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j LINCOIjNTON is the J TRADE CENTER 0 # For More Thao 35.000 People # It Is Located in the Heart of Pied # mOnt North Carolina the Moa J Prosperous Industrial and Agrieul- J tural Section of the Entire South $1.50 PER YEAR Lincolnton Post Starts Drive to Elect Pickens As State Commander j NEWS::::::::: | j "‘-“BRIEFS \ Got Divorce and Deserved It! Washington, March 10.—Mrs. Edith '•. Allen wanted a divorce, and among hei reasons were the following alle gations: Her husband put salt in her bed, kicked her out of bed, threw gin in her face, burned her on the neck with a cigaret and beat her with a pair of wadded pajamas. She got the divorce. Candy Explodes, Boy Injured Christiansburg, Va„ March 16.—A piece of candy which “exploded” re- '• tulted in Berlin Smith, son of J. CJ Smith, farmer, being sent to a hos- ! pital with a split cheek. The boy was i said to have been eating the candy ! when the explosion, believed to have j been caused by a toy torpedo in the j confection, tore his cheek and mouth. j Snavely Leaves N. C. Chapel Hill—Carl Snavely, head j coach at the University of North! Carolina for the past two seasons, i has accepted the appointment as new i head coach of football at Cornell university, replacing “Gloomy Gal” Dobie. He will take charge under a three-year contract, understood to call for an annual salary of $8,500. Roosevelt Going Fishing Washington, March 16. —President Roosevelt speeded up his official work today, anxious to be off on his two weeks’ fishing vacation in Flor ida waters by the end of the week. The principal official business was preparation of his recommendation to Congress for work-relief appropri ations so the 1937 fiscal year, be ginning July 1. More Politics in Relief Reba Parmcnter of Bloomfield, who had been on the relief list at $4.50 pei week and asked a chance to get a job where she would work rathe* than to get a dole as charity, and had been given a position in the re lief office at $9.50 per week, having been certified as capable of handling the duties of the position, was fired last week to make room for the step daughter of a state official who is drawing S2OO per month and ex penses. The action also proves that our relief chairman in this county was using that office to build up a polit ical machine, rather than as an agen cy of relief administration. —Dexter, Mo., Statesman. Drive To Enforce Drivers License Law Is On—Better Carry Your License With You Raleigh, Mar. 16.—The intensive d.iive to enforee the State drivers' license law started this morning by the State Highway Patrol, with the result that drivers in all sections of the State can expect to be stopped at any time by patrolmen and ask ed to show their driving permits. Patrolmen will also test the cars for laulty brakes, lights and other equip n?ent. The purpose of this check - up, however, is not to arrest drivers, but to require all drivers who do not yet have their driving licenses to get them without further delay. Commissioner of Revenue A, J. Maxwell pointed out today. Non have those drivers who have al teady applied for licenses but who 1 have not yet received them, have t ny cause to worry. All patrolmen will be supplied with blank affida vits and cards and all any person who does not have a driving permit, but has already applied for one, will have to do will be to sign an affadavit to the effect that he or she has applied for a permit but not yet received it. The patrolman will then issue a card to this effect, THE LINCOLN TIMES Local Officers As Support of Various Legion Posts In State The David Milo Wright Post, ! American Legion, of Lincolnton aid !ed by friends over the state, has I started a vigorous campaign to have ! Wiley M. Pickens elected commander oi the North Carolina department of the American Legion at the Ashe ville convention this summer. As one of the first steps in the campaign Commander D. Herbert Miller and Adjutant S. H. Steelman, of the local post, have forwarded to various Posts over the state the following letter: “The David Milo Wright Post, No. 30; will present the name of Wiley M. Pickens for the office of depart ment commander at the Asheville convention, submits the following tacts for your information and asks your