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VOL. LXV.
WELDON, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1930
NUMBER 3
SHELBY BECOMES
SUMMER CAPITAL
Gill Says He Will Re-intro
duce Short Ballot Bill
Early In Session
JOHNSON IS CANDIDATE
By M. L. SHIPMAN
RALEIGH. Aug. 18—The Sum
mer capital of North Carolina is
located temporarily at Shelby, the
home of Governor and Mrs. O. Max
Gardner, who have "repaired"
I hither for a sojourn of two or three
weeks. Before leaving, the Governor
confided to newspaper men his
fondness for turnips, hog jowl,
turnip greens and corn bread. He
also expressed the avowed intention
having a good-sized patch planted
during his vacation and advises
every farmer in the State to “go and
do likewise.” Friends here are wish
ing His Excellency a more pleasant
vacation this year than last which
was continually interrupted by
labor disturbances at Gastonia and
Marion. Only pardons of a very
pressing nature will be issued while
the Governor is “vacating," it is an
nounced.
Capitol Hill is a bit perturbed
over the announcement of Repre
sentative Edwin M. Gill of Scotland,
that he expects to re-introduce his
short ballot bill early in the ap
proaching session of the General
" Assembly. The Gill bill presented
at the last session of the Legisla
ture, and which he will again pro
pose, would make the offices of
Commissioner of Agriculture, Com
missioner of Insurance, Commis
sioner of Labor and Printing, and
the three Corporation Commission
ers appointed by the Governor in
stead of elective by the people. The
Commissioner of Revenue was not
included, but a special bill providing
for the appointment of this official
was introduced and passed, on the
recommendation of Governor Gard
ner who later transferred Commis
sioner R. A. Doughton from the De
partment of Revenue to the chair
manship of the State Highway
Commission and appointed Corpo
ration Commissioner A. J. Maxwell
_to the vacancy, stats omciais wnose
tenure of office would be affected
by the enactment of the proposed
"short Ballot" law are not at all
enamored of the idea, preferring to
receive their commissions from the
electorate rather than take chances
on making the right guess for Gov
ernor upon whom would devolve the
duty of appointment. Every Gov
ernor of the State since Craig has
appeared to favor the enactment of
a law embodying the salient features
of the Gill Bill, but no General As
sembly has, so far, approved the
principle.
Judge Thos. L. Johnson is the
first of the aspirants for the nomi
nation for governor in 1932 on the
Democratic ticket to formally an
nounce his candidacy. Judge John
son, a native of Buncombe, away up
in the hill country, but for a num
ber of years a resident of Robeson,
tells his friends definitely that he
► will be in the race. Thos. L. Johnson
worked his way through Mars Hill
College, taught school in Buncombe
and later worked his way through
Wake Forest. Obtained license to
practice law and located in Lum
berton. Served for fifteen years as
chairman of the board of education
in Robeson county, was elected to
the State senate in 1925 and again
in 1929, and was unanimously
chcsen as president pro tern of the
senate at the last session of the
General Assembly. Was co-author
of the Johnson-Broughton bill,
adopted at the last session of the
legislature, known as the Australian
Ballot law. Following adjournment
of the General Assembly Senator
Johnson was appointed emergency
judge of the Superior Court for a
term of two to four years. He an
\ liounces his intention to retire from
the bench before beginning an ac
tive canvass for the gubernatorial
nomination. He will face five op
ponents, it is said, and a hectic
campaign is in prospect.
Representatives of the Raleigh
Chamber of Commerce have capi
tulated to the railroads in the fight
for a new union station by accept
ing the proposal of the carriers for
a thorough renovation, changes and
additions to the general structure
and the promise to give the capital
city of the State an adequate build
ing in every respect. The work of
Improvements is expected to begin
within sixty days and the additions
to be made are to comply substan
tially with the requests of the
Chamber of Commerce, one of which
. was that the white and negro wan
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Says Tobacco Stalks
Are Breeding Places
For Many Insects
To destroy breeding and feeding
places for insects that are injurious
:o tobacco all stalks should be cut
lown or plowed unuder immediately
ifter the crop is harvested.
