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The Washington times., 1935-07-10
BOARD
SEEKS REFORM

RICHMOND, Va, July 10.
Headed by Col. Walker c. Cot
terrell, the State Prison Board
this afternoon appealed to Gov
ernor Peery for a larger peniten-
tiary to relieve a crowded condi-
ton among convicts.
The governor was urged to
make recommendations for the
probation parole and indetermi-
nate sentence plan which was de-
feated at the 1924 session of the
legislature.
Major Rice M. Youell, peniten-
tiary superintendent, at the con-
ference today said conditions have
made it necessary to place a.
many as three persons in a cell.
The Washington times., 1935-07-10
How About Old Brass
Rails, Mr.. Offutt?

beer in the old days, George, and
then eat a whole meal?. Well,
that's what we need now.
And while I am making all
these requests, how about passing
a law that an Old Fashioned
should be made in the old-fash-
Toned way. Do you know George
Miller, George? Well, if you don't,
he's the bartender at the National
Carolina watchman., 1935-05-31
Effect OF Ruling
| On NRA Explained

The effect of the Supreme
Courts decision on the NRA is
shown by the following questions
and answers:
Q.-What did the court decide?
A.-That NRA has no authority
to impose codes on business men,
Q.-Why?
A.-Because Congress exceeded
its powers under the Constitution
when it gave President Roosevelt
the right to sign and promulgate
codes.
Q.-What is the effect of the
Courts decision on NRA?
A.-Some lawyers say it means
the death of the Blue Eagle Others
say MIRA can be amended to meet
the Supreme Courts objections.
Q.-What did the Court say
about the NRA's powers to reg
ulate wages and hours?
Alt said NRA had no author
ity to regulate wages and hours in
a business that only indirectly af-
fected interstate commerce.
Q.-What will be the effect on
pending legislation to extend NRA?
A.-No one is certain. The
House Ways~and Means Committee
was ready to report bill extending
NRA two years when the Supreme
Courts decision was announced. 1t
stopped work Immediately.
Q.-Can business men now ig-
more codes?
A.-Yes, until and if Congress
snacts new legislation.
Carolina watchman., 1935-05-31

Chadburn. - ANY suggestion
or implication that the AAA paic
the expenses or any part of expense
incurred by the tobacco Or cotton
growers of eastern North Carolina
for their recent trip to Washington
is nothing short of an insult" a
statement released by William E.
Piver, prominent farmer said.
"As matter of fact I was a
member of that group from eastern
Carolina. l joined several Others
in providing transportation and
other expenses, solely in an effort
to protect ur interests. If an oc-
casion should arise whereby our
interest could be protected I would,
instead of furnishing two cars, pro-
vide transportation for one hundred
Or more farmers, at my expenses, -
he said.
The local farmer, who recently
returned from Washington, is per-
haps the largest berry grower in
eastern Carolina. Thus far this sea-
son he has sold $25 1000 worth from
his acreage of Strawberries and as
yet has a few hundred crates to
pick and market.
Thirty or more farmers went
from Columbus county. Advices
indicate that this group is more
than satisfied with their trip and
and they together wish it
understood that their expenses were
paid solely by themselves.
Mr.. Piver, with the remaining
members of the group, wishes it
stated through the press of the
State that they are solidly behind
President Roosevelt and the Con-
gress of the United States for their
activities extended in behalf of the
interest of the farmers and work
ing men.
Piver said, "Nor would the peo-
pie, aside from perhaps a few big
interests like IN Gee conditions re-,
turn to where they were in 1888,
when tobacco warehouses were
Carolina watchman., 1935-05-31
Get New Report
Redfern Is Alive;
Crashed In 1927

Washington. - Paul Redfern
American aviator missing and given
up for dead for nearly eight years.
was reported in dispatch to the
State department to have been
seen near Netherlands, Guiana,
South America, two weeks ago.
James L. Park, American vice
consul at Colon, Panama, reported
by telegraph that an unnamed in
formant had told him he had
seen Redfern in the Guiana coun-
try.
Redfern, whose home was in
Brunswick, Ca, was reported Sc
riously crippled.
The informant, according to
Parks report, offered to lead a
rescue party if arrangements were
made before June IA.
State department officials were
at loss to understand what Parks
meant by reference to arrange
ments," and have requested further
details.
Carolina watchman., 1935-05-31
Sales Tax Tops
Revenue Items

