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f KMT/ JLISHKD IN 1866 A NEWSPAPER FOR THE PEOPLE Terms of Subscription—$2.00 Per Annum VOL. LXV. WELDON, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1930 NUMBER 6 SAYS CENSUS GAIN SHOWS PROGRESS Governor Gardner Is Pleased With Growth of State; Addresses Teachers APPEAL TO GOVERNOR By M. L. SIIIPMAN RALEIGH, July 21—The heat ave of unusual duration and in inslty here and elsewhere in the Itate gave way during the week to jfclitng mercury following the ap ,ach of clouds accompanied by reshing showers. The very wel >me showers appear to have been general over a wide expanse and farmers are greatly heartened over crop prospects. Border counties along the Virginia line had been reported dry for several weeks, a condition which prevailed in other sections, and growing crops were menaced by the absence of moisture. A milllon-dollar rain" is the esti mate placed upon the showers ex perienced in the “dry sections" on Thursday, and Governor Gardner's live-at-home program advanced an other step forward. To a conference of teachers of vocational agriculture at State Col lege the Governor spoke encourag ngly of the part they are playing carrying out the program and ;ed them to cooperate with all «ed agencies and groups of county and community by tak the lead in the movement for full utilization of foods being uced through their leadership, her addresses to the conference re by Robert D. Maltby. agent of ie Federal Board for Vocational ucation, and Roy H. Thomas, ate Supervisor of Vocational Edu tion, who were in complete agree lent with the suggestions advanc in the address of the Governor, luring the last year, according to ie speakers, vocational agricultural partments were in operation in white schools, located in 70 ties of the State, and nearly persons were enrolled in the ultural classes in these depart its. ^"Commenting on the 1930 census, ■jfncn gives North Carolina a popu lation of 3,165,146, Governor Gard Kier says he considers the 23 per rcent increase made by the State r during the last decade as 'a com plete vindication of the progress started by Morrison and sustained by McLean,” and congratulates the people on ‘living at home and boarding at the same place.” The Increase in the population of the State is six per cent more than the average for the country as a whole which, the Governor considers, rather remarkable in view of the fact that from 1860 to 1890 rather small increases were reported from one ten-year period to another. The Governor appointed a long list of delegates recently to repre sent the State at the Fourth Ses sion of the Institution of Public Af fairs to be held at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, August ^3 to 16. He has himself accepted an Invitation to be present at the meeting and deliver an address in the round table discussions on “Re organization of State Government.” A number of governors and ex-gov ernors of various States are to par ticipate at the meeting over which former Governor Harry Floyd Byrd, of Virginia, will preside. During the week representations were made to Governor Gardner by C. W. Bollck, organizer for the United Textile Workers Union, and Karl R. Massey, Leaksville attorney, that men had been discharged from the Cone mills, at Greensboro, for no other reason than that they had joined the union and requested that some action be taken relative there to. No illegality was charged, but the situation was described as “very Jtralned and imminent of almost ^anything,” because of ejectments of discharged employees from their mill-owned homes. The “complain ants” were advised by His Excel lency that there was nothing he could do about it, in the absence of sufficient reason for State action. Mill authorities refuse to treat with representatives of the union and there is apprehension that the Gas tonla-Marion troubles between the mills and employees may be enacted in Greensboro. At a meeting of State Prison di rectors recently held here a reso lution in respect to the memory of the late chairman, Walter D. La Roque, was adopted and routine matters transacted. A proposal for the removal of the plant of the Carolina Culvert Company from f* Salisbury to Raleigh in order that (Continued on page 2) Men Wounded In Run-in With Sheriff And His Deputies Raymond Acres, reputed boot legger is in the Roanoke Rapids hos pital with a pistol wound in his hip, and Hinton Faison, also re puted bootlegger, is awaiting trial In the county jail at Halifax as a result of a run-in with Sheriff Johnson and his deputies at Rose mary on Friday afternoon around 5:30 o'clock. Having been notified that Acree and Faison were to be in Rosemary on Friday afternoon with a load of liquor, Sheriff Johnson and Deputy Charles Lawrence went to Rosemary where they were joined by Chief of Police Grey and by Deputy Sheriffs Bell and Keeter. Acree and Faison and an unknown man were parked in Acree’s car in front of the Park in Rosemary when they were dis covered by the officers, j Chief Grey cut his car in front of ! the men and Sheriff Johnson