DO YOUR CHRISTMAS SHOPPING IN SANFORD VOLUME 46, Number 19. The Sanf SANFORDj NORTH Express \ DECEMBER 24, 1931. DO YOUR CHRISTMAS SHOPPING IN SANFORD Published WEEKLY. FIVE CENTS PROBABLE GAVIN MAY HOLD PLACE SEVERAL MONTHS Charlotte Observer Gives New Slant To Outcome of the Republican War. ANOTHER TERM POSSIBLE Move Reported Underway To Keep Gavin In Office Till Case Is Disposed. (By Legette Blythe, In Charlotte Observer.) Indictment of W. H. Fester, sec retary of the Republican State Execu tive committee, on charges of solicit ing contributions to the Republican campaign fund from federal officials, is likely to result in failure of Presi dent Hoover immediately to nomin ate J. R. McCrary of Lexington as district attorney of the middle district or the refusal of the senate to con firm the nomination if it is made by the president. This is the latest opinion of Char lotte’s politically minded to appear almost certain to materialize out of the tangled web in which republican affairs in the state and nation have recently become enmeshed. With failure of confirmation of District Attorney Charles A. Jonas of Lincolnton for the western dis trict now almost conceded even by his friends, the latest prospect pre sented is that Mr. McCrary also has a long and troublous path ahead be fore he attains the middle district attorneyship. ENDORSED BY G. O. P. . Mr. McCrary was endorsed by the North Carolina republican organiza tion over E. L. Gavin of Sanford, the present district attorney. En dorsement by the state committee as a general thing and in usual republi can times means nomination by the senate. But those are distinctly hot normal republican times—if republi can times at all. The republican state committee, justly or unjustly, is now under a cloud. Its secretary is under indict ment by a federal grand jury ordered to meet by a republican judge ahd presented with evidence by a republi can district attorney. The row seems to have originated among the repub lican brethren and they do not even contend that the democrats are be hind it, although of course everybody knows that the democrats aren’t crying because it went and happened. NOMINATION MAY WAIT. j With the investigation and prose- i cution in the hands of District Attor- j ney Gavin and with Secretary Foster j out under-bond awaitihg trial, it is ' nominate another man to cpntinue the investigation and cohduct the trial j vhnd especially a man who owed his : ^appointment directly to the favor of j, ^Ihe state organization, which is now— f or to be specific, whose secretary is now—actually under indictment and | awaiting trial. The president would j probably not favor “changing horses 1 m the middle of the stream’’ and in all probability will decide to ^wait 1 the completion of the trial before | sending in the name of Mr. McCrary, i But there is also another very im- 1 portant angle to it. Mr. Gavin un wittingly or purposely, has been of great aid and comfort to Senator Bailey. Senator Bailey had been charged bv the republicans with hav ing obtained his seat illegally and without benefit of enough votes to defeat George Pritchard,, tjie republi can nominee. They'were even talk ing about keeping him out of the sen jate ufrtil the election could be investi- ' gated. Now the spotlight shifts from j Senator Bailey and the democrats to 1 Mr. Foster and the republicans. The | state organization, even though it is ' putting up a brave front and ridicul irg the charges of District Attorney Gavin, is now on the defensive and , there as a result of a republican dis trict attorney and not the democrats. ! WOULD GIVE GAVIN CllANCE. i Naturally, therefore, Senator Bailey and the other democrats would like j to see Mr. Gavin have a chance to try his case. They could very pro perly and very logically argue that it would be unfair to Mr. Gavin to throw him out before the case comes j before the court. Jn ordinary republican times, it might be repeated, the objection of Senator Bailey and the democrats would amount to very little indeed. But It so happens just now that what the democrats think about thilngs at Washington has a very great deal to do with it. In the old days a presidential nom ination meant something. It meant that you got the job. Getting the pre sident's nomination was everything. The rest was more routine—rubber stamping. But under Mr. Hoover the presi dential nomination, 'endorsement and good will means just so much. It doesn’t mean, however, that you get the job. It means you have simply passed one hurdle. * There are virtually as many demo crats in the senate as there are re publicans. If a republican or two get sick or play golf, the democrats are even 'with the republicans in a battle of balTots. Counting those north west republicans, Senators Borah, Norris, LaFollette, .Shipstead, et al, who are perhaps more democrats than republicans, the democrats have a majority. But even than the whole story isn't told. The president can’t even count upon the regulars. To say it in the • most inoffensive way to the presi dent, perhaps, it is certainly true that he cannot compel