North Carolina Newspapers

V olume VII. Personal Mention Dewey Ma~ <-y h,i- taken charge of he Citizens Ins. Agency and will con nae to operate the business in the a ne location. Mrs. ('. E. Flowers is at Mary •'ll/.aboth hospital, where she went in Tuesday for an operation. She is said to be doing well. Mr. and Mrs. W. 1.. Simpson and hildren. little Mae and Leslie Gray ‘Buster” visited Mr. Simpson's father ind mother. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Simp ion of Wake Forest Sunday. The thildren are spending the week with .heir grand parents. Miss Linda Newton, who has been eachnig during the past year at Apex s visiting her sister, Mrs. F. E. Bunn. The ladies in charge of the Flower show hen appreciated the attendance >f a number of ladies from Wendell. M rs. S. H. Hoyle paid a short visit ,o her daughter, Jane, at N. C. C. W. >ll Tuesday. Kidnap Planned A letter from Mr. and Mrs. Pitt nan Stell who are attending the Southern Baptist Convention in St. Petersburg, Fla., says that criminals danned to kidnap the six-year-old laughter of Rev. Mr. Gardner, pas or of the Baptist church then* and lold her for a $30,000 ransom, to be >aid by the delegates to the Conven ;ion. Mr. Gardner moved to the hotel, ;ook his daughter out of school, and lotified the police and the plotters were captured, and they missed the stopo6ed collection from the Baptist ielegates. C. B. Eddins Wounded On Friday of last week Mr. C. B. F.ddias was shot by some unknown person. He was taken at once to Rex hospital, where he stayed until Tues day of this week. At first it was fear ed that his injuries might prove seri ous but he is recovering satisfactorily. Mr. Eddins had gone on the morn ing he was shot, to the farm of his i”other, Mrs. Mack Eddins, where he it said to have had an argument with . tenant, Mrs. Chalk, over the matter of advances on her crop. He is nlso said to have turned off and left the woman, who seemed to be considerably excited, and to have gone to working potatoes with a hoe. He was shot from a barn or some woods nearby, a distance of about thirty yards, the shot entering his back and limbs. Ihe son of Mrs. Chalk and a Mr. Mason, also a tenant, are in the county jail, charged with the shooting, but no trial has been held yet. Rev. Chas. B. Howard At Wakefield Sundar will be Memorial Day at Wakefield. The pastor will preach a special sermon on God’s ( all to Ke ward, and the people will bring flow ers to put on all the graves in the cemetery. „ „ „ On Sunday night Rev. C. B. Howard will begin a series of revival services, which will be held at 3:00 and - :30 each dav next week. The public is invited to attend these services. Mr. Howard is an unusually good preach er and a man of deep consecration. Notice To Correspondents NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS We mu/t again insist that names be signed to all communications sent us. We have several on file now that we cannot publish because of this rule against unsigned articles Your name need not appear in our columns, but we must know who sends the items that we print. We have this veek received two communications | from Bunn, neither of which is sign ed. We regret omitting them, but have no choice in the matter, unless we break rules which have been an nounced. MOST OF IT FOR W \R A recent analysis of the federal tax dollar has been made and here is how your dollar is spent: To West Point and Annapolis, two cents. To veterans hospitals, five cents. To military research work, two eents. To building and »pk°ep of navy. 86 •ents To maintenance of a»«M r **l cents To all the remainder of gov»r»r«fa tal services. legislative. fwdVtn! ♦in lomatic and administrative cents. Thus, it ’s obvious the entire tax dollar goes for war purposes or war uanses with the exception of 16 cents. She Zrlmimt Slcctm* (orinth-Holders’ Commencement (in Friday, May 6th, a May Day ' Festival was giv.