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Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-09-07
Dies From
Pistol Wounds

John Dennis Pinkston, three-and-
a-half -year-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. R. S. Pinkston, of 425 South
Ellis street, died early Monday
morning at the Lowery hospital
from a pistol bullet wound inflicted
Sunday afternoon while his twin
brothers, Bobby and Jimmy, played
with an old pistol they had taken
the wall at the home of their
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. H. S.
'Pinkston, at 22S West Monroe St.
The children's mother was in the
Salisbury hospital, where she under
went a major operation last week.
Their father placed the three chill
dren in a room to take an afternoon
sleep and he was in an adjoining
room where he heard the pistol
shot. The child was shot through
the abdomen, the bullet also going
through his arm.
Mr.. and Mrs. Pinkston, the latter
being formerly Miss Olga Davis, of
Winston-Salem, haye four children,
one younger than John Dennis.
The funeral was conducted Tues
day morning at 10 o'clock from
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. H. S.
Pinkston.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-09-07
Legion Jubilee
Here Sept. z

A jubilee for all posts of the
American Legion in the fourteenth
district is planned here Friday, Sept.
7, under the auspices of the Samuel
Hart post of the Legion.
The fourteenth district won
major honors at the state conven-
ton in Greensboro last week. Miss
Esther Hambley was crowned as
winner Of the beauty pagent and
given the title of Miss North Caro-
the new state commander
Hubert Olive, of Lexington is from
this district as well as the new presi-
dent of the Legion auxiliary, Mrs.
M. Shumway, also of Lexington.
principals, as we'll as State,
Commander Tom Daniels, of New
will be here for the occasion.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-09-07
Seek Half Billion New T AXIS
Revenues
For August Were
Below Last Year
Almost Two Million Col
lected Last Month

Raleigh.-The States general
fund collections for August were
below those of August last year,
due to heavy franchise collections
in that month last year, which had
been paid earlier this year, a con-
dition which placed the fiscal year
two months-collection above
those of the same period last year,
the report of Commissioner Of
Revenue A. J. Maxwell for August
shows.
August collections amounted to
s1,S66,9SS.36, as compared with
$2,045,754.74 in August, 1888,
but the collections for July and
August this year amounted to 49,
'062,S36.16 as compared with 3d.
471,959.61 in the same month last
year. Sales tax collections reached
$549,361.29 in August, as compar-
ed with $35S,579.3o in August last
year, while the July-August col
lections were $1,105 ,941.36. The
beer tax showed a slight increase,
$4o,5S1.o9 in August and $780,
93o.s4 in August, 1888. Inherit
ance tax collections were $780,
1913, and in August 1888, were
$685.. License tax collections
reached 500, 103.O6, and were
I$161,162.l7 in August last year;
franchise taxes were $1,057,O15.S8
and last August were $1,402,-
1887; income taxes showed a
slight increase, to ~$S9,12l.52, from
$75,21o.61 last August.
In the calendar year since last
January, automobile license plates
have brought in $6,343,981.S7, or
$1,~306,211.67 more than at this
same date last year, when c%ollec-
lions were $5,037,77O.20. Revenue
from all motor vehicle sources in
August was $1,577,147.25 as COM
pared with $1,345,56O.36 in Au-
gust, 1888. In the two months of
the fiscal year, July and August,
this revenue was $3,104,111.96, an
increase of $245,156.27 over COL
lections in July and August of last
year. The bulk of the increase was
in gasoline taxes.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-09-07

Frank Parker Stockbridge is one
of the deans of American journal
ism. He is of that school of news
papermen who made American
newspapers great, a vital part of our
national life -. Stockbridge knows
news and how to write it. He has
a special gift of paralleling world
news with the little everyday in
cident Of life so that all who read
may understand. He is a news
paper nan whose writings to know
is to like.
Mr.. Stockbridge is a regular
member of OUT; staff. His "Today
and Tomorrow" column is present.
ed every week. You should list it
on your regular weekly reading
You will find Stockbridge's
To-day and Tomorrow" on page
four in this issue of the Watchman.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-09-07
Six Mills
In County
AreClosed
Violence Flares As Fly
ing Squadrons' Force
~Shutdowns
ACTS

