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Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-02-28
K. of P.'s Hold
District Meeting

A district meeting of the Knights
of Pythias was held at the Zeb
Vance hall here Monday evening.
More than Us members were pres
ent from the lodges at Greensboro,
Chapel Hill, Winston-Salem Abe
marie, Salisbury, Charlotte and
Moonesville. Eighty-ax delegates
from Winston-Salem came on two
specially chartered buses.
W. M. Ruth, of Salisbury, dis
trict deputy grand chancellor pre-
sided at the meeting. The fea-
tured number of the program was
the dramatization of the Rank of
Page" Major Mertz, the midget
Pythian and dokie, and perhaps the
best known Pythian in the Carolinas
was present and spoke a few words
to the gathering.
Among prominent Pythians pres
ent were three past grand chan
cellors of the order, William B.
Burke of Greensboro, L. L. Caudle
of Charlotte, and Ben S. Houston
of Mooresville; and Claude Best,
vice grand chancellor Of Chapel
Hill.
A social hour was enjoyed after
the program during which time re-
freshments were served.-Moores-
vile Enterprise.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-02-28
Duke Power Co.
Appeals Case

Attorneys for the Duke Power
company Saturday started plans
for ~perfecting an appeal to the
United States Supreme Court from
the opinion handed down that
morning by the fourth circuit
court Of appeals upho!ding the
Federal government in its plan to
make a loan and grant to Green
wood county, South Carolina,
amounting to $2,s52,ooo, for con-
struction of the huge Buzzard's
Roost power project.
In an opinion handed down by
Senior Judge John ]. Parker, Judge
Elliott Northcott concurring, the
court held the act authorizing the
loan and grant constitutional, auth
orized Administrator Harold 1ckes
of the Public Works administration
to make the grant under the act,
and said the plaintiff would have
had no right to an Injunction, even
if the constitutionality had not
been upheld and if the authority
of the administrator had not been
affirmed.
In a strongly dissenting opinion,
Judge Morris A. Soper held that
the grant could not be made be-
cause 'the public utterances of the
administrator show beyond a doubt
that his loans and grants to NUM-
cipal power project would reduce
local utility rates."
The Duke Power company had
contended that loans and grants
for power projects were made with
the intention of regulating rates.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-02-28
Pou To Run For
State Auditor
George Ross Pou Fourth
To Announce For
Auditor

Raleigh-George Ross Pou, of
Raleigh and Smithfield, announced
his candidacy for the Remocratic
nomination for State auditor.
Pou became the fourth man to
offer for the post. Charles W.
Miller of Ashegille and Willard
Dowell of Raleigh already have an
nounced formally, while Baxter
Durham, present auditor, has in
dicated he will seek reelection.
II am a candidate for the Demo-
cratic nomination for State audi
tor was the only statement made
by Pou concerning his proposed
race.
A native of Smithfield, Pou was
a son of the late Congressman Ed
ward W. Pou, who for years rep
resented the fourth district in the
national House of Representatives
He formerly was superintendent
of the State prison department, and
was made assistant chairman when
the prison department and State
highway commission was consoli-
dated, but resigned to run for Con-
gress. He introduced a number OF
reforms in the penal system.
In 1884, he was an unsuccessful
for Congress from the
fourth district to succeed his faith
er.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-02-28
John P. WEBER

Funeral services were held at the
home, 200 South Long street Mon
day afternoon for John P. Weber,
SO, one of Salisbury's oldest citi-
zens who served four terms as al
derman, who died Sunday morn
ing. He came here as a young nan
from Baltimore, Nd, operating a
blacksmith shop and had the repu-
tation of having shod more horses
and mules than any other person
in the State. He was one Of the
organizers of the local fire depart
ment when it consisted of a bucket
brigade. His widow by a second
marriage, two sons and two step
sons survive: John P. Of Knoxville,
Tenn, Lamont, Salisbury; Kerr
Mowery, Salisbury, and Tom Now
cry, Raleigh.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-02-28
Gets Cute But
Last Laugh Is On Him

Florence, S. c., Feb. 26-Brooks
Rhodes was a headache for officers
hereabouts for the last "a hours
a sort of off again, on again, gone
again Finnegan.
Yesterday Rhodes walked into
the police station here, said he was
an escaped convict from the North
Carolina penitentiary at Raleigh,
and asked to be locked up. He
was.
Chief McLaurin Burch telegraph
ed Tar Heel authorities who said
Rhodes was wanted to serve out
two more years and hat he would
be sent for.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-02-28

