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Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1937-01-01
-Four In
Baby Fraud

St. Louis-Mrs. Nellie Upton
Muench and three co-defendants,
convicted of using the mails to de-
fraud DR.. Marsh Pitzman in the
gift of Cod baby case, were Sell
fenced to long prison terms.
Mrs. Muench was given a 1o-year
term as was Wilfred Jones. DR.. Lud
wig O.. Muench, husband of Mrs.
Muench, was sentenced to eight
years and Mrs. Helen Berroyer to
five years.
Mrs. Muench and her husband
were fined $4,000 each, but no fines
were assessed On the Others. The
judge acted Immediately after over
ruling a motion for a new trial.
The government charged that the
four carried out a plot to obtain
money from Pitzman, wealthy, mid
dled-aged bachelor, by falsely rep
.resenting to him he was the father
Of a baby son Mrs. Muench claimed
to have borne.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1937-01-01
1897 Al
Of Power
Observers See Danger
Democratic Majority
Will Split Into Blocs.

Washington.-About to enter
1887 at the pinnacle of his power,
President Roosevelt stands in the
position of a man on whose will
may depend a fundamental politi-
cal realignment in elections to
come.
With top heavy majorities in
Congress, it is all but taken for
granted that his preferences in
major legislation in the coming
session will prevail. But in decid-
ing those preferences he muse
choose between asking the dis
pleasures of extreme liberals who
backed him for reelection, on one
hand, and conservative Democrats
on the other.
Although administration confer
ences on policy continued through
the holiday festivities this week,
Presidents intentions on major
questions at issue remained his
own secret.
The beginning of a party-split-
ting wrangle at the capitol over
relief appropriations were discern
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Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1937-01-01
Killing
|Wife'S Brother

Curtis Hubbard, 80 year old I'M
employed textile dyer of Griffin.
Ga, was shot to death Monday at
the home of his brother-in-law
William T. McCord, who later gave
himself up to officers.
Police Chief R. Lee Rankin,
quoted McCord, 36-year old feed
store employe, as saying, Hubbard
ruined my home and tried to kill
me; I shot him in self defense,
Hubbard, Chief Rankin quoted Me-
Cord as saying, had threatened him
in the past.
Hubbard was shot five times
with a pistol in the garage at the
MeCord home. The brothers-in-law
had returned here Sundey night
with the McC Cord family, which had
spent the holidays with relatives at
Griffin. Chief Rankin quoted Mrs.
Hubbard as denying her husbands
statement and asserting the killing
was the result of an old grudge be-
tween her husband and members of
her family accentuated by her hus-
bands drinking.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1937-01-01
Checks,
Post Office
Income Up
Ipdices Show Trade In
Many Lines Here Close
To Record

Prosperity has "snuck up" on
us while everybody was worrying
about how to get out of the de-
preston.
It's in the figures and the faces.
Once again there's a bull market
on black ink and smiles mean
something other than hope for a
touch"
You hear it on every side:
Times are better depressiona
what depression? -. So l bought
me another 100 shares, and they're
up 10 points already"
If there remains any doubt in
your mind that business is on the
upswing, just listen to these:
1. Postoffice receipts, the best
business barometer, indicate the
best year in the history of the
city.
2. Bank clearings, another x
cellent index, are within speaking
distance" of the 1929 boom year"
total.
;. Electric consumption, phone
service, gas meters, water meters
and other utility induces are con-
siderably higher than in 1885.
4. Buying more quality merchan-
disc and eating more and better
food.
5. The biennial industrial census
shows an increase in the city:s
manufactured products value from
1888 to 1885.
s. Bonus and dividends of firms
and branches exceed all previous
years.
7. Retail trade is showing a 10
per cent increase over 1885.
8. Responses to Christmas char
ity drives have been the greatest in
many years.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1937-01-01

Nothing is giving the Admins
tration more concern than the pro-
blem of what to do about unem-
ployment and the relief of the I'M
employed. With business in most
lines almost back % the pre-depres~
sion level there are still according
to Government estimates, about
100000 persons without jobs.
Oh these, the w. P. A. is taking
care of about 100000.
There are also nearly 9 million
persons, counting all of the families
of the unemployed, who are receiv-
ing direct relief from state and 10
cal sources. Much Of this money
comes out of the Federal treasury.
The federal government is spend
ing above 165 million dollars a
month On W. P. A. wages alone.
The problem is, how can This bur-
den of relief expenditures be con-
tinued if at the same time Federal
expenditures in general Ire to be
reduced?
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1937-01-01
Labor Seeks
Legislative
Reforms
Federal Standards i'm Re-
gard To Hours, Mini
mum Wages And Child
Labor in Program

