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Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1937-01-29
DELUSIONS vary

The trouble with most of US is
that we suffer from delusions-de-
lusions as to what would make u,
happy if we had it; decisions about
how to make others happy. I know
earnest souls who are convinced
that all the poor need to make
them happy is electric dishwashers
and modern plumbing. Most Of US
believe that all we need to make
ourselves happy is more money
than we have.
So we pass laws, or demand their
passage, to give everybody more
money and more plumbing, fool
.ishly believing that happiness can
be measured in dollars.
lean more and more strongly
to the belief, as time marches on,
that a nation would be a much
happier place if all the law,
which were designed to make folk
happy were repealed over night. AT
least, such a procedure would make
it easier for Washington to balance
the budget and reduce taxes.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1937-01-29
Today And Tomorrow

and they never missed the plumb
ing which they'd never heard of.
DIAMONDS Joy
If you think it is diamonds that
will make you happy, here's a
chance to pick up the worlds sec
ond or third largest and finest
stone at a bargain. Three years ago
this month l told in this column
about a diamond almost as big a,
an egg which a South African
Dutciman named Jacobus Jonks:
found on his farm and sold for
100000
Well, the worlds master dia
mond cutter, Lazare Kaplan, fin
|ished cutting up the Jonker dia-
mond in New York Just after New
Years. He got twelve gems out of
it, the largest a magnificent jewel
Iof 143 carats. Their owner, who
bought the original rough diamond
from Jonker, thinks the twelve
would make a nice necklaie and he
asks only 100000 for the lot!
l haven't heard whether Jacobu.
Jonker's 100000 has brough,
him happiness or not. 1t seems like
ly that the one who has got the
moot happiness out of the big dia-
mond 50 far is the skilled srafts-
man who had the joy of using his
skill on such a piece Of work.
WEATHER crops
Thus far the winter of 1869
has been as much of a freak as its
predecessor. A year ago the East
was having the heaviest SHOWS and
! the lowest Temperatures since
washington's army nearly froze to
death at Valley Forge. This year
there have not been a dozen really
cold days along the whole Atlantic
seaboard and no snow to speak Of.
California has been suffering from
the coolest winter in years and
Florida baking in the highest tenn
p~eratures on record.
One good thing about this open
winter has been the abundance of
cain that has soaked in all over the
drought-affected regions of the
East. In very few sections has the
ground been frozen before the rain
fell. Springs, wells and reservoirs
have been replenished and the out
look is good for a big crop season.
Whatever may happen between
now and summer, we can't have
many weeks of cold Weather now,
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1937-01-29