Early today, Rhodes sawed two
bars in his cell and checked out,
leaving a notesaying: Thanks for
the eats and bed. When I get
hungry again, I'll come up and see
you sometime"
A few hours later Chief Sam Cole
of Timmonsville called Florence to
say he had picked up two suspicious
characters. One was Brooks
Rhodes, the other John Rhodes, a
brother and also an escaped con-
Wet from North Carolina.
North Carolina officers, already
here for Brooks, handcuffed the
brothers and started back home.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-02-28
Travels Over
World But Re-
turns To Pen

Central Prison, Raleigh-Ray-
mond Raglan sauntered up to the
iron gates of my Paradise LOST
last week, waved for the guard to
"open up, then walked briskly
across the prison yard into the war
den's office and said hello"
Raglan, who escaped from prison
five years ago and travelled abroad
while he was free, offered his hand
to the warden and said he was
very sorry he couldn't get back
sooner.
"T've been doing a little globe
trotting since I left you," the man
who is 80 years old said.
Warden H. H. Honeycutt, who
always remembers faces was puz-
zled. Then he remembered Rag
an. He said:
II got your letter more than a
year ago."
The stamp on that letter was
purple. 1t was from somewhere in
France. The letter ran something
like this:
Dear Warden:-''T've learned
the error of my ways. Here l am
way across the ocean and you over
there in North Carolina. I wish
l was back. Prison is paradise
when you are an esciped man feel
ing like you are being hunted every
minute.
I'm coming back soon. But
you see there are some difficulties
getting a passport. All I've got is
my army discharge and the consul
says he don't know for the world
I'm going to get out of here.
It'll take my birth certificate, he
Warden Honeycutt had lost the
But both of them remem-
it we'll. After Raglan, who
still has four to seven years to
serve on conviction of a highway
charge, dropped the letter
in a mail box he did a little more
globe-trotting - "about $4,000
"But if that is what it took to
get back here, I'm glad. My con-
science don't bother me now"
The warden scratched his head
and looked puzzled again.
"You could have saved yourself
a lot of trouble if you had given
yourself up in France. They could
have brought you straight across
the Atlantic and you wouldn't have
had to travel so far"
Ragan said:
'I'll be burned. Wonday why
| never thought O that?"
The warden said he didn't know.
Warden Honeycutt called a
guard and told him to fix Raglan
up with some clothes. Then he put
Ragan's name back down on the
Raglan smiled at the warden and
the warden smiled back. Then they
hands again like old friends
and Ragan was led to his cell away
down the corridor in "My Paradise
number again, a man
a name.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-02-28
THE death COMPLEX"

An interesting scientific article
in which Professor Donald A.
Laird points out the curious fact
that a gay manner often masks j
longing for death. One Of many
illustrated articles in the American
Weekly tissue Of March y, the
big magazine which comes regu-
larly with the BALTIMORE
SUNDAY AMERICAN.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-02-28
TO DEBATE TRADE TREATY

TO DEBATE TRADE TREATY
O~ttawa-Approval of the Cana
dian United States tariff reciprocity
treaty was moved in the House of
Commons by Premier Mackenzie
King. 1t prompted full-dress de-
bate, with conservative leader
Richard Bennett expected to oppose
the pact.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-02-28
DEATHS
R REENA

Mrs. Reena Mel Daniel, died Sun
day afternoon at the home of her
son, W. F. Mcdaniel, 217 South
Boundary street. The funeral wa.
held Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock
from the First Baptist church. She
is survived by three sons: W. F..
Toe G. and Charlie Mcdaniel.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-02-28

The average annual wage of en-
ployees in industry was $246 in
1S49, $445 in 1889, $40 in 1909
and $1.191 in 1925.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-02-28
MRS JAMES M. CASPER

"AA~1s JAAAAAo AVA oAAoA LIN
Mrs. James M. Casper, 50 died
early Monday morning at her home
621 East Innes street, where she had
lived for 20 years. The funeral
was held Tuesday afternoon at 3
o'clock at St. Johns Lutheran
church. Her husband and four
children survive: Roy NJ. Orange
N. J.; Mrs. III. M. Aull, Mrs. A.
W. Pinkston and James M. Jr., all
of Salisbury. A brother, Rev. L.
A. Peeler of Kannapolis, also sur
wives,
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-02-28
FARMER DIES
IN TRAP SET
TO GET THIEF

