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Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-11-30

mem companies pay the same rate
as do transportation companies.
Real estate sales, trades and trans
actions also pay a l per cent levy.
Mining and forestry products are
taxed l per cent also.
Probably the most interesting
feature of the South Dakota plan is
that employers deduct from salaries
or wages at. time of payment a slid
ing scale ranging from per. cent
up to $4,000 to two per cent at
$4,000, or any amount in excess.
Fees for personal o professional
services are taxed in similar manner.
No names can be used just yet
regarding the identity of advocates
of the South Dakota plan, but one
such advocate had this to say about
it:
ITO many persons who have
studied the South Dakota plan, it
appears sound and scientific with
very low cost of collection. The
rates are low and it is non-duplicat-
ing. A man who has no income
and no job pays no AK. In other
words, it is the general sales tax re-
versed to a fair and workable basis"
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-11-30
u. S. Report Shows
Greater Employment
Heat Retards Sale of Heavy Goods; Flow of Farm
er's Gold Slows Down After Summer Spending

Washington. - October saw
strikes fewer and smaller. with
thousands of employees resuming
work. The rush of retail buying
evoked by crop returns and big re-
lief payments eased off slightly.
Drouth still affected trade in south
western cotton and wheat sections.
Many cities reported warn weather
retarding heavy goods sales at re-
tail Manufacturing, retail buying
and wholesaling made good com.
parsons with September and with
October a year ago. Collections
were the best in months.
Combined stock price averages
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-11-30
Changes In North Carolina Sales Tax Being Studied

their food supply in the open fields
becomes scare The short-tailed
pine NOUS is most destructive, do
ing worst damage to orchards
growing near timbered areas.
Niswonger urges orchardists to
examine the areas around their
trees, looking for mice runways and
injuries to the trees. If evidence OF
mice is found, they a be destroy
ed by putting out wheat bait which,
has been poisoned with strychnine::
Detailed information how to mix
the bait and place it around the
trees may be obtained free from
the horticultural department of
State College in Raleigh.
As a supplementary control
measure, Niswonger suggests the
digging up of grass and weeds und-
er the trees. This breaks up the
tunnels and runways and causes the
mice to seek their food in areas
farther from the trees.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-11-30
Texas Lady Tells How
, Blaek-D raught Laxative
HELPS All Her Family

Here's how Black Draught fills
the needs of a family laxative in
the home of Mrs. j. S. Stoker, Fort
Worth, Texas: ""The grown-ups
in my family" she writes, "have
always taken powdered Thedford's
Black Draught for biliousness.
headaches and other ailments (due
to constipation) and found it a re-
liable remedy. I was very pleased
when I saw Syrup Of Black
Draught advertised. I bought It
and gave it to my little daughters,
ages 6 and 4. They needed some
thing to cleanse their systems and
Syrup of Black Draught acted
well."... Your druggist sells this
reliable laxative in both forms
children like the Syrup"
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-11-30

were up two points on the smallest
October business since 1921. Bond
sales were larger, but prices drop
ped l IL points. .-
+ Cotton goods and steel produc-
ton gained. Steel scrap advanced
twice. Automobile making drop
Eped off. Lumber output fell.
Predictions are that price regu-
|%lation in cotton may lose this coun-
try a large part of its chief single
export.
Weakness in farm products wa
marked in October, the Dun 8
Bradstreet Index dropping 2 pc!
cent from the four year peak.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-11-30

The dea that schools are for
only will be badly out of
date in the next few years.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-11-30

Few farmers will join in giving
for bumper crops.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-11-30

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Evening star., 1934-01-31
us. WORKERS SEEK
POLITICAL RIGHTS
Alexandria Residents Request
Roosevelt to Let Them
Act in City Affairs.