"These pests breed in large
numbers and feed on the stalks and
suckers which grow out of the
stalks left standing and in this way
go into winter quarters with a full
meal and better able to live through
the winter,” says C. H. Brannon,
extension entomologist at State
College. In the spring they are
ready for a good years work and
nave cost tobacco growers thousands
cf dollars in damage to the crop.”
According to Mr. Brannon, cutt
ing down the stalk or plowing them
under is just as important as buil
ding a trap bed or putting out
poison during the growing season
for horn worm and bud worm.
While these precautions are necess
ary to control these pests that live
through the winter the number
that live can be lessoned to a great
degree by removing the breeding
and feeding places, he says.
Tests conducted by farmers in
many sections of he State have
shown a great reduction in in
festation the following year and Mr.
Brannon strongly advised all tobacco
growers to follow this practice.
While some farmers are of the
opinion that the plowing under of
tobacco stalks will render the soil
unfit for growing tobacco the fol
lowing year this opinion is not
founded on facts, states Mr. Bran
non. Experiments have shown that
these green stalks aid the soil and
are of great value as a fertilizer.
Not only does it improve the land
but the plowing under also destroys
thousands of insects that would
otherwise do much damage to the
ci op. Cut down the stalks, plow
them under and destroy pests be
fore any part of the crop, he ad
vises.
Duplin County Boy
1$ 4-H President
Leading a field of nine candidates
by a safe margin of 300 votes Boyce
Brooks of Calypso in Duplin County
was elected president of the state
wide organization of 4-H clubs at
the annual short course recently
held at State College. Margorie
Guffey of Buncombe County was
elected vice-president; Louis Elliott
cf Stanley county, secretary, and
Ralph Suggs of Gaston County,
historian. These officers were in
stalled at the closing exercises and
will lead over 20,000 boys and girls
enrolled in club work in their efforts
to •'make the best better” during
the coming year. They will also
have charge of the short course
to be held in 1931.
The usual custom of alternating
officers between the boys and girls
was followed this year, the president
for the past year being Miss Mary
Emma Powell of Sampson County.
Boyce Brooks was vice- president
and was advanced to the presidency.
Vernon James of Pasquotank was
i secretary and Lossie Hardison of
Washington was historian.
The short course also saw the
culmination of the annual health
contest with health champions from
each district entering the State
contest. In the State contest L. L.
McLendon, Jr. of Duplin County
made the highest score for the boys
and was crowned King of Health.
His score was 99.5 per cent. Among
the girls Miss Nancy Evelyn Neely
of Mecklenburg County made the
highest score and was crowned
Queen of Health. Her score was 98
per cent. Only minor defects were
fcund in each case and examining
physicians state that they were both
as near perfect as is found.
Health champions are also found
among the new officers as Boyce
Biooks the president was crowned
King of Health in the 1929 contest,
and Marjorie Guffey was health
champion for the girls in the
mountain district this year.
BEES WENT ON RAMPAGE
The sudden appearance of an in
vading army could hardly cause
more consternation than prevailed
near Selma, Miss., when a truck
went into a ditch and dumped 80
hives of bees it was transporting
into the road. The infuriated bees
went on a stampede and took pos
session of the highway, stopping all
traffic except that in closed auto
mobiles.
LUCKY BREAKS
-By C R. Miller
2,5OO,CLQOJV0MEN READ DECAUSE
HE MARRIED —
Cyrus h.k Curtis,
UPON HIS WIPES CRITICISM
op'the WOMAN'S PAGE
IN HIS PAPER,"TH&
TRIBUNE'SUGGESTED
THAT SHE WRITE THE
PAGE HERSELF. SHE
Did. it was a success
AND DEVELOPED INTO
m ‘THE LADIES' HOME JOURNAL"
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CIRCULATION 2,500,000
CYRUS
HK CURT IS
granted cold medal
FOR IUCH ADVERTISING
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State and National News
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Two hundred masked men invad- 1
ed the Edgecombe county jail Mon- 1
day night about midnight and took i
Oliver Moore, 29-year-old negro .