Washington.-Organized labor
in a formidable conference with
Secretary of Labor Perkins, out
lined a broad program of legisla-
tive reforms it hopes to achieve
for the benefit of workers at the
forthcoming session of Congress.
Attended by 6s international
Union officials, including Frank
Morrison, secretary of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor, and John
L. Lewis, chairman of the Com
mittee on Industrial Organization,
the conference reached these con-
illusions:
THAT there should be Fed
eral standards with regard to hours,
minimum wages and child labor.
2-That child labor should be
abolished.
3-Ihat so tar as hours are con-
cerned, there should be some de-
vice, either the Black 3O-hour
week bill, the O'Mahoney Federal
licensing bill, a modified National
Recovery Administration, or a
combination of all three, which
would serve to bring about the
short work-day and the short work.
week.
There was no general agreement
or consensus of opinion in the
conference as to the method to at
tain these ends.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1937-01-01
Await The Presidents Plans
Neutrality
Bill Is Sought

Washington.-Buoyed by the SUI
preme Courts sweeping valuation
of the Chaco arms embargo, Ad-
ministration legislative pilots plan
ned to give Congress a permanent
neutrality bill empowering the
President to embargo the sale of
raw materials as we'll as arms to
warning nations.
The President, at his press con-
ference, said neutrality legislation
would certainly be presented, but
indicated it was a month too early
to determine its exact form.
The commodities embargo is ex-
pected to be its principal feature,
however, applying only to sales
above normal volume. The arms
embargo will be absolute, response
bic source said.
While asserting the Courts J.
to-l decision permits the constitu-
tional exercise Of almost unlimited
Executive discretion in the conduct
of foreign affairs, State Depart
ment officials anticipate no easy
passage for the proposed measure.
Responsible sources indicated
the present plan was to ask auth
GRITTY for the President to:
l.. Declare an arms embargo
upon the outbreak or during pro-
gress Of" war and forbid passage
of American citizens or transport
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1937-01-01
TWO RELIEF VIEWS


There is a decided conflict OF
opinion as to what ought to be
done. On the one hand is the group
of relief workers, headed by Harry
L. Hopkins, W.P.A. Administrator,
which holds that relief should be
regarded as a permanent policy of
the Federal government. These folk
believe that there is no likelihood
that business and industry will ever
absorb all the nations employable
citizens, especially since about 500,
900 young persons reach the work
ing age every yer, adding to the
available labor supply.
On the other hand there is a
large group which believes the time
has come to turn the problem back
to the states and their local govern
men This view has important
support. Mr.. Roosevelt is, therefore
under pressure from two sides, each
urging upon him a policy diametri-
calIy opposed to that of the other.
There are complications, political
and otherwise, in the way Of either
course. A strong lobby has devel-
oped, composed of Governors of
states and mayors of municipalities,
who are united in opposing any
wirii,dra val Of the Federal govern
ment from the relief situation.
They do not want the responsibility
of putting the burden upon their
local taxpayers.
Another complication is the atti-
tude Of many members of Congress
who have found the political pat
ronage of the Federal relief ofgani-
zation useful to themselves. Indeed,
there is a feeling in Washington
that Congress may block any at
tempt On the part OF the Admins
tration to curtail relief expendi-
lures, and insist upon approprlating
more money than the President asks
for.
The situation holds the possibili-
~ of a row between President and
Congress, if the President does, as
many believe he will, accept the
view of those who think it is time
70 call a halt on Federal relief.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1937-01-01
Editors Pick 1OBest News Stories of '36
Royal Romance
Top Of List
u. S. Political Campaign
And Spanish War Are
Other Headliners.