the republicans to stay in line. There have been many instances that prove this. Mr. Hoo ver has never been a brother in ex actly .good standing among the mo^t regular of the regulars. If he goes ahead then and nomin ates Mr. McCrary, that means very little toward his confirmation. It may simply signal the beginning of the battle. And the senate will cer tainly do what it wants to do if a battle is started. Failure to nomin ate the new man until things get atraighfened out a bit will probably be the outcome. TANTALIZER The letters in the lines below properly arranged spell the Lames of two persons in San ford. If the persons whose names are represented by the group of letters decipher their own names and bring copies of this paper to The Express Office before next Wednesday night, to each of them will be given a free ticket admitting them to the show at the Temple Theatre Thursday night. This week’s tantalizer: SEJMA IRMECV OJNH WROBN Last week’s winners: Ruth Barber Marie Powers JONESBOROMAN DISMISSED UPON ! PAYMENT COSTS Redin Campbell Pays Costs In Six Different Cases and Is Discharged. JUDGE RELEASES BROWN Prosecution Demands Jury Trial In Three Cases Causing A Postponement. Judge Thomas J. McPherson yes teday dismissed the charges against .Redin Campbell, Jorfesboro merchant; in Lee Recorder’s Court. Campbell, who was charged with selling rub- ‘ bing alcohol without license, resist ing an officer, assault and forcible trespass was released from the toils of the law upon payment of the costs ifn six different cases. i Campbell’s troubles began on Thanksgiving day when Harvey Mitchell, Jonesboro police chief, ap peared at the former’s lunch stand armed 'with a search warrant. Mitch ell ,it was said, proceeded to search Campbell’s place in the course of which he attempted to seize a quan- ' tity of rubbing fluid, wtych it is al- ! leged he had been selling to Jones- 1 boro people for dritnkin^ purposes. The police chief’s invasion of the store is said'to have infuriated Camp bell bringing on an affray between the former in which' both received minor injuries. ** ^ The case against Richard Brown, School on the night of December 10th, and having driven the car for several miles in the direction of Co lop, and wrecking same, was dismiss ed. The car was the property of a Mr. Johnson. No eye-witnesses ap peared except a young man named Poindexter, who testified Brown ap proached him at the school on the j night of December 10th, invited him to take a ride with i him in the'car. I Poindexter testified he got out of the car at his home and that Brown Vwent on with it. The car was found near Poindexter’s home. Brown proved by several reputable people of his neighborhood he was at some place else at the time the car was taken. Several boys in the neighborhood said that they saw Brwn at or about the tim» the car was taken. Brown proved a good reputation. Poindex ter ,the State’s chief witness, ad mitted having been accused of petty thefts. 1 Edward Cameron ,Murt Cox and Stacy Thomas were fined $5.00 each and costs upon conviction of havitig escaped from the Jonesboro jail on the night of December th. The prisoners tore off the door facings \ and broke the lock in making their successful get away. A number of other cases were dock eted for trial yesterday but Mr. Hoy le requested that a jury be drawn and -time set for hearing the cases. This it was pointed out this morning, is the first time a request for a. jury trial has been made in Lee Recorder’s Court. The defendants did not join in the request and the Court ordered Mr. McIntosh, register of deeds, to pro duce the jury box. Twelve names were drawn and the list given the sheriff who 'will summons the iurypien for the hearing which has been set for January 5th. Six persons constitute a jury in Re corder’s Court and the procedure is about the same as in the court of a justice of the peace. POWER COMPANY MOVES QUARTERS The Carolina Power & Light Com pany moved from Chatham Street Monday to the new quarters in the Makepeace building on Steele Street, recently completely ' remodelled throughout. The new quarters of the power company are modem in every appointment and present ah arrange ment that is the last word in the in terior setting. The new home was remodelled in ac-1 cordance with the company’s speci-1 fications and will be a great credit to Sanford’s shopping center. All business formerly transacted through the Chatham .Street office, where the company maintained headquarter^; for a nnrqhrm nf will frf, hTHHUVri jn thg/'future at the company's new ad dress. The new salesroom of the company is most attractively arranged and on display is a varied assortment of electrical gifts which will be useful to the recipient long after the holiday season is forgotten. Fred P. Strong is local manager of the Carolina Power & Light Co. 1 YEAR AGO.feu REME 1ER EGGS f 'HE TWO I.GEN FOR A Q’ IRTER ; BUTTE! I, TEN CENTS PE t POUND MILK FIVE j !NTS PER QUART. THiiUTCIIEU GAVE AWAY'i VER—AND TREATED Tf E KIDS TO BOLOGNA. THjfcllRED GIRL GOT WO DOLL^ AND DID THE W1 WORE CLOTHES At) (in public), VOTE, :S1 OR SHAKE THE SI DID NOT STARVE TC WHISKERS; CHEWED i'PRACI O: SPAT ON THE SIDEWALK AND COTSD?:BEEIt WAS FIVE CENTS A GLASS WITH LWF(M APPENDICITIS OR BOUGHT GLANDS. MICROBES WSilRP (UNKNOWN AND FOLKS LIVED TO A RIPE OLD AGE, AND WALKED MANY MILES TO NOW, YOU KNOW, EVERY® OR FLIES; PIAYS MINJA' CRAPS; PLAYS %>NTRACt ] TALKIES EVERtji, NIGHT, * ETTES; -DRINKS f this city, and later, upon his completion of the. pharmaceutical course, he returned to Sanford and again was i s.waited with this firm, this time in the capacity of druggist. For a brief period he held a position in Greensboro but soon returned to Sanford and here with his brother, \V. H. Gurley, whose interest he later acquired, ho e.