BOOSTERS FOR A GREATER CITY AND COUNTY .. __ Rowan County Herald ^ Sixcessors to the Carolina Watchman —-—-— ___-> FOUNDED 1$32—I05TH YEAR SALISBURY, N. C. FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 1937 " VOL 104^ PRICE 5 CENTS Senate Passes Anti-Sit Down Measure ' ' -- --—---— ___ \ See Approval Of Unemployment Bill Five-Four Vote Is Predicted Possibility Suggested By Questions Asked By Stone About Alabama Statute V ashington — Questions ask ed by Justice Stone during ar guments before the Supreme Court suggested the possibility that the tribunal might uphold State unemployment insurance legislation by a five-to-four vote. Already, by a four-to-four bal lot, the court has sustained legis lation enacted by New York to supplement the Federal Social Security act. The evenly-divided vote in that case was due to the absence of Justice Stone, who was ill ai the time. lie is known generally as a liberal. The arguments today were on an Alabama statute which impos ed a pay roll tax on both employ ers and employes to assist those out of work. The similar New York statute which the court up held taxed employers only. V alidity of the Federal Social Security act, which was involved indirectly in today’s debate, is scheduled to be argued tomorrow in other litigation. State Planning i IT \ . • » Disease Campaign Raleigh — The state health de partment has begun organization plans looking toward the state wide anti-syphilis campaign which will be inaugurated when $25,000 appropriated by the legis lature becomes available on July 1 Dr Carl V. Reynolds, state health officer, told the United Press “we are organizing to get all data we can on all cases, treat them and run down the sources. . “We will try to get the hearty co-operation of the public, make them realize the necessity of the campaign. If we can make those with the disease report it early, we can cure them.” he emphasi zed. The legislature has earmarked $10,000 yearly for the adminis tration of drugs and $15,000 to set up clinics throughout the sta te Certain federal society secu rity funds are expected to swell these sums, but are so far an “unknown quantity,” Dr. Rey nolds said. Strenous efforts will be made “to get to the sources,” he said. AH information secured from patients will be held “strictly in violate.” Another phase will be rigid prosecution of delinquents. Un der a state law is in mandatory on patients, doctors and others involved to report cases. Kern and Cabinet Hold Meeting Here Bishop Paul B. Kern of Dur ham, and his cabinet of presiding elders from the districts of the western North Carolina confer ence of the Methodist church, held its semi-annual meeting here Monday at the First church. Routine matters, and discussions relative to the Bishop’s Crusade which culminates April 23-25, f were features of the program. Presiding elders present, and districts they represent, were: W. B. West of Asheville, J. B. Cra ven of Charlotte, C. H. Moser of Gastonia, W. W. Peele of Greensboro, P. W. Tucker of Marion, C. N. Clark of Salisbury J. W. Hoyle of Statesville, W. A. Rollins of Waynesville, and W. A. Lambeth of Winston-Sa lem. MORNING HERALD OBTAINS LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF UNITED PRESS Many Candidates For State Jobs Especial Interest In 11 Po sitions on New State Highway Commission More and more candidates for appointments to state positions are besieging Governor Hoey daily, with most of the interest being manifested in the eleven openings on the new highway and public works commission, for which more than twenty North Carolinians have been en dorsed. George \Y. Coan, Jr., State Works Progress Adminis trator, admitted he was a candi date for the $7,500 chairmanship now held by Capus M. Wynick, High Point editor and Ehring haus appointee. He was written a number of letters o friends asking their endorsement for the position. In the letters, Coan said “re cent developments in Raleigh in dicate the present chairman of the State Highway Commission will be replaced.” He declared he had written “probably a couple of dozen of such letters to asso H'W‘n.v’d friends. . C’ Whiie delegations streamed in and out of his office, Governor Hoey was keeping his own coun sel, fresh as the carnation in his button-hole. “I intend to hear everybody—even if I can’t do as everybody would like,” he said. Under the law passed by the Le gislature the commissioners must be appointed by May 1. Reduced License Plates Offered Interesting among the first new laws affecting North Caro linians—recently passed by the state’s legislature—is the cost of license plates for autos. The new motor vihicle license plates went on sale on April 1st and will be the first sold under the new re duction law set forth by the re cent legislature. This reduction will not be made if the motor vehicle for which application for license is made has been operated upon the highways of the state this year prior to April 1. Applicants for the reduced priced license plates must appear in person to make the statement that the motor vehicle has not been in operation before they can obtain the advantage of the three-quarter rate, or else send by the messenger a sworn affi davit that the vehicle has not been operated during 1937 prior to April 1. (Jn all new motor vehicle ap plications the actual date of de livery must be shown clearly by the dealer, and if the date of de livery was before April 1 a sworn affidavit must be incorporated in the purchaser’s application to the