm for the past few weeks. The children have enjoyed reading nd making stories of farm life. Many pictures were brought by the children and charts were made. They also drew pictures of various animals and farm buildings. A little booklet of the "Farm” was made by each child. A minature farm was constructed on one of the tables which the children enjoyed arranging every day. This study will end this week with a program and party given by the children in the room. PLAN INCREASE AUTO OUTPUT Industry Buys Enough Steel to Produce 5,000, 000 Cars During This Year. Before the breathing spell af iorded by the change-over of mod els. two leading units advertised the sale of the millionth car of their 1936 models. New and used cars sold during the model year came to the staggering total of ap proximately 12,000,000 or one car for every 10 persons in the United States. Such is the magnitude of the used car problem today that the sale of a new car requires the sale of nearly two used cars. It would hardly appear possible in view of these figures, that the manufacturers are looking forward to an even better year. But it is so true that a prominent maker recently announced that approxi mately $4 a car of a large quantity had been saved by the purchase of steel in advance of requirements. It is reported that the industry as a whole has already bought steel in sufficient volume to account for six month’s production at the an nual rate of 5,000,000 cars—10 per cent greater than last vear’s and almost parallel to the all-time rec ord established in 1929. .From present appearances, strikes are likely to interfere with produc tion programs more than has been the case in the immediate past. Al readv several prominent makers of equipment have suffered interrup tion of flow of production lines be cause of "sit-down” strikes. Therefore, the tendency will un doubtedly be to build up banks of assembly parts so that sudden shut downs from this cause will not cause undue loss of time and money. The profit outlook for automo bile manufacturers is not as yet clear. Certain it is that wage in creases will be necessary; steel prices are higher after the begin ning of 1937, which means that they will affect the latter half of the model year. Prices of other ma terials and supplies are firming noticeably, so that it will be a struggle for the producers to furth er increase profit margins and no little task to hold them to 193$ levels. C. I. Jones, Jr. Joins Advertising Staff Of Herald-Journal C. I. Jones, Jr., formerly con nected with the advertising depart ments of the Washington Post and the Washington News, has joined the advertising staffs of the Her ald-Watchman and the Spencer Journal. Mr. Jones, in addition to his ad vertising work will also assist in the solicitation of job printing and sale of office equipment. Mr. Jones is the son of Mr. and Mrs. C. I. Jones of West Thomas Street. He has lived in Salisbury all of his life with the exception of the year he spent in Washing ton and while away at college. Addition of Mr. Jones to our advertising staffs is in furtherance of the expansion program recently inaugurated by the publisher. FIND PLATINUM FiELD ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Re ports of a platinum strike at Giod News bay on the Bering sea were brought to Anchorage by Oscar Winchell, airplane pilot. He said more than 30 men have staked claims in the last month within an area of 20 square miles. t extile IVj achinery Business Booming _ Annual Output Is Stepped Up Manufacturers’ Inventor ies Up; Sales Higher, Employment Increasing. WASHINGTON — Manufac turers of textile machinery have benefitted greatly from the high production mark cotton textile mills in the Carolinas and other centers have attained. Employment and production have increased sharply in the industry, according to a report issued by the Bureau of the Census. With the output of mills in 1937 far in excess of the total 193 5 volume, the bureau in its report gives figures indicating that the industry will show a larger annual production this year. The wage earners employed in this industry in 193 5 numbered 19,080, an increase of 2.7 per cent over 18,576 deported for 1933, and their wages of $21,245,578 exceeded the 193 3 figure by $18, 737,260, or by 13.4 per cent. The total value (at F. O. B. factory prices) oftextile machinery, parts, attachments, and accessories mad< in the industry in 193 5 amounted to $64,240,3 50, an increase of 11.0 per cent as compared with $57. 891.952 reported for 1933. The chief classes of products contribut ing to the 193 5 total were as fol lows: fiber-to-fabric machinery $1 1,500,8 52; fabric machinery, $14,096,046; parts, attachments spindles and accessories (including knockdown machines for export), $29,031,735. This industry, as constituted for census purposes, embraces estab : lishments engaged wholly or chief My in the manufacture of machine ! rv for use in the textile industries. The relatively large volume of ' extra parts attachments, spindles, and accessories.” nearly half of j the total value of textile machinery I and parts, is accounted for by the j fact that some manufacturers of . textile machinery ship a consider ; able proportion of their output, es pecially that destined for export, i in the form of "knock-down” or j