New York.-At the cross-road
of the worlds news on the Asso
ciated Press general desk, the II
biggest news stories Of 1886 ap.
peared to be:
/. The British empire crisis ove1
the King Edward-Mrs. Simpson TO-
nance.
2. U. S. political campaign
1886.
3. The Spanish civil war.
4. Italy's conquest of Ethiopia.
5. Civil war in labor's ranks.
s. U. S. business recovery.
7. Remilitarization of Rhine
land.
8. U. S. drought-floods.
9. Hauptmann's execution.
10. Development of DR.. Charles
Greeley Abbot's solar steam en-
CINE.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1937-01-01
NATIONAL DEFENSE


There is no doubt whatever that
official Washington is "jittery' on
the subject of war. Although there
does not appear to be a war cloud
on our national horizon one hears
men in high places emphasizing the
necessity of strengthening our de-
lenses on land and sea and in the
air.
What gives officials here the jit-
tiers, seemingly, is the belief that a
general European war is impending
and that this time the victor will
be a nation or combination of ma
tons which have no love for the
United States and who will look
with covetous eyes upon the oppor-
tunity for territorial accessions and
colonization Of surplus populations
which the as yet unoccupied parts
of North and South America offer
There may have been more than
a goodwill gesture in President
Roosevelt's trip to South America.
Back Of it might have been the feel
ing that the two Americas needed
to stand together against possible
aggression from Europe or Asia. II
such a situation should ever develop
it is likely the United States would
have to bear the larger share of the
burden when it came to resisting
attacks from overseas.
Something of that thought may
lie behind the request Of Harry
Woodring, Secretary of War for
authority to recruit the U. S. Reg
ular Army at once up to its full
legal strength Of 10000 enlisted
nen by Jan. 80, 1857
Secretary Woodring also proposes
to increase the National Guard
from 1890 to 100000, to call
please turn to page two)
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1937-01-01
Indians Law
Wrote In 1915

Washington-The Smithsonian
Institution described as a valuable
addition to the scanty material on
the aboriginals of Florida and South
ern Georgia a letter written in 1875
by a Spanish bishop to Queen Ma
riana of SPAN.
The institution has issued a trans
@lation of the letter, a copy of which
was discovered by Dr.. Lucy L. Wen
hold of Salem college, Winston-Sa-
lem, N. c., in the archives of the
North Carolina Historical commits
sion.
1t tells of an inspection of the
Florida provinces by Bishop Cald-
eron of Cuba. He wrote that the
Indians possessed some degree of
culture hat many of them were
christianized and had constructed
churches, and that in each village
there was a council house, constru-
cted of wood and covered with
straw, accommodating from 1000 to
5000 persons.
"Their only drink is water and
they do not touch wine Or rum,
the bishop wrote. "Their greatest
luxury is a drink which they make
from a weed that grows On the sea-
coast, which they cook and drink
hot. :.
eft becomes very bitter, and is
worse han beer, although it does
not intoxicate them and is benefit
cial."
Bishop Calderon wrote that the
Indians were 'fleshy and rarely is
there a small one, but they are
weak and phlegmatic as regards
work, though clever and quick to
learn any art they see done, and
great carpenters as is evidenced in
the construction of their wooden
churches which are large and pains
takingly wrought"
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1937-01-01
Brooks Bias Named
Mgr. Sterchi's Store

Mr.. Brooks Bias has been named
manager of Sterchi's Furniture
Store here, according to an amour
cement made Thursday. Mr.. Bias
succeeds Mr.. Ed H. Hills, who has
resigned to accept the management
of the Kimball Furniture Company
in Charlotte.
Mr.. Bias will assume his new du-
ties today. Sterchi's store was
opened here October IA.
Mr.. Bias has been in the furni-
ture business in Salisbury for a mum
Der of years, and was formerly
sales manager of the local store
before being named manager.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1937-01-01
Have Largest
Yule Mail

North Wilkesboro-The North
Wilkesboro post office handled the
biggest volume of mail in its his
tory in the four days before Christ
mas, canceling 5o,37S pieces, an
increase of 1925 over 1885.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1937-01-01
Non-Partisan
League Plans
Sails Meet

Washi- gton-The Non-Partisan
Labor League, of which Major Geo.
L. Berry is chairman, announced
that J. H. Fullerton, of Charlotte,
State chairman for North Carolina
had called a state wide meeting of
the North Carolina section of tho
league to meet at Salisbury. The
meeting will be held in Salisbury
January 7, at $3.50 p. m.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1937-01-01

New Orleans--Investment of
capital in new chemical industry
plants in the south, according tc
the All-South Development Coun-
Gil, has totaled $S5 1000, 900 in the
last three years.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1937-01-01

American goods on belligeren'
ships, except at the travellers 0,
shippers own risk.
2. Determine the actual volume
to which commodity shipments
would be limited and enumerate
the items becoming contraband be-
yond those limits. Such lists would
include steel, scrap iron, copper,
petroleum, motor vehicles, cotton
linters and possibly raw cotton.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1937-01-01
Two Santas
Got Rough

