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Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-04-10
N. C.. Bankers Should
Be Greatest Boosters
New Deal Says Hood

Raleigh-North Carolina bankers
should be the greatest boosters of
the New Deal in the United States,
Quincy P. Hood, state banking
commissioner, believes.
Net losses of commercial banks,
he said, for 1882 amounted to
$475,69S.23. Net loss in 1888 to-
tailed $936.608.96.
Hood also revealed a big increase
in last years profits of industrial
banks.
In 1882 net profits were $50.-
$50. For 1888 they were $780,
759, but in 1884 they jumped to
1851. Then came 1885, and
net profits for the industrial banks
scared to $268,475.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-04-10
Options Taken
For Acquiring
$4,000 Acres
Largest Area to Be Part of
Blue Ridge Parkway
WILD LIFE REFUGEES

BY
the Resettlement administration
that it had accepted options to pur-
chase 100000 acres of poor land
to cost $35,S15,S52 revealed that
$4,000 acre have thus far been
contracted for in North Carolina
TO cost $1,1se,ooo
The area upon which options
have been obtained in South Caro-
lima is 171,803 acre costing ST.
100000.
The expenditure of $2,316,ooo in
the Carolinas to convert worn out
land into forests, parks, wild life
refugees, and grazing areas shows
that the states will share bounti-
fully as purchases are closed on this
property and additional areas are
acquired.
In Allegheny, Surry, Ashe, Wa
tauga, Wilkes and Avery counties
1000 acres have been purchased.
This area will be doubled later.
1t is one of the 1877 projects be-
ing carried out over the country.
This area is to be made a part
of the Blue Ridge Parkway, link
ing the Shenandoah National park
and the Great Smoky Mountain
National park.
In the sand hills counties of
Montgomery, Richmond, Scotland
nd Moore, an area of 10000 acres
has been acquired for a combina-
ton of uses, including forestry,
grazing, recreation and wild life
conservation as dictated by the
nature of the land and needs of
the immediate localities.
Similar uses will be made of 3d.
900 acres in Bladen county, while
the Mattamuskeet project in Hyde
county has been extended to in
clude $4,000 acres for wild life and
water fowl refuge under the bu-
reau of biological survey.
The Crabtree project in Wake
county, now only 5000 acres, is to
be extended and made a public
recreation area supervised by the
Federal park service.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-04-10
Much Love
Gets Mr.. Love
Into Calaboose

Edenton-Too much love has
landed William Love, young Muir
freesboro civil engineer, formerly
of Boykins, Va, in the Hartford
county Jail at Winton in default of
$4,000 bail on a charge of bigamy.
Sheriff Parker arrested Love in
Murfreesboro soon after he had
started housekeeping with Mrs.
Love No. 2, formerly Miss Mary
'Benthal, a local relief worker to
whom he was married by Rev. E. L.
Wells, of the Edenton Baptist
church. Mrs. Love No. l, who
married Love in Petersburg, Va, a
year ago heard of Loves latest love
affair, located the newlyweds and
Squire R. H. Underwood took her
complaint. The sheriff did the
rest.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-04-10
Urges Workers
To Form Union

Thomas F. McMahon, interna-
tional president of the United Tex
tile Workers of America, spoke
here Monday night before a public
meeting sponsored by the Central
Labor Union, and declared that a
great opportunity presented itself
to the workers, through organiza-
ton to better equalize the profits
accruing out of their labors.
The speaker recalled the progress
of the labor unions in the last few
years, and urged workers to organ
ize for their own good; to boost
legislative measures designed to aid
them; and to support their friends
for political offices.
Other speakers included John
Peele of Greenville, S. c., third
vice president; and H. A. Adams,
hosiery organizer. R. R.. Lawrence,
State president of the Federation
of Labor, presided.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-04-10

Winston = Salem - James L.
Grimes of Winston-Salem charged
in a public statement that his s.
year-old daughter, critically i'll
with pneumonia, was kept waiting
in an automobile outside City Mem
orial hospital here for As minutes
because he lacked Sc of having
enough to pay a weeks fees in ad-
vance.
Taken to another hospital later,
the child died the same night.
Grimes said he Offered the hos
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-04-10
Bans Nudes OF
Pioneer Women