charged with ravishing two little 1
white girls, strung him up to a tree l
near the Edgecombe-Wilson county
line where approximately one hun- ]
dred bullets were fired into his body, I
More was identified as the negro
who ravished the five and seven ;
year old daughters of E. F. Morgan, i
a farmer, a month ago. They are
now in a hospital at Tarboro being i
treated for venereal disease the
rapist gave them, i
"The day was a holiday in the ;
section, a holiday in which all
clases from a hundred miles around
participated. Whole families came :
together, mothers and fathers
bringing ever their youngest chil- :
dren. It was the show' of the coun
try-side—a very popular show. Men i
joked loudly at the sight of the :
bleeding body, riddled with bullets.
Girls giggled as flies fed on the
blood that dripped from the ne
gio’s nose,” the newspapers relate.
It was North Carolina's first
lynching in nine years.
Speaking at Philadelphia Monday,
Secretary of Labor James J. Davis
told the delegates to the 32nd an
nual encampment of the United
Spanish War Veterans that if the
decision was left to the men who
had been on the firing line, there
would never again be an armed
conflict. "I never met a man who
had faced death on the battlefield
who was not in favor of wiping out
war forever. You veterans are a
powerful force among us and I hope
you preach the doctrine of peace
wherever you are."
What was termed “the worse
piece of oppression yet practiced by
the mill authorities in their attempt
to crush the local textile union” and
“a high-handed method for dic
tating the very thought and private
lives of their employes" came to
light early this week when it became j
known that bosses of the Cone Cot- |
ton Mills at Greensboro told their |
workmen that they would have toj
stop reading the News and Observer i
or lose their jobs. They were allow- |
ed to read a paper published by the
mill for their employes.
Remaining aloft in then- mono
plane, “Greater St. Louis," for 27
days and nights, Dale Jackson and
Forest O’Brine landed Sunday
morning at 6:39 at Lambert-St.
Louis Field, becoming the official
holders of the world’s sustained re-'
cord again at 647 hours, 38 minutes
and 30 seconds in the clouds. Motor
trouble forced the plane to alight,
Jackson and O'Brine told inter
viewers.
A year ago these two men brought
their plane to earth on the same
field to claim the world record af
ei flying over the field for 420
lours. Their record was broken
i'hen the two Hunter brothers,
fohn and Kenneth, of Sparta, 111.,
ar.ded at Chicago July 4th after
lying for 553 hours 31 minutes.
Jackson and O'Brine took-off
tearly four weeks ago to regain
heir record but to the general pub
ic it was not known that they were
eeking the endurance toga until
hey had soared through the clouds
jver Lambert Field for approxi
nately two weeks. Since that time
hey have played the front pages
if the Nation's dailies and thongs
i.ave gathered to witness their at
,empt to regain their record.
The cost of the record breaking
light, exclusive of investment in
jlanes and equipment, was approxi
mately $1,000 a week.
The flyers, by stage contracts and
idvertising agents, earned about
>40,000 for their flight last year.
It is not thought that the Hun
;er Brothers will try to recapture
heir record.
“Organize and say to the man
ufacturers You shall not have our
products unless you pay us a fair
profit, ” Commissioner of Agricul
ture W. A. Graham advised farmers
Dver radio station WPTF, Raleigh,
Monday. “The profits of manufac
turers of tobacco have not been re
duced, although growers last year
received less than the cost of pro
duction and are threatened with
still lower prices," Mr. Graham said.
While not specifically mentioning
co-operative marketing a group of
Wilmington citizens telegraphed
Governor Gardner, who is spending
his vacation near Hendersonville,
asking him to take the lead in
remedying "an indefensible bad sit
uation,” which they described to
“apparent lack of competition
among buyers."
