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/ ? ' YOO HAVE A MESSAGE FOR ALL OF THE PEOPLE PUT IT IN THE COUBIEB WHICH BEACHES MOST OP THE PEOPLE. ESTABLISHED 1HL PEBSON COUNTY'S OLDEST AND BEST NEWSPAPEB. UNDEB SAME MANAGEMENT AND OWNERSHIP FOB 46 YEABS. Beit People On Earth; Good Churches And Schools; Where Optimism Rules J. W. NOELL, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER. HOME FIRST, ABROAD NEXT VOL. XL VIII. ROXBORO. NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 15, 1931. $1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. NO. 28. m Germany Told That She i Must Act To Save Self From Financial Menace; S??: ' . < Von Hindenburg's Decree Closing German Banks Seen As First Effort Toward Self-Preservation Washington, July IS ? Word hat gone out to Germany that she her self must act save herself from financial collapse that becomes hourly closer, It was learned to- < night. The first German act to meet this was an ' emergensy decree from President Von Hindenburg, flashed the world at midnight, German Htae, closing all banks Tuesday and ^^fednesday. It is understood that in this gov ernment's view, this move es sential and is not necessarily a sign that a situation, admittedly desperate, has become worse. The two-day closure, as regarded here, will permit Germany to look arojind, Without losing more re serves, and See what she herself can do, while International bank ers, at the same time, consider means of helping her. Expressed bluntly, it is under stood that Germany has been told ?ympathy for her, and help for her, in her present straits will be in proportion to the fight she makes herself. As one man put it, sym pathy will not be extended to a Germany lyiny flat on her back awaiting rescue. By Germans. In this connection, it was said In one quarter tdoay that most of the withdrawal of foreign currency In Germany has bee nby Germans. One estimate of the German pro- , portion was 80 per cent. Not too much, it was said also, must be expected of the meeting at Basel. Switzerland, tonight, of the heads of the Bank of Inter national Settlements, or repara tions bank. A Basel report said these men agreed to extend a previous credit j of (100,000,000 which would have been due from Germany Wednes day. This extention caused no sur prise. It was expected. However, an accompanying re- 1 pprt that $50,000,000 more was to be granted Germany di cause sur prise. In the first place, 50,000,000 would be of little more good than a gelatine oork in a leaking dam so far as Germany's finances went. In the second place, it was inti mated that before credi^dh a scale that would put Germany on her Keetjs granted, the banking world aust be convinced of Germany's wn good "faith. As for the amount of money that will be needed to restore Ger man finances, the Hoover debt floStponf ment plan reQeved Ger . many of reparations payments of ?bout' $400,000,000. This sum was not sufficient to prevent the pre sent situation, which has arisen leas than four weeks after the pro clamation of the Hoover plan, and Just one week after it became "morally" effective. ROTARY MEETING Roxboro Rotary club met In the Rotary room at Hotel Jones last Thursday afternoon. Committees were appointed for the year. As the program commute had not been appointed there was not set pro gram. ? It has been the custom of the club to present the father of a new born with a little memento, and Mr. J. A. Long having recently re ceived a son into his family he was icmembered by the club. Mr. H. L. Crowell made the presentation, and it was one of the wittiest pre sentations we have heard. Uncle Henry, as he Is known, by his dub brothers, did himself proud on this oocaslon. TOWN LICENSE TAX License or privilege for the town of Roxboro has been levied for the current fiscial year beginning July 1st, and is now due. After July list a penalty of 10 per cent wil be Inforce. All persons who axe -engaged in business in (he town will please call at the offlc eof the undersign ed and settle their license .tax promptly. The ordinance* prohibit myane from engaging or contlnu ' Iwy In EuiBKMB without having se cured license : .. W, T. Long, City Manager. > 1 PILOT'S PRESIDENT GIVEN HIGH HONOR' Appointment of President Chas. W. Gold, of Pilot Life Insurance Company, as hka'd of the division of insurance for the N. S. Chamber of Commerce, has Just been an ounced, according to B. B. Knight, Pilot special agent here. Mr. Knight says that this position of trust waA accorded Mr. Gold