-n by the pupils of ' Corinth-Holder School. This program ’ j took the place of the primary and I ■ Grammar grade commencement exer r ] rises. About nine hundred parent' and friends enjoyed this out door pro . gram. i On Friday evening, May 13th, the j music department rendered its annual 1 recital under the direction of the mu | sic teacher, Mrs. J. R. Murphy. A r large number of parents and friends s j from the adjoining communities were • present on this occasion. j The Baccalaureate sermon will be delivered by Rev. R. H. Herring, pas tor of the Baptist church of Zebulon, I N. C., on Sunday morning, May 22nd., at eleven O’clock. The Senior class night exercises - will he given on Wednesday evening, iMay 25th, at eight o'clock in the . high school auditorium. s The final closing will be held on 1 Friday morning May 27th, at eleven -j o'clock, at which time the commence- I ment address will be delivered by Rev. ; | Chester Alexander, of Tarboro, N. C. - ; and who is well known throughout i Johnston County, having lived in . Smithfield for several years. At this 1 time the seniors will be awarded their i j diplomas. fe , v- ■ ‘jTragedy Takes | Amazing Turn . 1 Since the finding on Thursday otf I last week of the murdered body of I the Lindbergh baby, the search for i the kidnapers has been pressed even ! more vigorously than before. Offi- J' cers of the law, who had in a measure c i held back to allow the child’s father _I to more freely make contact with the . I o:Id’: captors, are now freed from . | that restraint, and hunt murderers ias well as kidnapers. The finding of I I the little body only a few miles from , the home of the parents served to add • to the sympathy of the nation for ] those who have suffered from this r crime. > John Hughes Curtis of Norfolk, » who has claimed to he in touch with r the kidnapers, has admitted that the r entire affair was a hox nd that he t! planned it all to gain money for him , j self. > I A man in New York has confessed .’that he had a part in the kidnaping, , i but police are not sure that he is speaking the truth. He says the child 1 was dropped as it was carried down the ladder and was dead when picked jup; that the gang separated, and he i has seen none of them since. His story is said to differ from 1 known facts in the case. Dr. J. h • 1' Condon is still trying to locate the man to whom he paid the $50,000 ran j som on April 2. ;| Gets A. B. At 58 |! Dr. L. N. Glenn of Gastonia, 58 I years old, will receive his A. B. de ijgree at Catawba College this spring. • j He left the college 37 years ago be cause of lack of funds, and managed to complete his medical course. He has become a well known surgeon, i but always regretted his lack of the J degree he has at last won. He re ; entered Catawba college at the be ginning of the spring term of 1931; ! not, however, as a resident student., He now has a son in medical college and a daughter who finishes high school this spring. JAPAN’S PREMIER MURDERED Tsuyoshi Inukai, premier of Japan, 77 years old, was assassinated on May 15, by military fanatics in an i outbreak against the government. He 1 was held in his own home, by two | * men and shot by a third in the head and face. He had walked to the door to speak to the men, who had de manded to see him. He asked them not to shoot, offering to hear their complaints. He died soon after being shot. The assassins surrendered to j ,the police. Japan’s financesr are said to have reached a serious point. Un employment is another foe to securi ty in Japan. For many years there j has been a struggle between the mili -1 tary and the oivi!i»n factions. It is thought by some that the country wsv shortly come under the rule of Socialists. announcement On account of the meeting which will be held at W»k'*#eld church all t»pt+ wppV tHp Homo Club will meet on Saturday p. m. f this week. All members are urged to be at the club house bv 2:30. Zebulon, Wake County, N. C„ Friday, May 20th., 1932. National Cotton Week i 1 MAI)E-IN-CAROiJNA CAMPAIGN May Hi.ii. to 21st Carolina Products For Carolina People M A DE-IN ■-(' A KOI AN AC A MPA IC. N OBJECTS— k 1. To advertise the finished products made in North ' Carolina and to acquaint our people with their State and uits manufacturers. 2. To stimulate the sale of home-made tfoods in the ’ home State where there i a large buying market and , where our manufacturers ought to be able to sell with . last expense. 