Acknowledging the telegram over
telephone and stating that he had
not had time to give It serious con
sideration, the governor said: “No
one realizes more than I do the
gravity of the situation, but the sit
uation is just as grave with cotton
growers and they already have a
co-operative marketing situation. 1
do not know what I can do, but 1
am anxious to do anything I can
and will give it serious considera
tion."
CHICAGO, Aug. 9.—Crooked poli
ticians who win high offices anc
then promptly “sell out" to under
world leaders “are responsible foi
the ascendancy of gang rule Ir
Chicago,” Patrick Roche, chief in
vestigator for the State's attorney’:
office, said in a United Press inter
view Tuesday.
"If at any period in our historj
there might have been excuse foi
the concoction and enactment o:
the Grundy-Hoover tariff bill, cer
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SALTER TALKS ON
NEED OF CATTLE
Over 1,000 Citizens View
Special Coast Line Stock
Train At Weldon
HEAR SPECIALISTS TALK
Cattle of Western North Carolina
is selling at four to seven cents a
pound due to the extreme drought
and lack of feed crops and the
farmers of the eastern sections of
the State will over-look a great op
portunity if they fail to take ad
vantage of these sacrifice prices,
L. C. Salter, of the State Division
of Markets, told 1026 at the Live
stock Development Special operated
by the Atlantic Coast Line with
State College and the Department
of Agriculture at Weldon Tuesday.
"The Valley of Virginia has al
ways been the market for Stocker
and feeder cattle, but the drought
has prevented the Virginia market
from buying and has forced the
western farmers from keeping the
stock,” he continued. “In the east
ern sections of the State the farm
ers have more feed than their cattle
can consume and should look to the
west for an income at little cost.”
“With the feed producing possi
bilities of eastern North Carolina, it
is a natural place for finishing
feeder and Stocker cattle for the
markets. It is probable that the
drought may be the beginning of j
an industry that has not been prac
ticed extensively in the eastern sec
tions. but would yield the farmer
large dividends," says Mr. Salter.
While the Western counties are
unable to carry their stock and with
parched pastures and hay crops
being fed and cut prematurely, the
eastern sections of the State hold a
land of profit in feed stuffs if they
commercialize on the drought," he
concluded.
"The boll weevil and the army
worm has got cur cotton, the fi
nancial worm has got our tobacco,
and God only knows what worm has
got our peanuts." R. C. Dunn, promi
nent attorney of Enfield, declared
before 1131 Halifax county farmers
I this morning.
"It is time to shake off the
shackles of cotton and tobacco," he
said, "and to diversify with live
stock. There was never a more op
portune time for a livestock train,
or a time to live without cotton and
tobacco than now and such an ex
hibit as Halifax farmers will see
today will be felt in their hopes
and lives for years to come.”
Dr. William Moore, State Vete
rinarian, declared that the prob
lem of the cattle tick that had pre
viously retarded the cattle industry
was gone from Eastern North Caro
lina, but the internal worms pre
sented a problem that had to be met
by the farmer through sanitation.
T. T. Browne, of the State De
partment of Agriculture, urged the
increase of poultry, declaring that
the State raised only half of what
we consumed in eggs and chickens.
“Most cf the farmers have no poul
try at all, and many that produce
chickens own scrub stock."
"Halifax county needs more than
7.000 cows to approach the standard
of the United States," Fred M. Haig,
college dairy expert said. "And if
the farmers want to prevent the
pellegra conditions prevelent in
many parts of the State, they must
turn to milk."
The purpose of the train and its
exhibition as explained by V. W.
Lewis, general livestock agent of the
railroad who was in charge, is to
stimulate interest among the farm
ers of eastern Carolina in the rais
ing of poultry and livestock as the
surest means of emancipation from
economic slavery to cotton and to
bacco.
The cars contained specimen of
pure bred Holstein and Guernsey
cows, Duroc Jersey hogs, pedigreed
sheep and several of the most profi
table breeds of poultry.
