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forf Sparta, N.
FEBRUARY 20, 1936.
TEN PAGES
TO ADJOURN MAY l«t?
Last week congressional leaden
virtually abandoned all efforts t(
pass a permanent neutrality meas
ure and thu^ took a step towarc
securing aif' early adjournment
A brief “must” list included new
farm aid legislation, a tax bill to
raise $500,000,000 for the farm
program, an appropriation for
work relief and the regular de
partmental supply bills. Other
legislation may be called for as a
resulj of future decisions of the
Supreme Court and while this
may prolong the session, some
leaders have tentatively set May
1st as the. approximate end of the
session.
SEEKING AMERICAN UNITY
President Roosevelt has taken
up with all American Republics
the possibility of organizing Jreace
machinery for the Western Hem
isphere with the idea of carrying
out the “policy of the good neigh
bor.” The idea is to provide meth
ods of settling disputes by peace
ful means and possibly to re-de
fine the Monroe Doctrine in a
way agreeable to the other na
tions and thereby to secure multi
lateral endorsement. That the fa
mous doctrine will be the subject
of discussion is certain even if
Washington wishes to avoid it.
Possibly the new doctrine will in
clude general responsibility of all
Western nations for a warning to
the rest of the world to keep
their hands off.
NO TAX ON ADVERTISING ,
In a unanimous opinion, the
United States Supreme Court
abolished the effort of the State
of Louisiana to tax the gross ad
vertising revenue of the larger
newspapers in that state-. The
Court held that the law was a
"deliberate and calculated device”
to withhold information from the
people of Louisiana and that its
plain purpose was to penalize a
selected groups of newspapers.
Holding that newspapers, maga
zines and other journals shed light
on the public and business affairs
of the nation and that any sup
pression or abridgement of such
publicity cannot be regarded oth
erwise than with grave concern,
the Court lost little time in throw
ing out the tax imposed which
affected only thirteen newspapers
published in the larger centers of
Louisiana. -
MONEY FOR FARMERS
■Last week it seemed probable
that the Administration, in financ
ing the "stop-gap farm relief pro
gram, would use a schedule of ex
cises covering a broadened list of
agricultural commodities. In addi
tion to wheat, cotton, tobacco, rice
and hogs, subject to processing
taxes heretofore, similar taxes
were being considered on beef,
corn, rye, oats and hops. More
over, compensatory levies on
products competitive with those
to be taxed were being studied.
The idea seems to be to widen
the base of the taxes so that the
levies will not be as high as the
invalidated processing taxes.
NAVAL AGREEMENT
La9t week the United States,
Great Britain, France and Italy
agreed net to build any cruisers
over 8,000 tons in size or mount
ing heavier guns than 6.1 inches
in calibre for a period of five
years, with the success of the
pact depending on whether Ja
pan and Germany are willing to
accent its rules. This means a
waiver on the part of the United
States of.its big cruiser policy
which the Navy Department has
insisted upon in the face of for
eign opposition since the end of
the Washington Naval Conference
fourteen years ago.
The existing 10,000-ton cruisers
will not be scrapped and may be
replaced by* others of the same
size when they become over-age.
Ae present,, the United States and
Great Britain have nineteen Class
A cruisers, with guns of more than
6.1 inches, fourteen for Japan,
eleven for Italy and ten for
France. In smaller cruisers Great
Britain, with 48, leads the parade,
followed by Japan with 26, the
United States and Italy with 19
and France with 14.
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On the Army’s side of the pre
paredness record, it should be
noted that Congress took up last
week the War Department supply
bill, carrying $374,981,521 for
military activities, an increase of
$23,803,601 over the .present fis
cal year. The House bill provides
for 150.000 enlisted men in the
Army, or 16,000 less than the
total approved last year. National
Guards will be increased 5,000 to
a tot »1 of 200,000 officers and
meh. Fundi were allowed for
665 new combat airplanes.
PITTMAN ON JAPAN
Senator Key Pittman of Nevada,
(continued on page 8)
Dr. Monro Says
Christianity Is
Facing A Crisis
Speaks At Meeting Of
North Carolina Sunday
School Association In
Winston-Salem Tuesday
WARNING IS SOUNDED
Sessions Are Held In
Centenary Methodist
Church. Bishoip Penick,
Of Raleigh, Is Hedrd
Winston-Salem, Feb. 18. —
Church school workers of the
state were told here tonight at
the annual convention of the
North Carolina Sunday school as
sociation that the whole Chris
tian movement is now facing one
of the great crises of its history.
