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Interesting Pi
Reported I
By M. R. urXNAOAN
(Special Correspondent)
Raieigh. N. C. ? Sixty-odd field
workers for the State Department of
Revenue, after attending a school for
three days last week, girded up their
loins and have gone out into the
State with the avowed purpose of
collecting $2,000,000 in sales tax during
the next two months, Afny and
June, by the end of the fiscal year.
When they left they were armed
with complete lists of all merchants
who had paid there SI for license to
do business in the State, and had
names of others that ha J not secured
the license, along with the information
as to which of them had
paid the sales tax and which had not.
for the several months since last July.
They checked their lists with those
in the office and had the latest dope.
Records in the sales tax office show
that of the 31.000 merchants licensed
in me state for this year, only 16,000
of them have made returns during
the entire month of April for
their sales in March, leaving almost
half that had made no returns. Soine
of them are not due to report each
month, but many of the number supposed
to report had not done so, and
the boys will go after them.
? "This merchant swore to me that
he had paid his sales tax up to date,
and here is the record which shows
he has not paid it in six months," one
of the field men stated while going
over the lists in liis area. Reports
are that many merchants are "laughing
up their sleeves," because they
have not beeu caught, and many people
are saying that the saies tax is
not being collected. The sales tax
forces have beer, lenient, giving the
merchants an opportunity to report,
but are now going after those who
have not made their return voluntarily.
Governor Ehringhaus addressed tile
group and asked them to "get the
money, boys," as it is needed to balance
the budget and pay for the services
'lie State renders the citizens,
ly: schrtrmjr * v.,
Commissioner A. J. Maxwell. Assistant
M C. S. Noble Jr., Directors Hai
[-} llc.Mullan and George G. Seott,
addressed tiro boys and advised them
of methods. Tlioy spent two days listening
to the instructions and another
da.v checking and listing merchants
in their area.
-IXJl-it.' there. ,>ihs been talk recently
that the general fund would be short
St,000,000 to S2.000 000. belief is now
expressed that with the intense work
of the field forces and in other ways,
the budget will be balanced.
Motor Sales Increase
North Carolinians bought more new
motor trucks last month than they
had ever bought before in any month
in history, and bought more uuw passenger
cars than in any month since
September, 1920, purchasing more!
than three times as many cars and !
almost three times as many trucks
as in the month of April, 1033.
in April just passed they bought
4,930 new passenger cars ami 1,164
new trucks, as compared with 1,601
cars and 304 trucks in April, 1933,
and with 2,930 cars and 5S2 trucks,
in let! T.s,.. is-- -
... ; ryt me year me new
sales have been 11,532 cars and 3,287
trucks, as compared with 5,109
cars and 1,225 trucks in the same
tour months of 1933, Director L. S.
Harris, of Lho Motor Vehicle Bureau,
reports.
Telephone Rates Lowered ;
Telephone rates will be lowered j
from 50 cents to 51 on the telephone j
ail over North Carolina, else the Sou-1
them Bell Telephone and Telegraph I
Company will show cause, on May 17, |
why the lower rates should not he |
made effective, as for Raleigh, and |
at the same ratio, based on telephone
population, ir. all of its exchange in
the State, an order issued by Utilities
Commissioner Stanley Winfcorne
provides.
The rates to be used are those in
effect in Raleigh, hut the commissioner
orders that the rates be reduced
throughout the State on the
ccmpailys' exchanges on the telephone ,
population basis, the basis to be de-1
terreir.ed by the commission at the I
hearing called, unless the company
can show cause why they should i
not he.
"H. appears to the commissioner,
fews Items
<rom Raleigh
Anzora^K^^^ping j
TUCSON, Aria. ; . Above it
June Robles, 6, daughter of a
wealthy Arltona ^family, who was
ki3napped a3 olie left school ami
held for $15,000 ransom. It was in
this town that John Dtllingcr and
gang were eaptdrefl last year and it
j is thought by some this was a Dlllingcr
planned revenge on !o6al
police.
i
' that the income of the company
: in excess of <\ fair return upon a fait
valuation of its properties and thai
j its exchange rates are unreasonably
high in the city of Raleigh, and
throughout the State and should be
reduced," Commissioner Winoomd
states, alter making a careful investigation
of the company's properties
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T:ix I' igures
North Carolinians, persons, firms
j ami corporations paid $247,013,129.85)
; in taxes. State and Federal, in the
j first 10 months of the present fiscal
| year, ended April 30, in addition to
1 county city and town and district
! taxes, reports of Federal Collector
Charles 11. Robertson and State Collector
A, J. Maxwell fh nv, This is
$55,907,956.75 more than the $192,2i3,I7o.1-?
paid in -the same pm-ioii
of the preceding year. Ir is also, at
the rue cf $78.23 for every man,
woman and child in the State- (1030
census) with two months yet to go.
