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Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-01-17
Two kidnapers
Get Life Terms
First To Get Maximum
Penalty Under N. c.
Law

Winston-Salem-Th first to re-
ceive maximum penalty under
North Cardinals 1888 kidnapping
law, William Barham and Fred
Stevens, sentenced to life imprison-
ment for the abduction of w.
W. Pollock, Winston-Salem drafts
man, were taken to state prison at
Raleigh.
A jury in Forsyth county SUI
perior court found Barham and
Stevens guilty after celebrating
less than half an hour.
The stats relied solely upon the
testimony of Pollock to obtain con-
viction in the case. Pollock testi-
fled Barham and Stevens accosted
him as he entered his automobile on
a street here the night of October
IS, 1885, ordered him to the back
seat of his car and took him to
Rowan county.
Pollock told the jury the men
questioned him as to whether he
could raise ransom of $4,000 to
$1,000. Informed he could not
raise that amount of money, the
two took from him a wallet con-
tanning $38, some small change,
two pencils and a watch and after
tying his hands and feet to a tree
drove away in his car, he said.
Barham and Stevens were ar
rested later at Raleigh, where they
were sentenced to serve IS years
each for robbery of stores in that
city.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-01-17
Race Is On For
P0StmaSterS
Place.; s Enter
Peacock's Term Expires
Next Month; Candi-
dates Are Active
ROSS MAY SEEK JOB

P. N. Peacock, postmaster, whose
term expires February ~ of this
year announces that he is not a
candidate for another trem.
Those who have applied for the
position are said to be the follow
ing: Mrs. Maggie E. Calvin,
Henry L. Mangum, James H. Nc
Kenzie, w. F. Rattz, H. A. Rouzer
and S. A. Russell all well-known
Salisbury citizens of high standing
in the community.
1t is reported that the present
assistant postmaster, W. L. Ross
may also seek the position depending
upon the action congress takes on a
bill now pending which will extend
the civil service to include first,
secand and third class postrnasters.
Under the bill, the postmaster
will be appointed by the postmaster
general without term, and by pro-
motion or transfer from the postal
ranks, unless the postmaster gener-
al certifies to the civil service COM
mission that no one in the office is
capable of holding the job. Unless
this bill is passed, Mr.. Ross will not
take part in an active fight for the
job.
If the bill is not passed, the post.
master will be chosen by the usua
procedure. Those whohave appli
led will be examined by the Civi
Service Commission and the thre,
ranking highest will be the eligibles
From these three, Congressman R.
L. Doughton and the local Demo-
cratic executive committee will
choose the man to govern the Sal
isbury office. Date for filing ap-
p%lications expired January IA.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-01-17
Isenhour Renamed
Head OF Realtors

H. E. Isenhour, local realtor, was
reelected president of the Sails
bury Real Estate board at the II
nual meeting. Other officers re-
elected included R. E. Ramsey, vice
president; F. S. Cline, secretary
treasurer; ]. P. Mattox and Ross Nj.
Sigmon, directors.
Rentals advanced about IS per
cent during the past year, it was
reported, as we'll as less than 1 per
cent of the local residential prop
erty being vacant.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-01-17
IN Continue
'NRA Principles
Majority of Industry to
Voluntarily Observe
Provisions
40 HOUR WORK WEEK

Southern cotton-textile manu-
facturers had in their offices Tues
day copies of the pledge they are
being asked to sign in the Cotton
Textile Institutes program for con-
tinuation of the major principles of
the former MIRA code.
The pledge, when signed, is the
manufacturers promise that he
will:
L. Observe a work week of not
more than 40 hours in any one cal
endar week for employees engaged
in operating textile machinery in
side the mill or engaged within the
mill in handling material in process.
2. Pay a minimum rate on wages
for such employees of 80 cents an
hour in the southern branch and
81 IL cents an hour in thte north
ern branch, with the exception of
learners and workers partly inca
pacitated by reason of age or dis
ability.
3. Will not employ minors under
IL years of age.
4. Will not operate productive
machinery, defined as spinning
spindles and looms, more than 80
hours in any one calendar week,
such limitation to Apply to each in
dividual spindle and loom.
Leaders in the industry explained
that the Institute is just completing
distribution of the pledges and that
lit will be some time before an
nouncement of the percentage Of
the industry signed up can be made
They were definite in their belief,
however, that the big majority of
the industry will cooperate in this
effort.
Representatives of the greater
portion of the carded and combed
yarn groups of the industry went
on record in a meeting in Charlotte
Monday as in favor of the plan, and
leaders declared that they have no
CONTINUED or page eight)
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-01-17
Jackson Dinners
Attracted 5000