Austin, Texas-There will be no
nude memorial to the pioneer wom-
en- of Texas if Lieut.. Gov. Walter
F. Woodul has his say.
Pioneer women may not have
been clothed in silks and satins,
but they were clothed in modesty,"
he said, protesting the statuary
Spirit of the Pioneer as depicted
by William Zorach of New York.
On the campus of the State Col
lege for Women at Denton, Zorach
would place a family group Of
nudes as a memorial to pioneer
Texas womanhood.
"There will be no nude statue"
declared Woodul, also chairman Of
the Texas Centennial commission
of control. He was supported by
L. W. Kemp of Houston, chairman
of the advisory board of centennial
matters.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-04-10
Report Damage
To Peach Crop

Southern Pines-Sandhills peach
growers estimated that freezing
weather last week damaged their
crops from 5 to go per cent.
The fruit crops in the section
south of Hoffman appeared to bear
the brunt of the damage with a
loss estimated as high as IS per
cent.
Growers in the west end section
of Moore county said the loss there
will run from 5 to 90 per cent,
depending on the orchard locations.
The orchids between Eastwood
and West End were not hurt.
Growers in the Southern Pines
section said their loss will not ex-
coed about 80 per cent-the equi-
valent of the regular pruning.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-04-10
GOLD RING TELLS OF


Gainesville, Ga. - A brother
sought his sister, hoping against
hope. "My sister was wearing a
plain gold ring on the third
finger of her right hand" he said.
A friend poked among the mangled
remains piled in a heap. With a
he raised a frame of bones that
once was a hand. On the third
finger, all but molted away, was
a plain gold ring.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-04-10
Hospital Refused To Admit
Dying Girl Because Dad Lacked Funds

pital SIS and promised the balance
of the weeks charges of $21 imme-
diately, but that the hospital refus-
ed to admit the child.
DR.. ]. B. Wilmington, hospital
superintendent, said he was at
home and was informed of the
Grimes case by telephone, but did
not know it was an emergency.
The. prepay rule was laid down
by the aldermen except for charity
and emergency cases.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-04-10
H0ey Making
Few Promises
Realizes Promises Easv
To Make And Hard
To Keep
FREE TEXT O

Raleigh-"One of the things l
will work for as soon as 1 take Of
flee is free text books for the child
rem in our schools declared CLYDE
5. Hoey, candidate for the Demo-
cratic nomination for Governor, in
a public statement made last week.
I'VE already provide free tuition
and free transportation to and
from the Schools" he continued,
and in order to complete the pro-
gram we must provide free books.
The text books are the tools the
children must have to do the work
required of them and if the State
is to provide an equal opportunity
for all children to receive an edu-
cation, the State must provide the
books as we'll as the schools"
The candidate said that he had
made a study of the book problem,
discussing it with the State school
authorities, and had come to the
conclusion that the books would
eos' 'h'e Nv ABOUT $4,000 a
year and that he believed the system
could be inaugurated within a
short time.
But it must be remembered
that these benefits, like others, can
not be provided without money
and the State can get money only
through taxation" Mr.. Hoey said.
"You cannot repeal the sources of
revenue and still perform the de-
sirable functions of the govern
ment. We cannot have schools
much less free text books, without
taxation.
"Of course we could get rid of
the sales tax if we put the burden
of the schools back on land, but I
am not willing to do that. That is
one of the reasons 1 have not ano
will not promise to seek the repeal
of the sales tax next year. l will
advocate that it be taken off the
necessities of life at once and I
want it repealed altogether as soon
as possible. But I do not believe it
can be done by the next Legisla-
ture-unless we put the burden OH
property, or cripple the schools.
II realize, of course, that if the
nomination went to the man who
made the most promises, l wouldn' t
be hat man. But this campaign of
promises doesn't worry me any.
You see I have the advantage in
that | am a North Carolinian, in
the first place, and have been an
member of the Democratic
for more than 80 years. Con-
sequently, l know the people whose
vote I am seeking. 1 know that
they are the sort of men and wo1n-
en- who will face the facts, who
know that you can't reduce the
income and increase its ex-
pe%nditures, and who are not led far
astray by promises which their rea-
shows could not be carried
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-04-10
Unnamed Friend
Gives $1,000 To
Catawba Fund