Demonstration models showing
the proper methods of housing
chickens, testing eggs, and prevent
ing poultry disease were on display
Attendants from the poultry anc
livestock divisions of State College
gave explanatory talks concerning
the various phases of livestock anc
poultry raising and dairying.
Approximately 40,000 people have
seen the livestock train since i
left Selma August 5. The exhibition:
will be shown in Scotland Neck an<
Greenville August 20.
SCOUTS AT MEDOC
Scoutmaster Harry Moore and tei
members of the Weldon troop o
Boy Scouts left Tuesday to speni
a week at Medoc camp for boys nea
Ring wood.
Aged Printer Finds
Way Hard On Trip
In Search For Work;
By BIGNALL JONES
Changing times have marked the
passing of the tramp printer. When
I worked in a printing shop as a
boy. it was a common occurrence
to have them come in. looking run
down. almost invariably chewing to
bacco and in need of a hair cut
and a shave. They would ask for a
few days work, perform it satis
factorily, and depart. Drifters, they
were welcomed, for they brought
rich tales of travel and new little
tricks of the craft that they had
puked up in their wanderings.
Sometimes there would be no
work, but the journeyman printer
could always depend upon a help
ing hand from his brothers of the
craft. Given a small sum of money
he would get a hot cup of coffee
and a sandwich and drift to the
next town where work probably
awaited him. That was before Lino
tpye machines became common in
this section and there was always
standing type to be distributed.
Whether it was better machinery,
or the unions .calling for appren
ticed printers ,or modern efficiency
necessary now in the printing trade,
the tramp printer as we once knew
him has practically disappeared.
But the lack of employment now
existing over the country has thrown
many of the old time printers out
of a job. But there is now a differ
ence. It is no longer restlessness
that sends these old men from town
to town. It is the heartbreaking
task of finding enough work to do
to keep off starvation.
Jack T. Ward, one of the latter
class, came into the office on Tues
day. We had no work for him. and
could only give him a little help as
taught in the old days, and send
him on his journey.
i iHot Knew ivir. waiu wxxcxx a i
went to Weldon in the Summer ot
1928. He left there for some other
town shortly afterwards and I lost
track of him until he turned up in
the Warrenton office months later.
Once, I think we gave him a few
days work. Unemployment has been
growing worse for the past 18
months and every six or eight
months he comes by, still looking
for work. A gentle, soft spoken man.
down cn his luck.
‘Son," Mr. Ward said, "I tell you
conditions are terrible. I stayed in
Greensboro for five months since I
was here last. I never could get
over two days work a week. I left
North Carolina and went up into
Maryland, Pennsylvania and into
West Virginia. You think things are
bad here. Let me tell you; North
Carolina is a paradise compared to
those States. There I could not ob
tain a days work. I was not allowed
in many cases to even enter the
composing room of the printing
shop. Met at the door I was told.
Old man, there is no work for you;
good-bye.' ”
Mr. Ward said that on his way
north he stopped in Washington to
see President Hoover. He was car
ried into a small office to the rear
of the White House. "A young man
came in and asked me,” said Mr.
Ward, ‘ if my business was too pri
vate to tell him. I told him that
there was nothing either private or
confidential." I said, "X am an old
printer, nearly three score and ten
years of age. For more than 50 years
X have followed my trade, but now
I can find nothing to do. I merely
came by to ask Mr. Hoover where
was all that prosperity he promised
us in North Carolina two years ago.”
Mr. Ward said the aid told him.
Old man, I wouldn't talk like that;
you might get arrested.”
Mr. Ward evidently did not fear
arrest for he tcld the young man of
a dream he had the previous night.
“I dreamed," the old printer told,
"that I died and went to Heaven. I
knocked on the pearly gates. St.
Peter answered and asked me where
I was from. I told him from North
Carolina. You can't come in, the
Angel said. We haven’t admitted
anybody from North Carolina since
the presidential election."