support: “Pickens served in the infantry during the war as an enlisted man, being discharged as a corporal, joined the American legion in September, 1919, being a charter member of his post. He has served in many capacities in the legion since that time, post vice commander, post commander, district commander, department vice commander, on many committees of the post and depart ment, being chairman of the resolu tions committee at the 1934 conven tion. For many years he has been a member of the National Guard and is at present the commanding offi cer of the local cavalry troop. “He belongs to many patriotic, social and frateri.nl organizations which have called upon him to serve in executive and administra tive capacities. He is a Mason and bus served as master of the lodge; he is a Royal Arch Mason and has served as high priest in the chap ter; he has served as patron and grand patron in the Eastern Star; he organized and was the first president of the Piedmont chapter, Reserve Officers association, and has been since vice president and president of the State associa tion; he is a member of and past State officer of the Sons of the American Revolution; he is and has been for many years secretary of the Lincolnton Rotary club. To these and other organizations he has given his time freely and he has tried to perform the tasks giv en his in a constructive and faith ful manner. “It is the belief of his friends that he will give excellent serv ice to the department as com mander and they ask your sup port, and that of your post, for him." When bigger deficits are made, the New Deal can be depended on to make them. —Sullivan, Ind., Union. which will take the place of a driv ing permit until it is received, Com missioner Maxwell said. Nor will those found without rny driving permits will be arrest ed at first. All that will be required will be for the driver to pay the patrolman sl, and fill out the re quired application form for a li cense. The driver will then be given s card by the patrolman, showing ho or she has made application for a license. Patrolmen will make ar rests only in cases where drivers fail lo show .they have made application for licenses or refuse to pay $1 and to make their application as i requested, or where it is evident | they are operating under fraudulent * licenses, Commissioner Maxwell said. While more than 660,000 drivers' license shave been issued so far, it is estimated that there are at least 100,000 drivers who have not yet even made application for their li censes. This enforcement drive, starting today, is primarily for the purpose of compelling these 100,000 or more drivers to get their licenses at once and thus make the law effective. Published On Monday and Thursday "Hitler’s Secret Loves" BERLIN, Germany . . Miss Leni Riefenstahl (above), beauti ful German screen star, is the person reported mentioned in the “Hitler's Secret Loves” story pub lished in Paris last Sunday. Roosevelt to Seek Billion For Relief Rev. Smith to Give Illustrated Lecture at Long Shoals School On Saturday, March 21 there will be a special program at the Long Shoals school featuring an illustrat ed lecture by the Rev. Ted Smith, of Triangle. In connection with his ad dress he will show the large number ol pictures taken by him self on a trip to Palestine. In these slides will be seen many things connected with the life of Chirst, including his cruci fixion and burial. Rev. Mr. Smith has given this illustrated message at several points with much interest on the part of the listeners. Admission will be fifteen cents for children and twenty five cents for adults. The doors will open at 7:30 and a large crowd is anticipated. Solicitor Carpenter To Ask Death Penalty Zeb Harmon Slayers Solicitor John G. Carpenter, of Gastonia, has announced that he will ask the death penalty for Kenneth Bailey, 19, and his uncle, James Bail ey, 22, Gastonia cotton mill boys, who confessed to the murder of Zeb Harmon, 62 year old Gastonia bar ter. Kenneth Bailey declared in his confession that he committed the murder single handed, according to reports, and that he got from his victim’s pocket the sum of S3O, which he said he divided with James Bailey, his uncle, alleged in the con fession to have helped in the plotting of the