IF TOD BATE A MESSAGE FOR ALL OF THE PEOPLE PUT IT IN THE COURIER WHICH REACHES MOST OF THE PEOPLE. ESTABLISHED 1881. PERSON COUNTY'8 OLDEST AND BEST NEWSPAPER. UNDER SAME MANAGEMENT AND OWNERSHIP FOR 47 TEARS. Best People on Earth; Good Churches and Schools; Where Optimism Rules. J. W. NOELL, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER. HOME FIRST, ABROAD NEXT $1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. VOL. L. ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 29, 1933. NO. 14. SENATE BEGINS WORK ON APPROPRIATIONS Measure Approved Calls For Expenditure Of Nearly C3 Millions PAVING WAY FOR EARLY ADJOURNMENT Raleigh, March 28.? Mowing down all opposition on the allotments to state departments and Institutions, the senate finance committee today ! maneuvered its amended appropria- j tkras bill along in committee of i the whole. The most controversial sections, those on schools and col leges, had not bfeen reached. The senate committee's bill car- J jnes about $82,775,000 in allotments the next biennlum, compared |Bh a total of $78,919,000 carried in the Hybrid appropriations measure passed by the house. Changes in the set-up of the state board of hospital standardization to provide for a membership of three doctors and three nurses was voted by the house when it passed a bill oh second reading to change the requirements for becoming a regis tered nurse In the state. The house passed the Smith bill to allow trial of cases involving minor violations of automobile or dinances and laws in courts of jus tices of the peace. The bilT was sent to the senate. Looking to adjournment soon, the house authorized appointment of a "calendar" committee to chart the course of bills without their refer ence to the regular standing com mittees. Appropriations Raleigh. N. C. March 29. ? Detailed study of appropriations of all state funds of the 1933-35 biennium was started today by the Senate, sitting as a committee of the whole. Senator Grady of Johnston was selected chairman of the committee of the whole. The measure before the senate carries practically $&s,0u0 .TWO Tor the next biennium; nearly all of the allotments being based on the ori (Contlnued cm last page) ? Mr?. John W. Bowen Dies In Rougemont Funeral Services Conducted From Red Mountain Church Sunday Mrs. John W. Bowen. 79, died at the home of her son, Gattis Bowen at Rougemont Saturday night at 6:30 o'clock following an illness of several weeks. Mrs. Bowen had lived in the Rougemont section all of her life. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. R. G. Jeffries and Mrs. E. A. Wil liams of Rougemont; four Son s, Henry Bowen of Jalong and Gattis, Rainey and Benny Bowen of Rouge mont, and one sister, Mrs. Betty Huff of Roxboro. Funeral services were conducted Anday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock (Bwom the Red Mountain Baptist church with Rev. C. E. Baker, the pastor, officiating. Burial followed in the church cemetery. o About 100 Years Old The time has come when the aver age person is convinced he must start a systematic program of sav ing. When you get in the bottom of another depression your savings in insurance should be larger. Save up for a period of disability, old age, or some future need. Young men, you may use your insurance later to build a home with. We also represent the Mutual Life of New York. This is the oldest life insurance company in America. A" policy holder in this company had an ordinary life policy for 11,000. He kept paying the same rate and leav ing the dividends. At his death the policy was worth $1,800. The Mutual Life of New York pays a large dividend. There is one important thing about the policy. You can get your money on de mand. Some companies have three months waiting period if they choose to take it. If it is insurance you need see KNIGHTS INSURANCE AGENCY t\ . Breaks Shoulder Mr. A. H. Fox, of the Payne's Tav ern community, had the misfortune to break his shoulder yesterday when an unbroken mule he was plowing suddenly bolted, throwing him fceavlly to the ground. In ad dition to a broken shoulder, Mr. Fox was considerably shaken up. He was given medical attention at once and is now resting comfortably at his home. LEADS CANTATA Mr. J. Howard Tfoung, who will direct the choir in the presentation of "The Holy Citjf" at the Baptist Church Sunday night. He will also be in charge of the music during the meeting at the Baptist church. OAKLEY-BURN S RITES THURSDAY AFTERNOON Marriage Of Popular Young Couple Will Be Solemnized In Baptist Church AT FIVE-THIRTY O'CLOCK An outstanding social event of this week in Roxboro will be the wedding of Miss Janie Burns and Curtis H. Oakley, which will be solemnized at - the First Baptist Church Thursday afternoon at five thirty o'clock. " Th? ceremony will Be performed by Rev. W. F. West, the bride pastor. Miss Isabel deVlaming will render a short musical program prior to the ceremony, and will also accompanfy the sbloist. Miss Ruth Starling, of Bethel Hill, who will sing "Calm as the Night" and "O, Promise Me." Little Miss Anne Carver Oakley, the daughter of Mr. | and Mrs.