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I LINCOLNTON IS THE \ * TRADE CENTER J t > » For More Than 35,000 People. J » It Is Located ia the Heart of Pied. * * moat North Carolina the Most* { Prosperous Industrial and Agricul- J J tural Section of the Entire South. J f 1.60 PER YEAR Talmadge Announces Plans Underway to Split 'Solid South' !! NEWS::::::::: I ii I .♦»ooo»ooo»»»oooooooo»oooo Chauffeur Left Fortune Pittsburg, Dec. 7.—Samuel Boyd was a chauffeur for 25 years but now he is master of the big house on the hill. He became heir today to the mansion and a fortune of nearly $200,000 bequeathed by his aged em ployers, Margaret Nelson, and her sister, Julia. Moose Chases Rangers Yellowstone Park, Wyo., Dec. 7. With 30 hours largely spen" climb ing trees to dodge a bull moose, with the temperature at 17 below, Walter Gammill and Robert Beal, park rang ers, were back at their station to night. They said they were on skis when they encountered the moose. Looks Before He Leaps Chicago, Dec. 7.—John Hahn, 80, of suburban, Des Plaines, took out a. license to marry Lillian Snyder, 72, Chicago, but he made it plain he wasn’t going to leap blindly into matrimony. “I want to see first what kind of a housekeeper she is,” said Hahn. Weds Three Brothers Woodland, Calif., Dec. 7.—Mrs. Etta Richardson was honeymooning today with her third husband. All three were brothers. As a young woman, Miss Etta Woods married George Richardson. After his death, she wed his brother, Alfred, who died 10 years ago. She married tne third brother, John 11. Richardson, at Reno Monday. Teachers Go On Strike Bay St. Louis, Miss., Dec. 7. With Christmas approaching and no pay itr sight for the rural school teachers of Hancock county, the teachers today laid aside their books and closed the schools indefinitely In a strike against "payless” paydays. Tydings to Be Married Washington, Dec. 7. Announce ment was made today of the forth coming marriage of Maryland’s 45- year-old bachelor Senator, Millard E. Tydings, of Havre de Grace, to Mrs. Eleanor Davies Cheesborough, prominent New York and Washing ton socialite. No date has been set foi the wedding. Uncle Sam Draws A One-Penny Check Pittsfield, Mass., Dec. 7. —Edward Connell believes he has the smallest check ever written by Uncle Sam. A check for one cent was made cut to him by a government insur ance cashier in 1922 because of an overpayment for insurance. 122 N. C. Autos Stolen, 65 Found In November Raleigh, Dec. 7.—The motor ve hicle bureau today reported there were 122 North Carolina automo biles stolen during November with 66 of them being recovered. The bureau also reported recovery of 24 cars stolen in previous months. 10,915,000 Were Jobless In September, Says Report Washington, Dec. 7. Semi-offi cial estimates on unemployment which have been in use for some time by the government but were kept secret untjj today said 10,916,- 000 persons were jobless last Sep tember. There also said five million per sons, formerly jobless, have found work since March, 1933. The figures largely were compiled THE LINCOLN TIMES i “Roosevelt No Democrat, New Deal Is Communistic,” Says Governor New York, Dec. 7.—Gov. Eugene Talmadge, of Georgia, disclosed to day that the opening wedge in an tffort to split the “solid south” against the Roosevelt regime will be driven next month at a Demo cratic convention similar to the Re publican "grass roots” conference. Governor Talmadge, assailing the new deal as “a combination of the worst elements of communism and socialism,” announced a call will be issued within 10 days for the con vention. The meeting, sponsored by the re cently organized southern committee to, uphold the constitution, will be held in Atlanta. Says Membership Growing “The growth of the committee has been rapid and widespread through out 17 southern and border states,” he said. “The total membership now approaches 100,000 and active local units are being established as rapid ly as possible in each of the several states.” 