Incomplete reports indicate that
more than 5000 Democrats attend
ed the Jackson Day dinners held
over the state Wednesday night,
Mrs. Bessie B. Phoenix, state presi-
dent of the Young Democrats who
sponsored the affairs, announced.
Mrs. Phoenix estimated that her
organization would be able to send
about $4,000 to the Democratic
National committee, to be used in
retiring the party's debt.
The Salisbury dinner was attend
ed by three hundred young and old
Democratic men and women.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-01-17
I extile Mills Will Observe Code
Motor Failure Is Blamed For
Nations Worst Air Tragedy

Goodwin, Ark.-Engine failure,
due to clogged gas lines or some
other vital trouble, is believed to
have sent the American Airlines
transcontinental luxury lines, the
Southerner, into a plunge which
carried II passengers to death in
the Arkansas swamps Wednesday.
Department of Commerce Off
Gals, here in the aftermath of the
worst tragedy in American COM
mercial air history, heard two farm
ers who saw the brightly-lighted
ship struggling for life over the
cypress boys declare the ships en-
gines were faltering.
The engines were suffering and
choking just before the ship went
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-01-17

into its death glide, the eyewit-
nesses stated.
In haltering swamp country dia-
lect their eyes bleary and bloodshot,
their clothing caked with mud
from a night Of stopping through
muck and water to bring out the
cruelty mangled bodies of the vic
tins, they told their dramatic,
death-laden stories.
To these accounts of a stutter-
ing, faltering engine investigators
added the statement of John T.
Shea, prominent Memphis attor-
ney, who flew in the doomed Cali
fornia-bound ship from Nashville
to Memphis. One engine seemed
faulty when the plane left Mem
Iphis, he said.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-01-17
Better Homes Be
Sought For Low
Wage Farmers

Washington-An early confer
ence to determine means of aiding
the small-income group in the prob
lem of constructing new homes is
planned by President Roosevelt.
He estimated at his press confer
ence that at least 80 per cent of
the people who need better housing
are within the group earning ST.
500 a year or less and unable to pay
for houses costing upwards of S.
900.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-01-17

Washington-From any point of
view, the most important happen
ing in Washington since the Roose-
Welt Administration took office, is
the decision by the Supreme Court
that the crop control-features of
the Agricultural Administration
Act both in the original law and
the amendments passed last Sum-
mer, are unconstitutional.
The Federal Government, the
high court held in its six-to-three
decision, has no power to regulate
agriculture. That is one Of the
rights never delegated to the Cong
ress and therefore specifically re-
served to the States by the 10th
Amendment.
1t was a far more sweeping de-
cision that most Washington OBJ
servers had expected. The Admin
istration was prepared for a ruling
that the processing taxes and their
distribution in benefit payment tc
farmers for crop reduction were no,
Constitutional. Indeed, the mair
purpose of the AAA amendment.
of 1885 was to get around such
possible verdict by the Supreme
Court.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-01-17
Spanish War Vets
Install Officers

$3.50
Officers Of the James L. Watson
camp No. 20 of the United Span
ish War Veterans were installed Fri
day night at the regular meeting
here. ]. M. Mabry of Charlotte,
representative of the Department
of North Carolina, installed the fol-
lowing.
Commander, Albert S. Arndt;
senior vice commander, Henry w.
Miller; Junior vice commander, Ben
F. Lee; service officer and chaplain,
William White; adjutant and quar-
termaster, H. M. Armistead. G..
Brooks Turner is the retiring COM
mander.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-01-17
Fight
Ends In Death
Spencer Railway Officer
Held on Charge of Stay
ing Man

Lexington.-H. C. Rogers, rail
way officer of Spencer and forme,
Lexington policeman, is in David
son County, Jail on a charge OF
murder growing out of the death
of Ernest Michael Sc, of this city.
whose body was recovered from
High Rock lake near Southmont
after the two men had staged a
bloody fight on a fill, early Sunday
afternoon.
Rogers said they both fell into
the water at the point where the
fight began and blood splotches in
dicated a struggle there. Michael's
body was recovered several hun
bred feet from this spot, about 20
feet from the edge of the rip
raped fill. His account before &
coroner's jury was an apparently
confused story.
Seabo Wilson, who had been rid
ing in the cor with Rogers anc
Michael, driven by Mrs. Rogers
said he left the group when thu
car had been stopped and trouble
was brewing and did not turn back
until later summoned by cries from
Mrs. Rogers. Other witnesses tole
of seeing the men in the edge Of
the water fighting desperately, after
having apparently tumbled over :
guard fence and a 15-foot bank.
Evidence showed Rogers ane
Michael were both drinking.
Michael leaves a widow and eight
children.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-01-17
Sees Delay In
Restoring Roads
To Good Condition

