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BOOSTERS FOR A GREATER CITY AND COUNTY owan County Herald THE CAROLINA WATCHMAN Oldest Paper Published in Rowan County ROWAN COUNTY HERALD Consolidated February 5th, 1937 FOUNDED 1^32 105TH YEAB _ SALISBURY, N. C. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1937 VOL. 104 NO. ' PRICE 5 CENTS Propose Veto Power For Governor i Hoey Approves 5 Amendments To Basic Law Recommendations of Com mission go to Assembly COURT CHANGES ARE INCLUDED Suggested Constitutional Revisions Worked Oul at Meeting in Raleigh Raleigh. — Meeting at the re quest of Governor Hoev, mem bers of a Gubernatorial Consti tutional commission and repres entatives of a committee opposed to the adoption of a new State Constitution requested the Gen eral Assembly this week to draft five amendments to the Consti tution. In a statement issued after the session, which was held in the office of Attorney General A. A. F. Seawell, Governor Hoey said he had approved the recom mendations of the joint commit tee and would submit them to the Legislature. 1 he proposed amendments would: 1. Give the Governor the po wer of vetoing bills passed by the General Assembly. 2 Reorganize the superior court system, with the chief jus tice of North Carolina designat ing special court terms and as signing judges to preside over special terms. 3. Provide for a seven mar Board of Education, composed of the superintendent of public instruction and six members tc be appointed by the Governor with the confirmation of the Ge neral Assembly in joint session. 4. Prohibit the appointment oi General Assembly members tc offices created bv themselves. 5. Allow the General Assembly to draft general laws for the or ganization and government o comities, cities, and towns, bu prohibit the Assembly from pass mg special or local laws relating to counties or municipalities. Members oi tne cuusiuuuuua commission attending the confer ence were: Judge John J. Par ker of Charlotte; Commissione of Revenue A. J. Mexwell; Dr Clarence Poe of Raleigh, farn leader; J. O. Carr of Wilming ton, and Mayor George Butle of Clinton. J. M. Broughton am ionathan Daniels, of Raleigh and Charles A. Jonas represen ted the committee opposed to th. new State Constitution. The proposed amendment t< give the Governor veto powe provides that after a bill is pass ed by both Houses of the Gen eral Assembly, it should be pres ented to the Governor for hi: signature. If the Governor shouk sign the bill, it would become law. but if he should veto th< measure it would be necessar; for the bill to pass each hous. again, this time by a majority cf the entire membership o hnth Houses. Highway Patrol Makes Its January Repor Raleigh—Highway patrol met arrested 2,612 persons in Janu arv. Captain Charles 1). Farmei reported Friday, and convictior of 2,072 with acquittal of onl) 56 followed at court trials. Fine; of $21,977.84 and costs of $13. 793.22 were levied on the viola tors and patrolmen reported re covery of stolen property valuer at $10,175. NEW HAVEN . . . Cnaries Sey mour (above), provost and history professor at Yale, is to succeed | Dr. James R. Angell as president at the end of this year. He wa3 ■lected by the directors. Feb. 13th. Doughton Will Attend Dinner Accepts Invitation to Speak at Charlotte Vic tory Celebration on March 4. I Washington. — Representative Robert L. Doughton will be the chief speaker at the victory din ner at the Charlotte hotel. March 4. The ninth district congress man accepted the invitation ex tended by former Senator Came ron Morrison and Joe L. Blythe, chairman of the committee on ar i 'angement. The dinner is one of hundreds that will be held throughout the United States the night of March 4 to raise money to meet the De i mocratic national committee de ficit that arose in connection with the campaign of last fall. Definite plans for the dinner will ’ be announced later this week. Plans for the national victory - dinners are proceeding so well ; that it is confidently expected that the Democratic national co mmittee will be out of the red when proceeds from the dinners ’ begin coming in. To date, plans have been made . ,for victory dinners in 43 States, i In several states a number of - dinners will be held. Last year, - a series of similar dinners on 1 Jackson day netted more than , $345,000, and it is predicted that ■ the total this year will be enough : to pay off the deficit of appro Jximately $497,000. > The principal dinner will take •'place in Washington where Pres •jident Roosevelt will deliver the ■ main address. His remarks will • Ire broadcast to all other dinners ; jin the country. The cost for the Lj Washington dinner will be $100 t a plate. $5 will be used : to defray expenses of the dinner ' and the other $95 will be used ‘ to help pay off the deficit. Ar ' rangements have been made to : allow those attending to pay for tickets in four equal installments of $25 each payable over a six month’s period. t Recommend New State Office Building Raleigh—The commission to investigate the need for a new state office building in Raleigh i completed its survey Friday, and members said erection of a struc ture providing for 60,000 to 70,000 square feet of floor space i would be recommended to the general assembly. Kicked Dog; Fined $125 For Cruelty London.—How a R. A. F. of fice.' took a flying kick at a dog, ifting it into the air, was des cribed at Salisbury when Pilot Officer Alfred Charles-Auck land, stationed at Boscombe Down, was fined $125 with hea vy costs, for cruelty to the ani nal. Charles-Auckland chased the dog into a courtyard and here the alleged kick was stated to have been delivered. One of the other men remarked: “That's a jolly good shot.” The dog died, and a post-mor tem examination revealed that ts skull and jaw were fractured The skull was produced in court. Tells How 1937 Soil Payments Will Be Shared — Soil-conservation payments for 1937 will be divided between North Caroline landowners and tenants according to the follow ing rules, said J. F. Criswell, of State College. Cotton and Peanut diversion payments: 37 1-2 per cent to the producer who furnishes the land 12 1-2 per cent to the producer who furnishes workstock and, equipment: the other SO per cent1 to be shared in the same propor tion that the crop is divided. ! Diversion payments for toba cco and general soil-depleting \ crops 15 per cent to the produ-i cer furnishing the land, 15 per cent to the producer furnish-, ing workstock and equipment; the remaining 70 per cent to be divided as the crop is divided. Payments for soil-building pr-, actices will be divided among the producers according to the amount df wdrk and expense incurred bv each in carrying out , '• - " these practices. 'I'he soil-building payments will be divided on the same basis used last year, Criswell stated, but a change has been made in the method of dividing the diver sion payments. Last year diversion payments were divided thus: 16 2-3 per cent to the producer furnishing the land, 16 2-3 per cent to the producer furnishing the work stock and equipment, and 66 2-3 per cent to be divided in the pro portion that the producers, shar ed in the soil-depleting crops. It is believed that the method of dividing the payments this vear will be more equitable and less complicated to work out, said Criswell. Arrest Two in Flogging of Brunswick Men Charlotte—A bearded country preacher and a village storekeep er were arrested Friday and charged with being members of a masked band of night riders accused of flogging two bruns jwick county men Thanksgiving jnigiit, and then praying over [their welt-marked bodies. i [ New County Home For Craven County New Bern — A new county home is to be built in Craven county on the edge of New Bern around $10,000 for the county’s part to be taken from profits of the county liquor stores and the remainder to be allotted by the WPA. The building will cost about $25,000. White House Gives Orders to Senators On Court Changes j Democratic Leaders in Conference With Pre sident. Washington. — President Roosevelt gave congressional leaders this week a signal to go ahead with legislation for reor-| ganizing the courts. Senators emerging from the second of 'two conferences at the White House forecast that the Senate judiciary committee would begin work Monday on the President’s proposals to name six new justices to the Su preme Court. Hearings will be, held, it was indicated. The senators said there was no talk of compromise at the White House. As the legislators left, Thomas Corcoran, young presidential adviser who is wide-j ly credited with helping draft; the court program, went in to j dine with the President. Two of the dozen senators [ who attended the conference to-' night, Frazier, Republican of North Dakota, and Nye. Repub lican of North Dakota, already were opposed to the presidential idea, and they said afterward they had not changed their atti rude. Othersvwho attended the sec ond conference wdre La Fotlette, Wisconsin Progressive, and Bone and. Schwellenbach. Washington Democrats. Bone has proposed a constitutional amendment as a possible substitute for the court reorganization. Schwellenbach