Raleigh.-The per cent general
sales tax with basis foods exempted
has netted $7,022,912.42 this fiscal
year and is now the largest single
money-getting item in the State
financial set-up.
The income tax, formerly the
chief source of revenue, stands in
second place with s7,o13,7S3.s3 as
Of May IT, and this figure compares
with $5,64o,747 on the correspond
ing date on this date last year was
$5,421,33654. -
The franchise tax, third largest
item now, has netted the State $6,-
5e3,S56.o9 as compared with So
45,699.19 on the corresponding
date year ago.
General fund revenues as of May
" stood at $2,474,SS5.91 after re-
funds of $60,466.s7 had been made
Carolina watchman., 1935-05-31
N. G.. Farmer Denies
AAA Paid For Trip

closed by violence by angered
growers who faced starvation and
ruination because of low prices. Ac-
ton by President Roosevelt and his
staff, resulted in adoption and put
ting in force measures that have
proved blessing for the tobacco
growers, cotton growers and others.
''We are for the acreage control
production and such other meas
ures as may be adopted and which
tends to react for the benefit of the
farmers Mr.. Piver declared. elm
North Carolina, thousands and
thousands of unemployed and un-
fortunate have been saved from
starvation by the CWA and ELLA
and other agencies established.
''Mr. Roosevelt and the Congress
have proved that the interest of
the whole people has been consid-
cred without favors to any select
group or class %
Carolina watchman., 1935-05-31
Textile Group
Will Discuss
Future Plans
Tobacco Manufacturers
Announce Adherence
To Wage And Hour
Provisions
Furniture Group Speaks

Industrial leaders of the Caro-
linas joined with others throughout
the nation in calling for continued
operations without reversion to
labor and trade practices in vogue
prior to adoption of NRA codes.
Thomas H. Webb, of Concord,
president of the American Cotton
Manufacturers association, said con-
versations with textile manufac-
turers throughout this territory led
him to believe sentiment generally
favored adherence to NRA practi-
ces regardless of the removal of en-
forcement provisions by the Su-
preme Courts decision on Monday.
He pointed out, however, that
the future policy of the industry
would be mapped at meeting of
the Cotton Textile institute in
Washington, adding that the insti-
tute. was now the only agency re-
presenting all the cotton manufac-
turing interests Of the nation.
C. P. Ryan of High Point, secre-
tary of the Southern Furniture
Manufacturers association, was out
of town and could not be reached
for his reaction to the elimination
of that industry's code. High Point,
which shares a major proportion of
the nations furniture industry with
Grand Rapids, Mich, anticipated
little trouble as result of the NRA
decision, however. Business, in
general, has been good, and no
trouble had been experienced with
labor even prior to imposition of
the code with the exception of a
brief walkout three years ago which
was attributed largely to sympathy
with striking workers of local hosi-
cry mills, which also form a heavy
concentration here.
Officials of the R. ]. Reynolds
Tobacco company at Winston-Sal-
em announced continued adherence
to wage and hour provisions of the
tobacco industry code. The B. F.
Huntley Furniture company and
Wachovia Bank and Trust company
officials did likewise. The bank
and its branches is the largest fin
ancial institution in North Caro-
lima.
An official of the American To-
bacco company, at Reidsville, where
it operates large plant, said work
ing conditions would not be affect
ed there. The wage scale, he said,
is higher than the code rate
Carolina watchman., 1935-05-31
FRESH MURDER CHARGE
PLACED AGAINST DAVIS

Concord.-Ralph Davis, notori-
Gus Davidson county outlaw who
was captured here by Concord and
Cabarrus officers in 1884 following
his fatal shooting of Sheriff God
frey C. Kimball of Iredell, faces
another murder charge, according
to information received here.
Davis, under 3o-year sentence for
the Kimball murder and other
crimes, is reported to have fatally
stabbed a fellow prisoner at the
Caledonia prison farm about three
weeks ago. It IS understood he has
been transferred from the farm to
death row at Central prison, Raj
eigh.
Carolina watchman., 1935-05-31
Act Declared
Illegal By The
Supreme Court
Court Acts Unanimously
---1ntrastate w a ge
Pacts Outlawed
NRA, AAA, FACA End
Is Feared