Raleigh - Vance Baise, State
highway engineer, expressed the OPP
inion it would be spring before sur
face-treated highways Of the State
can be restored to first-class shape.
1--WE plan to patch the roads
where ever possible but it will be
necessary to completely rebuild
most of the highways" said Baise.
The recent severe freezes, snow,
sleet and rain did more than ST.
100000 worth of damage to the
highway system Baise has estimat-
ed.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-01-17
Woodson Again
Heads First Nat.

Walter H. Woodson, local at
torney, was reelected president Of
the First National bank here at the
annual meeting and the rest Of
the officers and all of the old
directors were also reelected.
The year-end statement of the
bank showed resources of $1,146,-
900 with deposits of $4,000
The stock and bond account was
$567,o00; cash of 100000 and
and discounts of $28S,o00.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-01-17
Mrs. Margaret Parker
Of Lands Dies At 81

Miss Margaret Parker, 81, of
Lands, died in a Salisbury hospital
January 10. Funeral services were
held at the Lands Methodist church
Sunday at 2 p. m. Burial was in the
Greenlawn cemetery at China
Grove.
Two sisters and six brothers
Mrs. W. L. Davidson of Lands,
Mrs. Pink Erwin of near Concord,
Henry Parker of Charlotte; Chall,
Bill and Charles Parker of Moores-
Julius Parker of Yadkinville,
and Percy Parker of near Lands.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-01-17
David Ovens To
Speak Here Jan. 80

David Ovens of Charlotte, pro-
minent business man, will make
the principal address here at the
annual meeting of the Chamber of
Commerce January 80.
The Rotary, Kiwanis, Civitan
and Lions clubs will meet with the
Chamber of Commerce and other
citizens, and an interesting occa-
sion is anticipated.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-01-17
DEMAND NEW CONTRACT

New York-Delegate to the
forthcoming convention of the In
ternational Seamen's union have
been sent postcards by the rank and
file members group demanding a
new contract on the East and Gulf
coasts similar to that in effect on
the Pacific coast.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-01-17
Plumbing Concern
Moving This Week

C. ]. w Fisher, plumber, who
has been located at 113 East Innes
Street, for the past several years is
this week moving to 1o7 West
Street, where he states he is
better prepared than ever to serve
his customers. He will also carry
an up-to-date line of plumbing and
fixtures.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-01-17
SWEEPING DECISION

After declaring that the process
ing taxes and their distribution in
benefit payments were beyond the
power of Congress, because the,
were not applied to the general
welfare" but to a limited Glass; and
that Congress had improperly dele
gated to the Executive: the appro-
priation of public funds, the de-
cision, read by Justice Roberts.
went farther still. The heart OF
the matter he pointed out, lay In
the purpose of the AAA, and that
purpose, the regulation Of agricul-
ture, is clearly unconstitutional, be-
cause it is an attempt on the par,
of the Federal Government to exer-
else rights reserved to the States
Justices Brandeis, Cardozo ane
Stone dissented from the majority
opinion.
The case before the Supreme
Court was that of the Hoosac
Mills, in protest against the process
ing tax on cotton. But so broad
was the Courts decision that it is
regarded here~as applying to the
Bankhead cotton control act, the
potato control amendment as we'll
as to the wheat, corn-hog, tobacco
and other Federal efforts to control
agricultural production. The de-
cision prohibits any attempt to en-
force any part Of the AAA pro-
gram.
Professors need not pay any
more processing taxes; the farmer
cannot receive any more benefit
payments. 1t is doubtful thai
those who have paid the processing
taxes can recover them from tn
Government, or that the Govern
ment can collect back from farmer
benefit payments already made.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-01-17
BUDGET, WAR, o

The Supreme Court decision
threw into the shade the PRESIDENT
budget message, which was handed
to Congress at the same hour that
Justice Roberts began to read the
Courts decree. Mr.. Roosevelt's
estimates were divided into two
sections, regular" expenses of Gov
eminent and relief expenditures.
The President estimated the Fed
eral income from all ource at
s5,654,oo0,0o0 for the next fiscal
year, which amount he figured,
would leave 100000 surplus. Blu
he declined to put a figure on the
CONTINUED on page ~
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-01-17
INCOME TAX LAW VIOLATED