1 John Henry Kirby, of Houston, Texas, committee chairman, will issue the formal call jointly with ; Talmade, the governor said. An announcement of the proposed < convention was made by the Geor- 1 gia governor in an interview prior to an address in which he denounced the new deal’s pending program, labelled the so'cial security law a “fraud,” and called for payment of the soldiers’ bonus out of the $4,- 800,000,000 works appropriation. Would Give Vets Relief Funds “Congress is going to vote to pay the soldiers' bonus in January, 1936,’ he declared, "and if it is vetoed, they ere going to pass it over the Presi dent’s veto. ‘‘The wise step for Congress to take is to pay up a debt by paying the bonus, and stop all of this boondoggling by paying the bonus over the President’s veto out of that ?4,800,000,000 security appropriation. “Put two and one-half billion dol lars into the hands of thousands of Americans in small amounts in every state and every county in this na tion, and let it be spent by private citizens in paying debts and improv ing their business. “This will bring back more prog ress and more prosperity to Amer ica than 10 billion dollars flitted to the winds in boon-doggling and its kindred activities,” he said. Would Like to Be On Ticket Governor Talmadge, who rode into office with President Roosevelt in 1932, said in the interview he would be proud to have his name on any state presidential ticket. “And I would like to examine the head of the bird who wouldn’t,” he added. “President Roosevelt,” he said, “is r.ot a Democrat. “If he secures the nomination by a convention parading in the name ci the Democratic party, it will be the last of those great principles enunciated by that great patriot, Thomas Jefferson, who said: ‘The least governed are the best govern ed’.” “This income tax business was started back in 1913. They didn’t need it then and they don’t need it now. They just wanted to give some friends some jobs. “We could run the essentials of government with seven-eights less taxes than we have now.” for President Roosevelt’s committee on economic security by R R. Na than, its consultant on unemploy ment statistics. Nathan estimated the peak of un employment at 15,071,000 in March, 1933. His final figure for October has not been determined but prelim inary calculation indicated it will show a substantial reduction from September’s figure of 10,916,000. Published On Monday and Thursday LINCOLNTON, N. C. MONDAY, DEC. 9, 1935 In "Mercy Killing” News of the Week '-*****■> a U 'l% '*— ■ \' '* wyf* ■ w*&i&jif •'.! S \m £ ■gL 4S9Bm| r^^^TMrW \- nil? i»/\r>ir ,-v .1 . m. •NEW VORK . .On the left Is Dr. M. A. Warriner, 79, dean of Bridgeport, Conn., practicing physicians who admits a ‘‘mercy killing” of an imurable ‘‘-maniac” in 1887 .. . and his story is ‘‘doubted” On tbe right is Mrs. Jeanette Binkowski, 32, of Detroit who is facing trial on a ‘‘mercy killing” charge of having shot her 5 year old sou, sufferer from iufantile paralysis and rickety More Whiskey Is Being Consumed Millionaire Crop Is Falling Off In U. S. Washington, Dec. 7. America’s crop of million dollar incomes was reduced by 30 per cent in 1934, or from 46 to 32. This was reported tonight in pre liminary statistics of individual in come tax returns for that year, made public by the treasury. The figures snowed the millionaire peak was reached during the year 1929 when 513 returns, indicating in comes of $1,000,000 or more were filed. ARMOTyFORCITY MAY BE CHECKED Raleigh, Dec. 7.—George W Coan, Jr., State WPA director, said today the requirement for 90 per cent re lief labor to be used on the armory construction program in North Caro lina had stalemated the project. Coan said there was not a suffi cient amount of skilled labor on re lief rolls to execute the project. He said if the non-relief labor limita tion were increased from 10 to 30 or 40 per cent, at least one half of the 47 armories could be built. One of the 47 armories included in this blanket project, which was appro.red sometime ago, was allot ted to Lincolnton. Joslin States Hoover Is Not Out For Office New York, Dec. 7.