crime. James Bailey, officers said, ad mitted that he. helped plot the crime and that he got sls of the S3O which Kenneth said he took from the dead man’s pockets. Two dollar bills were found in Harmon’s hip pocket when his lifeless body was found in the back seat of his car on a coun try road near Bessemer City on the evening of March 6. Both men are being held in the county jail here without bond pend ing grand jury investigation. Officers said Kenneth Bailey was unwavering in his declaration that he slew Harmon single-handed. Inez Bishop, 23-year-old Gastonia woman, Sheriff Clyde Robinson said, had sworn that she overheard James Bnjley say, as he was talking to two women near the Southern railway station here u few hours after Harmon’s lifeless body was found in his car on a country road near Bessemer City, that “we’ve got to get out of here. That old man died.” Miss Bishop would not identify the two women, she said. Miss Bishop is being held as a material witness in the case, but was expected to be released shortly cn her own recognizance pending a coroner's inquest and grand juuy in vestigation. She accounted for her actions on the day the crime was committed. Mrs. Ethel Hooper, mother of Kenneth Bailey, has identified pos itively a white felt hat found in the death car after the murder as Kenneth’s, Sheriff Robinson said. HARRY “GETS HIS MAN" ■ - \ The W.P.A . doesn’t have any trouble cutting red tape when Harry Hopkins makes up his mind that he wants the removal of a critical Army ! officer.—Lynchburg, Va., News. LINCOLNTON, N. C. THURSDAY, MAR. 19, 1936 Taft in Ohio | CINCINNATI . . . Robert A Taft (above), son of the late President Taft, is the choice of the Ohio State Republican Central Committee, as a favorite son can didate to oppose Senator Borsb in the May primaries. Chief Executive Will Ask Sufficient Amount For Year’s Operations Washington, March 17.—Congres sional leaders were told by President Roosevelt tonight that he would re quest more than a billion dollars to continue the work relief program for a full year beyond next July. In a White House conference last ing an hour and a half, Mr. Roose velt discussed the message he hopes to send to Congress tomorrow. It was indicated he would ask for a lump sum appropriation with few strings attached as to how it should i’e spent. As the conferees emerged, Senator Robinson, of Arkansas, the majority leader, said: “We discussed the President’s pros pective relief message to Congress. It probably will be sent to the senate and house tomorrow'. The program covers a full year.” While none would say definitely what the exact sum would be, it was learned that it would be more than a billion, but considerably less than two billions. Earlier the President disclosed at hie press conference that the relief recommendations would be on a na tional scale, and would not specify individual projects for the care of the nation’s needy. This was taken as an obvious in dication that Mr. Roosevelt would re quest a lump sum with the same broad powers that he was given last year when the current $4,800,000,000 appropriation was voted. Earlier forecases on how much would be asked had ranged from the “less than a billion” estimate of Speaker Byrns to the $2,340,000,000 requested by the United States con ference of mayors. Byrns also had -aid he was in favor of appropriating just enough to carry the relief pro gram until next January, and let .he next Congress provide for the remainder of the 1936-37 fiscal year. One hint of the tenor of the Presi dent’s thoughts came when he em phasized to newsmen that permanent enrollment of the Civilian Conserva tion corps must be kept to 300,000 after next June 30, with enlistment limited to youths in families requir ing relief. In the face of considerable senti ment in Congress against curtail ment of CCC activities, Mr. Roosevelt said the limitation must be made to prevent any break in the budget. When he sent his budget message io Congress in January, he contended ■t was in balance except for the funds needed for relief. Disgraceful! Shameful! Contemptible! There has not been one word of praise in the papers of West Vir ginia for some time about the good or the accomplishments of the W. P. A. in West Virginia—but column aft er column is being