Violence was reported Tuesday
and Wednesday as the adherents of
the United Textile Workers Of
America pushed their plans to ex-
tend the general strike into every
southern cotton mill. The strike
effects the cotton, silk and wool
industries.
1t was reported that over 2Oo,-
900 were already idle as the strike
continued to spread.
Six cotton mills in Salisbury, en-
ploying about 1900, are closed.
Two were closed directly as a result
of workers on strike and the other
-four by a shutdown.
Those closed by the strikers were
Cannon mills No. 7 and Klumac.
Rowan Nos. l and 2 posted a notice
of closing at the. end of last week,
ezsadid 1hez Gartex mills. The Sails
bury mill, which was observing a
holiday, posted a notice it would
be closed indefinitely.
The China Grove cotton mills of
China Grove also closed, workers
going out Monday.
Mills at Lands, Rockwell and
Yadkin continued to operate with
out interruption.
Carolinas leaders, their battle to
close every mill half won, showed
the way as automobile caravans of
STRIKERS roared through the coun-
tryside, shutting down mill after
mill through persuasion or weight
of numbers.
Eighty thousand of the approx
mately 100000 workers in the two
states watched the battle or turned
in themselves to aid organized pick
cts. Approximately $50 cotton
textile and silk mills were closed,
with a similar number operating.
In most cases the appearance Of
the Carolina flying squadron"
was peaceful, but in the Gastonia
area doors were broken open at
some mills, power shut off and ma
chimes INDEBTED as workers were
ordered from their frames.
The flying squardrons' ranged
in number from 20 to 1000 men.
Many mills closed at their mere ap-
|proach until further notice."
Many workers walked out at the
persuasion of squadron leaders and
some of them joined the squadrons.
Governor Ehringhaus warned in
a statement that the full power of
the law would be used to put down
persistent violence in the current
textile strike in the state, regardless
of by whom it is practiced.
The governors statement came
after he had kept constantly in
touch throughout the day and
night with the strike situation, and
after reports of disorder threats had
sifted in from at least six heavily
populated textile areas
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-09-07
St. Marks Church
To Present Play

The Luther League of St. Marks
Lutheran Church will present Lii
liam Mortimer's production of "The
Path Across the HILL" a comedy
drama in three acts, Friday night,
September 9TH, at 500 o'clock.
The scene of this production will
take place in the Central school
building, six miles Southwest of
Salisbury, on the Salisbury-Moores-
vile highway.
The cast: Misses Ally Good
Lucille Cauble, Dorothy
Cauble, Edna Hoffner, Margaret
Yost; Cletus Beaver, Hubert Shu-
lenburger, Herman Shulenburger,
Murice Goodnight, Carl Deal.
Special music will be arranged by
the China Grove string band.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-09-07
CONVICT KILLED

Vernon Whitaker, 32-year-old
escaped convict, was hot down in
Vance county Sunday morning by
E. Kearney. Whitaker escaped
from the Halifax prison camp on
October II, 1888. The killing was
the aftermath Of a quarrel provok-
ed by the convict, and Kearney was
.~exenerated by ac%oroner,s jury.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-09-07
Lindbergh's Expect
Stork This Month

The Boston Post says that Col
onel and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh
are expecting the birth of another
child about the third week of Sep
TENDER.
1.-The stork, according to pres
emit expectations, will arrive the
third week of this month" says
the newspaper, sand a private suite
has been engaged for Mrs. Lind
bergh at the Wyman house of the
Cambridge hospital"
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-09-07
{%5 I||1'E
WASHINGTON
White House Com
ment
Richberg and Johnson
Look Toward Winter