Washington President Roose-
velt's second term began last We'd
nesday, Jan. 20. He came through
the strain Of his first term in bet
ter shape than even his friends be-
lieved possible, yet the heavy duties
have worn him perceptibly and, as
he stated himself in his appeal to
Congress to authorize the enlarge
ment of the Executive staff, sthe
President cannot adequately handle
his responsibilities; he is overwork-
ed, it is humanity impossible for
him to carry out his duty as Chief
Executive because he is over
whelm with minor details and
needless contacts arising directly
from the bad organization and
equipment Of the Government.
The plan of reorganization
which the Presidents committee
drew up and which he has urged
upon Congress would give the
Chief Executive a lot of additional
help. There would be six assistants
directly attached to the White
House staff in addition to the sec
retaries now provided. As the COM
mittee suggested, these should be
men whose job would be to neep
in touch with every administrative
department and make recommen-
dations to the President ON admin
istrative methods and personnel.
THE PRESIDENTS PLAN
The plan calls for the addition
Of two Cabinet departments, So
cial Welfare and Public Works,
and changing the name of the De-
psrtment Of the Interior to De-
ra,'ment of Conservation. The
hundred or more independent agent
bosrds and commissions would be
distributed among the. twelve ma
jnr departments.
An important part of the Presi-
CENTS plan is 10 abolish the present
Civil Service Commission and in
stand provide A single personnel Of
f..:er or Civil servic. Administra-
. with an unpsii advisory board
of SIX public-.piriee1 citizens, tot
assist in placing every Government
position not &C ,cerned with the
staring of poll lies in the irremove-
axle classified service.
The Presidents reorganization
plan ran head-on into Congress-
own Ideas about reorganization, asI
soon as it was submitted. Senator
Harry Byrd of Virginia is chair
man of a committee which has had
its own experts at work for nearly
a year, and which has different
ideas as to what needs to be done.
The boys on Capitol Hill, much
as they would like to go along with
the President, don't like a number
of things about his plan. In the
first place, they say, it would tend
to concentrate too much power in.
the Executive, which is not the
idea Of Congress at all.
Moreover, the Presidents plan
would abolish the position Of
Comptroller General, which was
created by Congress as a check
upon Executive spending. And
one thing the boys on the Hill de-
cidedly disappro~e is the idea Of
sewing up all the government jobs
so tight that a Congressman or a
Senator can't even get a postmast-
er appointed.
The President was entirely frank
in pointing out that his plan of re-
organization considered efficiency
first and economy only second
arily. Senator Byrd and a few
Others are equally frank in saying
that it is time to think abo,: Geo.
Monty. They will bring forward
reorganization plans Of their own.
THE BUDGET OUTLOOK
I. tha e,h;ecf 4 aco,orxx 4.
Evening star., 1937-11-26
ROSS SEARCH SPED
BY RANSOM BILL
$40 Passed Recently in
Northern Illinois Is Sixth
Found Since Payment.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Nov. 26-Discovery that
$40 bill passed recently in Northern
Illinois was part of the $50, 900 ransom
paid in vain for the return of Charles
S. Ross gave fresh impetus today to
the search for the abductors of the
72-year-old retired Chicago manufac-
turer.
1t was the sixth ransom bill to make
its appearance since the kidnapping
two months ago. The others were un-
covered in two Loop stores and in the
vicinity of the far South Side of the
city.
Mrs. Mabel c. Ocock of Union, Ill.
reported she received the bill a week
ago and was attracted by the penciled
numbers, 107 7,688, on the bottom mar
gin. She copied the serial numbers
before sending the note in payment
of coal bill.
D. M. Ladd, head of the Chicago Of
flee of the Bureau of Investigation, de-
cllned comment on the latest clue, ex-
cept to say the penciled numbers were
"very important"
MIR. Ross was kidnapped September
rs on highway Is miles west of Chi
cago while returning from dinner
engagement at Sycamore. ILL.,, with his
former secretary, Miss Florence
Freihage.
His prolonged disappearance Gre
ated a mystery that ranked with that
of another Charles Ross-the 4-year-
old boy kidnapped in Philadelphia in
1874 and never found,
Evening star., 1937-11-26
Customs Quiz
Holds Baggage
OF SOciaIites.
Check Up on Mr.. and
Mrs. BOOne's
Declaration.
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, Nov. 26.-The socially
and financially well-to-do James r..
Herbert Boones of New York today
were without 81 of the 81 pieces of
baggage they took ashore yesterday
from the liner Europa Customs Of
ficials said they were examining the
81 trunks and bags to test the Boones'
declaration of less than SITS worth of
jewelry and other foreign-bought
goods acquired during a nine-month
stay in Europe.
Mr.. and Mrs. Boone, he descendant
of Cecil Calvert. Lord Baltimore, and
Pocahontas, and she heiress to $4,-
3l8,85l of the estate Of her late grand
uncle, j. Dundas Lippincott of Phila-
delphia, were questioned for five hours
by customs agents at the pier, who re-
leased them but held their baggage
Some jewelry worn by Boone was held
for further appraisal.
Routine examination Of the bag
gage had been declared satisfactory
and Mr. and Mrs. Boone we're leaving
the pier when two customs agents de-
manded q re-examination. The ques-
tioning and surrender of baggage fol-
lowed
On their second effort to leave the
pier, their Irish maid was stopped and
her neckpiece thoroughly inspected
by agents. Mr.. and Mrs. Boone pro.
tested vigorously. signed more papers
and left with their maid, her fur piece
and a party of friends.
Evening star., 1937-11-26
Violation of D. c. Weights La,o
hC0al Sale Laid to Policeman