3. To stimulate business both for the manufacturer Vand the merchant and thereby aid in reducing unemploy ment. The sale of more goods would enable manufactur ers to employ more laborers and the merchants to use i more clerical help. I MADE-IN-CAROLINA IDEA STRESSES IMPORTANCE FOOD PRODUCTS PLANTS Food processing is one of the most important features t of the “Made-In-North Carolina” ideas whose primary I I aim is to encourage the industrial development of the ’ | State. It also tits closely into oGvernor O. Max Gardner’s “Live-at-Home” program as applied to agriculture, the two movements being complementary to each other. The fact that North Carolina purchases elsewhere food and food products worth approximately $140,000,000 that I might just as easily be produced within the State points 1 to the failure of industry and agriculture to reach a well f balanced development. • Following are estimates of the moneys spent annually [j for these various products, a large part of which local in i' dustries, drawing upon surrounding farm communities, ! might furnish: butter, $4,000,000; cheese, $4,500,000; con densed and evaporated milk, $50,000,000; canned fruits ; j and vegetables, $13,000,000; canned seafoods, $15,000,000; M meat and meat products, $23,000,000; processed nuts, $lO,- | i 000,000; pickels, preserves and other processed foods, $20,000,000. i While no one will contend that North Carolina should produce al of these foods immediately, certainly a much larger proportion might profitably be ; turnecl out fiy l°cal manufacturers. More of this processing is necessary . to a well balanced agricultural and industrial State. * The fact that there are nearby markets; that the Statu Produces most of the raw materials necessary for canning; that the State is admirably suited \ t 0 the development of the dairy and stock raising industries; and the recent , unprofitableness of the farm money crops ure certainly good reasons for the : establishment of additional canneries and food processing plants. During the last year or so. as a result of the “Live-at-Home” and “Made- I in-North Carolina” movement, considerable interest has been aroused in the . expansion of the food processing industries, especially in canning. The Di vision of Commerce and Industry of the Department of Conservation and Development has been apprised of movements designed to launch plants in several parts of the State. Because of the field for industries of this class and other favorable conditions, a number of firms in other States have sig nified their interest in establishing branch plants in North Carolina. Research at North Carolina State College has shown, like South Carolina, that vegetables produced in this State have a high iodine content. lodine has been proved to 'o a holesome food, and those products high in the mineral are coming more in demand. North Carolina plants, therefore, can easily l fiafe the growing market for such products. N. C. PRODUCTS - - Products manufactured in North j Carolina during the last census year ! (1929) were valued at $1,312,000,000, j or about three times the value of all j crops and livestock. These products I are grouped into 141 different classes' j by the Bureau of the Census, some of jof the classes comprising several dis ; ferent kinds of articles. The 3,800 manufacturing plants in the State | gave employment to 210,000 wage : earners and 17,000 salaried officers and employees and paid more than i two hundred million dollars in sala j ries nd wages. Manufactured tobacco alone amount !ed to more than half a billion dol * jlars and for the first time became the leading industry as measured W the value of products. However, tne textile industry, with products valued at approximately $453,000,000, is by far the largest in the'emplovment of i labor fend the payment of salaries and | j wages. While all tobacco factories give employment to rabotit nineteen thousand salfcrv and wage earners and pjty more than twenty | million dollafv in salaries and wages;! all branches of the fextie industry give employment to 117.500 officers | and employees and pay over ninety j j three million dollars in salaries and; wages. Other leading industries as , maasurod by tfao value of thoir prod ucts are sawmills and plaining mills, ( | furniture, fertiliser, leather, antton. cotton seed pi oducts, flour and meal. ' - n : , i .diing, and railroad i and stieti tar construction uhq re- j ' ] pair. I j she products out factories may be summed up somewhat as follows: Wearing apparel, hoisery, and piece goods for personal use; furniture, stoves, draperies, blankets, sheets, pillow cases, and many other things for the home; canned