—Herbert Hoov er’s former secretary was the au thority for an assertion today that the former President “wants noth ing for himself” and is not Duilding up a political organization for 1936. Theodore Joslin, writing in the December 7 issue of the magazine, “Today,” said Hoover will intensify his attacks on the new deal during the coming year, but not with the idea of gaining public office. Joslin pictured the former Presi dent as a “fighting Quaker” in 1936, and said, “he will give every thing he has to the fight cold facts, logic, satire, humor. So far as he is concerned, the chips may fall where they may.” The writer, who served as Hoov er’s secretary from 1931 to 1933, asserted the former President "has one particular objective in life to day. That is to get the absolutely fundamental national issues before the American people. . . . “As the titular leader of the op position, he will go after the merits of the issues hammer and tongs. Ho will confine his arguments to princi ples. There will be nothing personal in his criticisms. He neve.- ‘smears’ men.” Man Falls Down, Freezes to Death Spartanburg, S. C., Dec. 7.—One death was attributed to exposure here today as the mercury sank to 20 degrees. A negro man was found dead in a residential section. Officers report ed he apparently had fallen during the night and frozen. Y Fa wss M’i Ji ■E“j| Ij p.aj.!p : |?E , f^.r I I >■ i ■TilrMfgSfg&gl J Treasury Department Figures Reveal Huge Increase In Consumption Washington, Dec. 7. —The eve of repeal’s second anniversary last night found both the consumption of liquor and the battle against drink ing on the upswing. Treasury department figures show ed the consumption of both domestic and foreign liquor still registering increases that had their inception at midnight two years ago. An index was the 7,075,979 gallons consumed in October—a million gallons more than in September and nearly two million more than October a year ago. To Center On 'Capital Intensified effort of temperance workers and prohibition advocates were reflected in two quarters. On a national scale, the Anti-Saloon league lined up its forces in a con vention at St. Louis early this week, promising—in musical parodies —a boycott because “The grocer where I used to buy, sells beer on tap while I stand by.” There was indication that the na tional capita! might be selected as one focal point for the battle. The objective would be to revoke the Congress-enacted law which allows liquor sale in the District of Colum bia. The treasury statistics showed that drinking of imported liquors totaled 813,281 gallons in October, highest of any month since repeal except November, 1934. This figure com pared with 649,960 gallons in Sep tember and with 791,937 in October cf last year. Consumption Less Than In 1917 The consumption, however, was less than 70 per cent of 1917’s high point in pre-prohibition drinking. Treasury figures showed that Sep tember consumption was about 64 per- cent of the top year. For the fiscal year ended June 30, liquor consumption of 75,073,993 gallons measured 46 jjer cent of 1917’s 164,- 291,983 gallons. Country Is Rejecting Roosevelt’s New Deal, National Poll Reveals Literary Digest’s Poll Shows 55.6 Per Cent of Answers Do Not Favor Its Policies New York, Dec. 7.—The third tally of the Literary Digest's nation wide poll, released tonight, indicat ed that 66.6 per cent of the 421,660 replies thus far received have ex pressed opposition to the acts and policies of the New Deal. “The New Deal is approved by five States in the South and dis approved by thirteen States mainly in the West and East,” said the an nouncement. “A total of 421,660 votes are re ported of which 187,156, or 44.4 per cent are marked ‘yes’ and 234,404, cr 66.6 per cent, are voted no’ in answer to the question: ‘Do you now approve the acts and policies of the Roosevelt “New Deal” to F. R. GETS FULL OPPOSITION OF THE DRY BLOC Anti - Saloon League Blames Him For Everything— To Fight Him St. Louis, Dec. 7.—The anti-saloon league’s drive assumed the propor tions of an anti-administration move ment today as dry leaders celebrat ed the second anniversary of repex' by predicting an organized dry senti ment would oppose the re-election of President Roosevelt in 1936. After the league, with delegates from 40 states shouted fervid “amens,” called upon the President to start a campaign for the return of prohibition by drying up the White House cellar, two of its most powerful chieftains laid the blame for “the abject failure of repeal” squarely on President Roosevelt’s shoulders. The repercussions followed adop tion by the league last night of a