charging two cases Of short weight,
two of failing to have proper delivery
tickets, showing the weight of the coal,
the weight of the truck and the gross
weight of the two, and two charges OF
failing to have the name and address
Of the dealer painted on the trucks.
George M. Roberts, superintendent
Of weights and measures, said his Office
had difnculty in determining who
owned and operated the coal company,
He has in his possession q card bear
ing the name of the oncer, and the
company. The two purchases were
made by weights and measures inspec-
tors who allegedly received them and
took as evidence the tickets which
showed only the addresses at which
the loads were to be delivered and the
amount Of coal. They did not have
the name Of the dealer printed there
on. it is claimed.
Policeman Crow has been on the
force since 1925. He Is Q native Of
Kentucky and . former sailor.
Evening star., 1937-11-26

Policeman Theo Grow Of the eleventh
precinct was arraigned before Police
Court Judge Hobart Newman today
to face sig charges Of violating the
weights and measures laws. He pleaded
not guilty and requested continuance
until December /.
It is charged by the Department Of
Weights and Measures that Ohicer
Crow is trading as the Simplex Coal
Co.. at 1925 Good Hope road Sc. On
the strength Of q complaint, agents
Of the weights and measures depart
ment placed two one-ton orders for
coal last Friday. Both tons delivered
ut different addresses, allesedly were
short.
1t was alleged that one ton was
short 500 pounds and the other 402
pounds.
The case was first presented to
Assistant Corporation Counsel John
oDay, who issued tntormattons
Evening star., 1937-11-26
TAX REVISION AT ONCE
is SOUGHT BY PRESIDENT:
i. S. TO FREE MILLIONS
Government to Aid Buying Moue
By Purchasing Supplies No,o
$245, ,OOO, 900 to Be Released Under Plan.
Roosevelt Says Other Steps
Viii FOlLO,u.

appropriations year or two in ad-
vance was unsound, he said. He added
that under this system future Con-
crosses were more, or less, obligated to
appropriate the full amount authorized
because after passage of authorization
bills the Secretary Of Agriculture was
required to notify the States before
January l as to what their share
would be.
Became a Tender,
Thus, the authorization was more
than that. the Chief Executive re.
marked. 1t became a tender, and all
the States had to do was to make the
tender and it obligated the Federal
Government.
The President added that after q
long study of the subject, he is con-
vinced the main arteries of the coun.
try are in fairly good shape and thus
the Federal Government may reduce
this form of spending.
Mr.. Roosevelt explained that he be.
lieves the appropriations for road.
building should be determined by the
budget and that Congress should stick
to that.
This proposed reduction in Govern.
ment expense is in line with the Pres
ldent's announced intention to make
substantial cuts wherever possible in
the government structure. He has
other reductions planned, but they can
be effected without legislation. In the
matter of highways, legislation will
be needed for economizing.
At one point in his press confer.
ence President Roosevelt reiterated
that the United States Government,
would keep on trying to bring about
world peace. He made the statement
when asked what, if any, steps were
under consideration now that thu
Nine-Power Conference at Brussels or
(See SUPPLIES Page A-I21
Evening star., 1937-11-26
INFANTS ImPERllED
IN HOSPITAL FIRE
Nurses Hurriedly Move IA Moth.
ers and IL Newborn Babies
to Safety.
By the Associated Press.