fruits, vege tables, butter, cheese, and other pro- i cessed foods for the table; motor and horse drawn vehicles, auto tires and batteries, and similar things for our transportational needs; candies, cigars, cigarettes and smoking tobac cos for our pleasure; medicines, drugs, salves, and other medicinal products for our bodily ailments, and more than 150 other different kinds of articles, including something for almost every imaginable need. Every section of the State shares in the production of some of these articles, but as a gen eral rule, North Carolinians are not as well acquainted with what we manufacture as might be, because they have not been able to visit these! manufacturing plants nor have they had many opportunities to see them ja„ exhibitions or in retail stores. In most cases, when they have bought them at the stores, they have not known that they were buying things made in North Carolina, i Tn order to acquaint the public with goods made in the State and to stim ulate the sal of these articles in the j home-stores, the State Department of | Conservation and Developmen* is sponsoring the third mnual “Made-! in-Carolina”* campaign The of! ( Way 16th to 21st., inclusive, bas been! selected for this purpose. During! thi.- period many merchants plan to heetore North Oarolma-maMe go« m I their .-how windows, on their auunters, j and lii their newspaper advertising plainly marking all articles; made ?rt 100 late ,»o that pin < ha.-t is will know when they buy home made products. 'Muiiutucturers have been a.'ked to make a -pedal effort ot place their duet- in as many -tores as pos a before -Vluy ItSth. sid officials tin Department, “and, of course, public's part is to buy these ar t,. es during this special week. If , : • aci campaigns can be taken as ■ci re i ntative o| what will hppen this i year, then tin* merchnts who take I part in this plan to advertise North ,(-arolina Made goods will enjoy a | big increase in sales during this j Senators Joy-Riding Washington.—lt is good just to be ! a senator with a good fat job for seat I warming and talking, but the Utopia I of a senator's life is to be put on u i committee, most any committee wilL do, but one that sends you to Cali : fornia or Florida is better. 1 Senator Pittman of Nevado and -! two others were put on a committee , to investigate the feeding of elk. Tln \ went out west, stopped at Tetol Lodge | for 17 dnys. They sent in a bill for ! over $4500. Among other items were j f "tip to .i'oe Allen, $20.; "tip to Joe’s } two wranglers, $20.; “tip to Jessie, j waitress, S2O. He gave the boy who j built his fires a small tip of S2O. and j ' to various other servants $lO. and ’ up, including guide, headman, gun -1 man and valet. Senator Pittman ac tually went into Mexico at the expese j jof the* government to investigate elf, which turned out to be duck. “Hear ' ings” were held, but ao records were I kept, so it is presumed that no elk * I were seen or heard. The next senatorial outing takes , them into the land of flowers. The time chosen was Christmas and the ' committee rode in drawing rooms i and chartered a blip and two boats, i . ! This time it was Senator Nye and 1 . his committee. While there were only , six senators, eight drawing rooms \ ’! were required and sixteen tickets. I ■; Some of the senators took their wives j 1 . . along. Seven days were spent in a Miami hotel at the low cost of about . SI,OOO. Nye himself ate about $135. . I worth of Florida food. Being good r citizens, the senators did not want to violate the law in the interests of ■ conservation; so they invested $22. in |! fishing licenses, and several other dollars in tackle, bait and .something; , to drink while out in the Everglades 1 where water was scarce! Senators I seem to haev established a precedent l in paying S2O. tips for the usual ser j vice senatorial pomp an f ] power de mand, for this was the usual tip in Florida. Their joy ride at Uncle Sam’s expense took the air in a blimp !to the jingle of s7s.That’s what we call fun; California and comfort, Flori da and fun, it’s all iu just being a senator. Teaeherage Burned Erwin. —Thirty members of tue faculty of the Erwin high and grad ed schools were forced to flee in their night clothes from the teacherage,' located on the outskirts of Erwin, about 3 o’clock this morning as 1 flames destroyed the large structure. 