An appeal has been made to Presi-
dent Roosevelt by group of citizens
of Alexandria, most of whom are en-
ployed by the Government here, to is
sue an executive order giving them per-
mission to take an active part in the
politics of Alexandria.
This appeal was made in a petition
passed recently by the members of the
Alexandria Citizens Association of Ward
and brought to the White House yes
terday by Albert Muller of the Ex-
ecutive Committee of the association.
Based on 1881 Rule.
This appeal was based upon the fact
thai in 1881 President Hoover issued
such an order affecting the Government
employees living in Arlington County.
Va
The rules of the Civil Service Com
mission governing those employees in
classified service prohibit political ac-
tivity, but President Hoovers order
made it possible for the Federal en-
ployes living in Arlington County to
engage in activities within the borders
OF that county. The order gave them
the privilege of becoming candidates for
ana TO nOlC local oUlCeS ana TO part1c-
ipate in the campaigns within the
county.
Banned National Activities.
The order stipulated however. that
there must be no political participa-
tion in either national or State politics
The order stated that it was based
upon facts to the effect that Ar
lington County was substantially a
municipality and that a considerable
number of residents and taxpayers were
employed in the Government service
and that participation in local politics
within the county should in no way
involve general partisan political ac-
tivity. 1t set forth also that the prin-
cipai of home rule and local self-gov-
ernment justified such participation
Therefore. the Federal employees liv-
ing in Alexandria, being anxious to
have a say in their local affairs used
the precedent established by President
Hoover in their appeal to President
Roosevelt
Evening star., 1934-01-31

Germs q note found in pocket Of the
girls apron two days after her death
1t read:
Mrs. Tilley, there are some men
here, one Negro and three white men
Said they were going to have $500 OF
your money and have given me 20 min
utes to get it in. 1 don't know any OF
them, never seen them before.
would die in my tracks before l would
give 1t to them. They have got all the
guns In the house. I don't have a
thing to help myself with. j. My 20
minutes are almost up. They have
didn't get it they'll kill me. I have
tried to get help but can't get any
body on the telephone line"
Note Believed False.
Solicitor Jones says the note was not
In the girls handwriting and was
placed in her pocket after she was
killed. One member of the coroner's
jury was emphatic in saying he ex-
was shot but found no note.
Consequently. the solicitor had the
body exhumed and an autopsy was
made. And as a result of that. the
coroner's jury decided 1T was not sui
eide" and attributed death to 1.-The
hands of parties unknown"
Meanwhile. Jones has engaged hand
writing experts with the announced in
tention of proving the note CORE
spcnded to the writing of Smoot. AT
the same time the solicitor delved into
Smoot's romance with Miss Childress
SmOOt was imprisoned for a while
but finally Jones agreed to his release
under $1,000 bail The other six were
held on suspicion or as material wit
nesses. Hopeful of further revelations
Solicitor Jones has designated February
3 for the coroner's jury to continue the
hearing.
Evening star., 1934-01-31


disliked by the writer. Rocker and the
writer had successfully insisted that
Ginsberg be used only as a chauffeur
IN their jobs. He is one of the best
The writer of the kidnapping note
and the actual kidnaper went to the
same school as boys.
"Ginsberg had. some time ago. bor-
roWed $1,000 from one of his pals
name unknown and had loaned $500
of it to the actual kidnaper.
few months ago
Wait a minute! Wait a minutel"
Sergt Reynolds interrupted Il think
I've got this one all right. What's
your question:"
Why" Fordney replied with a
pleased expression on his face, the
name of the writer of the kidnapping
notes. and if you know that you might
possibly know the identity of the ac-
Evening star., 1934-01-31
CHARGED WITH SLAYING

LOS ANGELES. January 81 tP-
Joseph Marino. So auto painter was
arrested here yesterday on a warrant
charging him with the Staying of
Charles de Persia in Brooklyn, N Y.
August 8. 1923
New York officers are en- route here
b. return him. authorities said
Detectives c. F. Atkins and NJ J.
Hess said the painter admitted killing
de Persia. claiming it was in self-de-
fenSe
Evening star., 1934-01-31
FOUR HELD IN ROBBERY
Two Men and Two Women Quizzed
in Post Office Theft

DALLAS. Tex, January 81 t4'l.-TWo
men and Two women are in the city
jail here for questioning concerning the
passing of forged post office money or
ders and the burglary of the Gravesend
Postal Station in Brooklyn, N. Y, last
December -.
All four claimed to be from New
York City. They gave their names as
Joseph Janice, "a; Philip NJ. Kaler. 81:
Mrs. Philip Kaler. 25 and Mrs. Charles
MacDougall, "a. No charges have been
filed
Alex c. Caldwell, Federal postal in
spector in charge of the investigation
said about $4,000 worth of stamps,
large amount of money order forms and
postal savings certificates were taken
by the burglars. A book of money or
der blanks from which so forms were
missing was taken from one of the men
held here. he said.
Evening star., 1934-01-31
OFFICIALS DISPUTE
FARM GIRL SDEATH
Suicide or Murder Question
in North Carolina Noun
tain Case.
BY the Associated Press.