drove up in rear, making escape of his car impossible. As the officers got out of their cars, Acree stepped out on the left side with his Luger au tomatic in his hand, but before he could get a shot at the officers, two of them had fired, the bullet from one of the guns taking effect in Acree's hip, causing him to drop his gun and surrender. Faison was captured by Deputy Sheriff Keeter when he attempted to make his get-away across a ditch on the right side of the road. The third occupant of the car made good his escape. Acree was carried to the Roanoke Rapids hospital where he is recov ering from the pistol wound. He is being kept under guard while there, it was said by one of the officers. Acree was driving a new Chrysler, which when searched by the officers was found to contain 32 gallons of liquor. The liquor was in five 5-gal lon containers, one case of 6 gallons in fruit jars, and one gallon in another case in fruit jars. The car and whiskey are being held by Sheriff Johnson, who is also hold ing $55.50 found on Acre. Faison was placed in the Halifax jail awaiting the recovery of Arcee, when both of the men will be given a pre liminary hearing on a charge of possesion and transportation of li quor for the purpose of sale. Blair Says Corn Growers Maintain Fertility of Soil ______ Returning from a field trip in eastern Carolina where he inspected 1,033 corn fields in seven counties, E. C. Blair .extension agronomist at State College, reports that 55 per cent of these fields had soybeans, cowpeas or some other summer growing legume interplanted with the corn. “This is a wonderful showing and indicates that our best corn growers are realizing the import ance of keeping up the fertility of their land through the use of le gume crops,” says Mr. Blair. “My trip was made through Wayne, Duplin, New Hanover Brunswick, Columbus, Robeson, and Cumber land counties. This is not generally accepted as soybean territory; yet, 565 of the 1,033 fields of corn in spected were planted with either soybeans, cowpeas, velvet beans or snap beans with the soybeans be ing far in the lead of all other com bined.” New Hanover county had the highest proportion of legumes in corn, or 64 per cent, while Duplin came second with 60 per cent. Mr. Blair said as a general thing, the best and most thrifty looking fields of com had legumes in them, while most of those on poor land, and those showing evidence of poor farming did not have the legumes interplanted. It was also worthy of note, he said, that the most fields without legumes were found in the remote sections of the counties visited. Some farmers argue, says Mr. Blair, that planting legumes in com will cut the yield but results of field demonstrations does not bear this out. As a usual thing the yield of corn is maintained and the land made more fertile when the crop residue is thoroughly plowed under. Mr. Blair has some demonstrations which show an increased crop yield the following year. Planting legumes in corn is a good practice and should be more generally followed throughout the State, he recom mends. A cooperative carlot shipment of 14P lambs was made by a group of Jackson county farmers recently. LUCKY BREAKS — ... -By cR.Miller PSYCHIC SAVES QUEEN/ OP COMIC OPERA Astrancer, rushing in WHILE LILLIAN RUSSELL FAMOUS ACTRESS WAS AT BREAK FAST, URGED HER TO LEAVE THE ROOM AT ONCE. SCARCELY HAD SHE DONE SO WHEN A HUGE MIRROR FELL ACROSS THE TA0LL • THF MAH-I31DT West HK/I"" 0,wu /AMPI/i l-SyCttH Man And Woman Forfeit $50 Bond; Tries Several Cases Charged with fornication and adultary, T. H. McMichael and Mary J. Thomas, white man and woman of Weldon, forfeited their bond of $50 when they failed to appear for trial Tuesday morning. The bond was placed on them Monday night after they had been found living together. Chief Crewe and other town of ficers caught the man and woman living together as man and wife when they went to the home they were occupying, but later found that they had a wife and a husband elsewhere. Lucile Pippen was given a 30 day suspended sentence on Monday morning at Mayor’s court for being disorderly. She used some very abusive words. John Price and Sarah Scott didn’t fare so well when they w'ere tried for being disorderly and Mayor Daniel said $5 and costs each. John Coleman was bound over to the next term of criminal court for receiving stolen goods, and was placed under a $100 bond. Edward Jones, from whom he received the goods, was under 16 years of age and his case was remanded to ju venile court, to be tried by Sterling M. Gary, Clerk of Court for Halifax county, juvenile judge. Jones stole a tub of lard from the truck of Acme Grocery Co. 4-H Short Courses To Be Held August 4-9 With reservations for about 800 farm boys and girls anticipated, plans for the ninth annual 4-H short course to be held at State College during the week of August 4 to 9 are being rapidly matured. The course will be given under the direction of L. R Harrill and Miss Elizabeth Cornelius, club lea ders of the extension service, and will embody instruction in work row being conducted in the