An unnamed friend from a near
by city has contributed $1,000 in
cash to the Catawba college en-
dowment fund, it is announced by
Howard R. Omwake, president.
The college is seeking to raise its
endowment to 100000 and DR..
Omwake states that he hopes this
gift will be an inspiration to 9TH
ers to add to the fund"
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-04-10
ILLINOIS SET FOR PRIMARY

Chicago-The 1886 Illinois pri-
mary campaign rolled into its final
week in a cacophony of oratory
fully up to the requirements of a
State which likes its policies noisy.
colorful, and freely fought to the
last minute. Next Tuesday, the
voters will settle the issues at the
polls.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-04-10
Death
Toll Is Over 400
THIRTEEN in N. {.
Death And Destruction
In Wake Of Storm In
Seven States

North Carolina has been visited
by the storm god within the past
week in which life and property
have been exacted to pay toll in
both life and property. On last
Thursday morning about the hour
of $3.50 o'clock a tornado struck
the city of Concord and there laid
waste to many homes, business
houses and uprooted, twisted and
destroyed many of the majestic elms
and other fine trees along Main,
Depot and other streets of that usu-
ally quiet little city. Fortunately
no lives were lost, but property
damage will run into the hundreds
of thousands of dollars. The light
plant was damaged and put out of
commission for a number of hours,
the water was cut off on account
of broken water mains and other
calamitous hindrances were brought
about by the terrible blow, which
swooped down on the sleeping city
within a twinkling and without
warning. Concord has about re-
gained normalacy at this writing,
except that hundreds of houses were
damaged so badly that families had
to be removed. Several of the
homes were totally destroyed, and
it was said for several days there
were at least one thousand people
who were homeless until temporary
arrangements could be made. to-
take care of them.
1t was about twelve hours later
that the city of Greensboro was,
by a storm of tornado force
that came without warning Thurs
day evening at 7:15 O'Clock. The
destructive elements swooped down
the city in the southern extrem-
ity near the old Guilford county
fair grounds, going in a northeast
erly direction through the street
parallel with the railroad. Lum-
Der yards, warehouses, homes, bust
ness blocks, immense trees, automo-
biles and everything in its path
went whirling and tumbling, block
ing streets and wrecking homes.
people were killed, several
in their homes. Besides those kill
ed there were reported as many as
149 people in hospitals with in
iuries more or less serious. While
the fury of the storm lasted but a
few moments, and, people were
struggling for safety, fire broke out
in several places where the houses
had been demolished. Two women
who had sought refuge in a cellar,
were burned to death. Electric
wires were down and the current
had to be cut off in order to pro-
tect people from being %electrocut-
ed. Gas pipes broke, and the fumes
perhaps helped add to the toll OF
death and forced workers from
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-04-10
Mr.. McCARL

There are wheel-horses in the
present Democratic administration:
as there were wheel-horsts in pre-
vious Republican administration:
who would prefer to see a man in
the Comptroller General job that
would take a more lenient view in
the spending of the taxpayers
mony. But that is just what John
McCarl has always refused to do
He hasn't played bali at all the way
the politicians who were responsible
for having him put in the office ex-
pected him to play.
The idea of having a Comptrol-
er-General, to see that all money
spent by the Federal Government
was used in precisely the way
Congress prescribed, that no discre-
ton should be allowed to any Fed
eral officer or bureau and that he
should be responsible only to Cong
ress, vas originated by the Repub-
lican majority in Congress during
1920.
1t came as a result of the more
Or less unregulated spending Of the
Wilson Administration in war time.
President Wilson vetoed the first
bill creating the office of Comp
troller-G General, because it prohibit
ed the President from removing the
incumbent from office and gave
the executive no control or super
vision of his activities. Senator
Warren G. Harding was one of the
leading advocates of the idea of an
independent accounting officer.
Promptly after Mr.. Harding be-
came President, in 1921. the office
was created by act of Congress and
Mr.. Harding picked John McCarl
to fill it, because McCarl had al
ways been a staunch Republican
wheel-horse. He had been a lawyer
in Nebraska, where he still main
tains a voting residence at Nc
Cook; he had been Secretary of the
Republican Congressional Execu-
tive Committee through one or two
campaigns. and at the time Of his
appointment he was private secre-
tary to George W. Norris, Of Ne
braska.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-04-10
Hz Use Passes
Kerr Tobacco
Bill
N. c. Congressional Dele
CATION Implores
Governor
SENATE TO APPROVE