The convention opened Monday
in Centenary Methodist church
here, of which Dr. G. Ray Jor
dan is pastor, and will come to a
close Wednesday night.
“Religious freedom is strug
gling in some parts of the world
for its very existence,” declared
Dr. Harry C. Munro, of Chicago,
director of adult work and field
administration. Interdenomination
al Council of Religious Education.
A moment later,- Dr. Munro
sounded a warning that “we may
even see some of ou.r freedom
restricted in this country or an
attempt made to restrict it.”
Shouting that efforts to de
stroy the absolute freedom to
worship as one’s conscience may
dictate are a challenge to the
nation, the speaker added:
“We may be facing a day when
some" of us can suffer for odr
religious freedom — even in
America.”
Nearly a thousand delegates
and local citizens packed Memor
ial Auditorium of Centenary
Methodist Church to hear - Dr.
Munro and witness the brilliant
pageant, “The World at Prayer
and the Gateway to Good Will,”
which followed.
Recalling Christ’s admonition to
preach the gospel to the people of
all lands, the speaker declared
the task of Christianity cannot
be measured by the size of the
membership, magnificence of
church temples or the greatness
of influence but by the magni
tude of the unfulfilled commis
sion.
Episcopal Bishop Edwin ' A.*
Penick, of Raleigh, told the an
nual convention of the State
Sunday School Association here
last night that Christianity, un
qualifiedly, “can match the hour.”
The introductory service of
worship and song—“The Bible in
Hymns”—was conducted by Pro
fessor H. Augustine Smith, Bos
ton, and a devotional period was
conducted by Dr. J. S. Foster,
of Winston-Salem. Dr. Raymond
Smith, director of religious edu
cation at Centenary Methodist
Church, welcomed the convention
to the church, and the response
was by Dr. P. E. Lindley, of
High Point, s$ate president.
Dr. Smith, welcoming the con
vention to the church, commented
that the church “is glad to have
the friends and workers in re
ligious education.” t
Dr. Lindley, in reply, comment
ed that “this convention" demon
strates the interest the people in
the state have in religious edu
cation.
Tri-State Medical
Group Elects New
Officers Tuesday
Columbia, S. C., Feb. 18.—
The Tri-State Medical Association
elected Dr. Douglas Jennings, of
Bennetts villa, president and select
ed Norfolk, Va., for its 1987
meeting at its concluding session
here today. '
Dr. Jennings succeeds Dr. C.
C. Orr, of Asheville, N. C., As
sociation officials said the data
far the 1987 meeting had not
been fixed but it would be held
probably the last week in Febru
ary.
A memorial service for mem
bers who died, during the past
year also was conducted at the
closing session.
VOTERS MUST CHOOSE
BETWEEN MAN AND WIFE
Decatur, Mich., Feb. 18.—Vot
ers here must choose betweer
Emory Squiers and his wife, Mir*
Cora Squiers, for village assessor
f Blind "Central”
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PORT ARTHUR, Tex. . . . Miss
Margaret Childre (above), who is
blind, operates the telephone switch
board at the college where she works
here. Braillei characters are on
plungers which move up, when call*
come in.
Hauptmanns Wife
Is Worried By
Quiz Of Leibowitz
Calm Of Condeifmed Man
Unshaken As Preparations
Are Made For Fixing Of
Death Date For 3rd Time
Trenton, N. J., Feb. 18.—
Anna, wife of Bruno Richard
Hauptmann, was worried today
by the cross-examination to which.
Samuel S. Leibowitz subjected
the German carpenter, who is
condemned to die for the kid
nap-murder of Charles Augustus
Lindbergh, Jr. However, Mrs.
Hauptmann left the prisoner, who
has been confined in the death
house here for more than a year*
ready for more.
Mrs. Hauptmann, although con
fident her husband would not
break under Leibowitz’s fire, was
reported fearful the public re
action to the grilling might be
adverse and might also be con
strued as a slight on C. Lloyd
Fisher, chief defense attorney.
Hauptmann, however, it was
learned reliably, told his wife to
day he believed he could con
vince Leibowitz, New York crimi
nal attorney, of his innocence of
the Lindbergh baby kidnap-mur
de,r. His stoiry, after two inter
views, was unchanged.
Hauptmann’s calm also was un
shaken as the state prepared to
fix his death date for the third
time.