Philadelphia Tive Santa Claus
es" for a relief agency were char
ged by David Antonoff, Is, with
having beaten him over the head
with a pistol and robbed him of
$3.50 and his overcoat. The two
were booked as Lewis Wilder, p,
of Washington, D. c., and Paul
M. Patrick, IT,, Fl, also known as
Pat Mulligan, of Jacksonville, Fla.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1937-01-01

London-For centuries pepper
was the staple article of commerce
between Europe and Asia. 1t was
once valued on a par with precious
metal.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1937-01-01

LAND POSTERS for sale at The
Waterman Office.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1937-01-01

New York-Aaron Burr va The
first leader of Tammany Hall.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1937-01-01

HONOREO -
Mrs. Charles Hiilicker, of Dem
YER. Colo, who has been ap-
pointed a Reader Editor" by
the Woman's Home Companion,
as a representative homemaker
from the Mountain States. She
will cofIaborate with staff ex-
perts on various home problems.
Smyrna times., 1937-01-21

E. E. Berl Dover-Henry Ridge
ly, w w Harrington, Mifflin R.
Jenkins, Frank Hall Davis, Grover
C. Frear, M. A. Hartnet, Jr., James
H. Hughes, and w. D. Denney.
Georgetown DR. Rowland G.Payn-
ter, Joseph L. Cahau, John G..
Townsend, Jr., Julian E. Townsend,
]. E. Goslee, Joseph E. NAPLES, Jr.,
William j. T. White, and W. A. B.
Dodd. At the annual meeting of
the First National Bank the follow
ing directors were reelected for the
year: w. j. Benson, James K
Sapp, Bennett H. Emory, James
w. Wise, E. P. Horsey, Hyland P.
George, Thomas c. Frame, w. E.
Maloney, and Hughett K. McDon-
iel. E. P. Horsey was elected pres
ident and James w. Wise vice-preS-
ident J. Leo Scanlon was elected
cashier and Walter w. Rash assist
ant cashier.
Smyrna times., 1937-01-21

ing temperatures without being in
jured while others must burrow in
the ground or seek out some other
protected place in which to spend
the winter.
Q-I have two breeds of chickens
in my flock, White Leghorns and
Wyandottes. The Leghorns are in
fected with Chicken Pox while the
Wyandottes are not. Would it be
possible to vaccinate the Wyan-
dottes and prevent the spread of
Chicken Pox among them?
Ayes. If the Wyandottes are
not yet infected with Chicken Pox,
it is possible to vaccinate them and
thus prevent spread of Chicken
Pox among them. Vaccine for
this vaccination is obtained from
pigeons and can be purchased from
commercial laboratories. The
feather follicle method should be
used in which feather is removed
from the leg of the bird and the
vaccine painted on the spot where
the feather has been pulled
Smyrna times., 1937-01-21

conditions such as safety devices
in machine shops, labor will con-
tinue to be unsettled. Labor unions
are a good thing as they attempt
to get these working conditions by
arbitration or by strikes. The re-
cent General Motors strike and the
shipping strike have crippled in
dustry. The General Motors strike
has become so serious that Presi-
dent Roosevelt has been asked to
intervene. Such troubles will cause
a halt in the motor industry and
much money will be lost.
In making comparison between
Europe and America however, 1
agree with a popular radio COM
who stated that he would
rather see pickets than soldiers
in the streets.
George Thawley
Smyrna times., 1937-01-21
Franchises

A franchise is contract or a
particular privilege extended by a
ruling body to a business company
or to an individual. I will refer to
it as a contract granted by the
government to a business corpora
tion
Years ago when there was the
first need for franchises between
the government and business they
weren't hard to acquire. At that
time the government was willing to
receive the services of companies
as quickly as possible, because
their services meant improvement
to that community or locality.
Thus they were granted very free
ly. but today the plan has changed.
They are leased for only a few
years at time with many binding
restrictions in favor of the govern
ment.
The government thinks that with
these strict regulations contained
in the franchise, it will keep the
companies from having 50 much
power in the country.
John M. Talbot
Smyrna times., 1937-01-21