partly assembled machines. The I records of these manufacturers do I not in all cases show the number of complete machines represented by such shipments, and, accord ly, they are necessarily reported as parts. ; LEGAL LIQUOR IN ALABAMA BY APRIL Refusing to be halted by the veto of Governor Bibb Graves, the Alabama legislature Tuesday pass ed a prohibition repeal bill and brought an end to 22 year "bone drought” in that state. There will be a special election March 10 and counties then voting for repeal will have legal whiskey by about April 1. This action leaves Kansas the only bone dry State in the nation. Tennessee, Mississippi, Georgia and Oklahoma ban hard liquor but permit beer. Counties voting against repeal March 10 will remain under the stringent prohibition laws enacted bv the top-heavy drv legislature in 1915. Alabama’s election system pro vides for official tabulation of the state-wide vote 15 days after the election, and the new repeal law will become effective in wet coun Continued on Page Eight Pritchard Convicted Of Second Degree Murder Vernice Pritchett, being tried in the superior court as being one of two men who brutally murdered Jasper E. Wilkinson, Kannapolis taxi driver on the night of August 20, 1936, whose body was left ly ing beside the highway on the Lan dis-Five Fork highway, was found guilty of second degree murder by a Rowan jury Thursday morning. The case went to the jury late Wednesday afternoon after Judge Pless had reviewed the evidence and instructed them that they could return one of three verdicts: first degree which carries the death penalty; second degree or find him not guilty. The jury was in session for two hours last night after which they retired. This morning they came into the courtroom seeking further instructions from the judge. Some members wished to know whether Pritchett said he was in Kannapolis on the day of the murder and the judge told them that on the stand Pritchett said that he was not in Kannapolis after August 14, the murder being committed on the nieht of the 20. Shortly thereafter the jury re tired vrivh their verdict, It being understood they took 12 ballots. Judge Pless gave Pritchard a sen tence of 30 years of hard labor in the state prison, late this afternoon. Plan to Replace Many N. C. Busses During This Year 11,800 School Busses Will Be Replaced During This Year Biennium, Is Planned. 4,058 OPERATING Commission of Opinion Student Drivers Are De pendable and Efficient After a great deal of pressure has been brought to bear upon the state’s school busses, action has ;ing the state of repair of the (state’ school busses, action has i been forthcoming. , - r the State school commissia|n re ported Wednesdey that 1,800 school busses formerly owned by counties should be replaced during the coming biennium "in order to bring the fleet of busses up to what we consider a safe mechanical condition.” The committee, in its report, de clared that the majority of the number should be replaced in 1937 38, the first year of the biennium. A total of 4,038 busses are oper ated in the state, of which 1,886 were purchased by counties prior to 193 3, when the state took over operation of busses, the report said. Of the number operated, 963 are seven years old. "A large number of these old bodies were poorly constructed,” the report continued, "and the in ability of the counties, during the; depression period prior to 1933, to keep the busses in first-class me-1 chanical condition resulted in nee-1 lect in many instances.” The committee asserted the aver-! age age of all busses was 6.2 in 1933. The present average is 4.1 years. All busses bought by the school commission were steel rein- i forced. Approximately 30 per centj of the busses were found to be making two daily trips to prevent Continued on Page Eight ’ MarriageJB||k of Child Bride, 9, Denounced KNOXVILLE, Term. . . . Bitterly assailing the mountain marriage of 9-year-old Eunice Winstead to 22-year-old, 6 ft., Charlie Johns, January 19, Tennessee dub womoj, ministers and Jurists are asking the state legislature to act to preabnt .such ‘disgraceful unions’ in the future. Photo-shows S-year-old krMt iftnow). -frith hey n jfwgl mo*-1 tr and other members of the family, before their, mountain home. The father and mother 1 ’ “they planned no interference with the children” when asked if ; ^“’mnlment of the marria~-' HORSE, 38, NEAR RECORD IN AGE A Famous Western Stockman. Once Was the Mount of BURNS, Colo.—Black Kid 38 year-old survivor of the days when an automobile was a rare things in Colorado, holds the distinction of being the oldest horse in the state and possibly in the country. Tradition savs that a horse for merly ridden bv General Custer lived to the age of 43. A Colorado horse known as Superior died af ter reaching 32. Age has left its stamp o:i Black Kid. The animal’s hair has long since fallen out and blown to the winds with a sort of fur effect, which nature seems to provide for a covering, taking its place. Black Kid loafs peacefully about the corral in the winter time at the Benton Land & Livestock Com pany’s ranch near here and sallies s'owly forth in summer to gather whatever sustenance and upkeep ,4 __- c .1 Burns Hole territory. Aged and decrepit, the horse waits around the corner with an expectant air and even