Interstate cooperation to control
tobacco production was approved
by the House.
After strong Republican opposi-
ton forced a roll call, the House
passed the Kerr, Democrat of North
Carolina, compact bill by a vote of
1879 to III and SEM it to the SEN
ate.
The measure would give congress
slonal consent to agreements be-
tween tobacco States to regulate
production, substituting a system
of State control for the Federal
regulation which ceased when the
Supreme Court invalidated the
agricultural adjustment act.
Proponents contended a system
of control through States was nee
essary to supplement the govern
ment's new soil conservation pro-
gram as it relates to tobacco. u
Opposition was based Upon the
contention that regulation Of aeri-
cultural production was "un-Am-
erican,' and that the compact pro-
posal was merely a plan to cir
cumvent the Supreme Courts de-
cision.
Before passing the measure, the
House expended it by approving
an amendment offered by Repre-.
sentative Duncan, Democrat of
Missouri, to provide that other
States than those mentioned in a
model Virginia State. control act
may negotiate tobacco compacts.
Three types of tobacco-flue
cured, dark flue cured, and hurley
are affected by the Virginia
statute, which would become effec-
tive when Tennessee, Kentucky,
North Carolina, South Carolina,
and Georgia, the other States in
which these three types are grown,
enacted similar legislation.
The House also wrote into the
bill authorization for 100000 of
Federal funds to be advanced to
cooperating States to administer
their control programs. An ap-
preparation for this purpose was
stricken out when a point of or
der that it had not bee.- considered
by the appropriations committee
was sustained by Speak,, Byrns.
Although the bill I passed by
the House would authorize the ad-
illustrative cost advances, the
money would not be available until
an appropriation was approved.
AS soon as the Bill passed the
House, the North Carolina congress
'ional delegation asked Governor
]. C. B. Ehringhaus to call a special
session of that State Legislature
to enact compact legislation.
Representative Robert L. Dough-
ton, dean of the North Carolina
delegation, said he hoped Ehring-
haus would convene the Legisla-
ture at the earliest possible date Sin
order that appropriate legislation
nay be enacted whereby the grow
RS of tobacco may realize full bene-
fits of this legislation for their crop
This year."
Doughton said there was %''little
the Senate would concur in
he House action. The Senate agri-
culture committee already has re-
favorably a similar measure
introduced by Chairman Smith,
of South Carolina.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-04-10
TEkEcEE I
E$ iE%:1;
W4$HInGI0N

Washington-Whenever political
wiseacres begin to talk about Presi-
dental dark horses" somebody is
sure to bring up the name of John
r. McCarl, Comptroller General of
the United States. That sugges-
ton is generally met by a practi-
cally unanimous chorus of: "He
would make a good President, if
he could be elected, and he would
make a fine candidate, if he could
be nominated. But has he a
chance?"
What brings Mr.. McCarl into the
limelight just at this time is the
fact that his 15-year term of office
expires on the 3Oth day of June
this year. This raises, among other
questions, the question of whom
President Roosevelt will appoint in
his place; because the outgoing
Comptroller General is not eligible
for re-appointment.
If Congress were in session On
June so, the President would have
to make a permanent appointment
to be confirmed by the Senate. But
Congress will not be in session, and
that leaves the President free to
make an interim appointment of
anybody whom he chooses to name,
regardless of Senatorial wishes. The
interim a%ppointee will hold office
until the next Congress meets,
when the next President, either Mr..
Roosevelt or his successor, must
submit the name of somebody to
fill the job for another IS years.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-04-10

oPatronize Waterman Adver-
tisers.
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Imperial Valley press., 1936-03-30
NEW TAX BILL
is INADEQUATE
SAYS OFFICIAL