CLEVELAND, Nov. 26-Nurses hur-
riedly moved IA mothers and IL wall
ing newborn babies-one only II
hours old-to safety today as fire swept
a wood-and-brick annex OF st. AIMS
Maternity Hospital.
'1t's good thing this happened in
the daytime" said Mrs. Catherine
Edgar, one of the nurses who took the
patients to the main building. I'VE
could see what we were doing"
Some of the mothers said they
waited five minutes before they were
carried out.
II smelled SMOKE" said Mrs. Fred
Beegle, 28, "and I told the woman next
to me there was a fire. She started
to get up and I told her to lie. down
and not get excited-we'd be taken
care Of"
Mrs. Beegle's baby was born
Wednesday. Older babies and their
mothers were in the main building.
The delivery room in the annex was
not in use.
The fire started In a sewing room.
James Nimmo, assistant fire chief,
placed damage at $4,000. He expressed
belief blow torches used by painters
to remove paint from the building
caused the blaze.
Evening star., 1937-11-26
BY ]. RUSSELL YOUNG.

In line with his plan to stimulate
business, President Roosevelt disclosed
tc LAY that he plans to order immediate
spending for necessary governmental
supplies instead of spreading these
purchases throughout the year.
The President said at his press con-
ference that Rear Admiral Christian
j. Peoples, director of the Treasurer's
Procurement Division, has made q
check-up to determine what purchases
can be made now and to anticipate
what will be needed.
According to the figures furnished
Mr. Roosevelt by Admiral Peoples al
least $245,O00, 900 can be put into cir
culation almost Immediately. That is
the amount Admiral Peoples estimated
is required to meet the Government
needs between now and June 30.
Therefore, instead Of waiting, thu
President will order as much as DOS.
sible purchased at once instead oi
month by month or as the need arises
In Line With Program.
This step is in line with Mr.. Roose.
velt's program to counteract the busi.
ness recession. Other steps will fol.
low, all of which have not vet beer
indicated by the President. The maio,
one is his new housing program, or
which he will send a message to Con.
gress Monday.
The President will send another
message to Congress Tuesday recon.
mending curtailment in the spending
of Federal money on public roads
Discussing this at his press confer.
ence, Mr.. Roosevelt said his message
would say that the time had come tt
trim the annual road authorization
bills. He noted that the Government,
was now spending approximately
$2O0.O0O,000 as compared with $780,.
100000 or $90,000,oOO prior to 1929
The practice of authorizing such
Evening star., 1937-11-26
B BULLETIN

More than half . million dollars
will be paid before Christmas to
more than 1000 depositors in three
closed banks-the District National
Bank, Washington Savings Bank
and Seventh Street Savings Bank.
it was announced this afternoon by
Controller Of the Currency J. +. T.
OtConnor.
Evening star., 1937-11-26
CHEST WORKERS
PUSH CAMPAIGN
Heartened by Thanksgiving
Day PIedges-S290,0O0
Still Needed.