In the Federal district the tax was
$208,945,443.14. which was $-17,312,303.7(3
more than was collected in the
same ten months of the preceding
year. This is largely tobacco tax. the
bulk of it on cigarettes, which indicates
a hualty increase in tobacco
consumption, the 10 mouths showing
only slightly less than the entire 12
months of the preceding liscai year.
Cost of collection was only 5 ?.fi cents
for each $100. which is more- than 16
I per conl less than the much-heralded
j record of Gilliam Grissom, RepubI
licar>. which was 6.42 at lowest.
Children Return t? School
Nearly 49 per cent ci the etc: iron
from 11 to 16 years of age who were
turned out of textile mills in North
Carolina by introduction of the code
in August, 1933, returned to school,
Commissioner of Ijtbor A. J. Flet!
cher reports, based on a close check
I in the ten leading textile counties.
Major Fletcher's office had issued
permits to 2,171 children of that age
to work in textile mills during the
13 months preceding the introduction
of the code. His report showed that
38 per cent of these boys and ."7/.6
per cent of the girls returned to the
schoolroom. In the 14-year-old group.
59.6 per cent, and in the 15-year-old
group 45 per cent returned to school.
Of the 319 children checked who did
not go to school, 116 were tired of
school and not interested, 87 were not
able financially to attend, and the
remainder had various reasons, some
keeping house, some married. Major
Fletcher cited that child labor increases
with prosperity and unless
the federal Child "T^abor law, which
North Carolina once rejected, is adopted,
children will flock back to the
miils after the codes expire in 1936.
This law will be up again in the 1935
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I legislature.
Probation Officers Named
Three Federal probation officeru,
one for each Federal court district
in the State, have been recommended
by the respective judges to look
after both adult and juvenile probationers
handled by the courts. Those
recommeuded arc Gilliam Grissom,
former internal revenue collector and
Republican candidate for Governor,
by Judge I. M. Meekins, tor the Eastern
District; Wade Reavis, Yadkin vilie,
a former representative of Yadkin
County in the General Assembly,
by Judge Johnson J. Hayes, for the
Middle District, and Edgar W. Pharr,
former speaker of the House of Representatives,
by Judge E. Yates Webb
for the Westren District. These appointments
have not been completed
by the Department of Labor.
More Birth Control
The North Carolina Conference for
Social Service, in session in Raleigh
last week, adopted a resolution asking
for repeal of the Federal law
which prohibits the mails frooi carrying
literature on birth control, after
- representative of Mrs. Margaret
Sanger, leading exponent of birth
control, had addressed the group. It
also adopted resolutions for continu1
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MAY I Oth to 19th
== merchandise at fai:
cash and no merch;
H take advantage of
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BIG JACt
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s; value at only
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rrr quality for only
== MEN'S WORK SHIRTS?Bes
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Central's All-LeatV
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i alien and en large mint of the present
eight months school term, operated
by the State without ure of ad valorem
taxes.
Editors to Meet at Banner EUs
The North Carolina Press Association
will hold its annual summer convention
July 1113 at Banner Eik.
Avery County, with that organizing
genius, Edgar Tufts, the executive
committee decided at a meeting in
Raleigh Saturday.
To Refund State Notes
Governor Ebringhaus and State
Treasurer C M. Johnson visited New
York City last week to check up on
possibilities of an early and profitable
refunding of the State's S12.230.000
in short term notes. Belief js
that the market will soon he in shape
for a satisfactory turning of the note3
into bonds. Already it is sure that
they can be handled at an interest
rate of 4 4 per cent and possibly less.
The State is now paying an average
r?f flVkSMlt A "JO nnn nnnt nn ii_ I
I va i/vuw "A.u*- i v.eni> un iui
I standing bonds.
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The New Constitution
Intimations are that the fate of
the proposed new Constitution will
net be left in the hands of politi'
cians who are afraid a definite stand
iiiiiiiiiiiiimouR birthday
livers
ir Birthdc
miversary in your town an
. We have tried to give the
r rices. On this sale all me
mdise can be taken out on
the wonderful values we
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fHI riuiiii\A
Ladies Silk Drosses . . . dir
?wif%M from Broadway . . . in ail
vgp iiitirtest fashions. A. good rai
Mh& of sizes. Priced?