the New Deal that is taken serious
ly in Washington is the. American
Liberty League. This is a nom
partisan group of industrial leaders
and political experts which has as
its avowed purpose the stopping of
further encroachments upon the
constitutional rights of the taxpay-
ing, property-owning classes.
The caliber of the League may be
gathered from the character and
regulations of the men who organ
lied it. These include two former
candidates for the Presidency, John
W. Davis and Alfred E. Smith;
two former chairmen of the Demo-
cratic National Committee, John J.
Rascob and Jouett Shouse; such Re-
publican leaders as Representative
James W. Wadsworth and former
Governor Nathan L. Miller of New
York; a powerful industrialist of
independent political standing,
Irenee Du Pont, and several Others
of national reputation.
The only comment that has come
from the White House on the Lib
erty League is the Presidents re-
mark to the effect that it seems to
be an organization in the interest
of property, with the Ten Com
mandments left out of its charact-
The Administration plans to re-
organize all of the recovery agencies
into n unit-putting NRA
AAA ERA, PWA and all the rest
into one bag, as it were, r said to
be making Roadway, but there is
wide diversity of opinion as to how
to do it, and a great deal of dissent
among the executives charged with
making the New Deal go. This
dissent is not merely in words. Gen
eral Hugh Johnson got 50 mad the
other day that he offered his resig-
nation as head of the NRA, and
was only dissuaded by a personal
appeal by the President.
Back of General Johnson's at
tempt to quit lies an interesting
personal controversy between the
General and Mr.. Richberg, his chief
assistant. 1t is no secret that Rich
berg wants to be the head of the
five man commission that is to take
the place of the one-man control of
NRA. He has been working for a
long time on a plan of reorganiza-
ton. General Johnson beat him to
it with a plan of his own, which he
handed to the President as soon as
Mr.. Roosevelt got back from
Hawaii. Richberg followed with
his own plan. In a three-cornered
conference between the two and
the President, General johnson sud-
denly walked out and declared that
he was through.
Inside gossip has it that the
President, who leans more to Mr..
Richberg's point of view than to
the Generals has been looking for
a chance to slide the General out
gracefully. But he didn't want
him to go away mad and possibly
make trouble for the Administra-
ton. So he sent for the General
who in the meantime had sent his
written resignation to the White
House, and suggested that he tear
up the resignation and take a six
months trip to Europe, for a rest.
General Johnson smelled a rat.
He wasn't willing to absent himself
from the scene of action for six
months, but he agreed to withdraw
his resignation and take a two
weeks rest at the seashore. He will
stay on the job until a more subtle
way of shelving him is devised.
The av-oc+,o, =, +b,+ tho co~
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-09-07
NORTH CAROLINA "FIRSTS"

First in the manufacture of tobacco.
First in the manufacture of cotton textiles.
First in the production of peanuts.
First in the production of cotton per acre.
NORTH CAROLINA HAS:
The largest pulp mill in America, at Canton.
The largest towel mill in America, at Kannapols.
The largest denim mill in America, at Greensboro.
NORTH ROLINA LEADS IN:
The United States in the production of bed room furniture.
All other states in the hosiery industry.
Leads the south in mills that dye and finish their products.
Leads the world in the manufacture of tobacco.
Leads every southern state in the number of wage and salary
earners.
Leads America in the number of cotton mills.
Leads the south in the number of furniture factories.
Leads America in the manufacture of cigarettes.
North Carolina has the highest birthrate in America.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-09-07
Name
Strike
Board

Acting upon the request of the
national labor relations board,
Roosevelt announced on
Wednesday that he would, in the
near future name a special media
ton board to settle the textile
situation.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-09-07

The expectation is that the COM
ing Winter will be the hardest yet,
not only in the matter of relief for
those without resources but in the
strain upon those who have jobs or
incomes. Out of this feeling arises
growing talk of monetary imitation,
printing press money" to help the
nations debtors out of trouble.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-09-07
STATE BANKS SHOW
INCREASE

Resources of commercial and
savings banks and trust companies
in North Carolina of June so ag-
gregated $210,972,9eS.65 which
represents an increase of nearly s.
and a third million dollars owe the
report of same period last year.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-09-07

Anyway the automobile driver
who tries to race a train over the
crossing is likely to reach the GEM
etery first.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1934-04-26
Teachers Request
Slash In Salary
Be Eliminated
Over 800 Unanimously Endorse
Move To Restore Pay; Ask
Action Soon

Over 300 members of the Montgom-
cry County Teachers Association FRI
day endorsed a petition asking that
the 10 per cent reduction in their
salaries be eliminated effective as
of the beginning of the fiscal year Of
1934-35.
The resolution was presented by E.
M. Douglas, principal of the Takoma
Silver Spring High School. Copies
were ordered sent to the Board OF
Education and the Board of County
Commissioners.
Albert S. Cook, State superinten-
dent of schools, addressed the teach
ers Friday preceding the business
meeting. Maxwell Burdette, of the
Gaithersburg High School faculty;
Miss Edna Hauke, vice principal Of
Rockville High School; Mrs. Ruth B.
Clapp, Of the Bethesda Elementary
School and Miss Dorothy Young, Of
the Bethesda Chevy Chase High
School, also spoke.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1934-04-26
School Projects
Await Approval
OF Public Works
State Officials Have Sanctioned
Request For $572,873 For
Montgomery