WASHINGTON, March 30. U.P)
internal Revenue Commissioner
Guy T. HelVering told the house
ways and means committee blunt
ly today that subcommittee revi-
sion Of the new tax bill left the
measure inadequate to meet the
treasury's needs.
The program as recommended
by subcommittee falls $345 900 600
short of the Presidents estimate
Of new revenue needs over a three
period.
Helvering. first witness before
the committee, did not discuss dir
ectly the fact that the sub-com-
mittee had thrown ou of consider
alton proposed new processing
taxes to raise 1921 100000 a year
If included in the bill, the Presi-
dents requirements would be car
ried out
"It seems to me-" Helvering
said, that your committee should
consider whether there are not
additional sources of temporary
revenue that can be provided for
the next two or three years TO
bridge this gap and to bring the
measure that is to be enacted into
full consistency with the President S
recommendation Tor redressing
the budget estimates"
Imperial Valley press., 1936-03-30
GREAT BRITAIN
MAY WITHDRAW
BIG WAR FLEET

LONDON, March 30. (UP)-Great
Britain gave indications today of
planning to withdraw much of her
fleet which has been concentrated
in the Mediterranean because of
the Ethiopian crisis.
Such a withdrawal, if it is made,
will do much to placate Italy and
enlist her cooperation in dealing
with the Rhineland crisis.
The news from Gibraltar was
that the 33,9O0-ton battleship Rod
ney, largest in the world, had sail
ed for England today; that the de-
stroyers Valentine, Vidette and
Westcott would leave tomorrow,
and the depot ship Titania and
submarine Snappe on Wednesday,
The admiralty explained that
the Withdrawals we're normal rou-
tine to give the crews Easter
leave, but it was learned reliably
that further units of the home
fleet were due to return shortly.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-03-30
GOLD EMBARGO
BRANDED LIE


PARIS, March 80. UPl-Marcem
Regnier, French finance minister,
today branded as invention and
lie' recent rumors of an imminent
gold embargo, and urged the French
not to be moved by "a defeatist cam
paign in certain quarters
His remarks, together with swift
action of the Bank Of France on
Saturday in raising the discount
rate from 3la to per cent, had
steadying influence on the French
franc today On Saturday that unit
had sunk below the level where it
would be profitable for the United
States to take French gold again.
Capital has been fleeing France
for several days, and it was feared
another gold exodus might increase
this flow. Meantime, government
officials have been directing their
attention to stem attacks on the
franc by spectators. Informed cir
cles, however, maintain the move
ment against the franc is due rath-
er uncertainties over the political
situation and the approach of the
general elections in which leftists
forces are expected to win a victory,
and to general credit exhaustion of
the French market.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-03-30
HORSE RACE
INVESTIGATION
WILL SPREAD

LOS ANGELES. March 30 UP>-
An investigation of horse race tip
ster" operations was expected TO
spread to San Francisco and Seattle
as u. S. District Attorney Pierson
NJ. Hall conferred with postal au-
thorities on asserted use of the mails
to defraud
Reports that "tipsters" in other
coast cities asertedly were inform
ing clients of supposedly fixed"
races through the mail led Hall to
confer with postal inspectors.
Twelve men were reported wanted
here as leaders of betting service
bureaus which used the mails in their
operations
Three men-Ed Davis, A. L. New
man and Jack Fields-Were taken
into custody over the weekend on
suspicion Of violating mail fraud
laws in connection with the tip SER
vice investigation. Mrs. Villa May
Newman and Mrs. Vera Fields, wives
Of two Of the suspects, were released
after questioning.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-03-30
MAN ACCUSED
OF MURDER IN
ARIZONA CASE

DOUGLAS. Ariz., March 80. UP
A snarling fight over a half loaf of
bread resulted today in the arrest
CT one man on murder charges and
of two others as material witnesses.
Corbett Stillwell, arrested by a
posse of city police and sheriff's
deputies, was accused of numbering
James B. Runnell, so, also known as
James Smith, by Lewis Mccormack
and Virgil Hambie, who were held
as witnesses.
RunnelI died in a hospital last
night. He had been shot through
the head with an old-fashioned, As
caliber revolver and had been beat
en- mercilessly with an iron skillet.
Stillwell was arrested at ranch
near here, where he attempted, the
posse said, to draw gun on the
officers. The revolver, they said,
was of the type which killed Run
nell.
Mccormack and Hambie were
taken from a freight train at Chi
huahua station, near here. They
told officers, the latter said, that
Stillwell and Runnell fought for pos
session of the bread and that Still
well killed him. Runnell, who lived
alone here, was on relief rolls.