field and home by the 23,000 club mem bers now enrolled in North Caro lina. Each course will be of such practical nature that the club re presentative may take the main facts back to the community which he represents. Mr. Harrill says one of the most interesting features of the short course will be the general sessions at which the club officers will pre side and where the club members will arrange their own programs. It is expected that reports will be made at these sessions from the delegates who attended important club gatherings both in and out of the State during the past year. A report of the progress in club work will also be made. Recreation, health, culture, judg ing contests, and demonstrations will be some of the main activities or studies of the meeting. The King and Queen of Health will be crown ed on Thursday evening, August 7, (Continued on page 4) Mercury Soars To High Level Here First Part of Week ‘ Old Sol'' bore clown with a heavy hand in Weldon and vicinity as well as other sections of the coun try here for several days, and the mercury soared to new heights on Monday when it reached the 101 degree mark, according to L. A. W. Shearin, official weather forecas ter for this section. Mr. Shearin stated that the ther mometer registered 101 degrees at 12:30 on Monday, with its climbing back to 99 degrees at the same hour on Tuesday. Late Tuesday afternoon the sky became overcast and a cool ing southeast w'ind brought relief to hundreds who have suffered from the heat wave of the past fevv days. Due to the heat of Monday and Tuesday more than a dozen labor ers of the bridge construction ciew became overheated and fell out. The men were only temporarily af fected, however, and were back on the job the next day. it w'as stated. In most cases the men drank too much ice water after getting over heated, causing them to fall out, stated a member of the construc tion gang. Conference To Fight Tuberculosis Gain SOUTHERN PINES. July 19 Stats Tuberculosis Conference at Salisbury, August 7th, morning, af ternoon and evening will have for its main objective the working out and presentation of plans to pre vent the probable increase in tuber culosis in North Carolina during the next 5 years. During periods of stress, particu larly financial stress and periods of unemployment, pellagra is the first of the deficiency diseases to show an increase. Deficiency diseases are those wholly or partly due to in sufficient and improper diet. We have had this increase in pellagra for a year and a half, and it con tinues, increasing more and more as the days and months go by. Tuberculosis develops more slowly, but just as surely and the increase in tuberculosis should appear next year and continue for several years even if the present financial stress is relieved by the beginning of 1931. The Conference at Salisbury, Aug ust 7th, hopes to set in motion a method for the Control of Tuber culosis, with the county as the unit, not heretofore used and the whole afternoon will be devoted to this, and it is hoped that we will be able to redouble our efforts all along the line. Invitations are extended to phy sicians, health officers, nurses, home demonstration agents, home economics teachers, seal sale chair men, state board of health, welfare officers, members and chairman boards of county commissioners, educators and any one interested in the control of tuberculosis, for each (Continued on page 4) SAYS FIRES DUE TO CARELESSNESS District Forester Reports 115 Forest Fires In North eastern Part of State KKTIMATE LOSS $42,302.00 By I, A. CARTER District Forester Four hundred forty-five fires, largely due to carelessness, during tlie year ending June 30 burned over an area of 20.484 acres of for est land in the 8 cooperating coun ties with the Department of Con servation and Development in for est fire protection in the North eastern part of the State and caused a loss estimated at $42,302.00. The extremely long, dry spring fire season that covered the entire first six months of 1930, together with the notion held in some sec tions that wroods burning would con trol boll weevils, was responsible or much of the increase in the num ber of fires. Compilation of fire reports shows 136 fires due to brush burning, 16 to hunters or fishermen. 23 to rail roads, 10 to lumbering, 68 to incen diarism, 85 to smokers, 43 to mis cellaneous causes and 53 of un known origin. The number of fires by counties and areas burned are: Bertie 106 fires, 3.655 acres; Chowan 20 fires 278 acres; Edgecombe 61 fires, 1.155 acres; Halifax 91 flrse, 3.136 acres; Hertford 26 fires, 630 acres; North ampton 48 fires, 1,057 acres: War ren 61 fires, 2,039 acres; Washing ton 30 fires, 7.725 acres; Camp Protective area—Gates County 2 fires, 410 acres. The Wardens Activity Record shows that during the year the for est wardens collected fire fighting costs from 76 responsible parties amounting to $524.75; conducted 12 prosecutions for violations of the forest fire laws, winning 8 cases, losing 2. while 2 cases wrere appealed and have not been settled. Fire pre vention work included