Now that the State PWA office has
approved the application of the Board
of Education for the sum of $572, 1878
from the Public Works Administra-
ton, the program awaits only the ap-
proval of the Federal officials.
There are IA projects involved the
work for which the money is needed.
These are as follows:
Poolesville, $19,325; Sandy Spring,
$4,000; Damascus, $34,74O; Gathers
burg, $95,594; Alta Vista, $34,74O;
Falkland, $32,74O; Rockville, colored,
S33,694; Woodside, 10000; Bethesda,
$16,96S; Germantown, S35,740; Rock
vile, $4,000; Four Corners, $34,740;
gymnasium and grounds for eastern
and western suburban senior high
schools, SOL ,914 each.
DR.. Edwin w. Broome, county SUI
perintendent of schools, says he ex-
poets early action from the Federal
officials.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1934-04-26
Damascus High To Give
Operetta On May 4 and 5

An operetta in three acts, entitled
"Gipsy Rover" will be presented in
Damascus High School auditorium
Friday and Saturday nights, May a
and 5.
Principals in the cast are: Meg, an
old gypsy woman, Mable Fairchild;
lara, the belle of the gypsy camp,
Virginia Burdette; Mario, Meg's hus-
band, Eldridge Woodfeld; Sinfo
gypsy, lad in love with lara, Philip
Souder; Rob, lost heir to the Sir Gil
bert Howe estates, Glenwood King.
Lady Constance, daughter of Sir
George Martendale, Allie Mae Mox-
ley; Lord Craven, an English fop
"Doncha know" Roscoe Pearce; Sir
Geo. Martendale, an English Country
Gentleman, Thomas Warfeld; Nina
Sir Georges second daughter, Jessie
Burdette; Captain jerome, Captain in
the English Army, Roger C. Day; Sir
Toby Lyon, society butterfly Tommy
Grimes; McCorkle, song publisher
of London, Edwin Burdette.
Chorus, composed of fifty pupils OF
both high and elementary school.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1934-04-26
School System In
County Is Praised
By State Educator
DIR. Albert S. Cook Points Out
Montgomery Is Above Stand
ard In Fundamentals

In an address before the teachers
of Montgomery County in the Rock
vile High School last Friday, the
State Superintendent Albert S. Cook,
discussed the tangible evidences Of
school conditions and progress in the
County.
DR.. Cook referred to the intangible
evidences as being present but not so
easily stated or measured as the
tangible ones.
Taking as significant measures the
ages of pupils for the grades in the
schools and the standard tests results
in the fundamental subjects DIR. Cook
gave the position of Montgomery
County from the State Department
Investigations and studies. In 1921 the
county had 32.5 per cent of the pup
lis in grades too low for their ages,
while in 1888 only 11.8 per cent of the
pupils were below in grades for the
ages, according to DR.. Cook. In the
attainment of the children in the fun
damental subjects the county had
40.1 per cent standard in 1921 as
against 60 per cent standard in 1888,
according the state tests in the funda-
mentals.
The Superintendent explained that
school is standard in attainment
when the median score is standard,
which means that 80 per cent of the
pupils are standard.
In referring to the county record Of
10 per cent above standard in the fun
damentals and in the 11.8 per cent OF
pupils in 1888 as average DR.. Cook
said the county has a superior school
system.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1934-04-26
Preliminary Party Plans Presage
Plenty Pepper In Political Pot
Raleigh Chnn Urged For Commissioner And EdmOnds
Slated To Seek POstoffice- Republicans And Pro-
gressives Name Fusion Committeeman Many
New Faces Expected To Show On Ballot

