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Now Located Over Old Weldon Bank « Tritet Ob. I Bnlldinp PKONF DIAL 7V-4C4-: 1 __| The Roanoke News. Vow Located Over Old Weldon Bank A: Trust Co. I Building PHONE V JL, LXI. Established in 1866-A Newspaper for the People WELJ1M, N. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 16 1931. 1'erms of Subscription $2.00 Per Annum NO. 37 Hubbard Bros. Cotton Letter Opinions regarding the reduction in the acreage have pretty well crys talized along the lines that whatever reduction takes place will only be moderate in character, and not nearly as drastic as was indicated early in January. As a result, main have already reached the conclusion that the crop of 1931-32. which has not yet been planted, is going to be big enough to warrant low prices. As a consequence, they have sold out their holdings, and. in many in stances, have gone short during the last week of March and the first week of April. The weakness, of course, in the commodity markets has checked the demand for dry goods, which had developed during January and February, so that we find the cotton trade of the country almost universally bearish at the be ginning of the planting season. It is rather interesting to note the number of people who are now talk ing a “new era” not only for cotton, but for all other commodities, and for business as a whole, which “new era” is to be one of extremely low prices. Many forget, however, that in the spring and summer of 19 29, and, in fact, even back in 1 927 and 19 28, we heard the same arguments of a “new era”, where prices were to remain at the inflated values exist ing. This applied perhaps more to stocks than to commodities, but, broadly speaking, the whole country was talking of a ‘new era." which was to maintain the inflation of that period. We have witnessed the painful consequences of the delight ful theories that were advanced at that time, and for eighteen months have been paying the price for the adoption of a false economic idea. Is it not reasonable to assume that many are now creating just such an •economic theory regarding a pro tracted period of depressed prices? In other words, it is always a dan gerous to bo extreme about anything, and certainly at the present time the vast, majority of people are as extremely bearish on the future of commodities as they were bullish on stocks in 1929. When this senti ment will change, it is difficult to forecast, but there is on thing cer tain, and that is, that the crop of 1931-32 is not yet made, and a great •deal can happen to business of a con structive character before the crop js made. ATLANTIC C OAST LINK wins NATIONAL SAFETY TROPHY A largo railroad in the South lias .been accorded signal distinction as announced by L. R. Rainier, Secre tary, Committee on Award of the National Safety Council. through Lyman Delano. Executive Vice-Presi dent, Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company. As a result ot the outstanding safety record made by the Atlantic Coast Line during 1930 that road will receive a handsome bronze plaque from the National Safety Council for producing a casualty rate of 1.66 per million man-hours in the National Employes’ Safety Con test, the best record thus far made by any class I railroad in Group • R“, indicating a high degree of carefulness on the part of its em ployes. The safety movement is purely a work of conservation and while it is gratifying to win trophies in nation al competition this is not the chief objective of safety campaigns. Not only have Atlantic Coast Line em ployes profited by intensive accident prevention but it also inures to the benefit of the traveling public. Considerable impetus was given the safety movement on the Atlantic Coast Line by an announcement made at the beginning of last year that three grand trophies would be awarded by officers of the Company to Divisions of that system making the best safety record in tlie Trans portation, Maintenance of Way and Mechanical branches of the service. The accompanying illustration will give our readers a fair idea of the bronze plaque awarded by the execu tive vice-president, which went to the Atlantic Coast Line Third Divis ion for making the best safety record in the Transportation Department last year. The aim of the Atlantic Coast Line, according to Robert Scott, Director of Insurance and Safety, with headquarters at Wil mington, N. C., is to win the Harri man Gold Medal, the highest award for safety, in 1931. SOMETHING TO THINK AliOl'T The person who, through careless ness, causes a fire is in exactly the same class as the motorist whose carelessness results in damage to the property or lives of others. There is no such thing as an "in dividual fire.” The deficit it cre