visiting 398 schools, inspecting 91 sawmills, posting 2,141 fire warning notices and interviewing 13.780 people. In addition to the above 106 motion pictures showings were made with a total attendance of 10.364 adults and 15.331 children District Forester L. A. Carter, of Windsor, states that while the for est wardens had one of the worst fire seasons known to combat, that practically all of the wardens did excellent work and in most cases i made better records this year than last, and have saved their respec tive counties thousands of dollars in forest land valuations that might have been destroyed had they not been protected. United States Shows Substantial Growth WASHINGTON. July 22—A total of about 122,957.000 people—just a few thousand under 123.000,000— probably will be shown as th.e )>op ulation of the United States for 1930 when the final count is an nounced here by Director W. M. Steuart of the census. The 1920 population was 105.710. 620. Should final figures bear out the calculation, the country will show a growth of around 17,246,000 people in the ten years. This approximate total figure has been calculated by the Associated Press on the basis of actual pre liminary returns from 40 states and the District of Columbia. In these states census supervisors have re ported a total of 120.807,723 people as against 86.667.858 ten years ago, an increase of 14.139,845, or 16.31 per cent. For the decade of 1910-20 the date of growth was 14.9 iter cent. The growth of these states, com prising almost 81 per cent of the population ten years ago. forms a close approximation of the rate of growth of the nation. On that rate the entire country’s population would be 122,957,307. Of this population North Caro lina furnishes 3,165,146—a gain of 23.9 per cent over the census of 1920. The corn crop of Onslow county will be increased by 200.000 bushels this season due to improved methods anc. the effort to decrease the short age of 400.000 bushels existing last year. Parching winds and dry weather has played havoc with the clovers and grasses planted in all parts of Burke County this spring. Circulate Petitions Por Special Session General Assembly NEW BERN, July 22.—Two peti tions will b.e circulated throughout the counties of the State during the next three weeks, for the signatures of landowners and taxpayers, asking Governcr O. Max Gardner to ca'l a special session of the State Legis lature as soon as possible after No vember elections and urging the General Assembly to provide tax re lief on real estate. The petitions are sponsored by the county and State Tax Relief Association. The members of the General As sembly of the State will be asked in the petitions to enact laws "that will insure a more equitable distri bution of the tax burden on all properties in North Carolina and thereby relieve our farms, homes and real estate from the unjust proportion (70 per cent or more) of the city and county taxes that real property is now bearing. "That ycu enact laws that will give the farmers and landowners an opportunity to redeem their prop erty from the cities and counties, where they have foreclosed, with an opportunity of paying the enor mous taxes, penalties and costs al ready incurred on a partial payment plan, at a rate of interest, not to exceed five per cent for deferred payments; and that you will enact laws that will do away with the penalties and excessive costs in col lection of same. "We favor and urgently request that the State take over the full support of the public schools of the State and save the counties and school districts of any part of the cost cf maintaining the public schools for the full period required by the constitution. "Tnat the State Highway Com mission shall be required to take over and maintain the public roads and bridges ot the counties of the State as rapidly as the revenue will permit. That you enact laws pro biding for a complete reform in the methods of appraisals and valua tion of all property in the State. "That you enact laws doing away with all unnecessary officers and duplication of officers and exercise the most rigid economy in the ad ministration of all departments of the city, county and State govern ment and that expansion in all de partments be discontinued until the hr of the people of the State will justify the same." In the petition to the Governor, he is urged to call the special ses sion not later than November R. "that laws may be passed to stop the heavy and unnecessary expense of organizing the Appraisal and As sessment boards in every county in the State, so that laws may be enac ed to guarantee a fair, just and equitable appraisal system for all classes of property, that the heavy burden may be reduced on real property; and that said special ses sion may prepare for the enact ment by the ensuing General As sembly the Revenue and Machinery Acts; and consider and prepare measures for the relief; and the passage of necessary remedies for the relief of the landowners of the State. -We feel that it is your bounden duty, as Governor of North Caro lina, to take necessary steps