printed bringing to light how positions in the W. P. A. offices have been passed out as a means of entrenching politicians in different communities. The administrative offices have been loaded with employe after em ploye at salaries that astonish. Greedy, grasping, grabbing political hands are at every turn, while the poor and the needy standy by with cut.stetchad hands begging for relief to keep away the pangs of hunger and CECIL C. NIXON IS CLAIMED BY DEATH Cecil C. Nixon died Tuesday night at 11 o clock at his home at Denver in the eastern section of the county. He had been in declining health for the past two years. Surviving are his widow and the following children, C. C. Nixon, Jr., of Birmingham, Ala., James Nixon, who is an air pilot in South America, Miss Mary Nixon, of Denver, and Jack Nixon, of Fort Bragg. Surviv ing brothers and sisters are Brevard Nixon, Mrs. G. Putnam and E. J. Nixon, of Charlotte, Heywood Nixon, Birmingham, Ala., Ural Nixon, Gary, Ind., R. P. Nixon, Texas, J. C. Nixon, Mrs. Josetta Strong and Mrs. Will Henkle, Denver. Another brother, L. Cash Nixon, of this city, died some months ago. Funeral services were conducted from the home this afternoon at 2 o’clock and burial followed in the Unity church cemetery, DEFINING THE ALPHABETICALS j 1. PWA, President Wrecked Amer-! ica. 2. RFC, Roosevelt Fooled Country. 3. NRA, Nuts Ruined America. 4. FERA, Failed Every Real American. 5. FIIA, Fell Hard Again. 6. CCC, Come, Cash, Come. 7. AAA, Awful Assortment of Asses. 8. CWA, Can’t Win Again. Money still talks, but you can’t reasonably expect 59 cents to make as much noise as an honest dollars. —Philadelphia, Pa., Dispatch. Cyclonic Damage Is Reported Over State Mrs. C. E. Carpenter Dies After Illness Funeral services for Mrs. Clarence E. Carpenter were held yesterday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock at Bethle hem Methodist church. She is survived by her husband and the following children. W. Cone Carpenter, Stough, Alton, Catherine, and Sarah Carpenter, of Cherryville, Dr. Ray Carpenter, Annandale, N, Y., and the following brothers and sis ters: H. C. Harrelson, W. C. Har relson, Carl B. Harrelson, L. Clay Harrelsou, Cherryville, A. G. Harrel son, Tacoma, Washington, Mrs. John W. Craft, Cherryville, Mrs. A. C. Warrick, Gastonia, Miss Pearl Har rclson, Jamestown, Mrs. J. E. B. Houser, Stockdale, and Mrs. F. E. Cloninger, Great Falls, S. C. ROGERS MEMORIAL FUND $1,750,000 Washington, March 17. Contri butions to the Will Rogers memorial fund now total more than $1,750,- 000, Treasurer Jesse H. Jones an nounced Saturday. The contribution include the gift of a hospital at Saranac, N. Y., valu ed at more than one million dollars, fiom the National Variety Artists’ Fund, Inc.; $500,000 pledged by five major motion picture theater circuits foi maintenance of the hospital, and $266,489.16 from 541,490 individual contributors. The amount is a record for volun tary contributions, according to Mr. Jones, although reports to the com mission are still incomplete. No so licitation of funds was permitted. The individual contributions came from every one of the 48 states and from Alaska, England, Canada, Hon olulu and the Far East. A large part of the fund will be used in aid of handicapped children, Jones said, adding: “The exact manner of how this can best be done will be decided when the reports are all in and after giving consideration to the various sugges tions that have been or may be re ceived.” In the ind:vidual contributions, Texas topped the list of states with $75,000; New York was second with $46,961, and California third with $35,059, Illinois was fourth with sll,BOl. that they may be protected from the cold. Middlebourne, W. Va., Star- Newa, 39 Dead, Thousands Homeless As Floods Sweep Across East Mother Rifle Champ -3? jjm 4 S I Vi i 0m & K /ms m. A a, Jm ALAMEDA, Calif. . . . Shirley Turner (above), is the women’s rifle champion of California, scor. ing 613 out of 620 bull-eyes. She is 21, weighs 102 pounds and shoots a 14 pound rifle. She is also mother of a 2-year-old daughter. School Children Marooned By Snowdrifts Blocking High ways In Mountains Charlotte, March 17. Blizzard whipped snowdrifts blocked mountain highways, marooning school children rnd others while high