resolution urging the President to abolish “the use of intoxicants at White House functions” and to ac knowledge publicly failure to keep “his campaign promise” to end the saloon evil. Bishop James Cannon, Jr., Los Angeles, who stumped against A1 Smith in 1928 and wrote the reso lution, criticized the serving of light liquors at White House din ners. “It’s a poor example for the first family to set before the youth Os the land,” he observed. Bishop Cannon, who was named by the league to head its re-estab lished national legislative commit tee in a “new advance against al cohol,” joined Dr. F. Scott Mcßride, militant spearhead of the "second diy war,” in saddling the. “evils” of repeal upon the President. “I definitely will oppose the re election of Mr. Roosevelt, although I haven't yet decided whether I shall actively fight against him,” said Bishop Cannon. He added that “eith er Senator Vandenburg of Michigan cr Col. Frank Knox of Chicago would be more acceptable dry candi dates if either should get the re publican nomination.” Speaking individually, both Bishop Cannon and Dr. Mcßride deplored the “qquadrupling of drinking places in the nation’s capital as a result of President Roosevelt signing the bill for repeal of prohibition in the District of Columbia.” Each asserting dry sentiment was crystalizing, particularly among church leaders, against return of the Roosevelt administration. “President Roosevelt is primarily end solely responsible for the death of prohibition and the failure of re (Continued on back page) Indian Chieftain Soon to Be 115 Rhinelander, Wis., Dec. 7.—Chief Mukkones, of the Pottawatomie In dians, believed to be the oldest In dian chieftain in the United States, will celebrate his one hundred and fifteenth birthday soon. date’ ? ” 1 Following is a tabic of the vote , thus far by states: Yea No California 14,557 19,980 Florida 4,465 4,594 Georgia 9,641 4,693 Illinois +.. 10,340 20,098 lowa , 16,461 21,460 Kansas 14,318 19,142 Kentucky 8,689 6,813 Massachusetts 716 2,648 Minnesota 14,968 26,452 Missouri 22,369 28,388 Nebraska 8,009 12,088 North Dakota 2,285 3,425 Ohio - 13,421 25,366 Oklahoma - 9,094 9,768 South Dakota 3,110 5,571 Tennessee 8,466 6,051 Texas - 20,132 18,256 Virginia - 7,226 6,623 Totals - 187,156 284,404 750 Face Hunger in Lincoln County As Relief Office Closes f Mine Labor Move " ] jp: - [Tp.a-s.im v-v WASHINGTON .* . labor are upon John L. Lewis, presi dent of the United Mine Workers of America, who resigned suddenly as a vice-president of the American Federation of Labor. Lewis will keep his union within the federation, it ia said, but will continue fight for industrial form of union. BORAH DECLARES COMING ELECTION HAS IMPORTANCE Warning Is Issued Not to Re ject Principles; Hits At New Deal Washington, Dec. 9. A warning against opening “the dike of con stitutional restraint” to “the sea of arbitrary power which lies behind” was given tonight by Senator Borah of Idaho, in a speech which heralded the approach of a new presidential campaign. The Idahoan, widely re garded as a potential Republican candidate, made frequent, but un labelled, references to the new deal and was caustic in dealing with his familiar foe—monopoly. He called the latter the “great evil lurking in our economic system.” Calling the coming election “an event the most notable in the af fairs of the republic,” he added: “We all feel that the coming elec tion is to be one of uncommon interest and of very deep signific ance. We are discussing constitu tional government and the preser vation of liberty. Discusses Liberty “I ask tonight whose liberty? What liberty? The man or group of men who hedge about or control my right to engage in or remain in business are my masters and the masters of my children. “The power which fixes the price of the things I must have that I may live and clothe and educate my family shapes my course in life and delimits my possibilities as com pletely as if I were its indentured servant. “If we are going into a fight on < the line where the battle swings, let ‘ us fight for free enterprise, free ' economic system, free America, free i from monopoly control, free from i bureaucratic control. The times will 5 not permit of a sham fight. ‘lf the i trumpet gives an uncertain