ates must he paid for, in one way or another by the entire comunity. When John Jones’ factory burns it is not only John Jones who suffers— but all his employes, and all other property owners who must make up the taxes lost through the fire. No company has yet written an insur ance policy which in the broader sense compensates for lost time, lives, opportunity, livelihood. The citizen who allows fire haz ards to go untended in his home or place of business, who fails to take every measure that makes for five prevention, is not only derelict in his duty to the community—he is a direct menace to the lives and prop erty of all other citizens. ^ioerch Rides . The Assembly By CARL GOFRCH Talk about your contrasts! One day we have Easter, with its beautiful anthems, gorgeous flowers, inspiring thoughts, lofty Ideals and sublime sienii'ieaiici . the next day we have tile legislature uirain. with all of its foils and foibles. That’s moving from one extreme to tin1 other with a vengeance. There’s a reason for Easter, hut it's hard to find any justifiable reason for the legislature si ill being in session. When we sent the boys] up to Raleigh, it was with the under- ! standing that there "a only one thing in the world that we were in- i terested in. and that was a reduction in property taxes. Prior lo their election as members of the (leneral Assembly, every Iasi one of them was j shouting from the housetops that lie would lear his shirt, his sox and his red flannels in the effort to lift the | burden of taxation from the shoul ders of the farin' rs. And now look ] at ’em! Pt rhaps we were at fault in malt- j ing tile instructions too plain and oh- j vious. Politicians don’t like a direct ; course about anything. You take your real, genuine, dyed-in-the-wool legislator and he'd a darn sight, ratio r drive over detours than stick to the paved highways. Start him off with the idea in mind of buying a new suit, and lie’ll commence op erations by going first to a hardware store ami asking tin* price of stoves. Ask the average man what time it is. and In 'll pull out his w; eh. glance at it, and announce: “Half past, five,” or whatever the hour may he. Ask a politician and he'll smile at you benignly, put out his watch with a flourish, stare at it fixedly, clear his throat impressively and then un burden* himself its follows: ’Time varies with the longitudinal position which you may occupy on the earth's surface, in accordance with the principles first annonunced by Arestes, ancient Egyptian philos opher. who lived long before the days of the pyramids. These pyra mids were built as monuments by certain pharaohs who wished to eter nalize themselves. Other nations had somewhat similar customs, as re cent excavations have revealed. I refer you specifically to Professor Whangdoodle’s recent treatise which was published in one of the scien tific journals. I shall be indeed glad to try and procure a copy for you.” He bows gracefully and proceeds on his way. happy with the thought that he has done you a real service. As a matter of fact, you’re just as much at loss for the correct time as you were before. That’s the way the legislature lias been acting. Maybe if we’d ask them to take up the Patagonian prospects for raising rhubarb or if we had requested them to provide means for feeding the catfish in the Shantung river, over in China, they would have tackled either job and wound up by reducing our taxes. But when we ask them at the outset to reduce taxes, we ought to know blamed well that we're going to get everything except reduced taxes. They’re still discussing ways and means of financing the provisions of the MacLean bill. The outcome is still in doubt. A new banking commission* has been formed at a time when most of us have absolutely nothing to put into the banks. Most of the past week has been de voted to making speeches. In one respect, the present session of the legislature is outstanding. Most of the members can say more things that sound well and mean absolutely nothing than any other group of men I’ve ever seen. 1 was in the senate last Friday, t listening to the flow of speeches, i when a certain senator from the ] eastern part of the State—a good | friend of mine—passed by. “What , do you think of the sales tax propo- j sition?” I inquired. “Don't bother j me now!’’ he responded “I’ve got j I to talk. This is no time to think.” There is some talk that the session | may end by Saturday of this w ok. but that seems too much to hope for. It probably will be next Wednesday i or Thursday before the thing is over j with. And then, instead of wrung- ] ling and fussing with one another. ] the members can go home and wran- j | gle and fuss with their wives, as all decent and respectable men ought to I he