: Anderson, S. C.-Waymon
: E. Below, 57-year-old Antre-
vile farmer, was the victim
: of a trap door device he had
: set in his corn crib for rob-
bers.
He was fatally wounded
; Sunday morning when the
loaded shotgun in the trap ex-
ploded when he absenr-mind-
: edly opened the door Of the
: building. The full charge
struck him in the stomach
For several weeks he had
: been missing a quantity of
= corn and had decided on
+ drastic measures.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-02-28
Get Rid Of Poisons
Produced BY CONSTIPATION

a cleansing laxatve-plrety vege-
liable Blaok-D raught-H the first
thought Of thousands Of men and
women who have found that By re-
bortng the downward movement Of
the bowels many disagreeable symp-
toms Of constipation promptly can
DO relieved . Mr.. J. P. Mahatfey,
d Clinton, s. G., writes: II have
found that Black-Draught Is very
effective in the cleansing Of the syB-
tenn. When affected by the duh
headache, the drowzness and lassd-
tude caused by constipation, I take
Black Draught,"
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-02-28

The earth moves around the sun
once each year.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-03-21

HARRISBURG, Pa, March FL
UIP)-The city of Sunbury IN
the Susquehanna valley has neen
placed under quarantine, the gov
ernor's office announced last
night. =.
The quarantine does not AFFECT
removal of refugees uneXpoSed 10
disease from Sunbury to Shame
kin. Persons. exposed to an out
break of measles and scarlet 1e-
yer were segregated and held I'M
der an absolute quarantine:
All persons not engaged IN res
cue and relief work were stopped
ut the city limits.
Governor George II. Earle teie-
graphed President Roosevelt a re re-
quest for additional $90OO,OOO
for flood relief and rehabilitation
in Pennsylvania.
The governor asked that S4,-
100000 be added to the $l,OOO,-
900 already allocated for flood
emergencies, plus an additional
$5,OOO,O0O for direct relief.
The $4,0O0,0OO would be used
chiefly in rehabilitation, while the
81 900, 900 would feed and clothe
the hungry, provide temporary
shelter and medical supplies until
! the emergency passes. .2-g .sl..t-
I T. Flood 0vwatefsS i'm Pennsylvania
Preceded yesterday and undraped
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-03-21
Mills River Area
Damaged By Wind

ASHEVILLE, Mar. 21.-Tues-
davis blizzard assumed cyclonic
PROPORTIONS in the North Mills
River section of Henderson coun-
|ty. Charles G. Tennent, Asheville
landscape architect, reported yes
terday after a trip through the
district.
"Trees, fences, a barn and
even buildings were blown down."
Mr.. Tennent said. Residents Of
the community told me that the
snowfall in their section averaged
only six inches, with some deep
drifts, but the wind was terrific.
At the j. L. Garland farm at
the intersection Of Notrh Mills
River and Brevard roads, two
white pine trees go feet tall were
blown down and 20 apple trees
around the house were uprooted
Just as if q giant had pulled them
up.
C. L. billiard, another farmer,
had about 20 apple trees uproot-
ed.
At the farm of George Whita,
ker, q tall silo was torn down ana
smashed to pieces by the WIND.
The top of a corn crib was
blown off at the home of Waiter
Hooper and corn scattered over
the snow for many yards. a!,s 7
At the Allen Barnard place, the
,-.,(Continued on page threef >
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-03-21
EdneyvilIe Quint
PLAYS Cherokee
In W.C.T.C. Meet
County Boys Go to Finals
in The Contests at
CulIowhee