Chances are picking up that the
political potpourri will be steadily
stirred and seasoned from now on
until the general election in Novem-
Der. Several things happened in the
past few days to again bring before
the people (who, incidentally, are
thinking more of economic problems
than of political wrangling) the fact
that many new faces will adorn the
banquet table this coming autumn in
expectation of enjoying a savory
feast. But even Plato in his day knew
that every entrant cannot win race
therein lies the tragedy Of a Mont
gomery County political fight.
The writer, with his aversion to
fractional party disputes and his re-
greet that the Democrats cannot get
together around these parts, believes
that this year will see an influx of
young men in politics, move consis-
tent with the general New Deal at
Washington. 1t is also his belief that
these young men may prove success
full, regardless of party ties, especial
ly where they present strong person
alities and proven worth.
One of the more important moves
of the week has been the mentioning
of Raleigh S. Chinn for the commi-
sionership in this district. It appears
that the Democratic organization
committee will endorse DR.. George L..
Edmonds for the Rockville postoffice,
where the genial and well-hked
Charles M. Jones will step down next
February. DR.. Edmonds had previous
ly given the impression that he would
seek to be county commissioner.
A delegation from upper Montgom-
cry County has already asked that
Mr.. Chinn be seriously considered. It
is understood that Mr.. Chinn, who
has always been Democrat, is
thought of as fitting in well with the
idea of younger men taking charge of
Montgomery's organization politics.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1934-04-26
Richard F. Green
Has Been Named
To Planning Body
Prominent Banker And Lead
ing Citizen Will Succeed
Herbert CiSSel

Richard F. Green, president Of the
Farmers Banking Trust company and
a leading citizen of Kensington has
been named to succeed j. Herbert
Cissel as member of the Maryland
National Capital Park and Planning
Commission.
Mr.. Cissel, president of the Silver
Spring National Bank and of the
Silver Spring Building & Supply Co.,
declined to comment on his resigra-
ton, which was forwarded to Gov.
Albert C. Richie several days ago.
Mr.. Green, who was indorsed by the
Democratic organization of Montgom-
cry County, will serve until May,
1887, when Mr.. CissePs term expires,
He is so years old and has lived at
Kensington about 80 years, moving
there from his native town, Leesburg,
Va.
He was connected with the Donald
son Dental Manufacturing Co., Of
Washington until he went into the
Kensington branch of the Farmers
Bank, where he subsequently became
cashier and manager. He later was
elected chairman of the board of IL
rectors of the main Office in Rockville
and was elected president when State
Senator Robert G.. Hilton resigned in
1888.
Mr.. Green is an active member Of
the Kensington Chamber of Com
merce, a past master of the Kensing-
ton Lodge of Masons, and served five
years as a member of the Kensington
Town Council.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1934-04-26
Amount Crop Loan Is
Reduced By Farm Credit

The minimum amount that may be
loaned from the emergency crop loan
fund has been reduced from $25 to
$40, according to the Farm Credit
Administration of Baltimore. The
maximum amount that may be loaned
$3.50.
Before an applicant may obtain an
emergency crop loan he must give
satisfactory evidence that he is un-
able to procure from other sources a
loan in an amount reasonably ade-
quate TO meet his emergency needs.
Loans are made only to individuals,
but the maximum amount that may
be loaned to the tenants Of any one
landlord in any one county may not
exceed $3.50. No loans may be made
to any tenant or to any landlord or
any other farmer who has means
Of livelihood other than farming. The
source of livelihood of landlord,
however, is no factor in determining
the eligibility of the tenants for
emergency crop loans if the tenants
qualify otherwise under the regula-
tions.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1934-04-26
Sandy Spring Firemen
Appoint Representatives

P. G. Lyon, first zone; L. G.. Burns
second zone; G. Rust Candy, third
zone; Chief Spencer J. H. Brown and
Maurice J. Stabler, to fill the unex-
pired terms of ]. ]. Hutton and Rob-
ert Cuff, will be put forward by the
Sandy Spring Volunteer Fire Depart
ment as delegates to the Community
Council.
Delegates and alternates to the an
nual convention of the department
were as follows: delegates, Chief
Brown, Roy Davis, Herbert Daley,
Taylor Cantwell and Charles Russell;
alternates: Frank Ely, s. P. Thomp-
son, A. D. Farquhar, Robert Cuff and
Earl Nicholson.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1934-04-26
S., 200, 900 Ship Model Basin AT
Cabin John Waits PWA Approval
Project Would Be Third Of Its Kind In The United
States And Has Been Talked Of For Several
Years By Navy Department

large, deep-water basin for work with
models of ships; shallow basin for
work with models Of river vessels and
high-speed basin for work with
separate pontoons. There would in ad-
dition be turning basin for steering
and turning tests, a general labora-
tory for testing ship structure, an
aerodynamic laboratory for testing
with tunnels, shops, power plants and
administration buildings.
The basin would be approximately
500 feet long by so feet wide by %
feet deep, with graduated scale Of
depth. There are only two similar
establishments in this country, one at
the University of Michigan and the
U. S. Experimental Model Basin at
Washington.