1 The loss was estimated at $20,000. The origin of the blaze was not de- j termined. Baptists Still ' Vote Dry St. Petersburg, Fla.—ln the meet-, ing of 5000 delegates representing nearly half the church people of the South in St. Petersburg, Fla., this week the Southern Baptist Conven- ! tion voted unanimously to give its 1 j voting strength only to political as pirants for office who are openly 1 | pronounced drys. They also condemned gambling of! every sort and Inose marriage laws.) most movies and much curent liter- j ature. Capt. Dollar Dies Capt. Robt. Dollar, -hipping mag-' , nate, of the Pacific Coast died at his I home la California Monday. Ho wa? j 19 year, old and active in business almost to fhc moment of his death. He ,auid work keeps a man in good health. He wa. clean in private and public life. Hie fatter took tn drink at his mother’s leal?, and young Dollar de -1 termined never to Jiink. He was ( Scotch and known a- the ‘grand old , 1 man of the Pacific." i ,i-r 19. N. C. News in Brief I - - - Hertiurd Extensive improvements underway in store of Darden Bros. Paving started nn remaining ten unsurfaced miles Route No. 30 north i>l state line in Brunswick County. Wilmington Star. Wallace Strawberry market open ed here recently. Forest City -Sizing plant estab lished in building occupied by He witt Auto Co., on Government Square Murphy Surveying started on Highway No. 28 between here and Clay County line. Rutherfordton James R. Keoter purchased Speed Service Station from Robert Is>gan. North Wilkesboro—Formal opening held "f Khodea-Day Furniture Co. Store in new building on comer Ninth and C Streets. Hertford—J. C. Blanchard and Co. opened for business in newly remodel ed store. Manteo State Highway Commis sion let contract for building link of main highway on Roanoke Island to west shore of Island. North Wilkesboro—Sin oak Fumi | tun* Co. moved into building on cor ner B and 10th streets. Hatteras Preparations for filling in slashes an,) smaller inlet between Oregon and this place underway. Madison Rierson building rented and will be opened as 5c to $5.00 Store. Walnut—Hilltop site, across high way from where old school building burned, selected as site for new $40,000 school building. Marshall—Wholesale firm of Coal Feed an,) Lumber Co. to move to building adjoining their present site Bridge St. near railroad. Rutherfordton—Robert Ixigan pur chased Courtesy Service Station on Washington St. Williamston—Two carloads sweet potatoes shipped by Parmer J. G. Staton from his curing house have during recent week. I Troy -Small building on South Main St., owned by A. R. Boatwright 1 being remodeled preparatory to oc- Icupancy by Attorney B. S. Hurley. Lumberton Excavation work start ed for two-story brick store and office ! building at corner Elm and Fourth j streets. Fayetteville Efforts being mad" ; to reopen Cumberland National Bank j of Fayetteville. Edenton—Painting work completed !on second floor of Chowan County courthouse. Lenoir—Bernhardt-Seagle Co. ex panding their hardware and variety department. Hamlet- W. R. Miller and Eugene Griffin purchased Model Cleaners equipment from M. S. Millikin. Burgaw—State surface treating Highway No. 201 from intersection jof Highway No. 40 for over three miles westward to intersection with Curn'e road. Smithfield —George Fuller opened auto electric repair shop in building ; across street from Sam Stallings ser vice station. Franklin —Henry D. West purchas- I ed retail stock of Macon Grocery Co. of this place. Work started surfacing Highway j No. 282 to Georgia line.—Highlands 1 Maconian. Sm#thfie|d --Country Produce P>-. ) new firm, opened for business. Young Is Not _ A Candidate Owen D. Young, a “dark horse" 1 candidate for president has announced that he will not be a candidate. This i greatly pleases the Roosevelt forces and makes Roosevelt's nomination I more certain. Drinking To Uncle Sam’s Health! I On Tuesday afternoon W. A. Bar n< tt was arrested bv G. C. Ifneeey for being drunk and having in his possession about ona-hatf ratlr* of whiskey. Barnett » said to have b*en drunk for about 80 days. In fact, it has been asserted (scat since be re ceived his Orverwneat loaa be has been drank and dborderiy rfvoaad his home and in the oommnnftv. and Ihe has spent a targe peresntage of !h ; s loan in thi* way.