to save the real estate property owners from haring their property confiscated and save the great citizenship of North Carolina further wasteful and unnecessary expenditures of thous ands of dollars, which 'you can do by calling the Legislature in special session immediately following the November 1930 election” Weldon Men Make Big Catch At Beach The biggest haul of the season at Ocean View was made on Friday when Capt. Philip Moore, Dr Z P Mitchell, Z. Stringer and J. C. and C. G. Tilghntan caught over 200 pounds of fish in a little over three hours cf fishing. Tire party left here Friday morn ing and returned that night. The fish, which filled a barrel and weighed over 200 pounds, consisted of two sharks, croakers, spots, hog fish, and trout, and was said by fishermen at the well known resort to be the biggest catch made there this season. The men report a won derful time, and stated that Capt. "Zack" Stringer claimed credit for all the spots caught. Because of the recent dry period, tobacco in Beaufort county is ripen ing too fast and some is going to waste in the fields. TENTATIVE TAX KATE IS $1.20 Halifax Tax Relief Associa tion Confers With Hoard County Commissioners MARK i I I’ER CENT CUT Scotland Neck News. Following a meeting with mem bers of the Halifax County Tax Re lief Association at the court house in Halifax on Monday the Board of County Commissioners squeezed sev eral points and tentatively set the 1930-31 county-wide tax rate at $1.20 on the hundred dollars. Before the joint meeting with the tax payers the commissioners had figured their way clear to cut the rate by 17 cents, according to a member of the road board who was at the commissioners' meeting, but after hearing cries of reduction from members of the tax association, the commissioners went into the after noon session and when they ad journed they had about settled on the 20 cents reduction on the hun dred dollars, making a little more than a 14 per cent cut. Permanent Association A representative group of tax pay ers met for the fourth meeting of the Halifax County Tax Relief As sociation and aided in the organi zation of a permanent association. Chairman W. T. Shaw called the meeting to order and stated the purpose of the meeting, which he said was to form a permanent or ganization and associate it with the State Association. The tax payers present voted to form a permanent body and W. T. Shaw of Weldon was elected president with J. T. Maddry of Scotland Neck secretary and treasurer. The by-laws called for three vice-presidents, an executive committee, with a chairman and secretary, and several committees to be appointed by the chairman of the executive committee. The following were elected as vice presidents: R. Hunter Pope of Enfield. L H Kitchin. Scotland Neck, and C. R. Emry of Rosemary. The executive committee was made up of a representative from each of the 15 precincts in the county: Scotland Neck, C. J. Shields; Hobgood, R. G. Shields; Palmyra, B. B. Everett; Roseneath, T. R. Whitehead; Conoconarh, E. J. Parks; Enfield, Waldo Whitaker; Ringwood. Hugh Bloomer; Butter wood. S. T. Thorne; Littleton, J. R. Wollett; Rcanoke Rapids No. 1, Weils D. Tillery; Roanoke Rapids No. 2. C. R Emry; Weldon, H. V. Bounds: Hollister. W. W. Galloway; Faucetts, W. R. Neville; Halifax, Arthur Gregory. All of these men were unanimously elected. In the future the executive com mittee will handle all matters for the Association and a full meeting of all the tax payers in the Associa tion will not have to be held unless an emergency arises. C. R. Emry of Rosemary was elected chairman of the executive committee and C. J. Shields of Scotland Neck, secretary. The by-laws and platform of the State Association were adopted by the Halifax Association. Facing Critical I’eriod President Shaw told the tax pay ers that "We are now facing a criti cal period of distress and the tax payers of Halifax County have their destinies in their own hands and must get proposals before the legis lature and get the desired reforms. There is an urgent need for a re duction in taxes." he concluded. The Association named L. H. Kit ;hin, W. R. Nevivlle and W. T. Shaw as spokesmen for the Association before the Board of County Com missioners. Mr. Shaw told the com missioners that it now takes two bales of cotton to pay the taxes that one bale paid a year ago, and Mr. Kitchin added that it now takes the production from 5 acres of land to pay what two acres paid a year ago. He implored of the com missioners to make a reduction in the tax rate "if it takes prayer to do it." Mr. Neville asked the com missioners to make a careful study of the budget and reduce where possible. Stuart Smith of Scotland Neck compared the tax rates of Edge combe and Halifax counties and stated that most of the difference was in the cost of road work. Edge combe’s county-wide rate is 85 l-2c. John B Davis asked that the road board be cut. “Hell of A Fix” George C. Green, county attorney, speaking for the commissioners, flattered the farmers by telling them i that they are the most essential (Continued on Page -81 ■