The Roosevelt administration
Monday night suspended compul-
sorry enforcement of all NRA codes,
following a unanimous Supreme
Court decision holding MIRA un-
constitutional.
By direction of President Roose-
velt, the suspension was announced
by Donald R. Rchberg, recovery
chief. The decision was reached at
a White House conference attend
led by Mr.. Rchberg, Attorney
General Cummings and Solicitor
General Reed.
At the same time Mr.. Rchberg
appealed to employers and workers
to cooperate in maintaining the
standards of fair competition writ
ten into the codes, pending the de-
termination of a future course of
action.
Death blow to the NRA was in
the Schecter poultry case from
Brooklyn, the court deciding, in
vigorous opinion by Chief Justice
Hughes, that:
l. Congress illegally delegated
law-making powers to the Pres
ident.
2. Federal control of intrastate
business through the -NRA is in
valid.
Carolina watchman., 1935-05-31
|MORGENTHAU TO SEEK TO
FUND BIG INDEBTEDNESS

Washington.-Secretary Morgen-
thau said he would offer con or
before June IS" an issue of notes
to refund approximately $780,
100000 of maturing federal in
debtedness.
Carolina watchman., 1935-05-31
DEMAND 100000 RANSOM

Mr.. and Mrs. ]. P. Weyerhaeus-
er at Tacoma, WASH, are ready to
pay the 100000 ransom money
demanded for return of their kid
naped son George, but contact with
the abductors for delivery Of the
money is said to be difficult. The
crime has been planned for three
years, it is claimed.
Carolina watchman., 1935-05-31
STATES CREDIT RATING
STILL HIGH

Back from trip to New York
Governor Ehringhaus said he wa
told by bankers there that NORTH
Carolina's credit rating is "stil
high"
The chief executive and Charlie
M. Johnson, State treasurer, wen
over the laws passed by the las
Legislature with the New Yorl
bankers, the Governor said, y ane
they were assured the State was still
in good financial standing.
Carolina watchman., 1935-05-31
NEXT HIGH COURT RULINGS
SCHEDULED FOR JUNE 26

Raleigh.-The North Carolina
Supreme court set June 26 as its
next opinion day.
The court has a number of un-
decided cases before it, including
the test of the validity of family
agreement for division of the $685.
100000 estate of Smith Reynolds
of Winston-Salem. 1t decides cases
at its own will.
Carolina watchman., 1935-05-31
SCIENCE MARCHES ON

SCIENCE MARCHES ON
Irish Doctor: ''Begorra, I've
knocked the fever out of him.
That is one good thing!"
Wife of Patient: ''Oh, doctor
do you think there is any hope?''
Doctor: Small chance of that:
but yell have the satisfaction of
knowin' that he died cured"
Carolina watchman., 1935-05-31
news
BRIEFS
LIQUOR STORE BUSY AT
ROCK HILL

ROCK HILL
Rock Hill, S. Crock Hills
first legal liquor store opened about
mid-afternoon Monday and did a
rushing business until closing time
The first license. for a Rock Hill
store was issued to J. T. Givens,
Sr., who opened store on Trade
street.
A steady stream of customers
entered the store from the time
it opened until it closed, and took
away the legal liquid for which
they paid prices ranging from SO
cents a pint for gin to $4.6S q
fifth gallon for Scotch whiskey.
Carolina watchman., 1935-05-31
WOMAN TAKES LIFE

Raleigh, May 29.-Mrs. Jane
Beavis Banks, 80, a patient at the
State hospital for the insane here,
died today shortly after she ad-
mitted taking a poison powder, hos
pital authorities reported.
Carolina watchman., 1935-05-31
INFANTILE PARALYSIS

Nine new cases infantile paraly-
sis reported to the state board Of
health bring the May total to y
cases. Ages of those affected
range from seven months to IL
years, and Eastern counties seem to
be afflicted more than other sec
tions. Two deaths have been re-
ported. The diseases has not as yet
reached the epidemic stage.
Carolina watchman., 1935-05-31
NRA CODES SCRAPFTD
Carolinas To Continue Codes
GOOD
NOR
THANK YOU!

Uncle John came to stay, and be-
fore he left he gave his nephew a
pound note. ''Now, be careful with
that money. Tommy" he said, ere
member the saying, "A fool and his
money are soon parted,."
''Yes, uncle" replied Tommy,
''but l want to thank you for part
ing with it, just the same.''
Carolina watchman., 1935-05-31
SIMPLE ENOUGH

SIMPLE ENOUGH
Assistant Editor: ''Here's sub
scr1ber who wants to know why
they whitewash the inside of chick
en- houses
Editor: 'Tell him it's to keep
the chickens from picking the
grain out of the wood"
Carolina watchman., 1935-05-31
YOUNG DEMOCRATS TO
MEET IN RALEIGH