be cause of his outstanding work as an insurance executive. The Pilot is recognised as one of the leading Insurance companies of the entire South. When It has men like Mr. Gold at the head of It to lead the company there Is no I wonder It is recognised as one of the best FLUE CURED TOBACCO DOUBLED SINCE 1921 Production of flue-cured tobac- j co in the United States more than | doubled since 1921, according to government estimates. Flue -cured tobacco is used chiefly in the man ufacture of cigarettes and the gain iir production of this type of tobacco is the result of the in creasing numbers of men and wom en who are reaching for cigarettes. The ever-growing popularity of the cigarette is attributed by authori ties in the Industry to the fact that people are paying more atteqtion to their Adam's apples and are using cigarettes from which certain harsh irritants present In all to baccos have removed by modern methods of manufacture such a4 the toasting process including the use of ultra violet rays. According to government records, production of flue-cured tobacco last year a- 1 mounted to more than 870.000,000 pounds as compared with only 3 72,000,000 pounds in 1921. Produc- ! tlon in 1930 set a new record for flue-cured tobacco, the next largest being about 750,000,000 pounds in j 1929. OUTING FOR METHODIST SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASS j We mentioned in our last Issue that Mr. W. A. Sergeant, and others, were vidtlng In the Valley of Virginia, but we did not know at the time that Mr. Sergeant was talcing along with him his Sunday School class. We are not surprised that he has an enthusiastic class, and that all of his boys dearly love their teacher. o NO MORE 34 SCORES ON MINIATURE COURSE For some time It has been com mon for players on the Miniature golf courtfe to make scores of 34, but that score is gone forever. Re cently .the managers have placed extra hazards, and forty-five is now ; considered a good score. . FILLED REV. SIKES' APPOINTMENT SUN. Rev Mr. Root, of Duke Univer sity, in the absence of Pastor ! sikes, filled his appointment at the Edgar Long Memorial Methodist Church here last Sunday. Rev. Mr. j Roote was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Woods while here. ? LITTLE BILL LAWSON INJURED SATURDAY I j Last Saturday afternoon as Mas 1 ter Bill Lawson was following a | round the golf course with his father and others on the Hillen dale course he was struck on the head with a golf ball. The blow caused ? slight fracture In the skull, but fortunately th eaccldent was not serious. ? o ? Mrs. Crabber? Oh. I wish I'd thought twice before marrying you., Mr. Crabber? Huh, I'd be satis- i fled If Fd thought just once. Karty tobacco In Columbus Courf ty is growing off slowly and Indi cations are that the acre yield will be low. o It will cost you nothing to see the Friendly Five Flyer "which will give a demonstration and distri bute souvenlers In front of Harrl* tg Burns' store Thursday afternoon, 1 to t o'clock. This "Flyer" attract* great crowds wherever It goes. Read their ad. . - 1 " - I i -r ? >? T -*?- - World's Fivers WitlvjKlheir Wives, backer iu.ii ?J' -. -t.r.uMi cauaht the morning after they finUhed circling the globe in eight and The world, latest her?. w?e wgm ?enw and Mr* Wiley Poat an3 her famout iw QHm ^ire^Vn F&E CH.U.ba Jer of the flight, and the Winnie Mae. Six Killed and Thirteen Hurt In Six- Accidents ( Automobile and Train Col lide Near Albemarle, Kill- i ing Three TWO DROWNINGS ARE RECORDED FOR DAY One Drowning Result of Au tomobile Collision on River Bridge July'? second week-end maintain ed the pace set in June with six deaths and . thirteen injuries report ed in North Carolina Sunday night. The accidents included a train and automobile collision near Albe marle which cost the Uvea of three persons and injured two others. It ?