effect that the motor vehicle has not been operated prior to April 1. The same regulation will ap ply on the transfer of used mo tor vehicles. The state motor ve hicle bureau requires that if the applicant cannot make a sworn affidavit that the vehicle was not operated by him prior to April 1 full-year license fee must be col lected. The present license rates is 40 cents per hundred pounds for passenger cars. The fee on April 1, provided the motor vehicle has not been operated before that date, will be three-fourths of the original fee. Tar Heel Delegation In Congress Left to right (seated Zebulon Weaver, Senator J. \Y. 3ailey, Representative 'jggjjftopn- «s.J .atfcve -A. L. Pnhvinkle : Left to right (standing), Representat Harden, Lambeth, Kerr Cooley, Clark, Warren and Hancock. Kannapolis Boy Is Found Dead Discover Body on Floor in Bedroom Near Bed With Rope Tied Around Neck Kannapolis — Harry James Sloop, 17-year-old mill worker, was found dead in his bedroom at the home, 600 Northeast ave nue, shortly after 10 o’clock Monday night, strangulation cau sing his death. Chief of Police I. T. Chapman and Coroner N. J. Mitchell, who investigated, said that an inquest will be held Thursday. According to the police chief, the body was found on the floor near the bed, a rope about the neck and tied to top of one of the bed posts. The body, accord ing to the chief, apepared to have slumped from the bed, tighten ing the rope and causing stran gulation. There were no indica tions of a struggle, he said. Members of the family said that the youth appeared to be in good spirits at the supper meal at 5 o’clock. He retired to his room shortly after the meal and when he failed to appear, a bro ther went to the room shortly af ter 10 o’clock finding the body. An examining physician said the youth had been dead several hours. Harry is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Sloop and worked in spinning room number seven of the Cannon mill. Plan To Sell Lambs Plans are moving in Mitchell County for sheep growers to sell: lambs and wool cooperatively' this spring. One farmer reported1 that he lost $108 last year by not cooperating in the pool selling. — JEWISH STANDS ARE SMASHED Warsaw — All Jewish market stands were smashed and many Jews injured and driven from the market places by a stone-hur ling mob in rioting on the out skirts of Warsaw at Sokolow and Lukow. Highway Deaths Due To Alcohol Business Men’s Research Blames Liquor For Fou rth of Deaths in 1936 From studies of the compara tive rates of liquor consumption and motor mishaps the American Business Men’s Research Foun dation places the blame for 9,000 of the 1936 traffic fatalities, or 25 per cent of the total, on alco holic beverages. This is consider ed a conservative estimate. The records for December and January, when liquor consump tion reached its peak since repeal are good proof of its charges, the foundation asserts. “Traffic death in those 60 days recorded hrough the government bureau of census,” the foundation sta tes, “totaled 1690 for 85 major cities, a more than 60 per cent increase over the similar period a year ago. “At the same time, distilled iquor consumption, reckoning on the basis of allowing a months interval between production and use showed a total of 22,175,625 gallons of spirits withdrawn in November and December, an in crease of not less than 28.5 per cent over the same months in 1935. Meanwhile beer sales shot up to a new high for December and January, a gain of 39.5 per cent over the same month a year ago.” The foundation insists that li quor is the cause of the increase of fatalities, although they are often attributed in official re cords to “inattention,” “reckless driving,” “speeding” and the like. “A wide-open liquor traffic,” it observes “pouring the flood of alcohol through more than 400, 300 retail outlets, is self-evident iy more the cause of increased traffic deaths than ‘open winter’ and ‘increased travel’.” Estimates of persons not con nected with the foundation are quoted to confirm its claim that at least 25 per cent of the fa talities on the highway are due to liquor. Advertise In This Newspaper Predicts Nation Of Old People Children Reduced By Two--Thirds 50 Years Hence Washington — Unless the birth rate or immigration increa ses the United States may reach its maximum population in about 10 years according to Dr. O. E.j Baker of the Bureau of Agricul ture Economics. “The birth rate was declined more than 25 per cent during the last 10 years,” Dr. Baker said. “If the birth rate continues to decline at this rate a maximum population will bo reached bet ween 1945 and 1950.” Thereafter. Dr. Baker said, the population will decline slowly at first and then an accelerating rate. By 2000 the population of the Ended States mav be under 100,000,000. tt a j_i* ;_ _i_ a jl ucv-unuig uailwnai pjpuia tion, with rural surplus and ur ban deficit in birth, will have se-i rious economic and social conse quences,” Dr. Baker said. “Fifty years from now,” he said, “there may be only a third as many children in the nation as now, and only half as many wo men of children bearing age. “There will be nearly three times as many old people. Manyj unemployed urban people will seek shelter and substance with! relatives and friends on farms. Many of these people will start little farms, and never again re turn to the cities to live. “Millions of farm youths will migrate to the cities. Many of; these migrants will inherit farms, I or, through