*Cledith Oakley, of Green ville, will be the flower girl, while Miss Elizabeth Morris will attend the bride as maid of honor. The ushers will be Messrs. Leonard Heff ner, Barksdale Smith, E. E. Thom as and Eugene Thompson. The , bride will be given in marriage by her father, Mr. A. M. Burns and the groom will be accompanied by his best man, Mr. A. M. Burns Jr., j vi rwiicvuic. A number of out-or-town guests will be present for the wedding. Following the ceremony, Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Burns will entertain the wedding party and out-of-town guests at a buffet supper at their home on South Main street. BMM MEET ON HOOD PLAN l Raleigh Session Met To Con sider State-Wide Commercial Bank For Those Closed OTHER BANKS MAY JOIN Raleigh, N. C? March 28.? More than 1.000 persons interested in or \ ganization of a mammoth State-wide commercial ? bank gathered here thfs afternoon at the call of Gurney P. Hood, state commissioner of banks. The crowd was so large that the meeting place had to be changed from a ballroom of the Sir Walter i Hotel to the larger auditorium in the Hugh Morson high school. It is proposed that banks which have not been permitted to open for unrestricted business since the end of the bank holiday form the nucleus of the system. Banks now operating would be admitted how j ever. Assets would be pooled to se cure $3,000,000 capitalization and the remainder would be lecured from the reconstruction finance corpora j tion. Meanwhile, a special committee ! continued work on plans for a meet ing tomorrow at which progress to ward establishment of a $2,000,000 S state-wide industrial bank system will be reported. Proposals' for such a svstem were outlined to industrial I bankers at a meeting last week. INDUSTRIAL BANK MAY JOIN MERGER Roxboro Branch Of The Dur ham Industrial Bank May Become Unit Of Chain FIRST MEETING TUESDAY The Roxboro branch of the Durham Industrial Bank may become a unit of the state-wide industrial bank now in the process of organ ization, according: to a Raleigh dis patch. Consolidation of all industrial banks of the state into one state wide institution was considered at a meeting of bankers held in Raleigh last Friday. The plan calls for con solidation of industrial banks that are now operating in 31 cities and opening of branches in 15 other cities. The minimum capital for such an organization would be $2, 000,000. Places where there are now indus trial banks which are being consid ered in the merger are: Burlington, Lenoir, Roxboro, Mar ion, Mount Airy, Greenville, Forest City, New Bern, Washington, Hick ory, Rocky Modnt, Greensboro," Charlotte, Reidsville, Henderson, Tarboro, High Point, Durham, Win ston-Salem, Statesville, Elizabeth City, Rutherfordton and GoldSboro. The following 15 cities wil be con sidered as sites for new offices: Concord, Gastonia, Ash eboro, Lumberton, Shelby, Hendersonville, Hamlet, Sanford, Fa/yetteville, Mooresville, Monroe, Laurinburg, Thomasville, Kinston and Oxford. Another outgrowth of the banking holiday may be the formation of a $6,000,000 commercial banking or ganization in which the North Car olina Bank and Trust company, with 17 branches, and the Page | Trust jpompany with 14 branches, will have a part. SPECIAL MEETING IS SONS Person Lodge Will Join In Simultaneous Program On April 4th PRAYER FOR PRESIDENT In accordance with a proclama tion issued by H. C. Alexander, of Charlotte, grandmaster of North Carolina Masons, there will be a special meeting of Person Lodge No. ill3 at 7:30 o'clock next Tuesday night, April 4th, for prayer services for the divine guidance of President RocSsevelt in his task of leading the nation through th'.S grave period in its history. Simultaneous meetings will be held for that purpose by all lodges throughout the state. The gravity of the probl?m< now con fronting President Roosevelt prompted the call for these meet ings. All Master Masons are cordially im ited to join in this service Tues- i day night. The special program for the meeting follows: Opening ceremonies of a lodge of Master Masons. Reading of the grand master's call for Simultaneous meetings. Prayer for reconsecration of Ma sons and guidance of public officials, i Selections from "The Ancient Charges of Mason." | The Obligation of a Master Ma- i son, repeated in unison. Song, "America." Eulogy, "Old Glory." The charges to candidates in the three degrees read to brethren. Explanation of the five points of fellowship. Selected verses of inspiration and appreciation. Delivery of the charge 'at close of lodge. i Closing of lodge of Master Masons, o - Orphan Annie Little Orphan Annie is at the Palace Theatre this coming Thurs day and Friday. Please plan