doing. AUK \VK LAWLKSS Oil OYEK-LAWKI) IMOi'!.! "We are a lawless people," said a committee report to the la: t annual meeting of the American Bar Asso ciation. "Crime exists among us to an extent unknown in Great Britain. Scandinavia, Holland, Belgium, France and Germany And our law lessness is not an acute, hut i chronic disease. It is an old nicer of which no doctor can say how or when, if ever, it will be healed." The question this .gives rise to may liot be so obtuse as it seems. It .is certainly within the realm of possi bility that lawless America has been the direct result of too much law. In the other countries mentioned, there Is not the continuous stream of new laws that flows in the United States Some time ago a bill was Intro duced in our congress to make the interstate shipping of revolvers and pistols illegal. It was finally de feated but such proposals and laws infringing individual rights are a good example of the trend toward making illegal, acts which in them selves are not illegal, thereby laying the ground-work for more law-break ing by otherwise law-abiding Ameri can citizens. /Len's Club Hold Meeting The Mon’s Community Club Held Special Meeting, Inviting Repre- ! sentatlvcs of Rtisiness in Weldon; l)iHriiHs<Ml Support of Now Hank and Paper; Advertise Town, Keep Clean l p Week l-’very Week. The Men’s Communits Club hold a very interesting and enthusiastic : meeting on the first Tuesday in this I month at tilt* Amerienn Legion Hull. | There was an unusually large attend- ; anee, the room being filled to ca paeity. A delicious Barbecue and Brunswick Stew dinner was served. .Mr. (lore, President of the club presided and announced that there was no definite program planned, flic meeting being open to anyone who bad anything to say for the bet terment ot' the town and community. Mr. George Green made a very in teresting and impressive talk on "The duty of a citizen to his com munity.” He said that a good citi zen is a man who has tin* interest of tin* community at heart. Not one who wants to fill his coffers from the bounty of the community but who is willing to give as well as receive, who has a reasonable interest in the churches, the schools, etc. We are all more or less children. The only difference in a child of five and a man of fifty is 15 years. We are all nothing but grown up chil dren with a different outlook on life. “A good citizen thinks in construc tive terms,” he said. Any man can criticize, when everything is down in tin* dumps. When an effort was being made by tiiose who were di rectly interested in reopening one of the hanks there was a hit of criticism 1 about the method But none of the critics offered a substitute method. Such critics are hound by all decency of life to keep their mouths shut. "We want persons who think in constructive terms. Anybody can criticize hut few can originate and carry through constructive ideas.” . "We should all abide by the laws, and help those who have in their charge the enforcement of laws, to | enforce them.” In discussing the question of good citizenship Mr. Green briefly review ed the life of Socrates, revealing in a very effective manner that because your neighbor does not agree with you he is not necessarily a had char acter nor a good citizen. "When Socrates was on the Island of Helos and drank the Hemlock we find as good a citizenship as has ever been written on the pages of history." This man started to teach law obed ience to the young of Greece at an early age and went about during his entire life continuing to do this. When on the Island, waiting to drink the Hemlock, after the court had de creed that he should die, numerous friends besought him to leave with them and go to safety, to a foreign land with them. His answer was: "I will not go back on my teachings of a lifetime." So In* stayed and drank his deatli as the law had so pre scribed. This great character. Mr. Green said, had one aim in lit'**, "his one thought was to benefit the com munity in which he lived." Rev. Shore commented on The New Roanoke News and urged that every one cooperate and support the new editor. Robert Grady gave his purpose in being in Weldon, for buying The Roanoke News. He said that he liked Weldon and the surrounding country, believing that it was tin* best section in North Carolina. He | came here because he likes newspa per work and wants to serve the peo ple to the best of his ability in giving them a paper that is a credit to the town. The paper belongs to the people and is theirs to use as they see fit. Criticism is invited, lie said, ; as long as it is constructive. Rev. Shore made a short appeal to the merchants of Weldon to cooper ate and suppor the new edite**. ( • MMimied on pagt2 IMH STKY CANNOT SPFM) WITHOl'T PROFITS