-nducted a drug store on Moore Street. 4s the business; transition to* ele Street took place Mr. Gurley was -me of the city’s first business men to abandon Moore Street for the newer street and for a number of years he was proprietor of Gurley’s P» ur Store on this street.' At the first sign of failing health Mr. Gurley sold thiy business to Joe Laza rus and associates who have, since, (Continued On Page Eight) LAMBETH TALKS ENCOURAGINGLY FARM LOAN AC: Act Soonsored By Democrat Makes $100,000,000 Avail able For Farmers. VOTED FOR MORATORIUM Congressman Favored Delay o Farm Mortgage Payments For Year of 1932. Washington, D. C., Dec. 22.—“Th House of Representatives now in th' hands of the Democrats does its par ill offering to the farmers aid in tin amount of $100,000,000 in order fo them to meet their overdue mort gages to the Federal I^and Banks am thus save the roofs over their head: and their farms,” said Representativ< Walter Lambeth of the 7th Distric ou the eve of the holidays. Mr. Lambeth’s encouraging state inent was based on the fact that th( House has passed a bill amending tht Federal Farm Loan Act, providing for the purchase of $100,000,000 wort! of stock in the Joint Stock Farm Lam Banks to be paid out of the Treasur\ of the United States for the purpose of bolstering tho credit of these banks and making the rates on loans to tlu farmers easier. “Since these Joint Stock Farm Land Banks were organized for business in 1917 tfnd up to September 1, 1931,’ said Mr. Lambeth, “the farmers o( North Carolina have negotiated with these banks 27.904 loans on which they have borrowed $73,904,750. A large proportion of these loans were made to the farmers iti the 7th District through 'the Columbia Land Bank and this bill amending the Federal Farm Loan 'Act, if it is made a law, Vvhich 1 feel is now a certainty, will - bring relief fo many of my constituents who aTe in financial difficulty. It will ex tend the time on these mortgages and will enable them to borrow on better terms than the law now per mits. “The Act as amended,” said Mr. Lambeth,, .“authorizes aif money paid by the land banks into the Treasury by subscjibeil stock to remain in the IYeasury as a revolving fund for the purchase again of capital stock in the Land banks. The sum of $100,000,000 is considered an ample working max (Continued On Page Eight.) Postal Force Busy One of the busiest places in San ford this week is the postoffice. Every member of the force is kept busy handling all kinds of Christmas mail. The little machine that cancels the stamps is kept busy about all the time. While many are sending Christ mas presents through the mail to their relatives and friends more Christmas cards seem to be going through the mails than during any previous season. Many are able to buy presents for their relatives and friends and are sending them Christ mas cards instead. LOCAL MERCHANT SEES BUSINES GAINS FOR 1932 A. K, Miller Expect? Conditions To Slowly Hut Steadily Improve Next Year. HAYES FORCEFUL MAN Beasley Recalls Postmaster Who FailedTo Heed Call For Republican Funds. A. K. Miller, secretary of the local Merchants Association, believes that ! the whole of 1932 will see a slow but | steady increase in business, j “Sanford’s December business is very good and our total for the year ! up to this date is, I believe., almost |what it was last year,” said Mr. Mil ler. “I believe that people are show j ing more confidence in business and in the banks and that this indicates 'better times ahead.” j Mr. Miller states that although 1931 has been a time of lower prices and less buying, that efficient merchants 'should be ahead of last year, i “By cutting * costs and expense? 