winds raked all parts of North Carolina today as a winter storm swept over the state and out to sea, sending temperatures tumbling toward the freezing point. Snow fell in the western and pied mont regions, and heavy rains de luged the remainder of the state. Winds wrought property damage at numerous points. One fatality was reported at Win ston-Salem. Leon Hunter, eight year-old negro, drowned after falling into the flooded basement of a razed store building. A school bus loaded with two doz en or more children bogged down in waist-deep snow six miles south of Marshall, and arrangements were made to care for the oupils at the home of a resident of the commun ity- More than 75 rural pupils of Hen derson county were forced to spend (Continued on page two) AAA Rental and Benefit Payments For 1935 Totaled $580,821,074 Rental and benefit payments to farmers cooperating in seven ad justment programs during the calen dar year 1935 totaled $580,821,074.38, according to a report issued by the Comptroller of the Agricultural Ad justment Administration. The payments included $130,969,- 459.25 to cotton producers; SIOB,- 874,715.50 to wheat fanners; $34,- 259,172.82 to tobacco farmers; $237,- 872,609.06 to corn-hog farmers; $57,- 032,852.90 to sugar producers; $9,- 383,015.82 to rice growers, and $2.- 429,249.03 to peanut farmers. The totla expenditures of the Ag ricultural Adjustment Administra tion for the calendar year 1936 were $701,830,501.81. These included, in addition to the rental and benefit payments: $51,893,845.16 for drought relief, food conservation, and disease eradication operations; $11,211,413.03 for removal and conservation of sur pluses; $15,890,684.47 for trust fund operations under the Bankhead cot ton and rice programs; and $42,013,- 484.77 for general administrative ex penses. The $51,893,846.16 expended for drought relief, food conservation and LOCAL MARKET COTTON ll%c pound WHEAT |1.16 bushel CORN 60c bushel j EGGS 10c & 15c doz. PRICE: FIVE CENTS PITTSBURGH HARD HIT AS WATERS SPREAD IN STREETS Steel City of Pennsylvania Al most Paralyzed; Water 10 Feet Deep SUFFERING WIDESPREAD Terrified Citizens Watch Rise of Waters As They Face Possible Food Shortage New York, March 18.—A sudden spring thaw accompanied by rains and storms spread destructive flood waters over vast areas of the east Wednesday. With at least 39 known dead, in calculable property damage and many thousands of persons homeless, the flood waters swept sections from western Pennsylvania to Vermont. The steel capital Pittsburg was in a state of almost complete paralysis as water stood 10 feet deep in some downtown stores; rail and highway traffic was cut off, and power failure left the city in dark ness. Nineteen persons were known to have perished and nine others were feared lost on Pennsylvania alone as Goods i-avagod rimt ,taU for the second time in as many weeks. 25,000 Left Homeless t Additional casualties reported from j-Maryland, Virginia, New York, | Massachusetts. Maine and Vermont, j brought the total death list to at least 39. | Upwards of 25,000 persons were j left homeless and suffering before j t he rampaging rivers and slashing storms had done their work. I Property damage mounted steadily into the multiple millions. Thousands of persons fled their homes as the frenzied flood-waters rolled along the Allegheny, Monon gahela, Ohio, Potomac and other livers. Pleas for help from scores of cities brought a presidential order mobilizing all federal relief agencies. A general exodus was under way in the Ohio river lowlands as the wreck age-strewn floodwaters surged down stream from Pittsburgh. NEEDED, A GOOD LAWYER It is beginning to dawn upon a lot of people that a Congress that can not accomplish anything without running afoul of the law is a Con gress that can be dispensed with. Or, maybe, arrangements could be made to have Congress hire a law yer.—Lynchburg, Va., News. disease eradication operations during 1935 included $39,266,562.98 for cat tle; $5,416,963.60 for sheep and goata; $7,156,118.47 for seed conservation and $55,200.11 for feed and forage purchases. JOE GISH SAYS— A fire hazard to which very little thought is ever given is the destination of your soul after death.
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