Olympia, wash.-The 1885 Ore
gon personal net income tax law
was declared unconstitutional by
the State Supreme court. The in
valuation means the loss of more
than $1,5Oo,o00 annually in reve-
during 1886, the State tax
commission said.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-01-17
N. E.. Veterans to
Get $34,622,l62

Representative Patman, Demo-
crat, Texas, estimated there were
1926 World War veterans in
North Carolina holding bonus GER
tificates aggregating $34,622,162
and 35,747 in South Carolina with
Certificates valued at $1931,6831
which would be paid under the
house cash plan.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-01-17
SEED A

Washington-Legislation to pro-
vide $40, 900, 900 for seed and feed
loans to farmers in the 1886 crop
year was approved by the House
agriculture committee.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-01-17
G COURSE IN MARXISM

Athens, Ga.-Speaking at the
University Of Georgia despite a
protest of two American Legion
leaders, George Soule, and editor of
the New Republic, said college stu
dents should have a course in Marx
ism "ss be really prepared"
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-01-17

WASHINGTON .. Political
leaders Of both big parties gathered
here agreed privately that the start
ling growth Of the "Townsend 1900
per-month pension plan and the
threat Of Francis E. Townsend
<above), to organize . Third Party
aext year, might Be occasion Tor
real alarm.
The Washington times., 1936-11-14
Fate of Moses
Up to Parish
Officers

PEARL RIVER. La, Nov. IA
GNSJ.-The future of little
Moses" rested in the hands of
parish probation officers today
as Mrs. Louis Crawford fought
to regain the infant which
medical investigation has shown
was born to her last Sunday
without medical aid.
Now claiming the waits father
is a relative of her husband, the
wife first asserted that the baby
had been brought to her door
step in the mouth of a huge
dog.
The hoax was exploded by
questioning by authorities who
subsequently took the infant to
a New Orleans charity hospital.
Meantime, Louis Crawford, the
woman's husband, taciturnly re-
fused to discuss the case with
reporters. He said:
"Me and my kind has made
it up not to say another thing"
The Washington times., 1936-11-14
KILLING GIRL, ),
LAID TO MAN

CHICAGO, Nov. IA G.N.s).
Police today held Andrew Capoldi,
%, a 215-pound man, for question
ing in connection with the ruth
less murder of pretty 5-year-old
Antoinette Tiritrilli, who was
hacked to death with razor by
an aSsailant she described as "a
fat white man."
Before dying of the razor slashes
Antoinette gave an incoherent de-
scription of her attacker, who
stopped her late yesterday in front
of a public school.
Although holding Capoldi, who
was convicted in February of in
decent exposure before children,
police said they were conducting
a city-wide search to pick up a
second man.
The Washington times., 1936-11-14
.C0L0N|ALS )
TO BAT TIE
CATAWBA
Navy Eleven Invades
Harvard as Army
Plays Irish
BY FRANK BUCK" O'NEILL


Anchors Aweigh," the stirring
marching song Of Navy, rings
across the Charles River today as
the regiment of midshipmen, pen
nants swapping in November's
breeze, march across the Lars
Anderson bridge to face Harvard
at Cambridge. It is Navy's first
invasion of the Harvard strong
hold.
"On, Brave Old Army Team"
West Points challenge to the grid
iron might of the world, fills the
air at Yankee Stadium as the
United States Military Academy's
Cadet Corps, 1900 strong, sweeps
into the concrete home of the New
York Yankees to repel the spins
and reverseS of a Notre Dame team
made desperate by defeat at the
hands of Navy. A crowd of 10000.
mostly supporters Of Notre Dame,
will pack the House that Ruth
Built.
Catching the cadence from the
marching hosts of Uncle Sans
service academies, the football
horde Of one million strong joins
the advance on the country'S
major stadia to thrill in the
pulsing drama of sport that de-
velopS before them.
Yale Meets Princeton
Yale and Princeton, who were
meeting on the football field years
before football was on the athletic
calendar of the Service Academies,
who were national figures in sport
before the fame of Notre Dame
Continued on Page IA, Col. 81
The Washington times., 1936-11-14
F F0RT BELV0|R
FIGHTS FIRE

FORT BELVOIR, Va, Nov. IA
A general alarm was sounded
on the post here today as fire
broke out, destroying a barn and
about Is tons of hay and threat
ening to spread to the adjacent
stables.
When the blaze was discovered
by a sentry, the post fire de-
partment was called out, and
when the flames spread the
general alarm was sounded, call
ing out all soldiers on duty at
the post. All the Fifth Engineers
Regiment, stationed here, re-
sponded to the alarm. Cause
of the blaze has not been de-
ternined.
The Washington times., 1936-11-14
What's a Reporter
Gonna Do With
ACow on His Hands?