CULLOWHEE, Mar. 2l.-Ehe
Edneyville boys basketball team
will meet the Cherokee team lii
the finals of the annual Western
Carolina Teachers College tourna-
ment, and the Bethel girls team
will meet Waynesville.
The Edneyville team advancS9
to the finals with an exciting 20
to pa win over the Sylvia team;
Edneyville was never in the lead
although the score was tied twice
until the final closing minutes Oh
the game. ,,,.;,,o
In the quarter-finals Edneyyllle
had previously defeated Murphy
bv 4 30 to Is score.
The Mills River girls, who al,
vonced to the quarter finals, Wee
defeated in that round by thS
Wavnesville girls by score Oh
25 to 20. =, uonaorSor
county's other entry in the toufil'
amont, were defeated in the open
inc round of the tournament, oS
the Bethel team, the score De'''s
OK m 70
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-03-21
SPEED RELIEF
MEASURES FOR
FLOOD AREAS
900, 1000, 900 For Reha-
Utilization Would Be Pro-
vided in Pending Bills
200 DISASTER EXPERTS
ARE SENT INTO FIELD
ByHlL.LlER kRIEGHBAUM
United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Mar. 81. (UP)
Relief agencies last night sent
out nearly 200 trained disaster
workers to prevent outbreak of
serious cpidemics among the ap-
proximately 100000 persons left
homeless by flood ravaging east
ern states.
The Red Cross had more than
$50 disaster relief workers in q
dozen states while the u. S. Pub
lie Health Service sent IL physici-
ans and enough typhoid serum to
treat 5000 persons into Pennsyl-
vania and West Virginia.
Meanwhile, Montrose w. Hayes,
chief Of the weather bureaus riv-
or and flood division. warned that
the Ohio river would be at flood
stage stage for at least another
week before the crest moves into
the Mississippi. He said, how
ever, there was little danger of q
repetition of the disastrous 1927
lower Mississippi floods unless
there was heavy and continued
rainfall in the northern central
states.
President Roosevelt yesterday
had postponed his southern vaca-
ton for another "a hours to super
wise personally the governments
work of relief and rehabilitation.
Every possible use is being
made of army, navy, coast guard
WPA and CCC facilities to help
relieve distress of flood victims
and prevent further damage.
Regional and local officials have
blanket authority to give all as
sistant asked.
AS President Roosevelt renewed
his appeal for generous contribu-
tons to $3,00O,000 Red Cross
relief fund, Sens. Joseph p. CUT
fey and James J. Davis of Penn
sylvania withdrew resolut n S
seeking to transfer federal funds
to the Red Gross. Bills seeking
appropriations up to $1,00O,0O0,-
| 600 to help rehabilitate flood
areas are pending in the house.
Rep. T. Alan Goldsborough, D.,
Md, asked all congressman from
flood-stricken states to meet Mon
day to draft relief and rehabilita'
ton plans in the affected areas
with a view to speeding congress
sional action in case federal fund.-
are needed.
Maurice A. Reddy, assistant dis.
aster relief director of the Red
Cross, reported from Pittsburgh
that more than $4,000 persons
were being fed there in emer.
gency stations set up by the Red
| Cross.
Numerous Ohio communities ad.
| vised the Red Cross they could
supply railroad tank car loads OF
drinking water if needed in Pitts
burgh. They were told the water
was not needed Immediately but
might be later.
Twenty nurses were on duty at
temporary hospitals in Pittsburgh
I CONTINUED on page three)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-03-21
Hundreds Saved
In Hartford AS
Town Goes Dark

HARTFORD, Conn.,, Mar. 81.
(UP)-Hundreds Of men, women
and children, hungry and suffer
ing from exposure, were removed
to safety last night as rescue
workers labored frantically in the
darkness of flood-shattered Hart
ford.
Flood waters of the Connecticut
River, which drove more than Co.
900 persons from ther homes dur
ing the day, continued to rise late
last night, exceeding 3S feet.
Seven were reported dead in
the area during the early evening:
Electric light service failed and
was expected to remain out
throughout the night.
Telephone service was resorted
to 80 per cent of normal at mid
evening and the Western Union
had some wires operating to New
York and Boston. Hartford had
been without telephone service for
IA hours when partial service was
restored. No service was restor-
ed in the flooded sections.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-03-21
PROGRAM FOR
CONSERVATION
Is OUTLINED
Wallace Spends Hour Try.
ing to Give Press Com
prehensive View
ESTIMATE BENEFITS
ABOUT $40 AN ACRE

WASHINGTON, Mar. 81. UP)
Benefit payments averaging ten
dollars per acre are offered farm
ers for the removal of thirty mil
liof acres from intensive cultiva-
ton under the soil conservation
program replacing the AAA.
Details of the program, an
nounced by Secretary Of Agricul-
ture Henry Wallace, provide for
an expenditure of $440,000,O
in conserving the nations soil fer
tility.
This year is the first of two
year temporary program Of two
types. Payments to farmers are
provided for one soil conserving
payment, averaging ten dollars
per acre and soil building pay
ment up to one dollar per acre
for each acre of soil depicting
crops.
The farmer who divertS to to
soil conservation will get an aver
age of ten dollars an acre up to
Il per cent of the base acreage,
computed on the 1895 planting
If acresage is planted in legumes
and other soil building crops there
will be another dollar per acre
payments provided for the land
lord or tenant where each shares
in the crop or its proceeds.
Thanked by acting AAA Admin
istrator H. r. Tolley and four di'
vision chiefs, Wallace spent al
hour yesterday attempting to ex'
plain the complicated new pro
gram to newspaper correspond
ents. The conference revealed
that plans have not progressed tc
the point where an individual
farmer can tell exactly what his
reward will be for following the
governments suggestions as tc
the use Of his land.
The program is designed to en-
courage reduction Of the crops II
which SURPRISES have accumulated
The practical effect will be tc
paw cotton farmers slightly more
than last year for reducing theli
crops, while producers of wheat
corn, and a number of other com
modities will receive about nall
what they got in 1888.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-03-21
Receding Waters Reveal Horrible
Devastation In Pennsylvania Area