Assistant Attorney General Jos
eph Lanigan drew the new death
warrant today and will present it
tomorrow at 10:30 a. m. to Su
preme Court Justice Thomas W.
Trenchard, the 72-year-old trial
judge, who is ill at his home.
Trenchard was expected to order
the execution for the week of
March 23.
Ehringhaus Says
New Deal Strong
In North Carolina
New York, Feb. 18.—Governor
Elect Richard W. Leche, of Louis
iana, said today the new deal “is
not so hot” in his state.
He said that resentment stir
red up against the Roosevelt ad
ministration by the late Senator
Huey P. Long is still prevalent.
But Governor J. C. B. Ehring
haus, of North Carolina, who is
stopping at the same hotel, said
the new deal Has the “overwhelm
ing support” of North Carolina
voters.
He stated tjhat farmers in his
state are not interested in the
“grass roots” movement.
At Laurel Springs
Unemployed May
Register For Work
A representative of the North
Carolina State Employment ser
vice is scheduled to be at Laurel
Springs on Wednesday, February
26, from 9:30 bo 12:30 o’clock,
for the purpose of registering ap
plicants who may be interested in
obtaining work on the Blue Ridge
Parkway.
It will not be necessary for
anyone who Has registered before
bo re-register, it has been pointed
out.
Roosevelt Will
Be Entered In
Neb. Primaries
Decision To Enter
There Taken To Mean
That Administration
Counters Opposition
Washington, Feb. 14.—Indica
tions of opposition iat Philadelphia
were countered by the adminis
tration when it was disclosed that
President Roosevelt would be en
tered in the Nebraska primaries.
Hostility among followers of
Alfred E. Smith was illustrated
this time in Wisconsin. John M.
Callahan, former Democratic
committeeman, said in Milwaukee
he had "about derided” to head
a slate of “genuine Democrats”
against candidates for a Roose
velt delegation.
As was the case in Illinois, Ne
braska party leaders assured the
president no opposition need be
expected in that state. Both of
these primaries will be held two
months from today.
The state ticket situation figur
ed in a White House conference.
The president wants the independ
ent Republican, Senator Norris,
returned to the senate. Norris
has not said he would run.
Senator Burke (D., Neb.) and
Arthur Mullen, former national
committeeman. who was the
Roosevelt floor manager at the
Chicago convention in 1932, told
the president the state committee
would file his ■ name for the
preference primary.
Similar decisions are expected
in -other important states. The
effect would be to minimize
chance-taking. Former Governor
Ely, of Massachusetts, a Smith
man. has already projected an
attempt to elect anti-Smith dele
gates in his state.
If formidable contests material
ize, the prospect will be for some
rival delegations to go to Phila
delphia. Roosevelt managers aim
to control the credentials com
mittee in the interest of seating
supporters of the new deal.
McRae Advocates
Sales Tax Repeal;
Opens Campaign
Charlotte, Feb. 18.—John A.
McRae advocated repeal of the
sales tax “at the earliest possible
opportunity” and enaction of a
state local option liquor law in
an address here tonight formally
opening his campaign for the
Democratic nomination for gov
ernor.
The 60-year-old Charlotte attor
ney also declared for repeal of
the absentee ballot law which he
characterized as “a ballot box
corrupter,” for economy in gov
ernment, for a reduction in the
cost of automobile license tags
and for a strengthened public
school system.
Mountain Feud
Ends In Murder
Near Mt. Airy
Mount Airy, Feb. 10.—Another
feudal killing was written into
the saga of the Virginia moun
tains last night when Roy Dean,
82, was shot to death and Arthur
Towe. member of a well-known
Carroll oounty clan and reputed
bootlegger, was charged with the
shooting, according to reports re
ceived here.
Towe, who lost one eye in a
fight some years ago, according
to officers, rode up behind Dean,
who has a long police record in
this section on a lonely road in
the depths of the Blue Ridge and
blew his horn to pass. Dean
pulled over, it was stated, and
Towe drew up abreast.
When he recognised his enemy,
according to the statement he was
understood to have made to Bud
Edwards, Carroll county sheriff,
he told Dean he ljgd been looking
for him for some time and now
had his chance, drew his gun and
put a bullet through the other
man’s head. Dean got out of his
car and was shot at several times
but the first bullet was under
stood to have caused his death.
Towe was lodged in the Carroll
county jail at Hillsville, Va. The
shooting happened only a short
distance from the Cana, Va.,
poet office and U.. S. Highway 52.