The railroads' poeketbook grows constantly thinner. During January their profit was at the annual rate of 2.28 per cent on their investment, compared with 3.SI per cent in Janu ary, IU30. Net operating income de clined about $22,000,000. The nation has looked to the rail roads as a bulwark both in time of prosperity and in time of stress. ! Whenever farm prices go down, or j any oilier major industry is depress ’d. the usual course of action is to iow<*r railroad rates. Rut no one ! •»as as yet suggested that railroad rates be raised when commodity t prices are up. Win n. more than a year ago, Pres d» lit Hoover was laying plans for ini»»lat«<1 industrial activity, lead ers of the railroads were among the fir t summoned to the conference. ! 1 hey pledget] themselves to spend o tin* limit of their ability in order i to maintain employment, improve standards of serv* e, and aid the gen- I oral industrial situation. During 1930, the poorest railroad year in a .mor railroad dr cade, the lines spent on capital account, $872,G08,000. The railroads are no doubt flatter- • ed to be so highly regarded. They would unquestionably be pleased to continue in their role as a back log of economic progress. Rut the fact remains that to spend money and in dustry must have money to spend— that, in other words, it must make a fair profit. By throttling the rail roads through overtaxation and ex cessive regulation, we are facing a barrier in the path of prosperity. Jurors Chosen Criminal Court Judge Clayton >■ 're will hold a , one week term of *.ourt in Halifax during the week of April 27. trying ! only criminal cases The jurors for the term u • J. A. Briley W L Allsbrook W. L. Pepper A. W. Gardner Kelly Cooper II. (’. Allsbrook A. I’,. Draper L. 10. Davenport II. II. Edmondson I). A. In seme H. W. Quarles T. M. Smithwiek Selby Smith •I. H. Browning Z. A. Harden Sankey Lovegrove T. B. Wheeler Richard D. Bunch C. U. Hyman Z. V. Hawkins W. L. Mizzelle Sr. W. S. Ivev J. L. Hall E. C. Padgette J. W Taylor .1. J. Wiilev (). J. House Geo. I). Patton It. B. Lanier Chas. Brown Jews Gather At Wilmington Po’-m Men’s Organization; Henry Farber Fleeted Vice President; W. B. Josephson On Board Of Director*. 1 he Jewish Women of this state held their tenth annual meeting in Wilming ton last week end. Many Weldon citizens attended and took part in the very progressive program carried out. The theme of the meeting was the late Jewish movement to rehabilitate Palestine, their old country and father At the afternoon session tlie men formed a new organization known as the North Carolina Association of Jewish Men. .1. T Shrago, of Golds boro. was elected first president and Henry Farber, of this city made vice president. Weldon is also represented on the board of directors by W. I». Josephson, who in thealternoon session delivered a talk. The chief speakers for the occasion were Miss Henrietta S/.Md, nationally known for her work with Hadassah in America and Palestine, who discussed four objectives of the Jewish peopla throughout the world' and Rabbi Falk who talked on Your Problems As 1 See Them”. GREATEST HIGHWAY BUILDING PROGRAM JOBS FOR THE IDLE With Warmer Weather Mak ing Possible the Beginning of Work, More Than 100, 000 Men Soon Are Expected to be Plying Picks and Sho vels on New Networks of Roads Linking Cities, Towns and Villages in Every State. Washington, April 11.-- i/P)- The (Continued on page 2) Dedicate Duke Medical School (iiiisual Event to Attract Distin guished Repi'caenta lives of Medical World. Durham, April 1th Formal dedi cation of tte Duke university school of medicine and the Duke hospital, on April 20, will attract distinguish ed representatievs of the medical profession from all parts of the state ami distant states as well. A program covering the entire day has been outlined. Among the speakers for the day will be I>r. David Linn Edsall. dean of Harvard medical school; Dr. Lewis Hill Weed, director of John Hopkins school of medicine; Dr. William H. Welch, of John Hopkins; Dr. W. S. Rankin, of Charlotte; Governor O. Max Gardner of North Carolina, Dr. Thurman D. Kitchen, of Wake For est college, and others. George G. Allen, of New York, chairman of the board of trustees of Duke endowment, will make the formal presentation of the $4,000, 000 plant, and Col. John F. Bruton, of Wilson, will accept in behalf of the Duke university hoard of trus tess. President W. P. Few of the university will preside at the vari ous public assemblies. Dr. Wilburt C. Davison is dean of the Duke medical school, and M. E. Winston is superintendent. The Weekly News Letter NEW BUILDING CONSTRUCTION GAINS IN MARCH: Much more new building construction was under ' then in ti«. United States during darcli than v.a ilie case in February