Mr Ward said that he had never
asked for food at a cafe or at a
door during his periods of unem
ployment. "I used to say that I never
would. But I don't say it quite as
emphatically as I once did. Once
since leaving Pennsylvania I wenl
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ARTHUR ACTING CHIEF
While Chief of Police Crewe anc
his family are out of town for i
i vacation this week, Bennie Arthur
[ night policeman, is substituting fo:
1 the chief on day duty and Jacl
r Trueblood is taking Arthur’s plae
as night officer.
HALIFAX COURT
BEGINS 2ND WEEK
No Cases of Outstanding In
terest On Docket For
Second Week
MAY LAST ALL WEEK
With no cases of sensational in
terest to relieve the monotony ol
the midsummer grind on a crowd
ed docket, Halifax county superior
lourt entered the second week of
the August term Monday after a
week-end recess. The tribunal
still faces a long calendar of rob
bery. assault, and bootlegging cases
and indications are that the term
will last through the week.
Joseph Warren, negro of near
Whitakers, who on the 23rd of July
this year stole 200 pounds of sugar
from the Randolph Stores Company
at Enfield, came into court and
plead not guilty to the charge. The
finger of evidence, however, pointed
:oo strongly toward the young ne
gro and the jury returned a ver
lict of "guilty."
As the Randolph Store Co was
:losed on the afternoon the sugar
was delivered, it was placed in the
adjoining store of Kimball Hard
ware Company. It was from this
store that Warren made away with
the sugar. The theft was discovered
shortly after it occured by B. R.
Kimball, who arrested Warren while
the latter was in the act of leaving
town with the sugar aboard his
tiuck. Between the time of his ar
rest and imprisonment in the town
lock-up, Warren told a number of
different tales about where he pur
chased the sugar. The jury be
lieved the State's witnesses and now
Warren will work the county roads
i or six montns.
William Smith, Weldon negro,
owner of a dance hall for members
of his race came into court on Mon
day facing a charge of assaulting
with a pistol, one Charlie Jordan.
Evidence was that Smith was on
the porch of the dance hall and a
crowd of men were gathered below,
and evidently making too much
noise to suit him. His pistol was
brought into play and he shot
down through the floor to let them
know that order must be restored.
When asked what took place next,
Joidan, who was the prosecuting
witness told the court that he went
up to Smith and told him to put
up his pisol and behave .and upon
doing so was fired at by said
Smith. “Then what happened?”
asked Solicitor Parker. "I sold
out." stated Charlie who accord
ing to evidence was so scared that
he ran in the colored cemetery
several hundred yards down the
road. Charlie wasn't the only one
to flee, however, and Smith soon
had the floor to himself. He was
found guilty of assault and judg
ment has not been passed.
Rosa Meekins, negro woman of
Enfield, was found guilty of re
ceiving stolen property when she
was brought into court along with
Vernell Smith and Haywood Sher
rod .all of whom were connected
with the recent robbery in which
the Burrows Store Co. of Enfield
was entered and a quantity of shirts
overalls and jewelry were made
away with. Rosa was given a very
baa reputation and her home was
described as a place of ill repute.
The Judge, feeling that Enfield’s
negro section, “New Town" would
be much benefitted by the absence
of Rose for a time, gave her
twe years in the State prison.
Smith and Sherrod were found
guilty of the charge of robbing the
Burrows Store Co. and received 18
months each on the county roads.
The following cases were continued
W B. Bobbitt, Charlie Alston, Fred
White. Alma Wilkins, Senora and
Van Armstrong.
Joe Williams, white man of near
Rosemary, was found guilty of the
possession of whiskey. Williams was
out under a suspended sentence of
6 months in jail, with the county
holding a $100 cash bond for good
behavior. Bond was forfeited
when he was caught and the judge
altered the sentence from six to
three months on the roads. Officers
found 4 gallons of liquor and a
worm near the home of Ed. Clay,
negro .and brought him into court
upon a charge of having in his pos
, session materials for the manufac
, ture of whiskey. Officers found an
, cld drum in one of the outhouses
• used by Clay and in another they
: found several barrels of mash and
; a cap. Clay plead guilty to a chrge
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