WILKESBORO, NJ c., January 81
The mysterious death of a farm girl
has set this mountainous countryside
seething with speculation and rumorS
led to the imprisonment of seven men
ana brought officials into dispute as to
whether it was murder or suicide.
Last December 80, Leota Childress
18, called for help over a rural tele-
phone line while her foster parents
Warwick Tilley and his wife, were away
from home on a visit. Neighbors hur-
ried there and found her dead with q
% caliber rifle bullet through her
heart.
1T was murder" asserted Solicitor
JCEn R. Jones' The crime is shrouded
il more mystery possibly than any
committed in North Carolina, but
anticipate. if all plans don't fail, that
We will be able to solve it,
One of the first things he did was
to order the arrest of Andrew Smoot
a neighbor of Miss Childress who had
paid court to her during his estrange-
ment from his wife.
Evening star., 1934-01-31
Elimination.
BY ii. A. RIPLEY.

~ DON'T know why it is, Reynolds,
- but you always fall down on
problems of elimination. AS a
i matter of fact. they are SO SIM
pie I'm surprised at you, be-
cause you are generally so mentally
acute. Now here's a purely hypotheti-
cal case. If you don't get it quickly
I'm going to put you in the ice house
Evening star., 1934-01-31

tual kidnaper But the name Of the
writer will do It's very simple"
Reynolds pondered a moment then
eXCitedly exclaimed The writer
Who?
For Solution See Page B-l4.
Perhaps you have story or problem
YOU would like to submit to Prof Ford
ney. If so. send it to him care of this
paper. He'll be delighted to receive it.
Copyright. 1874
Evening star., 1934-01-31

IN your pare 1eeJ!
laughed Prof. Ford
ney. Listen, noW!"
In a recent kid
naping case the
police learned there
were four men in
DIV c d. namely,
High P D C X e t S
Rocker. Jim Wat
son. 'Baldy' Brown
ard Harry Gins
berg.
The writer of
he kidnaping notes
had been i'll for
some time. Wat
sons wife is the
writer's sister and,
while in the same
Evening star., 1934-01-31
MI INu TE
Gan You, ~
SO/WHee@| +

DR.. Fordney is professor of criminol-
ogy at famous university. His advice
is often sought by the police of many
cities when confronted with particularly
battling cases This problem. which has
ONLY ONE POSSIBLE SOLUTION. has
been taken from his case book covering
hundreds of criminal investigations.
Evening star., 1934-01-31
ISHAM'S SUITS DROPPED

Game Hunter and Wife Forego
Separation Actions.
NEW YORK, January 81 (P).-Col.
Ralph H. Isham, big game hunter and
authority on Boswell, and his second
wife, the former Margaret Dorothy Hurt
Of Dallas, Tex, have dropped their sep
aration suits against each other
Attorneys who announced their ac-
tion yesterday did not disclose whether
any property settlement was reached.
Mrs. ISham filed her suit early last
Evening star., 1934-01-31

year, charging her husband with deser-
ton and cruelty and asking custody of
their two sons. Hayward, 7, and Jona-
than Trumbull Isham, 4, and $4,000
monthly alimony. Col. Isham later filed
a counter suit
An award of 500 weekly alimony
pending a referees report was made to
Mrs Isham last March.
Evening star., 1934-01-31
Sheriff Says Suicide.

Sheriff w. B. Somers was just as con-
vinced it was suicide In fact, his con-
vic tions were so strong that he per-
nlitted relatives to bury her body with
out an autopsy
If anybody was mean enough to
kill the girl, he was mean enough to
take the money, the location of which
he must have known" said the sheriff
in explanation of his theory.
His reference was to the fact $500
of the family's money was found safe
in a tobacco barn where Miss Childress'
foster father made a practice of hid
ing it.
phase of particular mystery con-
Evening star., 1934-01-31
CITY RESUMES BUSINESS
Stores in Nina, New, Reopen
After Earthquake.