tnon.inr to Commercial compila lions of **0111acts reported to the (,oinni"i .. Depurtm* id's Division of Building and Housing. The in i fi | volume noted i- attributed in part to tii usual seasonal changes in 11• • industry, and the types the re moval of obstructions which winter places to some types of outdoor For tin first 1* business days in March, the a. Dial total of contracts for new construction let in the United Stales east of the Rocky Mountains, as reported through the F. \V. Dodge corporation, is placed at <id;_\!ih:i,!hh) For the entire month of February, the total of such con trails in similar area was $235,405, 100. The greater portion of the Manii increase took place in the category of public works and public utility construction. Contracts let lor work in this field for the month amounted to $1 1 1,4 68,000, while contracts for residential construction let in the same period amounted to $70,59.3,700. and for non^residential construction, including office and facotry buildings and plant struc tures. the figure was $80,848,000. BRITISH FIND TRADE EXHIBI TIONS AN AID TO FOREIGN BUSI NESS: British business is finding a highly satisfactory promotion method in the various trade exhibitions held at home and aboard, according to opinion expressed by British indus trial leaders, the Deaprtment of Com merce is informed in a report from Trade Commissioner Flvod E. Sulli van at London. Public attention has been focussed upon this type of “advance sales manship" through such exhibitions as the one held in Buenos Aires, in augurated by the Prince of Wales, and costing Great Britain about $5, 000,000, and by industrial trial fairs held in England, the British report statees. One of the outstanding among the latter type has been the British Industrial Fair, which exhib itors state has served as an unusu ally good boost to business, accord ing to reports received in the British Department of Overseas Trade. The total number of attendances by over seas buyers ut this fair was 4,584 in London and 1.984 in Birmingham, a total of 6,83s these reports indicate. These figures constitute an in crease of about 25% over last year's numbers. The visits by home buy ers numbered 16 7,259 in London, and 106,682 in Birmingham, a total of 273,9 4 1, showing an increase of 30,000 over last year's figures. Visits by the general public numbered 34, 679 in London and 14,215 in Bir mingham. a total of 48,894. The si eretary to the Overseas Trade De partment further states that the in creased attendance and volume of business done, was particularly satis factory in view of the present condi tions of world trade. CENSUS OF MANUFACTURES 1930: We should like to call your attention to th * pamphlets which are now available and concern a prelim inary report on the retail trade for the majority of cities in the two Car olina's. These pamphlets contain de tailed information with respect to re tail trade and should prove of vital interest to business institutions in terested in analyses of economic con ditions in these localities. Copies may be obtained from this office. PRK-SCHOOL ( LINK Tlu> county health oi l ice has desig nated Thursday, April 30, as the date lor the Pro-School Clinic for the Weldon Public School District. On that day Dr. Mitchell will be in the room provided for him in the Wel don High School from 9:00 A. A1., as long as will be necessary to ex amine. vaccinate, and inoculate all children that will enter school for the first time next September. We urge all parents who will have chil dren to enter school for the first time next September to bear this in mind and have them here on that date. The health office urges that no child lit* sent, but that the mother bring it so that the Doctor can ex plain what defects the child may have that can be looked after during the summer. This will do much to give the child a chance during its first year in school. I call upon the officers and mem he,-s ot the Parent-Teacher Associa tion t » cooperate with us in this pro ject by volunteering their service and the use of several cars to bring the children out for this examination. It is to be remembered that the paper does not reach half of our people, and it this examination is to be etloctive, we will have to do some personal work in advance. A. W. Oakes, Jr. GAMES SCHEDULE The games this month are: April 21. Emporia at Emporia; April 23, Seaboard at Weldon; Apr. 2S, Sea hoard at Seaboard; Slav 1st. Enfield at Enfield; May 5th. Rich Square at Weldon; May Sth, Emporia at Wel don; May 15th, Oxford Orphanage at Weldon. The regular lineup for the team is: Gore, 2nd. Chappel C, Elias, S. S., Milliken, Pitcher, Hart, 3rd, Draper 1st, Alston, C. F., Daniel, L. F., Gregory, R. F. The subs are: George Green, John