1 everywhere possible the efficient rperchant has gotten himself in bet 1 ter position than he was last year/' I: said I Mr. Miller. ThSse' who heard Judge J ’ nson J Hayes 'when he addressed a group ol ! civic organizations here recently wer< \ very favorably impressed with th< j United .States district judge. Judg I Hayes, it was frequently heard e> yf^fee^S’ eUyi'V jtfrtSfc yi without having lost the touch that : acquired only by association with th great democratic rank and file. He i as much a product of the rough, un couth hills, from which he originatec as is Governor Alfred E. Smith of th y sidewalks of NOw York. Their en Cj vironment is inherent. m “Judge Haves.” said a well know Sanford man only yesterday. “i more strikingh Lincolntoniaa tHi any other living North Carolinian. Hi has had a career that in many ways p reflects that of the Great Emanci pator, and he is endowed with th( strong, rugged physique which is alsc ‘ a reminder of Lincoln. “Somewhere back in h;s youth.” suit the Sanford citizen, “Judge Hayes must have read about the “Great Stone Face” immortalized in litera j- ture by Hawthorne, for as one studies the silent, impressive profile of the jurist the vision of the New England poet is brought back to life.” It has been said of old that there ‘ ;ir,. V.. tilings one is u'.ider compul : sion t*> ‘l'-*. That is to pay one’s ' taxes, and to dm. H seems, however, that a postmaster has an added duty. That duty is summarized by Roland F. Beaslev. veteran editor of the ; Monroe Journal. Say-; Editor Beasley: “Newspapers arr> printing letters from YV. H. Foster, secretary and treasurer of a committee to Federal employees, written to postmasters and other Federal office holders, call ing for fu»uls for the Republican ex ecutive committee. This letter is in terpreted as a virtual assessment of such employees, laying a monthly charge on each. The letter says that the committee is in need of funds on account of the Bailey-Pritchard con test. When P. P. W. Plyler was post letter but refused to come across master at Monroe he received such a with the money. He is not now post master. That may be a word to the wise among the brethren.” TU SHUW MUUSE PICTURE TODAY “Girls About Town” Will Be Presented This Evening And Tonight “Girls About Town.’’ s comedy of American life which depicts the idio syncrasies of the average small town i girl. is being: shown at the Temple i Theatre this afternoon. Tonight the 1 evening presentation Uvill be shown, i This splendid picture, the proceeds of ; whfth go to the Christmas stocking I Fund of the Loyal Order of Moose, j is considered one of the season’s greatest treats from Hollywood. | The public is urged to attend the | showing of this picture as the funds derived from its presentation are to. J be used ih a most worthy cause. NEW DIRECTORS ARE CHOSEN BY KIWANIS CLUB Local Organization Holds Last Meeting of 1931 At the Carolina Hotel. TEAGUE IS SECRETARY Next Meeting To Be Held First Friday Night In Jaunary —Had Good Year. The Kiwan's dub held its last meeting of the year at the Carolina Hotel last Friday night. J. A. Over men who Filled the office of presi dent with efficiency and helped to make this one of the most successful tires and turns the office of president years in the history of the club Re charge at the first meeting in the over to P. H. St. Clair, ‘who takes New Year, Friday night, January 1st, at which time the committee appoint ments will be announced. The meeting opened with a pro gram of music put on by members of the club with Miss Ruth Phillips at the pjano. All enjoyed the selections charmingly rendered by Miss Phil lips. Among the selections rendered were spirituals by some of the best singers in the club. The first business taken up was the election of a hoard of directors. In addition to J. E. Brinn, John Daven port, J. A. Overton, and P. |H. St. Clair, who serves in an official ca pacity, the following members of the club were elected to serye on the board during the coming year: S. J. Husketh, Dr. Waylon Blue, E. Frank Andrews, Dr. J. F. Foster, J. W. Kirkpatrick, and Fisher Makepeace. I The house committee was instruct ed to cooperate with the incoming president to an effort to get the meals at a lower rate and to arrange to have the payment of the dues made easier. W. R. Makepeace and Gunter Watson were placed on. the under privileged child committee to assist the other members of the committee Dr. J. F. Foster and T. T. Hayes, in buying and distributing Christmas gifts to children. Upon motion of E. Frank Andrews, Secretary Teague i was instructed to extend a vote of * thanks to the Raleigh Kiwanis Club - for raising charity funds by putting f %rra thinstrel show here. ~ ‘"SST' s At the conclusion of the meeting e the board cf directors m£t and un 5 animously elected D. B. Teague sec - retary for the coming year. No mem . ber has done more for the success of the club since its organization more - than five y'ears ago than Mr. Teague. His two years sendee as secretary ^is i an outstanding feature of the work ’ of the club. The originality of his i weekly letters has attracted and hel J 1 the attention of the members of the club from wee1: to week and did much to keep up the fine spirit that ob tained in the club. The club is to be congratulated upon securing his ser vices in the capacity of secretary’ for another year. TOBACCO MART TO REOPEN JANUARY 4 The first lap of the tobacco sea son ended last Friday when the mar ket closed for the observance of the Christmas holidays. Tobacconists left Friday afternoon and Saturday for their respective homes in this and other states where they will spend the yuletide season with their families. According to announcement made public Saturday by the local tobacco Board of Trade a total of 4,015,87