*> included two drownings, one of which happened near Wilming ton when a Marion man drowned in Myrtle sound and the other of which occured on the Roanoke River bridge, near South Hill, Va., when a Negro woman from Raleigh was thrown from an automobile Into the stream when the car in which she was a passenger collided with another. One was killed and two hurt when an automobile overturned near Lenior. Three were hurt, one seriously, when- a truck and an automobile were in collision late Saturday nigh. In Durham, also Saturday four were hurt in a car ?mash during a police chase of rum runners. o r TOBACCO HELD DAY AT OXFORD, N. C. THURSDAY, JULY 23 Senator Cameron Morrison Will Be One of The Main Features The tenth annual field day at the tobacco station, Oxford, N. C? will be held July 33rd, featuring farm and home Improvement. Mr. B. D. HU1 of the U. S. Depart ment of Commerce will speak on Foreign Markets tor Flue Cured tobacco; Mr. R. M. Cooper, Sec., Flue Cured Tobacco Committee, Washington, D. C., will speak on the Outlook for Domestic con sumption of Flue Cured Tobacco; an address by Hon Cameron Mor rison, L. 8. Senator, Charlotte, N. C., will be on of the main feature*. In the afternoon, the ladles will have a splendid program on "Live at home," a canning demonstra tion will be given, while the men will visit the experiments being conducted on the tobacco experi ments being aoinoin dlu uu dluuu ment staton. Person county farmers should at tend this meetng and learn all we can about the outlook for tobac co farming. Public addres* Ampli fiers will be used in connection with the program so all oan hear. MEETING OF GARDEN CLUB MON. JULY 20th * The regular monthly meeting of the Roxboro Oarden Club will be held in the club rooms,' Monday afternoon, July 30thr-at four o' been prepared and a full atten dance is desired.--: Pres. j" ' . y. BETHEL HILL YOUNG TAR HEEL FARMERS TO VISIT WHITE LAKE "Work while you work and play while you play." That is the way the Bethel Hill Young Tar Heel Farmers feel about it. Crops have been laid by, so several boys of the local chapter are looking forward to the camping trip at White Lake July 20-26. Twelve boys, accompaned by the | agricultural teacher, ? will ? leave Monday, July 20, for the Y. T. H. F. camp at White Lake, Swimming, baseball, volley ball, horse-shoe pitching and boating will feature the week's vacation for the boys. Bethel Hill Is expected to show, up I well in the baseball tournament, j The following boys will take the trip: Belvin Barnett, Samuel Seam ster. Palmer Clayton, Robert Bail ey, John Merritt, W. R. Hayes, Jeff Harris, James Perkins, Claude Wil born. Jack Crutchfleld, Samuel Frandon and Humphrey Fuller. ATTENDING SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION Rev. W. F. West, Mr. I. C. Pait, Mrs. E. E. Thomas and Misses Sue Bfadsher and Mabel Montague left. Monday morning for Ridge - crest where they will attend the North Carolina State 8unday School convention. PERSON "CIRCUIT Our meeting is on at Lea* Chap el. Rev. D. A. Clark, of Mebane, N. C., Is with us doing the preaching each p. m. at 3:30 and 5:00 o'clock. We are starting off nicely. This meeting will close with the 4:00 o'clock, service Sunday p. m. | Our Third Quarterly Conference will be held at Concord Saturday. Rev. J. C. Wooten will preach at 11:00 o'clock. Dinner will be served on the grounds and the business session will be held after lunch. I am counting on all our stewards j and members to help make the occasion a success spiritually and financially. We need your help in every way. We will begin our revival at Con cord Sunday morning. We are hav ing all day services, but wll have a young peoples' service 7:00 o'clock Sunday afternoon. W. L. MANESS, Pastor. SOME FINE PEACHES Our good friend Mr. T. W. Hen derson placed on our desk Monday morning a basket of the finest peaches we have seen this season. Mr. Henderson has a fine peach orchard and he treats it In the most approved manner, the result being fine fruit. o Be sure to see the Friendly Five Flyer in front of Harris 8c Burns' store Thursday afternoon. 1 to 3 o'clock. It Is a show worth seeing NOTICE! On account of trouble with out machine we are compelled to leave out quite a bit of live local news. On account of this trouble you will notice - quite a few erron. in our ?d"<r jtorial matter. .. FALL NOW READY FOR PRISON TERN Agrees to Technical Change in Sentence; ^refers New Mexico Penitentiary El Paso, Texas, July 12. ? A mem ber of the family of Albert B. Fall, former Secretary of the Interior, said today the aged and ailing man, convicted of accepting a bribe while in office, ha dagreed to accept an amendment to a year's prison sentence so his term might be served outside the District of Columbia. Pall, suffering from chronic tu berculosis, has declared service of his term in an Eastern prison would result in his early death. Dr. J. H. Qambrell, the former secretary's private physician here, yesterday recommended to Frank Hogan, Fall's Washington counsel, that the sentence be served in the New Mexico state prison. Previously, at the request of Ho gan, the physician notified