attempts at times to per form an old trick of shaking hands. Black Kid gained fame as a tall, jet-black animal weighing 1,250 pounds three decades ago when ho was the mount of Frank Benton, then one of the most widely known stockman in the West. Black Kid and Benton in an expensive, white Stetson sombero made a striking partnership which never failed to attract attention. The partnership ended in 1921 with the death of Benton. Benton purchased Black Kid ini Denver in 1900 after being attach-j ed by the animal’s gait as he trot-; ted into the city behind a buggy, j _ DU PONT HEADS SOARERS ' NEW YORK—Richard C. Du Pont of Wilmington, Del., was ele cted president of the Soaring Socie ty of America. The glider enthau siasts also elected as vice president Lieut. Commander Ralph S. Bar naby of Pensacola, Fla. Union Changes Hint Few, Bigger Strikes Labor Spends Anxious Year in Futile Effort to Settlo Craft-Industrial Strife. C.I.O. is Formed. For American business as a whole the year’s significant labor devolon nvnt was the increased determina 'mn of industrial unionists to or ganize mass production workers. Well-financed, aggressive, experi ■nced. the leaders in the drive in ‘"ad to so change th complexion of the national organization of la bor so that the industrial unit ra rher than the trade union will be tbe dominating influence in the future. If they win, and both economic and political trends favor their success, the big question is whe ther there will be more or less in lustrial unrest. Tbe answer to far as one can be given now, is that there will be fewer strikes—many jurisdictional and sympathy strikes •11 i_-i*_* .._i t __ _ vv ill uw vumuiatvu— uui uiuiv avi ious strikes, involving more workers and more crippling to production, when issues between labor and ma nagement are not soluable by arbi tration For organized labor itself the ■ ear was an anxious o.ie. Hailed as a showdown year for American la bor. 193 6 fell far short of its ad • ’nee billings. Events marched ra *•' • d 1 v but served only to re-empha dze the grave and fundamental nature of the problem dividing union ranks. This problem—whether workers in the generally unorganized mass nroduction industries should be en listed according to industry or to trade—is of long standing. It was brought into the open at the American Federation of Labor convention in 1934; it became 'cute at the 193 5 convention, and the formation of the Committee cor Industrial organization by in dustrial proponents within the A. c. of L. in November, 193 3, brought the issue to the crsiis stage—where, more than a year later, it still remains Shortage In Food Will Help Farmer. Agricultural Prices Threa ten to Outstrip Industri al Levels—Farm Income 78 per cent Since 1932. Closing the year on an extreme ly bullish but somewhat discon certing note, agricultural news for 1936 was replete with high points and continues to command atten tion from all consumers in this na tion and throughout the world. Despite heroic attempts to sti mulate production of farm com modities, several European coun tries were forced to admit in Dec ember that they would be forced to call upon major grain-producing nations to an extent that threatens to reduce the carryovers to danger ously low levels. As a result food costs threaten to rise alarmingly throughout the world, and the farmer promises to be in the as endcncy for the first time since 1 rices have not yet fully re flected the shortage, • but judged from standards of 1929 they are al ready out-distancing industrial commodities and causing expression of concern from representatives of tne New Deal who only a short time ago, voiced determination to lift commodity prices to the "nor mal” low shows prices of several of the commodities most affected in comparison with prices at their peak in 1929: July, Dec 21, 1929 1936 Wheat $1.55 $1.39 Corn 1.21 1.08 Oats . 60 .52 Rye - _ 1.17 1.15 Barley _ .84 .93 Lard 12.60 13.50 These commodities all sav prices from one-forth to one-third of the 1929 levels during the depression, giving ample justification for the stand taken by the present Admin istration (and the one preceding it) that the agricultural situation need ed special attention. Agriculture undoubtedly still needs attention, and is being given it in the shape of soil conservation checks total ing over $400,000,000 now in the process of distribution. But if orices such as the above hold at their present levels for any period, the industrial population will need a "breathing spell” to catch up with the farmer. Dr. T. W. Andrews Dr. T. W. Andrews, former Supt, of the Salisbury city schools from 1917-1924, and since that time head of the High Point schools died Thursday morning in the Bur rus Memorial hospital of High Point Dr. Andrews had been seriously iii for several weeks and major ope rations, failing to restore him to health, he seccumbed after having been gravely ill for the past few davs. Funeral services will be held at the First Baptist church of High Point Friday fternoon at 3:30 o’ clock and interment will be in the Chestnut Hill cemetery. MEXICO CITY—The enginee fireman, and two soldiers were killed as the second section of the national railways Laredo express was wrecked near Rodriquez Ta maulipas.

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