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MANY APPOINTMENTS FACE GOVERNOR Will Probably Name 400 Board Members This Week ■ ■— . . .... —.... . ■ ■- ■— - — ■ ■ i ■■ - ■ ■■■■ ■ — i Interest Rate On Six Millions Will Be Reduced To 5r° Raleigh, June 7.—Governor Er ringhaus kept them all on the “anxious seat” as to appointments over the week-end, but with the hope that he would name officers for half a dozen or more important posts and some 400 minor mem bers of boards, commissions and the like probably by the middle of this week. His trip to New York on State finances, where he and Treasurer Charles M. Johnson were assured that the interest rate on some $6,000,000 in short term notes would be reduced to 5 per cent, and possibly to 4 1-2 per cent, as the North Carolina bankers had prom ised to do for about the same a mount of notes they hold, and the University trustees meeting Saturday, interfered somewhat with announcement of appoint ments anxiously awaited. The more important positions to be filled by him are chairman, and six members of State Highway and Public Works Commission, commissioner of Revenue; com missioner of paroles, assistant budget director, adjutant general, director and four members of Conservation and Development, also game and fish warden and fisheries commissioner director of purchase and contract; one member of Industrial Commission; up to six special judges; superin tendent of buildings and grounds. He also is to name the trustees of all educational institutions, ex cept the greater University, and all boards of charitable and cor rectional institutions, except the Soldiers’ Home, the boards num bering from five to a dozen; eight boards of professional registrar tion, as accountants, engineers, barbers, and the like, five members of the State Board of Health; five members of Local Government Commissioner; one member of Norman H. Davis Norman H. Davis, official Euro pean representative of the U. 8. and President Roosevelt’s Ambassador ct-large to the Geneva Disarmament Conference and the World Economic Conference, which opens at London June 12, is an American very much in the news today. Mr. Davis has held ttiany important posts since the World War. He was a member of the Armistice Commission; Financial, adviser to President Wilson, negotia ting peace; Under-secretary of State; U. 8. member of International Economic Conference in 1927; and, is now a member of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Historical Commission; five of State Board of Elections; three of advisory committee to Banking Commissioner, and a legal adviser, which has not been filled since creation; two members of Advis ory Budget Commission; three of board of Agriculture; nine on com mission on improvement of the laws; vocational education board. The Governor also approves the commissioner of charities and pub lic welfare; as a member of the board of three selecting the State Librarian; approves the director of standards and inspection, labor department; approves as to salary, the State highway engineer; and members of the State Board of Charities and Public Welfare. Al so, under public-local and Private, i. ws, the Governor names prob ably 25 county officials, such as judges, accountants, and the like, and is a sort of mayor of Wrights ville Beach. He names or approves the two sets of railroad directors and officers. The steering committee of the United Dry Forces met in Ral eigh last week and, behind closed doors, named a central committee of 150, from which will be elected an executive committee of 15 to name a director, secretary and other officials, in preparation for an intensive campaign against re peal of the 18th amendment, direct ing their efforts against a conven tion for a vote. The committee members are not made public, pending acceptance. State Senator John Sprunt Hill, Durham, made a speech opposing the convention. The committe adopted a resolu tion earnestly requesting leaders of the Young Democrats “to leave the matter of Convention or No Con vention to be voted on November 7th, to the individual judgment of each young Democrat. As we understand this election was call ed this fall so that it. would be kept out of politics and be a non-parti san, non-political and non-denomi national contest.” The resolution also refers to the Democratic plat form of enforcement of the law, but recognizing the right of the people tji amend, in a legal way, the Constitution at their pleasure. The “wet forces,” those for re peal, are beginning to talk organi zation and it is understood a mass meeting will be held in Raleigh be fore long to line up the forces. Walter (Pete) Murphy, who spon sored the convention act, will be one of the repeal leaders. Tyre C. Taylor, private secre tary and executive counsel to Gov ernor Gardner the past four years, who arganized the young Demo crats in State and nation and is president of the national organi zation, has been named as division counsel for the Reconstruction Fi Theres No End To The Services Offered By— A MODERN LAUNDRY ... And JOHNSON’S is a modern laundry! Home operated by a com pany whose yearly payroll places it among the major domestic indus tries in Roanoke Rapids. We live here-work here-and here we spend our money! You’ll like JOHNSON workmanship and service! From the time the courteous driver calls for your clothes to the time he deliv ers them on time, they are faultlessly taken care of, and are INSURED. Our damage claims this year have been negligible, and those few have been promptly adjusted. You are sure your clothes are given the most sanitary, scientific treatment, eliminating any possibility of disease germs, and you’ll fnd it is a pleasure to “TRADE WITH HOME FOLKS” JOHNSON’S LAUNDRY “Forward With Roanoke Rapids For A Quarter-Century” nance Corporation as will report for duty in Washington June 12. He was asked to report last week, but get an extension to give Gov ernor Ehringhaus time to name a commissioner of parole. NOTICE North Carolina, Halifax County In The Superior Court Pattie Jane Thompson, Plaintiff vs. John Luther Thompson, Defendant. The defendant above named will take notice that an action entitled as above has been commenced in the Superior Court of Halifax County, by the plaintiff against the said defendant to secure an ab solute divorce on statutory grounds and the said defendant will further take notice that he is required to be and appear at the office of the Clerk of the Superior Court for the County of Halifax, in the Town of Halifax, North Carolina, within thirty (30) days from the date hereof and answer or demur to the complaint which has been filed in the office of the Clerk of the Superior Court of said county, as provided by law in such cases, and let the defendant take notice that if he fails to answer the said com plaint the time required by law, the plaintiff will apply to the court for the relief demanded in the com plaint. This the 29th day of May, 1933. E. L. TRAVIS, JR., Clerk of Superior Court of Halifax County, N. 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