settlement of estates ecquire mortgages on farms. Wealth—represented by the ow nership of land or the income from it—will be transferred to the cities.” Dr. Baker said other millions of farm youth will begin farm ing, mostly on farms vacated by the death of aged farmers. Un less these farms are acquired by inheritance he said, there will be1 an increasing number of tenants. “These ominous developments' can be retarded,” Dr. Baker (Continued on page five) 9 Hour Daily News Service Via Leased Wire Publishers Also Purchase Outstanding Pictorial, Comic and Daily Fea ture Service of United Press WORLD’S LARGEST NEWS GATHERER The Salisbury Herald Publish ing Company this week obtained the full leased wire service of the United Press for The Salis bury Morning Herald, the new daily newspaper, to be published here in the near future, according to an announcement made Thurs day by Pi. V. Hedrick and E. W. 0. Huffman. The contract was executed Tuesday night in Salisbury with a representative of the United Press. For many years the United Press, reputedly the largest and most colorful news service in the world, has served many hundred; of daily newspapers in this anc other countries and the publish ers of the Adorning Herald feel fortunate in securing this news gathering agency. The service will consist of a full nine hour daily leased wire, with an additional mail service. The publishers also purchased from the United Press its pic torial, comic, and feature cer vices. Land Tax Rise — _ • Follows Gain of Farm Cash Decline Of 37 Per Cent In levies From 192934 Now Is Halted Washington — Taxes per acre on fa"m real estate, which fell 37 per cent between 1929 and 1934, ai: again going up, the De partment of Agriculture reports: in a survey. During the depression, states reduced real estate taxes and( turned to other sources of reve-j nue, such as the sales tax, increa se, gasoline and income taxes, the, department said. The five-year depression per-1 iod during which farm income fell from $12,000,000,000 to $5, 335,000,000 is the only period in , the past 46 years when the aver age tax per acre did not go up, the survey showed. “Over most of the period since 1890—as far back as nationwide records were kept— higher wa ges and prices of goods and ser vices have made a given amount of public services and improve- i ments cost more,” the depart-,, ment said. j; “In addition, state and local j governments have been called:, upon to dc more things—schools , (Continued on Page 5) Express Agent Here Is Given Promotion R. L. Deweese, express agent here for the last 20 years, has been promoted to general agent here and W. H. Manley, em ploye of the company, from Bur- 1 lington has been named agent. ‘ increase in business and import- : ance of Salisbury as a transfer,! point figured in the changes. i Bill Attacks Use Of Spys, Company Labor Unions Resolution Adopted 75-3 After Acrimonious De bate FACES DELAY IN HOUSE Washington — The Senate de nounced sit-down strikes Wed nesday bu tdded a blunt condem nation of company unions and in dustrial espionage. The Senate resolution, drafted by a group of administration ' chiefs, does not require either acceptance or rejection by the President. Submitted by Majority Leader Robinson, Democrat of Arkan ■ sas, the measure was adopted without amendment after four hours of acrimonious wrangling. In addition to condemning sit downs as “illegal and contrary to sound public policy,” it de clared : 1. “That the so-called in dustrial spy system breeds fear, suspicion and animosity, tends to cause strikes and industrial warfare, and is contrary to sound public policy.” 2. “That it is likewise con trary to sound public policy for an employer to deny the right of collective bargaining, ' to foster the company union, I or to engage in any other un fair labor tactics as defined in the national labor relations act.” Isenhour Is Renamed Rowan Board Chairman H. E. Isenhour, local real es tate and insurance man, was re elected chairman of the Rowan county board of education Mon day afternoon at the monthly meeting of the board and S. G. Hasty was re-elected county su perintendent. W. F. Thompson was renamed vice chairman and Miss Ella Pinkston was elected secretary of the superintendent’s iff ice. All elections are for a two rear term. Roy S. Safrit, new member of the board, took the oath of of fice and began his tenure. Other joard members are J. F. McKni jht, R. L. Lyerly and W. F. 1'hompson. Five committeemen for the 10 districts in the country were also aamed. There were no changes r n the Cleveland, Woodleaf, Spencer, East Spencer, Rock well and China Grove districts DUt in the Granite Quarry dis :rict J. W. Raney replaced G. A. Brown, in the Morgan and Sha rer district, A. B. Miller succee ded N. J. Eagle and in the Lan dis district, P. K. Dry was elect id over G. O. Lipe. Singing At China Grove April 18 The Rowan singing convention vill meet Sunday, April 18, at Shina Grove at 1 o’clock. All rhoirs, quartettes, and singers ire invited to be present to take jart. Silver loving cups will be pven to the three bast groups of singers. Four Injured in Auto Collission Near Landis Automobiles driven by Glenn )rant of Landis and H. D. Over sash of China Grove collided Sunday afternoon on the Sandy lidge road, near Landis, caus ng four persons to receive la serations and bruises. None was seriously hurt. Both drivers were summoned to court on reckless Iriving charges.

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