Heartened by an outpouring of
Thanksgiving Day pledges, the Com
munity Chests embattled workers
pushed on today. determined to carry
their final objective and raise the rest
Of the S290,000 still needed to turn
back the threatened invasion of want
and disease
Convinced the whole Chest quota
must be raised if fellow citizens lust
down the street" are to be saved from
suffering during the coming year. each
volunteer solicitor set out to obtain
his share-more, if possible-of the
sum still imperative.
Those Of you who haven't given
the leaders urged, sign pledge card.
at once. And those who have but
are able to give a little more, plede.
those extra sums that Washington ma,
not allow destitution, sickness anc
death to go on unchecked within the
shadows of its great marble structures
and its fine homes"
Many disregard Holiday.
All yesterday, in the spirit of Thanks.
giving, pledges reached Chest head.
quarters. Many solicitors, disregardinf
the holiday, were out all day ringing
doorbells and imploring citizens not te
let the Chest fail this year.
Through the efforts of DR.. Johr
Rustin, chairman of the Speakers
Unit, pleas for the Chest were made
at Is union church services. In {
| number of Roman Catholic Churche
the same appeal was made at each O.
the masses.
During the day the radio stations
| at frequent intervals, reminded lis,
tenerS enjoying their holiday in com
Portable homes that there is sufferin,
not far away and the Chest canno
fail If relief is to be adequate.
Herbert L. Willett, jr., director O
the Chest, and two leaders in the cam
paign, Joseph D. Kaufman and Ear
A. Nash, spoke over a three-statiol
hook-up of WRC, WMAL and VOL
Tells Of Agencies Pleas.
Mr.. kaufman acted as master O
ceremonies. Mr.. Willett explainet
how worthy charitable agencies ha,
been denied funds in past years be
cause the Chest had failed to reacl
its goal. He told of the almost des
perate pleas of agencies confrontet
Evening star., 1937-11-26
|FREEDMEN'SPR0bE
|0RDERED BY |CKES
ITO BETTER SERVICE
Secretary Hopes to Correct
Administrative Ills of
Hospital.
MACKENZIE SELECTED
TO CONDUCT SURVEY
Lack of Sufficient Funds Hampers
Work of Institution for Col.
ored, officials Say.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Conditions at Gallinger Munich
pal Hospital haze for long stirred
controversy. 1t 1Dds hoped that
transfer of jurisdiction ouer GAL
hnger from the Board of Public
Welfare to the Health Department
last July 1 would aid in bettering
these conditions.
Freedmen's Hospital for colored
patients, under the interior De-
pdrtment, has been suffering from
lack OF funds for several years, and
surrey authorized by Secretary
lckes a year ago brought to light
conditions in need of correction.
Evening star., 1937-11-26
DANCY VERDICT GIVEN
Murder and Suicide Is Finding of
Coroner's Inquest.

LONDON, Nov. 26 (P.-A coroner's
jury returned a verdict of murder and
suicide today in the Ibsen-like tragedy
of DR.. Naomi Dancy. 40, widely-known
London baby specialist, and her half
blind invalid brother, Maurice Tribe,
43, who was jealous of her beautiful
eyes,"
The brother, research chemist
who had lost the sight Of one eye in
the war and brooded over the failing
sight of the other, was found dead
in the physicians stately mansion, his
throat slashed.
Evening star., 1937-11-26
Neutral Zone Aid Asked.

NANKING, Nov. 26 N1.-German
members of the International Com
mittee seeking establishment of q
neutral safety zone at Marking tele-
Rraphed Chancellor Adolf Hitler today
requesting his influence In obtaining
Chinese and japanese approval Of the
plan. American, British, German and
Danish civilians advocating the plan
had not received definite replies from
the two Oriental governments.
Evening star., 1937-11-26
PANESE SEIZE
SHANGHAI MAILS
Telegraph and Radio Also
Put Under Rule of
Nipponese.
BACKGROUND