Chappel, Wil liam Hawking, James Pope, Wesley Draper and Joseph Kittner. Wright Bridge Open to Public Wright Memorial Bidilg** Thrown | Open To Public Culminating State 1 Highway Program Stnrte*! Ten Tears Ago; Seenic lletut> \long j \* w Route. Klizabeth f'lly. April 10 Tin- pri mal.' purpose hi North Carolina's highway program was achieved just ] o years after its adoption when, on Wednesday evening, the asphalt road connecting the Dare County end of the Wright Memorial Bridge across Currituck Sound with Roanoke Is land, was thrown open to traffic and I i an unique ocean-shore drive added ! to the scenic highways of the State. By the opening of the new road Manteo, Dare county-seat and the last county capital in the State to be isolated has been linked with its fellows scattered westward on out to Murphy in Cherokee by a contin- ' nous chain of State maintained high ways, which carry out the first pro- | vision of the Highway Act of 1921, which began. “The purpose of this act is to create a State system of highways connecting, first, the sev eral county-seats of the State . . Tile completion and opening last fall by private enterprise of the Wright Memorial Bridge, spanning the three-mile width of Currituck Sound from Point Harbor to a point two miles above Kitty Hawk, on the Dare County shore, made possible the construction by the State of the ocean-short road, extending south ward for nearly 20 miles within sight of the foaming breakers of the 1 Atlantic Ocean and passing en route Kill Devil Hill upon the summit of which the Government memorial to the Wright brothers is about to arise; the scene of the first me- ' chanical flight by man, the Nags : Head summer resort, the regularly spaced L’. S. Coast Guard stations, and on across the Roanoke Sound Bridge to Manteo and Fort Raleigh, the site of the Lost Colonv on Roa onke Island. I'pon crossing the Wright Memor ial Bridge iho road passes first through a dense jungle of vegetation, live oaks and scrub pine and dog wood which within t\yo weeks will transform the area into a pageant of while blossom.' emerging from the weeds the road curves southward and for the rest of its length tra verses the white sands of the North Banks, (he ocean surf almost contin uously in view on the east while at Intervals the waters of the Albemarle j Sound can he seen to the west of the narrow strip of coastland. The Paul Gamiels Mill Coast Guard I Station, with its cluster of weather beaten buildings around it. is passed 1 soon alter leaving the woodland ( while Kill Devil Hill, with its slopes 1 planted in grass in order to anchor its shifting sands in place so as to form a pedestal for the granite shaft 1 of the Wright Memorial, is a land- 1 mark seen from miles distant. By sharp contrast with tin* green slopes of Kill Devil are the other sand dunes passed all along the way fieir great masses of shining white sand moulder and rippled by the wind which steadily moves them to lee ward year by year. Just to the north of Kill Devil hill is the granite boulder which marks tho actual site of Wilbur and Orville Wright's first successful airplane flight, at that time on the slope of the hill which has moved about three quarters of a mile to the south west since 1902. ■iiini |iurai H UMII1 Ul lilt* wrecks of the steamers Carl Ger hard and Paraguay and the schooner Irma, the road reaches the new Kill Devil Hill (’oast Guard Station and a few miles further on passes through the Nags Head summer resort, where the strip of coast be tween tin' Albermarle Sound and the Atlantic Ocean narrows down and 1 cottages are evenly divided between ocean and sound shores. South of the resort is the Nags Head Coast Guard Station and the road extends on to make a juncture ( with the causeway and bridge across Roanoke Sound to Roanoke Island and into Mantoo. While on Roanoke Island the mo torist can ride on hardsurfaced roads 1 to the north end of the island where 1 in a natural amphitheatre in the woods, carpeted with pine-needles ] and reached through memorial gates, is the sit of Sir Walter Ral eigh’s Lost Colony of Roanoke Is- ! land. The road also extends to the 1 southern lip of the island where is the fishing village of Wanehese, from which can be seen across the upper part of Pamlico Sound Bodie Island light and the narrow width of Ore gon Inlet, the famed fishing ground of Northeastern North Carolina. With the newly opened coast sec tion within two hours ride of Eliza beth City and Norfolk automobile traffic over the new road is increas ing daily and is expected to reach its culmination next August when Dare County will hold the second of its home-coming celebrations. Plans j are already under way to entertain large numbers of tourists at that time as well as a large proportion of the 2,500 or more Dare County citi zens who live in other parts of the Country. MR. GKO GREEN ON l MVKRSITY BOARD Mr. George Green of this city was last Friday named on the new con solidate board of trustees for the ‘greater University of North Caro lina,” composing the present Univer sity, N. C., State College and i N. C. C. W. i The News In Brief NORTH CAROI JN \ Lenoir Improvements made at f'arJhfim Hotel. Kuthcrfordton Wilson Coimtrin i Ion Co. received $;? 