his part-en t that Justice Bailey, of the District of Columbia Supreme Court, had refused to grand a sus pension of sentence. In so doing, Justice Bailey suggested to Hogan that the year's sentence be modi fied by the addition of another day. This action would give the Attor ney General power to name the prison In which the former cabinet member will serve time for accept ance of a $100,000 loan from Ed iward L. Doheney, the oil man. LESTER BLACWELL i POST ELECTS NEW OfTICERS FOR YEAR Delegates and Alternates Were Elected to Attend Convention, July 28-29 AT MOREHEAD CITY The Lester Blackwell Poet No. 138 of the American Legion held a very interesting. .meeting on Sat urday night, when officers for the ensuing year were elecetd -Dele gates and alternated were " also elected to aXind the thirteenth annual convention which will be held this year at Morehead City on July 28-29th. The following were elected: Com [ mander, Dr. O. O. Davis; Vice Oommander, P. H. Carver; Ad jutant. R. A. Whitfield; Finance j officer P H. Wilson; Service offi cer, C. C. Garrett; Guardianship officer, Alex. O. Wrenn; Sergeant at-arms. K. . ong; Chaplain, Rev. I J. C. McGregor; Historian. W. T. Klrby; Athletic officer. N. K. Dav is; Americanism officer, B. I. Sat teriield; Employment officer, Bax ter Mangum; Membership chair man, J. J. Rogers; Publicity offi cer. , E. Phelps. Delegates to the convention were as follow* Dr. O O. Davis, R. A. Whitfield and C. C. Oarrett. Al ternates: C. . Boyd, L. K. Phelps and O. B. Riley.. The Post hSs Just completed Its most successful year since Its or ganisation in 1930, having' this year a membership of 111, having Increased Its membership during the patt year from 29. In celebra tion of this successful year the Le gion Post is planning a fish fry on Saturday Augkist 1st at the home 7 : CIGARETTE PRICE BOOST MAY HAVE POLITICAL EFFECT Politicians, Farmers Eagerly Awaiting Results of Forth coming Leaf Season REYNOLDS COMPANY HEAD IN PUBLC EYE When the price of any commod ity rises In a period when falling prices are the rule, the event at tracts attention. But that fact is not sufficient explanation of the acute interest that has been taken in the recent advance of whole- j sale cigarette prices from $6.46 to 6.85 a thousand or from 12.8 to 13.7 ' cents for the regulation IS oent package. . Viewed in the light of what hap pened in the 1931 session of the General Assembly and viewed in the light of recent utterances by S. Clay Williams, president of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., thfc price I increase may have a political effect far more significant than any commercial effect. The whole coun try shares the latter, but the for mer is confined to North Carolina ; Just now both politicians and far- j mers ' are weighing- the very cau tiously expressed hopes of Mr. Williams that the increase in cig arette prices will result in higher prices for leaf tobacco and eagerly awaiting the testing time which will come with the opening of the leaf tobacco auction markets in Septem ber. New Policy Mr. Williams was elected presi dent of his company during the re cent session of the General Assem bly, practically all of which he spent in Raleigh, leading the four month fight against a sales tax op cigareaaes, which at one time pass ed both the House and the Senate, although failing to pass Its three constitutional readings in the lat ter body. He began his long service with .the company a* a member of its legal staff, being previously pro moted successively to chief counsel and to a vice presidency. That the president of the Rey nolds Company is giving out in terviews and making speeches at all is something new under the sun. ,But he could have selected no spot for his speech of last week which woull have added as much to in terest in what he had to say as the spot he did select. Mr. Williams not only went into Eastern North Carolina, tobacco .belt which abounds in proponents of the so called luxury, tax and he not only discussed low prices of .leaf tobacco, the bone of conten tion, but he went to Beaufort Coun ty, which might/- be termed the headquarters of the movement for relief of land taxes. House Guest of McLean And that is not all, Mr. Williams ,was the house guest while in Wash ington at the home of A. D. Mac Lean, author of the law to place support of the six months school term under the State government. Congressman Lindsby C. Warren presided at the banquet of - the chamber of commerce and Mr. Williams was