Twin City Paper
Changes Position
About Doughton
Now Thinks “Farmer Bob"
Is Needed In Washington
Worse Than At Home In
The Governor’s Chair
(Since Alleghany is the home
county of Congressman Robert L.
Doughton, the following editorial,
entitled “We Take It Back,” con
cerning the service of the Ninth
district representative in Wash
ington, is reprinted from Sunday’s
issue of the Winston-Salem Jour
nal and Sentinel, in the hope that
readers of the TIMES may find
it interesting.—Editor).
The editorial follows:
In a recent issue of The New
York Times, a front page picture
showed Congressman Robert L.
Doughton leaving the White House
where he had just had an im
portant conference with President
Roosevelt anent the vital legisla
tive program now facing Con
gress.
This picture, a small thing in
itself, bears a special significance
to those who have tried to keep
track, albeit casually, with gov
ernmental affairs in Washington.
“Farmer Bob” Doughton. able,
practical, honest and courageous,
well-grounded in common sense,
deep student of government and
political affairs, a tax authority
and chairman of the ways and
means committee of the lower
House, is one of the strongest
pillars of the New Deal.
In the emergencies created by
the Supreme Court decision on
NRA, and AAA, the voting of
bonus payments, and the prime
necessities of unemployment re
lief, he is practically indispens
able to the administration and
could ill be spared from the post
he occupies.
Therefore,. The Journal and
Sentinel, which urged Mr. Dough
ton several months ago to come
back to the State and run for
governor, will now go on record
as “taking back” Us suggestion
that Congressman Doughton is
needed at home worse than he is
in Washington.
At the time we proposed £he
Doughton candidacy for gover
nor, the AAA emergency had not
arisen, the bonus bill had not
been passed, and the general situ
ation in Washington appeared to
be such that Mr. Doughton could
consider his major efforts in the
behalf of the New Deal as prac
tically finished.
Now it looks as if he and the
administration, in view of the
wreckage caused by court decis
ions, etc., will have to start all
over .again with a program to
make lasting many of the bene
fits of the original New Deal.
The courage, sound sense and
wide experience of Congressman
Doughton are imperatively need
ed in Washington today and for
many months to come. In the
event President Roosevelt is re
elected, he will need North Caro
lina’s mountain statesman in
Washington during the next four
years as badly as he needs him
today.
McDonald Presents
Program To Advance
Teaching Profession
Greenville. Feb. 18.—A three
point program for “advancement
of teaching as a profession’’ was
presented today by Dr. Ralph W.
McDonald candidate for Demo
cration nomination for governor.
Speaking besfore students and
faculty of Eastern Carolina
Teachers College hea-e, McDonald
advocated adoption of “an ade
quate salary schedule, a teacher
tenure law and a retirement sys
tem” for North Carolina teachers.
Hopes Of Break
In Severe Winter
Weather Given
Chicago, Feb. 18.—-A falhn?
barometer in the Canadian north
west today raised hopes of a let
up in the record-breaking eok
waves that have swept over th«
middlewest. • .
C A. Donnel, federal forecas
ter at Chicago, said a barometei
drop in the western reaches oi
the Dominion is often a «8na
of warmer weather. He added
however, that « deflate
tion must await further develop
menta.
Liggett Trial Judge
P.A.S.
MINNEAPOLIS .. , , Above is
Judge Arthur W. Selover, who is
presiding' at the county district
court trial of Isadore (Kid Cairo)
Bluinenfeld on the charge of mur
dering Walter Liggett, crusading
newspaper publisher.
‘Tam” Bowie To
Speak Fri. Night
In Winston-Salem
“Golden Tongue” Of Ashe
County To Be Heard At
Meeting Of Democratic
Club In Twin City
Thomas Contee (“Tam”) Bow
ie, known as the “golden tongue”
of Ashe county, will be the prin
cipal speaker at the annual meet
ing of the Wilsonian Democratic
Club Friday night at 8 o’clock
at the Royal Arcanum Hall, Win
ston-Salem, Calvin Graves, Jr.,
chairman of the committee on
arrangements, announced Mon
day.
Mr. Bowie, a Democratic wheel
horse, is recognised as one of the
most able orators in the state.
He was born on July 27, 1876,
in Lake Saint Joseph, Tenas par
ish, Louisiana, ,the son of John
Ruth and Carrie Calloway Bowie.