The 1885 convention of the
Young Democratic Clubs of North
Carolina will be held in Raleigh
June 2S and 29, it was announced.
Carolina watchman., 1935-05-31

HAPPILY CAUGHT
''No wonder you like to fish, -
said the sweet young thing. cit
makes the little fish so happy to
be caught
''IIow do you know?' asked the
boy friend.
'They're always wagging their
tails when you pull them out of
the water"
Carolina watchman., 1935-05-31
|BEST DRESSED

(BEST DRESSED
Wife: II had lovely time at
the bridge club this afternoon
Hubby: did you have the best
score?"
Wife: s'No-I had the best
dress"
Carolina watchman., 1935-05-31
NEW CONSCIENCE

NEW CONSCIENCE
'What is conscience?" the Sun
day school teacher asked. There
was dead silence. 'What is it that
tells us when we do wrong?" the
teacher went on.
II KNOW" piped up the ittlest
girl in the class; ''it's grandma.
Carolina watchman., 1935-05-31
VERACITY

VERACTTY
Wife: ''What do you mean COM
ing home at this time of the morn
ing?'
Hubby: my dear, it's just II
o'clock"
Wife: ''It's past 3 o'clock"
Hubby: ''Have your own way,
dear, if you will, and believe nine
ey-eight cent clock instead of me. "
Carolina watchman., 1935-05-31
| III. S. BONDS TO HIGH
BIDDER

The government is asking the
country for loan of 100 million
dollars, to be secured by 3 per cent
bonds of 1946-4S, to supplement
and bear same date as 1925, 100000
of this issue sold June IS, 1884.
The bonds will be sold to highest
bidders.
Carolina watchman., 1935-05-31
THE ONLY HOPE

A motorist stopped at village
tea-house where he was supplied
with some very hard and ancient
cakes. He glanced at the menu and
then sent for the manageress.
II see from your bill Of fare, %
he said mildly, that your cakes
are all home baked, and that
you supply socials and clubs"
''That's right, SIR said the man
ageress.
WELL" said the customer, ''jus,
lend me one of your clubs, vii
you?'
Carolina watchman., 1935-05-31
ITS CONTRIBUTION

Brain Truster-Do you think the
automobile has contributed any
thing toward your prosperity?
Contractor-I know it has. Last
year I built a new hospital for the
town and this year they have given
me contract to build an addition
to it.
Carolina watchman., 1935-05-31

EROM an unseen voice double,
- singing anonymously for Hol-
iywood movie stars, Francia White,
the California songbird, has be-
come one of radios leading So
pranos in the brief period Of few
months.
a. Miss White is shown as she
appeared in the film capital, am
bilious but unknown. She doubled
for Virginia Bruce as Jenny Lind
singing sequences in the motion
picture .The Mighty Barnum.y
Carolina watchman., 1935-05-31

LIQUOR VOTE IN NASH
JULY
The Nash county commissioners
voted unanimously to order IL
quor referendum for July s.
Carolina watchman., 1935-05-31

,SH-I-H
''What do you intend doing
when you come out of prison?''
''If l tell you, chaplain, promise
me you won't let on"
Carolina watchman., 1935-05-31

Angry Guide: ''Why didn't you
shoot the tiger?''
The Tinid Hunter: ''He didn't
have the right kind of expression
on his face for rug
Carolina watchman., 1935-05-31

Another reason for the recent
speed shown by the Senate is the
apparent decision of the Republi-
can minority to use no more OBJ
structive tactics, a decision in
which some of the anti-Adminis-
tration Democrats appear to have
concurred. There are several rea-
sons for this change of tactics, the
principal one being the belief that
the Supreme Court will nullify
more than one of the measures
now in process of passing. The
CONTINUED On page y
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-11-22

Doc, the pee pulls friends don't
abuse Wall street 50 much as they
used to do"
mo. 1'see, Wall street goes to
sleep when it doesn't have any sheep
to count"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-11-22
Foes Of Labor's Right to Organize
Held Laying Basis For Dictatorship

Iong-range problem Of placing the
industrial and economic life Of the
nation on more stable basis Berry
said.
The other he added, calls for a
decision as to whether congress
should 81 should not attempt legis-
lation for continuance of NRA in
some permanent form,
That question, Berry said, already
had brought forth many opinions,
but direct, decisive answer would
exert a profound influence over the
course Of events during the next
session Of congress "
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-11-22
new YORK LOAN
SHARKS
Sentenced AS Migrants