Introduced by Mr. MacLean. Those present, however, did not Include State Senator Hal let S. Ward, of Beaufort, who filed individual views as chairman of the lobbying committee, which contain ed bitterly resented comments on the activities of Mr. Williams and his company. Priod to 1931 no member of the North Carolina legislature had ever proposed a tax on cigarett* and the reason is not hard to find. At all prior sessions, the growers of to bacco considered their Interests identical with those of the manu facturer and the argument that a tax on cigarettes would Injure the tobacco farmer would have been as successful In any other year as It was unsuccessful "this year. VISITED IN ASHEVILLE Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Pass spent: the week-end in Aaheville with Mr. Pass' brother, Mr. R A. Pass, who; is critically 1U. A nickel weighs S gram* and a] silver dollar, *6.7 grams. . of Mr. F. H. Carver, about six[ mile* west of Roxboro. All the lie gionairs are urged to be present | at this celebration. Dr O. a. Davis. Com R A. Whitfield, Adjl. i Hjg-, ' Vfel FARMERS USING < LESS FERIILIIER IN NORTH STATE Purchases Drop Off 242,000 Tons; 126 Seizures During Past Season Raleigh, July. 13. ? Farmers of North Carolina have used 242,927. 8 less tons of commercial fertilizer this season than last, W. A. Gra ham, commissioner of agriculture, told the new agriculture board at its meeting today. Tbere were 196 seizures during the pest season for violation of the fertilizer, feed and other laws, Mr. Graham reported, nothing that increased vigilance by in spectors of the department has caused a material reduction in confiscations. Marketing experts of the depart- f ment have inspected between 7, 000 and 10,000 carlo ts and several million packages of fruits and veg etables this year, the report said, and assistance "was given farmer* in marketing 2,750,000 pounds of live poultry which sold for about (480,900. In aiding farmers of western counties in marketing wool, sheep and lambs the department helped farmers pool *30 ,000 pounds of wool on which they received advances of 15 cents a pound and sold direct to a manufacturer 73,000 pound* for which 20 cents a pound was in cash. Alleghany county has ar ranged to ship 4,500 lambs and 8 | counties in all plan shipments, Mr. Graham said. ft .... i MRS. T. J. STEPHENS IS CLAIMED BY DEATH Mrs. T. J. Stephens, a member of Person county's best known and loved families, died last Saturday ' afternoon at 4 o'clock at the home of her daughter, Mrs. W. D. Brad sher, seven miles west of Roxboro, after a lingering illness of several weeks. j Mrs. Stephens, who was In her 91st year, is survived by one son, I. O. Stephens, and two daughters, Mrs. Bradsher and Mrs. H. M. Wagstaff, of Chapel Hill; and ? grandchildren and two great grand children. She was a member of the Lee's Chapel Methodist Episcopal Church. | Hie funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock, at the Bradsher residence, and in terment followed In the f amily burial ground. The services were conducted by the Rev. W. L. Ma ness, her pastor. The following were pallbearers: R. C. Wlnstead, C. E. Winstead, Jr., J. C. Wagstaff, J. A. Perkins, Thomas Rogers and E. L. Howard. o JURORS DRAWN FOR NEXT TERM OF COURT The next term of Person Coun ty Superior Court will be held here on Monday, August 10th, with Judge P. A. Daniels presiding. The following jury list has been drawn: | C. L. Cash. R L. Hester, J. Mar tin Long, I. 8. Jordan. W. H. Hall, W, G. Miller, 8. W. Welton, H. T. Welch, C. L. Oakley, Jr., C. A. Brooks. P. T. Monday, C. O. Daniel, j P. T. Whitt, 8. M. Neal, O. C. Haw kins, R. iZ Carter, J. H. Fuller, B. E. Barker, J. H. Whitfield, W. D. Long, R. M. O'Briant, E. T. Chan dler, Jesfte Carr, E. O. Long, Mack Allen, Jr., J. W. Oakley. R O. Slaughter, O. A. Denny. 8. R. Wake. W. C. Bullock, C. D. Moore, J. J. Bamett, R. M. Robertson. O. T. Lang, J. R. Moore, W. H. Smith, John D. Morris, W. C. Watkins. W. P. Brlggs, O. J. Vanhook, A. C. ! Wade and O. L. Allen. [UNEASY WAS THE HEAD OF THE CITY JAILOR The friends of Jailor Wade having quite a bit of fun out of him last week. It seeros that a pris oner was apprehended in Caswell for a very serious offense and a message was received asking per mission to send said prisoner here for safe keeping. Of course. Soon a rumor was spread that a lynch ing party was fonping and would . call on the Jailor t6r the prisoner that night. Certainly that was not a very pleasant' prospect for the