and La Follette have sided with the President. ! Some of these Sentators said they had a general discussion of the court situation and of the various amendments which have been proposed as alternatives for the Chief Executive’s program. One of them said he got the impression that the President would not be opposed to a con stitutional amendment being sought along with his program. But there was no indication that the Chief Executive would give up his plan in favor of a consti tutional amendment. Earlier the President went over his battle plans for more| than an hour and a half with; Vice President Garner and a, half dozen senators backing his; drive. Senator Robinson, the Demo cratic leader, acted as spokes man when the group was ques tioned, afterwards by reporters. “It is believed the measure is progressing in a satisfactory way,” he said. “What do you mean by pro gress—the bill hasn’t moved yet,” one newsman asked. “No, but it will move,” Robin-, son replied as he stepped into an automobile with Garner and departed. WPA Paymaster Jailed For Taking Funds — Washington. — A Works Progress Administration official Charles I!. Elliot, was committed to jail in default of $3,000 bail, after allegedly confessing that | he had been supplementing his yearly salary of $4,800 by adding to his payroll the fictitious name of Alexander Dubois, and col lecting under this name $1,350 more. The secret service agents who arrested Elliot said his home address is Wellington. Va.,i and that he had been with the ^ WPA three and a half years. 1 Purchase Interest In Cotton Mill Burlington Mills, headed by Spencer Love, has purchaed a judgement of Cannon Mills, Inc., against Klumac Cotton Mills of Salisbury from W. A. McCan iess. who recently bought the judgement together with $150, 300 bonds outstanding of the plant. The Burlington group also has acquired a five-year lease on 84 looms of the Klumac plant to make praperies. The remainder of the mill will be operated by W. F. McCan less. largest stockholder and for mer manager in making bed spreads. W. A. McCanless is a textile manufacturer of South Boston, Va., and a brother of W. F. McCanless. Salisbury Girls On W.C.U.N.C. ! Honor Roll _ I Greensboro, Feb. 24—Two \ Salisbury girls. Misses Nancy! Coughenour and Reba Eagle,! were among the 156 students at1 :he Woman’s College of the Un iversity of North Carolina to1 nake the honor roll for the fall semester, and both are members j >f the sophomore class at thei college. Enrollment at the Wo man's College now totals 1,829. The honor roll at the Woman’s' College is compiled by taking the! the highest ten per cent of the af the senior and junior classes, the highest ten peh cent of the sophomore class, and the highest eight per cent of the freshman i class. By this method of selec-j tion the number of students j making the honor roll, by classes is: Seniors. 29; Juniors. 39;j Sophomores. 37; and Freshmen,! 51. Only regular students carry-j ing not less than 15 hours of work were considered, and no, average less than "B” (90 to ^5 ) was considered. j The annual honor roll tea will i be given Saturday afternoon,! February 27. between the hours af four and six o’clock in the| new Alumnae House on the col-j lege campus. At that time Dr. | W. C. Jackson, dean of admin-1 istration; Miss Harriet W. El-j liot, dean of women: other col-1 lege administrative officers and heads of the various departments will receive the students who made the honor roll, their pa rents. and other members of the faculty. Two Escaped Convicts Captured in Wilmington Wilmington.—City and coun ty officers on Saturday ran down and captured Clark York and A. W. Pettit, two of seven convicts who escaped from Ca ledonia prison farm Monday of last week and took three hostages with them on a wild 200-mile dash through eastern North Ca rolina. York was wounded in the back by a single buckshot, but Sheriff C. David Jones said the wound was not serious. No trace was found at the time of the other five convicts. U. S. Magazine Barred From Sale in Germany P>erlin. — “Judge”, the Amer ican humor magazine, was bar red from circulating in Germany “until further notice”. The ban includes old copies if published after February 28, 1933. i Ideal Co-ed NEW YORK . . . Her answers to a questionnaire by John Held, Jr., originator of the word “flapper,” won for Dorothy Louise Miller of Columbia University (above), the honor of being titled,., the Ideal Co-ed. Lives to Be 100 And Never Swore Berlin — Prof. Ludwig B. Bollermann of Berlin Universi ty, who says he has never used a swear word in his life, has