sound 3 who shall prepare himself for the 1 battle’?” i In his sole reference to a new deal < activity by name, Borah said re- I covery was generally thought to date i from the Supreme coure decision in- 1 validating the NRA. i Stands for State's Rights < "I only recur to the decision at I this time as a basis for the view I that when we undertake to sell ' short the American democracy we almost certainly make a mistake,” he said. “It proves again as it has been proven often that the Ameri can way, both in business and politics, is after all the safest and most effective way. “One of the strange theories which our confused and troubled days have thrown to the surface is that demo cratic institutions in some way or other stand in the way of economic progress. “It is urged that our doctrine of states’ rights and the federal con stitution in many ways are hin drances to prosperity and embarrass or retard our nation in its struggle for powet. “When we disparage or discredit the power of democratic government - to deal with our present problems L (Continued on page two) LOCAL MARKET 1 COTTON 1214 c pound WHEAT sl.lO busnel CORN 60c bushel EGGS 33 & 35c dozen PRICE: FIVE CENTS 150 Families Must Look to Other Sources For Their “Bread and Butter” Federal relief for . approximately one hundred and fifty families in Lincoln county was ended last Thurs day with the closing of the relief offices here. With an estimated aver age of five to each family this means 760 people who have been depending on relief aid will be forced to seek aid from other sources. Discontinuance of the Emergency Relief Administration will, it is said, throw an additional relief burden on Lincoln county since many who have been on relief cannot be absorbed in the WPA projects for one reason or another. Only persons who are fitted for the work and who have been on the relief rolls since last May are eligible for work on the WPA proj ects. The local ERA office, which began functioning early in 1934, succeeding the former Federal agency, the CWA, with which the government launched its relief program in 1932, has been closed to applicants since Thursday afternoon, though the office force will be on duty for severlai days winding up the work. * Mrs. Roland S. Clinton, director of the 13-county Western North Caro lina FERA district, of which Lincoln is a unit, estimates that the work of completely liquidating the FERA would take several months, at least, Bf her district has a(ipre ;imately *IOO,OOO worth of obligations now outstanding to be taken care of. SEMI-PROS PLAY SALISBURY TEAM (By “Smack” Proctor) Two powerful undefeated and un tied-pro elevens, Lincolnton and Salisbury, battled up and down the Salisbury high turf Saturday after noon for four hectic quarters to finally end their titantic struggle deadlocked 7-7, in the fiercest and most bitterly fought football contest ye writer has witnessed in many a moon. Last year’s great Gaffney- Lincolnton game could not compare in thrills with the terrific tackling, spectacular passing exploits of Buck Mauney and Poss Kessler, and ail around defensive play as these two teams afforded the one thousand fans cn hand for the game. So pleased were the Salisbury fans with the local teams’ play that they are clam oring for a return game. Statistical facts of the game reveal that both teams were very evenly matched. Lincolnton had a slight edge in first downs, making eight to Salisbury’s seven. Salisbury had a wide margin in the passing depart ment, their strongest forte, complet ing 9 of 14 passes for total gains of 229 yards, with Lincolnton complet ing 4 of 9 passes for a total of 74 yards. Lincolnton intercepted 3 Salis bury passes with Salisbury intercept ing one Lincolnton pass. On three occasions Mauney was thrown for big losses when attempting to pass and finding no receiver. In running plays from scrimmage the locals held a big margin, gaining 150 yards as compared to Salisbury’s 30, showing the great defensive strength of the locals line but, on pass defense the locals were woefully weak against (Continued on page three) JOE GISH SAYS— Job had patience, but he never had his motor di e and his car stranded in the middle of traffic.
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