SAN FRANCISCO. January 81 lP,.-
Children return to school and stores
reopen in Nina, New, today after an
earthquake yesterday that damaged a
dozen buildings.
Thirty shocks We're felt in Nina The
major quake, one occurring at Il "a
am
The shocks also were reported in Salt
Lake City, where tall buildings SWayed.
and in several cities of northern Cali
fornia. including Sacramento and
Fresno No material damage was re-
ported outside of Nina
Evening star., 1934-01-31
Noisemaker Is Shot.

LEADVILLE, Colo, January 81 RD.
Raymond Schofield, crippled pencil
vendor. was shot fatally and Martin
Lineweaver was held in iail yesterday
after telling officers. Il shot him be-
cause he was making too much noise. 3"
Evening star., 1934-01-31
Farm Sawmills Urged.

Small sawmills for farmers as a
means of earning money in of1-seasons
are being urged by Texas A. and M.
College
Evening star., 1934-07-14
Harmonizing Colors.

A very decorative effect may be OBJ
tanned by painting the walls Of
room In one color and using lighter.
harmonizing shade for the ceiling.
Evening star., 1934-07-14
OWNERS WILL FIND.
BANKERS HELPFUL
Special Committee Formed
cn Modernization
Advances.
CONTINUED Prom First Pase)

way up to the second floor built in.
a new heating plant to take adequate
care of heating the upstairs as well
as the downstairs with the most
modern methods was installed, the
entire house was redecorated on the
Remodeled for ssso.
Case No. 2. as reviewed by the
committee, is an example Of a home
In the same age group. which is being
remodeled but no structural changes
are being made. II is the less ex-
pensive type OF undermining project.
The home In question was owned
debt-free by the family, which bor-
rowed $3.50 on a building and loan
association mortgage to give the
house complete 1884 advantages. The
list Of changes made includes q new
roof, complete new bath room fixtures.
new short oak flooring to replace
the former pine floors, modern built
in cabinets for the kitchen, inlaid
linoleum floors for kitchen and bath
room, up-to-date electrical fixtures,
wall plugs newly located in conve-
nient spots. all of the walls repapered
and the exterior painted completely.
There should be a lively exchange
of ideas among all the business con-
Germs interested in modernization, par
ticularly among those which finance
the remodeling activities said the
committee report There are a vast
number of home owners who do not
realize what can be done with their
homes by means of a comparatively
modest expenditure. Building and
loan associations have millions Of dol
lars available for financing such ac-
tivities and are anxious to advise with
home owners as to the practicability of
, their undertaking such undermining
projects. The words 'moderniZation'
and remodeling' must be presented in
their concrete meaning to the home
owners before we can expect them to
undertake it on any considerable
scale.
Old Homes Soundly Built.
Thirty or forty years ago the palmy
days of the jerry builder had not yet
arrived and it can be safely said that
a majority of the homes built in that
| period and still being lived in are
worth some modernization money
being spent upon them at this
! juncture"
The Stars Better Homes contest,
which opened April Is. will continue
! through September IS. 1t Is being
Evening star., 1934-07-14
ARCHITECTS URGED
TO OBSERVE CODE
Committee Of American Associa'
ton Adopts Resolution
at Convention.

Declaring that there is now op-
portunity under N. r. A. authority
for a determined and effective effort
to do away with unfair practices and
abuses that have been so long det-
rimental to the public as well as
the building industry, the American
Institute Of Architects Committee on
industrial Relations submitted a res
olution, that vas accepted, to the as
sociation convention held here re-
Gently calling upon the members TO
observe in spirit and carry out in
letter the provisions of the adopted
codes"
The committee. Of which william
Orr Ludlow is chairman. also intro
duced a resolution recommending to
chapters OF the institute and the
architectural profession as a whole
that they take active part in any
movement in their respective States
for the organization of State Con-
struction Leagues along the lines in
dicated in the general conditions re-
Gently issued by the Policy Committee
of the Construction League, of which
the A. /. A is constituent member
In regard to their study and re-
port on plans to prevent bid peddling,
ordered by the Board Of Directors Of
the institute. the committee decided
that no one plan is applicable coun-
try-wide, and that the detailed pro-
visions for putting into effect the
general provisions Of national code
should be left TO sectional groups
This, the committee added, is now the
accepted policy of the Government.
The committee ended its report with
the suggestion that 1T is now neces-
sary for each section of the country
to proceed as rapidly as possible to
organize itself for the purpose OF
determining and administering sec
ton codes
Evening star., 1934-07-14