Based on Baroness Orczy's famous
story of Sir Percy Blakeney, the
Englishman who risked the love of
his beautiful young wife to play
the fop and the fool, while secret
ly leading the fearless League of
the Scarlet Pimpernel in their
thrilling rescues of French aristo-
Gratis from the guillotine, this STIR
ring filmization was made by Rob-
ert Sherwood, famous American
playwright. THE Scarlet Pimper-
mel" was originally written in 1908
as a tale of adventure in Russia
for a newspaper serial.
Wednesday Only-Eric Linden
and Cecilia Parker in "Sins of Chill
dren"
Smyrna times., 1937-01-21
The Rise of Sports

Each year there are more and
more people who attend the sport
ing events. Baseball, football,
track and field events, basketball,
boxing, and horse racing are
among the leading sports. Not only
do people go to see these games
played but many of the people try
to play them themselves. In the
nineteenth century, baseball and
football were the only two sports
that were played by many people.
They are still the leading sports al
though there is much difference in
the way they are played.
In the past decade of sports the
sporting men were usually bullies
and spent much of their time
drunk. Then most sporting events
were looked upon as vulgar and un-
gentlemanly. Now noted sports
man is usually a very intelligent
man. Many educated people now
attend the sporting events and
they are no longer looked upon as
vulgar.
Jack Gooding
Smyrna times., 1937-01-21
Bootleg Coal Miners

During the past four years many
people in the average community
have either been boasting about
buying coal cheap or complaining
about getting stuck" on the cheap
coal they bought. These converse
tions always cause the bystander
to ask the same: What is the diff
ference between this cheap coal
and the coal our local coal dealers
sell?
With the coming of the depres-
sion, coal miners were probably hit
twice as hard as the average indus
try. Hundreds of miners in the
hard coal region" of Pennsyl-
vania were thrown out of work.
What were they to do? There
was no work in the mines, yet
there were many hundreds of pri-
vate truck owners wanting coal.
According to state statistics, one
out of every five coal miners owned
property or one out of every three
farmers in the vicinity had acres
to rent. These acres contained coal
deposits. Some of these plots were
untillable because of the slope and
condition of the land. Many small
groups of brother miners succeeded
in obtaining such plots and hur-
riedly bought or constructed anti
quated breakers for grading the
coal. Hiring men to work the coal
pockets, which were usually shall
low, they were ready to accommo-
date independent dealers at a lower
price per ton than could be afford
ed by the colliery.
Now that the depression has been
left behind, Governor Earle is at
tempting to break up the illegal
mining of coal and put the minters
back to work in the legitimate
mines. How do the coal miners
that have been operating illegal
mines know they will receive steady
jobs? Then why give in to the
legislation and enforcement of
such a bill? The outcome of the
matter will be known in the near
future. Let us hope for the estab-
lishment Of Human Welfare on a
solid basis.
Harold Carrow
Smyrna times., 1937-01-21
Attractions at Roxy Theatre

To-day Only - Love Begins at
Twenty" the new First National
production, is one of the most hill
arious comedy romances of the
present show season. Warren Hull
and Patricia Ellis have the roman
tic roles. Their path of true love
has been blocked by Patricia's
mother who scorns Warren, the
handsome grocery store clerk. The
mother is played by Dorothy
Vaughan who bosses Hugh Herb
ert, her henpecked husband and
other members of the family.
Friday and Saturday"Helps An
gels with Jean Harlow.
Monday and Tuesday Leslie
Howard and Merle Oberon are CO.
starred in 'The Scarlet Pimpernel."
Smyrna times., 1937-01-21
Man Who Gave Hawaii Its
First "Uke" Still Alive

Honolulu. The man who
brought the first ukulele to Ha-
waii is still alive. Jose p Rodri-
CUES, arriving here with a group of
Portuguese immigrants twenty
years before the islands became an
American territory, brought an in
strument with him which since has
become identified with grass skirts
and full moons.
Ukulele means jumping flea in Ha-
waiian. The instrument was so
small that when the large-handed
natives tried to play it they were
clumsy and it jumped out of their
hands. Hence the name.
Smyrna times., 1937-01-21
LIE Petit Journal

lie Petit Journal is a French
paper which comes the first and
fifteenth of every month. 1t is
composed of short essays, stories,
jokes, crossword puzzles, and
songs.
Every week a day is taken for
discussing the contents of this pa
per. The president presides and
there is a student, called the chair
man, who takes charge of the en-
tertainment.
The chairman assigns the differ
ent topics to the students, who pre-
pare the talks and make reports in
class.
This is a very interesting club
and the class wishes that more
than one day week could be spent
for it.
Emily Arthurs