LANSING, Mich, 14.-When a
man bites a dog or a reporter wins
a cow-that's news.
William Muller, capitol reporter,
now has a COW. The COW, a gen.
uine Holstein- -Friesian with pedi-
gree and everything, was tied to a
fire hydrant in front Of the cap
itol when Muller reported for work
yesterday. And the COW had a
sign on her, Bill Muller'S cow"
When the gubernatorial cam
paign started. Muller bet Gov.
Frank D. Fitzgerald that he would
campaign in more than go
counties.
The bet was SIS against a COW
from the governors herds.
Muller won, and his fellow news
men are now wondering what he
is going to do with "BosSy."
The Washington times., 1936-11-14
COUNCIL PLAN
0UTLAWED
International News Service


The National Labor Relations
Board today ordered the Interna-
tional Harvester Company to abol-
ish the socalled Harvester indus
trial council plan" at its Fort
Wayne, Ind, plant.
Holding the "plan is neither
truly representative of the en-
ployes nor a properly independent
organization for the purposes Of
collective bargaining" the board
declared it an illegal grouping of
employees under the terms of the
National Labor Relations Act.
It found the Harvester Company
has supported the plan financially
to an extent forbidden by the act
and has extended its influence to
the point of dominating a sup
posedly workers organization.
The Washington times., 1936-11-14
OPEN GRAVE
IN TAYLOR
Staying
Gen. Denhardt Has No
Representative at
Exhumation

LA GRANGE, KY, Nov. IA
Q.N.SO.-Two coronerS and at
least four other persons who late
last night exhumed the body of
Mrs. Verna Taylor, 40-year-old
fiancee of Brig. Gen. H. H. Den
hardt, today weighed their find
ings in an effort to solve the
mysterious murder of the comely
widow.
Shortly after nightfall last night
the investigators entered La
Grange Cemetery, removed the
body from it's grave and took it
to an undertaking establishment.
After an hours examination, the
body of the woman, who was shot
during a ride with her fiance q
week ago last night, was returned
to its grave.
COroners Silent
CoronerS D. L. Ricketts, Of
Henry county and Koff Gividin of
Oldham county refused to discuss
the exhumation. Gividin said:
"The examination was held,
but that is all / care to say"
Beecham Overstreet, General
Denhardt's counsel, protested to-
day, contending his client should
have been represented at the
examination.
Meanwhile, General Denhardt,
a World War hero, veteran of two
other wars and a former heuten-
ant governor and adjutant gen.
eral of Kentucky, was at his home
awaiting a preliminary hearing
next Friday.
Offered to Name Slayer
General Denhardt and his fan
Gee planned to be married this
month. He was arrested during
the inquest following the discovery
of the body, and said he could
name her slayer if his counsel
would let him talk.
Present at the exhumation last
night was Sergt. John Messmer,
head of the Louisville Criminologi-
cal Laboratory. He has been ac-
lively engaged in the case, having
made paraffin casts of Denhardt'S
hands and other tests.
The Washington times., 1936-11-14
Youth Killed While
Watching Gun Fight

NEW YORK, Nov. "A GN.SD.
Norman Drahlich, 18. was shot
and killed early today in Brooklyn
while witnessing a running gun
battle between a police detective
and four youths who had at
tempted to hold up social club.
The bandits escaped.
Marks Mandall, a detective off
duty, fired several shots, and
police were endeavoring to de-
termine whether Drahlich was
shot by Mandall or by one Of the
fleeing gunner.
The Washington times., 1936-11-14
DE- FOG BALKS
PLANE LANDING

One Of the heaviest fogs of the
year early today blanketed in the
Washington Airport and other
landing fields for several hours,
making it impossible for planes
to land or take off.
The Eastern Air Transport from
Miami, due here at $50 this morn
ing, passed over the District at
5000 feet, above the fog, and
radioed to the ground that it
would not attempt to land.
The plane continued on its way
to Newark Airport where it landed.
When the sun arose, the fog
burned off and other planes ar
rived and departed on schedule.