Maryland there was evidence of the
same disregard for appearance. He
remembered q journey he had made
from Plymouth to London a few years
before and an automobile trip
through Holland he had had the same
season, and the orderliness, the neat
ness, the cleanliness Of those portions
of the earths surface we're a sermon
in the circumstances.
But the District Of Columbia. he
thought, was somewhat less open to
criticism than the suburbs of New
York In fairness, however, ne was
obliged to concede that even in
Washington there is room for i'm
provement. A practical man. he
visioned the problem in practical
termS-the dollars and cents aspect
of the matter. Does II pay, he asked
himself, to keep a residential area in
decent physical order? The proper
answer, he decided. was yes. But he
realized that a good deal Of education
would be necessary before the entire
Nation could be converted to neat
ness.
Nevertheless, he was free to talk
with his friends, and among those
with whom he wished to confer was
Capt H c. Whitehurst, director of
highways In the Engineer Department
Of the District government.
whitehurst Agrees.
He caught the captain at the end
of a busy day, but found him deeply
sympathetic. You are right" was
his immediate reaction. The beauti-
fcstion of public highways is a job
in which everybody ought to share.
A citizen who deposits trash on va
cant land in residential territory is
guilty of bad manners and may be
violating the law by creating a .nui-
sance. Yet hundreds of people think
it is perfectly all right TO toss rubbish
out wherever there is room to put it.
We need a more highly developed
social conscience about such matters.
Europeans in general, he agreed, are
better disciplined against waste and
disorder. Il was with the A. E. F.
during the last drive against the
Germans. A fortnight later I had
the opportunity to inspect the sectors
which the enemy had occupied. Right
up to the line Of their furthest Nad-
vance I found evidence everywhere
of the attitude of our own troops
toward property; all along the roads
and over the fields it was possible
to trace the area of American occu-
patton by the presence of castaway
articles of equipment-even kit bags
had been thrown away. But where the
Germans had been there was no
such conspicuous disorder. They had
retreated on the run, but they had not
forgotten the habits of neatness and
Evening star., 1934-07-14

economy which they had been taught
in childhood. Even in defeat they had
been saving and careful"
Capt. whitehurst. however, insisted
that Americans are improving. We
are learning the lesson of unrestricted
wastefulness." he said. "and we are
beginning to understand that the
value of a property is increased by
good care. Great progress. indeed,
has been made in recent years. The
citizens associations have helped
alnog this line. and they deserve
credit for the good they have accom-
plished'
He urged Summer as the best time
for cleaning up" and argued that
property-owners and tenants should
include the cutting of noxious weeds
in their campaign against disorder.
Clifford Lanham, superintendent of
trees and parking, also favored an
educational drive against waste and
litter. 1T is an old problem" he said,
and a difficult one to solve, but l
believe people are wiser and more
thoughtful than they used to be.
1T would be immensely helpful If
every citizen would make sure to do
his own part. There are limits to
what organized society can do on pri-
vate property, and that means that
very large portion of the task must
be the business of individual property
holders. The District government is
glad to give aid toward improving
conditions, but it should not be ex-
pected to assume the whole burden.
The responsibility is general, and
every man, woman and child should
be willing to cooperate. 1t stands
to reason that the neater and cleaner
a community is, the healthier, the
happier and the more beautiful it
will be. The orderliness of home or
a town or q nation Is a measure of
the civilization to be found there.
Civilized people are not wasteful or
Evening star., 1934-07-14

pushed on every front BY citizens
associations. armed with printed lit
erature and contest entry blanks,
which are vieing for the special 800
prize for the best community drive.
Posters now are available also for
hanging in store windows and for
other display purposes.
Prizes in The Stars contest are
divided in two groups for homes
valued at $4,000 and less and for
homes appraised above that figure
In each class. the prizes are: First
prize. $2So: second prize. 500, third
prize. $50. and four honorable men,
ton prizes Of S25 each. A special
500 award is offered by the Board
of Trade as a landScaping prize.