just celebrated his 100th birthday. Mail-Order Romance Spells Grief For Girl New York—From a hospita cot on Saturday, Myrtle Dow sey, 17, of Grand Ridge, Fla., told police how she answered a “lonely hearts” advertisement in a farm paper, starting a corres pondence with Michael De Rosa, 36, who finally telegraphed her bus fare to New York. Arriv ing on January 18, she said, De Rosa promised to marry her, then assaulted her and kept her imprisoned in a furnished room until her cries for help led the landlady to call the police. When arrested. De Rosa pleaded guilty to a charge r.f second degree as sault. and was remanded to jail for sentence. The crime carries a penalty of 2 1-2 to 5 years in prison. Federal Housing Act Extended Two Years Washington — According to Stewart McDonald, Federal Ho using Administartor, the “green light” was given to the home construction industry Saturday when President Roosevelt sign ed a bill extending for two years the Federal Housing Adminis tration’s authority to guarantee private loans for home construc tion and repair The agency in sures home mortgage up to $16, 000 and up to 80 per cent of ap praised value. Payments of prin cipal and interest may be spread over a period as long as 20 years. German Church Election Delayed Berlin.—German Protestant church elections, ordered by Reichsfuehrer to put evangelical church affairs back in the hands of the church’s electorate, will be delayed at least until after Eas ter, it was indicated. India Votes For Absolute Freedom Bombay.—The Indian Con gress party, seeking absolute in dependence from Great Britian, gained clear majorities in five provincial elections as India’s millions ended their balloting on a new constitution. Higher Wages Are Demanded More Than 40 Firms Scat tered From New Eng land to Pacific Crippled New York. — Demands for higher pay and union recognition sent hundreds of recruits into the ranks of the nation’s strikes this week. Approximately 25,000 persons A'ere idle in labor disputes at nore than 40 industrial and bu siness firms scattered from New England to the Pacific coast. Production was curtailed or [halted in textile and paper mills, cigar and automobile parts fac tories, laundries, shipyards, steel and iron foundries and a huge jairplane plant. In a dozen centers the emplo yes participated in “sitdown” de jmonstrations. Commenting on [this strategy, Secretary Roper declared: ! “Any sit down strike that un dertakes to take over private pro perty is a serious fundamental thing and in my opinion would not be long endured by the courts.” He spoke after Connecticut State police removed 107 of these squatters from the property of the Electric Boat company, buil ders of submarines for the gov ernment at Groton. Union lead ers protesting the use of officers as “illegal and unwarranted,” formed a picket line, j Sheriff Emery Thornwell mo ved to emulate this first actual eviction of sedenary strikers at Decatur, 111. He momilized 25 deputies ami policemen foj? an attempt to Ca?fy out a der directing the evacuation of 35 strikers from the Century ■ Wallpaper mills, j Several hundred “sit down ers ’ ignored the management’s | equest to leave the Douglas Air Craft company’s plant and “avoid , trouble” at Santa Monica, Calif. ,;The concern’s $24,000,000 con struction program — including $19,000,000 in Federal contracts —was at a stndstill, and 5,600 workers were jobless. Nine hundred persons were thrown out of work at the Illi nois Watch Case company at El gin when 600 members of the Jewelry Workers’ union sought recognition and a minimum pay scale. The plant was patrolled by the strikers in a test of the “ef ficancy of a legal picket strike.” Organizer Harry F. Gill of the American Federation of Labor asserted: “This is a legal strike The sitdown strike has been held il legal by several courts.” Row Over Films Breaks Up Home j 1 Salem. — Mrs. Loraine J. Krochman, twenty-two, didn't want to see a movie she had al ready seen—her husband wanted her to. | In court she won a divorce on grounds of cruelty. | _ Snow Settles Dust Storms in Southwest Guymon, Okla. — Merciful snow brought relief to the high plains of the sojuthwest from the too-earlv dust storms which restored hope to discouraged had lashed them for days, and wheat farmers. Farm Agent Her bert Clutter of Finney county, Kansas, said that while the snow would not solve the erosion pro blem, it would afford a breath ing spell by preventing an im mediate recurrance of the “dus ters”. The snow ranged in depth from two inches to four inches over parts of Texas Oklahoma and Kansas. 1