New York City (ILNs)-Three
loan sharks who preyed on wage earn
ers, We're sentenced to 80 days in the
workhouse by Magistrate Aurelio in
Harlem court, following conviction on
charges of vagrancy.
Magistrate Aurelio said that he
was taking it upon himself, in the
circumstances, to broaden a section
of the criminal code applying to
vagrancy. The prisoners, detectives
testified, exacted exhorbitant rates of
interest from persons of low income.
The detectives said the prisoners
appeared to have no visible means
Of support and therefore were ar
rested as Migrants. Detective Wit
tenberg said many complaints had
been received Of delinquent borrow
ers being beaten into Inconsistencies.
After referring to the loan-shark
investigation in which Thomas E.
Dewey, special racket prosecutor, has
held twenty-five men, Magistrate
Aurelioa said:
u intend to construe the law to
mean that any person who has no
lawful visible means Of employment
lis vagrant. Although the word
unlawful was not used in Section
887, Subdivision /, feel the legis-
Iature intended it that way.
The trouble may be that some
Of our magistrates have not con-
strued the law in this manner. 1t
Is my contention that where it can
Be shown that persons existing with
out lawful employment can ride in
expensive cars, wear diamonds and
like in penthouses and are maintain
ing themselves by money earned un
lawfully; they are vagrants and
guilty. This is an enlargement OF
The word 'vagrancy' as heretofore
used.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-11-22

indianapolis, (ILNS) Interests
who seek to prevent the voluntary
organization Of workers are laying
the basis for dictatorship in the Unit
ed States, Woodruff Randolph, secre-
tary- treasurer of the International
Typographical Journal, declares in an
editorial in the Typographical Jour
nal. The editorial says.
"Over a period of l59 years the
constitution of the United States has
been amended twenty-one times,
so that our government could keep
pace with our industrial develop
ment as we'll as our improved out
look as regards morals and govern
ment. It is now strongly intimated
that all progress should stop and
we must turn our eyes backward and
try to call back an era long since
passed out of existence.
Organized labor has made much
progress in the past twenty-five
years and desires that its outlook
be forward instead Of backward,
Those who have historically combated
the aims and ideals Of organized
labor are also those who are decrying
necessary changes in our constitution,
Although an attempt was made
to protect labor in its rights to
organize the supreme court has made
it clear that the federal government
can exercise limited authority along
that line.
"A glance at foreign countries
where relationships have been
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-11-22
RAIL OPERATION
By U. S. Possible, East
man Admits

st. Louis, Mo. (ILNS(-The idea Of
government operation Of the railroads
was in mo way shocking to him" and
there is much to be said for it, JOS
eph B. Eastman, federal co-ordinator
of transportation, told the annual or
ganization conference of the Brother
hood of Railway Clerks ehre.
Eastman added, however, that he
was mot yet ready" to recommend
such a course as the way out of the
sorry mess" the railroads have got
ten into. He foresaw federal opera
tion only as a last recourse"
Stressing what he said was the rail-
roads need for greatest operating
efficiency at lowest possible cost" he
said that, although consolidation and
unification economies would throw
some men out of work in the imme-
diate future, there will be more jobs
in the long run if you accept these
economies now"
If you do not he asserted, IF
you insist that two men must do work
that could be safely and efficiently
performed by one, you are helping to
close the door against future increase
in employment opportunities"
In discussing the question Of gov
ernment operation of the railroads,
the co-ordinator and he had been
unwilling to recommend the step un-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-11-22

established is sufficient to Indicate
the danger to organized labor in this
country. Without exception dictators
have abolished organized labor, as
we know it, and substituted govern
ment-controlled syndicates with little
or no freedom Of choice OF action BY
the workers themselves.
"Thus it follows that those
who are now making and always
have made every effort to pre-
vent voluntary organization Of
industrial workers are very def
nitely laying the basis for dicta-
torship in this country There
IL no question but what they will
resort to all Of the pressure here
tofore used to prevent the growth
of organized labor in this country.
1T likewise follows that unless
organized labor desires 10 return to
the coercion and suppression Of the
past it must take definite steps
either IN each state legislature OF
through an amendment 70 the consti-
tuition Of the United States to punish
employers for interfering with the
voluntary organization Of employees.
Waving the flag and talking about
how good the constitution has been
is no intelligent way to attempt a
solution Of economic problems Of
today Those who talk about the
constitution do not advocate any plan
for better distribution of the re
suits Of labor Demand Of them a
definite plan