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FOUNDED 1$32—I05TH YEAR SALISBURY, N. C. FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 1937 " VOL 104^ PRICE 5 CENTS
Senate Passes Anti-Sit Down Measure
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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
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» 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.
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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.
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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
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Publishers Also Purchase
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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
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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 ,
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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.