# $1.98 to
?fp $7.95
SUMMER MILLINERS
The season s sauciest liat3 in a wide
lection of straws and head sizes.
Priced 97c to $1.49
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| SHOES! SHC
if White Pumps & Ties
?j~j[ In all the season's newest styles
g $1.98 to $3.95
SI
^overalls
ep-In Values
Dainty garments in niauy of
the choicest tin Is and colors.
\ Good mnge of sixes. Special
\ during Anniversary Sale at
\ only?
\ 25c and
W '^c
V NO CHARGE SALES . . NO
GOODS TAKEN OUT ON
-APPROVAL I
-a! AA MEN'S WHITE C.
thing for summer t
V good a M _ MEN'S WORK PA
heavy material, on
itqual- /JO _ TENNIS SHOES?
'ie whole family ..
ier Shoes for father, moth
s approval o f the thrifty,
1VE - TO
DISE FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY
lilliliiiiiii OUR BIRTHDAY.
for or against it may mean political j
suicide, but belief is that leading c-iti- j
zcns of each community, a* contrast- j
ed with politicians, will interest them- .
solves in seeing that tbe people are I
informed as to its merits. Many j
amendments to the present Constitu- I
tion have been killed by fear of politicians
that they would be hurt politically
if they took sides, and not being
informed, the voters cast their
votes against any charges. State
Senator Capus M. Waynick, fcr, and
Attorney General D. G. Brunmiitt,
against, staged a joint debate on the
proposed Constitution before the
State Federation of Women's Clubs
at Asheville last week.
Fish Egg> Purchased
Fish eggs numbering 3.400,000 and
costing $1,945 were purchased during
the recent season for stocking the '
poois at the State fish hatcheries, in
addition to those spawned at the
hatcheries, and when they reach the
proper size will be distributed to the
streams and ponds over the State.
Those purchased are all trout eggs,
including 1,500,000 brook. 1,200,000
rairtoow, aria iw.uw Drawn trout.
Terrapin Business Expands
The diamond-back terrapin, once a
night club luxury in pre-Volstead
~YOUR PARTY IIHIlillllllill
lary ?
iy...Y om
d we are celebrating from
i public service in quality
:rchandise will be sold foxapproval.
Come early and
are offering!
. SUITS
S fnr MF.NI
(.,-t The famous Glen-Moore Suits,
tj,*c fashioned l'nr the man who
cares in all the newest models.
Any sn't in house during Anniversary
Sale at not over ?
$17.95
DRESS SHIRTS
pio^rnrtnt Brand, regular . valu^
Ml 53 .25. In all sizes, colors, cheeks
and stripes. An outstanding
se- value during our birthday sale
for the low price rfth ag A A
of only ?J> JI..UU
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J Freeman Men's Shoes ?
I "Worn with pride by Millions" =
i $4.00 and $5.00 i
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for only . . .
LOOK! HC
Ladies Pure Threat! Silk
Hose, full-fashioned. A .
number one hose that 'Will
give excellent service. |
A value unheard of since
the New Deal at only?
49c ^
MANY OTHER SERVICE /^ '
WEIGHT AND CHIFFON
HOSE SLJGHTLY
HIGHER! '
APS ?Just the
4&C M
STt?? 89c %
Ball Band, for 89^J
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er, sister, brother, %
careful shopper!!
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AN EVER-GROWING PATRON
-YOUR PARTY HHIHHHlilllH
MAY 10. 1934.
lays and almost depleted in North
Carolina, is due for a come back as
ui important State industry with the
taking oil of the lid in most states
nod a great increase io the supply in
this State in recent years. No diamond-back
terrapin taking was permitted
in North Carolina from lail-l
to 1929, and restrictions are continued
during spawning time. April 15
to July 31. Meanwhile, an enlarged
program of propagation was started
it the Beaufort laboratories, reaching
its peak in 1932, when 11.030
.vore produced and released in North
Carolina marsh lands. In 1933, 10,000
were produced, 5,730 of which were,
listributed in North Carolina.
EMMA DEPABTS
New York.?Emma Goldman- she
of the red, red radicalism of four decades
ago?paid wistful farewell one
day last week to the country for
which she his always had a strange
mixture of affection and hatred. She
slipped away from New York City
early in the morning for Toronto, a
few hours ahead of the expiration
time of her 90-day visa which permitted
her to come back for a visit
for the first time since her deportation
in 1919.
An Advertisement In The Democrat
Will Get Results. >.
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