retreat OF Chinese to inland de-
lenses. Chinese government has
euacuated Marking, taking refuge in
HankoD and other Upper Yangtse
rirer cities. Meanwhile, Japan
tightens grip on Shanghai, de-
ndnding greater control OF inter-
national areas and increased po,Uer
oper customs, much of which is
pledged for foreign loans.
BY the Associated Press.
SHANGHAI. Nov. q Saturday -
Japan frightened her grip on Shanghai
today by taking over control of all
communications facilities hitherto held
by the Chinese government in the
International Settlement as we'll as
the native parts Of the city.
The post of1ces, telegraph and radio
administrations and broadcasting sta
tions XQHC and CGRA were placed
under Japanese rule. Many of the
principal Offices and installations of
these services are in the International
Settlement.
japanese authorities have not indi-
Gated whether they intend to estab-
lish their own censors in the cable
and radio Offices communicating with
foreign countries.
japanese indicated plans to extend
their influence in the Chinese customs
service at Shanghai by placing Japa-
nese appraisers and examiners in Gus
toms Offices on the Shanghai water
front. This will follow closely the re-
cent appointment of high japanese
administrative officials in local Gus
toms Offices.
Ferry Installations Seized.
japanese Army units seized a
pontoon and ferry installations in the
Whangpoo River formerly belonging
to the Chinese Greater Shanghai city
government The pontoon is near the
berth Of the United States cruiser
Augusta.
There were reports, not Immediately
confirmed, that the japanese also in
tended to seize the customs jetty on
the International Settlements water
front, largely used as landing place
by American and other foreign fleets.
Serious international complications
were feared in the event of Japanese
attempts to control operations Of
foreign cable and radio companies, in
cluding the American commercial
Pacific cable and Mackay radio COM
panies and British and Danish con-
cerns These companies, by contracts
with the Chinese government, hitherto
have accepted all outgoing messages
from the Chinese administrations and
submitted to Chinese censorship.
Hit Heart of China's Defense.
Meanwhile, spearhead units Of ia
pans Shanghai armies tore into the
heart of Chinese defenses in a drive
their commander in chief declared
would force speedy collapse Of Gen.
eralissimo Chang Kai-shek's regime.
Field officers sent back word to jap
anese headquarters that their troops
had crossed Lake Tai, the great natu-
raj barrier between Shanghai and
Nanking, for a push against the vir-
tually evacuated capital.
Gen. Iwane Matsui, commander Of
japanese forces, proclaimed in an in
terview with the japanese Shanghai
United News that his armies might
be forced to invade the interior far
up the Yangtze from Marking unless
Chiang's government ends its resist
ance.
Evening star., 1937-11-26
BY the Associated Press.

| S--~ e-~S~S~~sS~~ .
CLEVELAND, Nov. 26.-Strikine
drivers paralyzed operations of the
Pennsylvania Greyhound Bus Lines
at Philadelphia today, a company
spokesman said. He declared sched-
ules were curtailed not more than Is
per cent elsewhere in the 16-State
strike area.
S. r. Harvey, assistant president
of the Brotherhood of Railroad Train
men, claimed the strike nearly 100
per cent effective" on the eight af-
fected Greyhound lines.
Operations are at a standstill only
at Philadelphia, said R. E. Cochrane,
company spokesman. THE major
service affected is that between Phila-
delphia and New York"
John J. Conner, Labor Department
conciliator, planned to confer sep
arately with Harvey and Greyhound
representatives, but Cochrane an
nounced the lines would not meet
with Conner until Ivan Bowen, general
counsel, returns to Cleveland.
The brotherhood called the strike YES
terday following breakdown of nego-
tiations over their demands for a
closed shop and mileage wage rate
increase.
Conner said he talked with both
sides yesterday.
They are pretty well deadlocked.
don't know that I'll even attempt a
joint meeting" he said.
Meanwhile, company and union Of
hcials issued conflicting claims of the
strikes effect. on bus operations.
'No One Riding Buses"
mo one is riding the buses, and the
ones being operated by strikebreakers
are not on schedule" Harvey said.
Police conveyed buses in and out Of
Cleveland, Boston and other cities.
following sporadic outbreaks Of yio-
lence.
At Syracuse, police reported strikers
disabled Boston-bound bus by dam
aging the ignition system with ham
mer.
In Boston five men, accused by
police Of participating in . midnight
attack on a bus Of the strike-affected
Greyhound Lines, were arrested today
and held for arraignment on charges
OF maliciously damaging private prop
erty.
The bus, bound from Boston to New
York, was attacked here. police said
shortly after a Boston police escort
left 1t at the Boston, -Brookline city
boundary. One window was broken
and the machine crippled by removal
Of the distributor head.
Despite q slight interruption in serv-
ice, the Greyhound management an.
nounced 1t was Maintaining normal
| (see GREYHOUND, Page A-a.)