= n;cture of horrible devastation.
Death and destruction mounted
to appalling figures. Pittsburgh
was threatened by Il water short
ace Disease stalked through the
entire flood area. At Johnstown
health authorities urgently APP
pealed for gas gangrene vaccine
TO combat a strange disease, car
ried by flood debris, that initiates
the human body like balloon.
Relief expeditions expected to
reach all communities during the
night, with food, vaccine, medical
supplies, water and milk.
The death list grew in Hunting
ton, Sunbury, Milton, Williams
port and Kingston, bringing the
state total well above 100. An adj
ditional 200 were missing. Author
tiles believe bodies of many OF
many of the missing will be
found. Others will turn up alive
after confusion subsidies. Many
will never be heard of again.
Governor George H. Earle, as
surfing refugees that neither labor
nor costs will be spared in caring
for them, twisted legal strings in
an effort to borrow S1,O00,000
for relief. He asked the justice
department for a ruling on tech
nicalities preventing him irons
borrowing the money without a
referendum. o. 9JS- -EF
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-03-21
Danger Zone Shifts In New England;
Food Supply Dwindles, Cold Feared

but backing waters brought new
d myers in already tortured
Springfield. Chicopee, Holyoke,
South Hadley, Northampton, and
other cities and towns in that
Massachusetts area.
The Merrimack in New Hamp-
shire and Northeastern Massa-
chusetts and the Androscoggin,
Penobscot, Saco and Kennebec
rivers in Maine already beyond
all-time peaks, continued to rise.
Along the Merrimack, the cities
of Concord, Manchester and Mas
hau in New Hampshire and the
industrial cities of Lowell, Law
renee and Haverhill in North
eastern Massachusetts, were be-
set by desperate conditions.
In Maine, Brunswick, Lewis
ton, Rumford, and Auburn along
the Androscoggin; Biddeford and
Saco: Belfast and Hamden on the
Penobscot and Waterville on the
Kennebec faced new peril.
Ice, pulpwood and debris of
shattered bridges and dams
caught in turbulent streams
wrought further damage. ap.
Flood waters hammered at
dams in Massachusetts,, Maine and
New Hampshire. Should these
barriers burst, new areas would
be inundated. 1aG Tl-Zs-zsE -
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-03-21
downright 1896 by United Press)


BOSTON, March 81. (UP)-
Rapidly dwindling food supplies
and predicted freezing weather
plagued New England last night
as danger zone of the worst flood
in it's history shifted from the
Connecticut river valley to north
eastern Massachusetts and Maine.
Three drownings at Topsham,
Me-, and one each at Springfield,
Mass, and Lowell, Mass, during
the day increased New England
death toll to 80. Two others were
feared dead at Lowell.
Deaths were distributed as fol-
lows: Massachusetts,, 8, Vermont,
7, Main and New Hampshire five
each, and Connecticut four.
More than 100000 were home
less.
Property losses leaped far be-
yond the $100,00O,000 mark set
by the 1927 catastrophe which
claimed 125 lives.
Five major rivers in Maine,
New Hampshire and Massachu-
sets roared savagely with no re-
cesison apparent. go. =,
The Connecticut river, largest
in New England, receded slightly
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-03-21
J. N. BLYTHE, 81,
OF ENON dies
Was Last Surviving Con-
federate Veteran in
Pennsylvania

BRFVARD, March 2l.-J. NJ.
Blythe, 81, of Enon, the last Con.
federate veteran in Pennsylvania
county, according to the pension
roll, died at 3 o'clock yesterday
afternoon after an illness of about
three months.
Funeral services will be held at
II a. m. Sunday at Enon Baptist
church and burial will follow in q
nearby cemetery.
Mr.. Blythe was a member OF
Company f, Gath N. c. regiment
during the Civil war.
He is survived by four sons,
Joe, of Penrose; Versa, of Etc
wah; J. L., of Greenville, S. g.,
and Walter, of Austin, Pa. His
wife died three years ago.