1.1 r»'» tout rati lor hard nri... iug I a • mil' «*» Ilit hWiix No. JO Iroin In i' i<i Spin dal.' 1.11 in l»<*rt < >n I.uiiiIm'I'Ioii tkikcrv op. in d for business in building for merly occupied by HarUer and Hull ai d on S"i ond St reel.'' Dunn Dunn Bowling Parlor re. opened. Franklin -Reoprnlni of bank of this city under consideration. Work to start soon on had ir facing ll.GG miles of Route No. 2 1 from Lillington to Cumberland line at Lower Little River bridge. Wilmington— Work started on clearing property of P. F. Motor Ex press Company located on Cape Fear River at foot of Princess Street with view to erecting new terminals. Lumberton—Cream shipping sta tion at plant of Carolina Ice & Fuel Co. opened for business. Marshall Northwest Carolina Utilities Company considers rewir ing electric lines of this city. Contract let for grading highway in to (Jreat Smoky Mountains Nation al Park from Cherokee to Smoke mont. Sylva C. C. Cagle and son. Sid ney took over Ford Agency of this place. Murphy Stockholders acquired interest of G. T. Whitlock in Nu Fashion Hosiery .Mills and negotia tions underway 1o get mill started at once. Lenoir- Several thousand dollars will be spent in installing complete water system for local golf course. Canton—H. L. Setzer and Hugh Cathey opened auto general repair shop in Felmet Garage building at River bridge. Lenoir—Telephone line from this place to Ruggar Tower completed. Work completed on Bell Swamp Highway,—State Port Pilot, South Raleigh—Bids opened for con struction of 85 miles of State high ways and seven bridges, involving ex penditures of approximately $1,250, ouo. Scotland Neck — Improvements made to Scotland Neck Funeral Home. Elizabeth City—Chamber of Com merce seeks canning plant for this city. Louisburg—Messrs. P. G. and M. G. Smith sold their interests in Franklin Creamery. Inc., to R. G. Bailey. Scotland Neck Roanoke Realty Corporation, capital stock of $100, 000, fill'd articles of incorporation to engage in genera! real estate busi ness. Grading of new road bed from Iredell line on Route No. 150 to mill bridge progressing. Mooresville En terprise. Highway between Red Springs and Rowland completed. Mount Airy Work progressing on recreation venture of Green Hill Lakes, Inc. Hickory Hickory Chair Manufac turing Company, Hickory Furniture Company and Martin Furniture Com pany. merged. Mount Airy Work started on re modeling building formerly Bolt property at corner of Virginia and Main streets. Raleigh 15 miles of road between Highway No. 28 in Cherokee County to Tennessee line added to State sys tem for maintenance. Aberdeen New Community House opened. Raleigh This State will spend I6.0U0.000 this year in building 300 miles of road. NATIONAL Bryan Untiedt, 13 year old hero of Colorado School Bus tragedy has been invited as guest of Pres. Hoo ver, to spend a night in the White House. President Hoover broke a 30-year custom by throwing open to visitors for 90 minutes each day the rolling park-like South Grounds behind the White House during Easter. French Strother has resigned his post as the White House’s literary researcher, to take up fiction writing. Captain Edmund Speee Root, U. S. N., has been appointed by Pres. Hoover to be Governor of Guam. New York Shipbuilding Corp. at Camden, N. J., ordered a 10% cut in all wages and salaries week before last. 13,000 employes of Goodrich Tire and Rubber Co., at Akron, Ohio, took a 12% pay reduction as their share of the "economic readjust ment." In Newark, N. J., union painters went on a strike rather than have their daily wage cut from $12 to $10. M. J. Meehan & Co., Manhattan Brokers restored the 12l8% snipped from their employes’ salary last year. Anton Joseph Cermak, Democratic candidate defeated William Hale ("Big Bill’’) Thompson, Republican candidate for Mayor of Chicago by two hundred thousand votes. The final March income tax re ceipts were $334,000,000. In the first week of this month Veterans Administrator Hines an nounced that $1,661,628 veterans had applied for $638,000,000 worth of loans during the first month of the law. They received approxi mately $375,000,000 in cash. WORLD NEWS SYDNEY—NEW SEARCH FOR GOLD REPORTED IN AUSTRALIA. (Continued cn prje 2)
Roanoke News (Weldon, N.C.)
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