Mr. Bowie’s political career be
gan in 1902 when he was nomi
nated by the Democrats of the
35th senatorial district for the
State Senate, and made an aston
ishing campaign in the supposedly
Republican stronghold, being
beaten by a majority of only 70
votes.
Ashe county sent him to the
State House of Representatives
in 1908; he is a former speaker
of the House. He has served
several terms in the North Caro
lina General Assembly.
Rcosevelt And
Aides Discuss
Gov’t. Finances
Washington, Feb. 18.—An ap
parently inconclusive White House
conference with the chief of var
ious federal lending and borrow
ing agencies today w,as staged by
President Roosevelt as a prelude
to the drafting of an administra
tion tax plan.
Announcing at his press con
ference that he had called in gov
ernment fiscal experts for a tall
on taxes tomorrow, the President
declined to expand further his
financial plans.
To the group ringed around his
desk. Mr. Roosevelt said a de
cision was still pending both upon
the form of the taxes to be ask
ed to finance the pending farm
bill and upon the amount to be
sought. Previously, he had men
tioned a half billion dollars as
the farm financing goal.
Neutrality Bill
Passes In Senate;
Goes To Roosevelt
Washington, Feb. 18.—Sinking
in a sea of “no’s” all efforts to
restrict traditional United States
policy of freedom of the seas,
the senate today completed con
gressional action on the compro
mise neutrality resolution.
Not even a record vote was
Required to send to the White
House' the proposal extending
from February 29, 1986, to May
1, 1987, the existing law’s tem
porary ban on arms shipments to
belligerents or to neutrals few
transshipment to warring factions.
Restrictions on loans and credits
Supreme Court
Holds That TVA
Is Constitutional
Many New Dealers Are
Jubilant After Opinion
Is Announced Monday li
The National Capital
McREYNOLDS DISSENT!
Senator Norris Thinks
Decision Will Help His
Rural Electrification
Bill. Expresses Delight
Washington, Feb. 18.^—Th
Tennessee Valley dispute in th
United States Supreme court wa
won by the government, it be
came known yesterday when th<
long-awaited decision was an
nouneed, holding that the power
t'ul utility development projec
is in accordance with the con
stitution.
The opinion was read by Chief
Justice Charles Evans Hughes
Justice McKeynolds alone dissenU
ed.
The oponion held:
The government may build
dams for constitutional purposes
It , may sell electricity generated
by such dams. It may take steps
to carry that electricity to a mar
ket.
Constitutionality of the vast
TVA project as a whole was not
interpreted. The court limited
its ruling to the above-mentioned I
issues. I
New dealers hailed the decision. I
Citizens of Florence, Ala.,
(lanced in the streets. Power in
terests declined immediate com
ment. Stock market traders
guessed wrong, with utility prices
dropping after an initial rise in
a 4,900,000 share day.
Many new dealers were openly
jubilant. President Roosevelt
withheld public comment. Others,"
including Attorney General Cum
mings, said they were “delighted"
and “gratified.”
The decision was the new
deal’s second victory in nine su
preme court tests, the other be
ing in the celebrated “gold
dause” case* of a year ago.
Justice McReynolds who bit
terly declared “the constitution
is gone” in dissenting from the
gold decisions, objected to the
TV A views of his eight colleagues
as follows: 1
“If under the thin mask of
disposing of property, the United
States can enter the business of
generating, transmitting and sell
ing power as, when and wherever
ome board may specify, with the
lefinite- design to accomplish ends
wholly beyond the sphere marked
rut for them by the constitution,:
an easy way has been found for
breaking down the limitations
heretofore supposed to guarantee
protection against aggression.” jj
Although concurring, with the
majority, four justices—Brandeis,
dtone, Cardozo and Roberts—held
in n srnarntp nnininw t.Kat. tin*
in a separate opinion that the
sourt should have dismissed for
want of jurisdiction the suit
brought by 14 minority stock
holders of the Alabama Power
company. . ,$3
Hughes, speaking slowly and
forcefully, limited the court’s
verdict to constitutional is
raised in a $1,150,000 cont
for purchase by TV A of pov
(continued on page 6)
1W PEW G0W S0ME?
“The first day a man is a guest, the
second a burden, the third a pest”
FEBRUARY jj£fl
» 19—Edison lx (ranted a patent -
n on the phonocraph, 1171.
20—Mary Carden, great open ;
•inger. born. 1677.