to buy your tickets from the Inter mediate Department of the Meth odist Church. Any of the follow ing people will be glad to fill phone orders: Prances Critcher, Anna Catherine Love, Catherine Harris, Elizabeth Long, H K. Sanders, Matt Long. r , , Minstrel Saturday Come to see and hear the negro minstrel Saturday evening, April 1st, at 8 o'clock in the Central Graded School building. Admission 10 cents. TO CONDUCT REVIVAL SERVICES ' 4 " * * Rev. J. C. Canipe, of Siler City, will return to Roxboro to conduc the series of meetings starting at the First Baptist Church next Sun day. Revival Services Begin At Baptist Church Sunday . a Rev. J. C. Canipe Will Do Preaching; J. Howard Young Will Lead Singing MISS CANNON WILL DO PERSONAL WORK Revival services will begin at the First Banttat, _Church next Sunday and will continue for ten days or two weeks. Rev. J. C. Canipe of Siler City will do the preaching. Bro. Canipe ig well known here, having been in a meeting here two years ago. He has been most suc cessful in evangelistic services and for several years evangelist for the Baptist State Convention. As a pastor he has also been very success ful and the church at Siler City has had a wonderful growth and a beautiful new house of worship has been built. Mr. J. Howard Young, the able director of the First Baptist choir, will b$ in charge of the murtc. Miss Cora Lee Cannon of Dur ham, who is also well known here, will be in charge of the personal work. THE HOLY CTBY3 GAUL TO BE HEARD To Be Rendered By Choir Of The First Baptist Church Next Sunday Night BEGINS AT 8:00 O'CLOCK "The Holy City" is a well known musical production, having been composed by Alfred R. Gaul for the Birmingham Musical Festival in 1882. The treatment of the subject of this work is almost entirely reflec tive, the more dramatic parts of the book, from which many of the numbers are taken, viz: the Vision of St. John, having already been treated in so masterly a manner by the great German composer, Louis Spohr, in his Oratorio "The Last Judgment." The first part of "The Holy City" was suggested by the passage of Scripture "Here have we no continuing city," Thy Kingdom come" and sets forth the desire for higher life, as expre&ed in the words, "My soul Is athirst fdr God," which desire is followed , by other passages expressive of the perfec tion of the higher life, Such as "Eye hath not seen." The second part was suggested by the words, "I saw a new Heaven and a new Earth for the first Heav en and the first Earth were passed away," thus realizing the desflre and : promises contained in the first part, j With the exception of two hymns, a ] verse from Milton, and three verses j from the Te Deum. the words are entirely Scriptural. This sacred cantata of unsual I V#. v ? . ' Senate Committee For Bill Legalizing Beer By Margin of 10 to 3 -o High School Debaters In Action This Week On Friday night of this week, the Inter-high schdol triangular de bates will be held. At the Central school auditorium here, Henderson and Wake Forest High Schools will meet. At the same time, the Roxboro negative team will debate the Wuke Forest afljrma'tives at Henderson and the Roxboro affirmative will meet the Henderson negative team at Wake Forest. This arrangemen: provides neutral territory lor all teams. The personnel of the Roxboro de baters follows: Affirmative, Ray mond Jordan and Mary Elizabeth Sanders, with Edwin Hamlin as alternate; negative, James Hunt and Elnora Raiff, with William Col lins at alternate. The query for these contests is "Resolved, that North Carolina should adopt a sales tax." n Change In Policy A very decided change in business policy is announced in this issue of the Courier by Harris & Burns, one of Roxboro's oldest and best-known firms. Beginning April 1st, the store will operate on a cash baste only, inaugurating an orderly liquida tion of the business. Present plans of Mr. A. M. Burns and Mr. W. H. Harris are to retire from business as a firm when this liquidation has been completed, or go back into it on some plan entirely different from the policy pursued in the past. This popular firm has scores of friends and customers who will un derstand the economic conditions underlying this change of policy and wiil doubtless be glad ttf cooperate with them in every way. Mr. Burns in effect generally, throughout the store. SUPREME COURT IS !: ASK ABOUT REPEAL House And Senate Seek Ad vice As To Method Of Call ing Convention WANTS CLARIFICATION Raleigh, March 28. ? A resolution requesting the North Carolina Su preme Court to hand down an ad visory opinion on the constitution ality of two measures calling for elections to choose a convention with power to act on the Federal amend ment to repeal the Eighteenth Amendment was passed under sus pension of rules last night in both branches of the General Assembly. Wants Clarification. The resolution was introduced by Senator Capus M. Waynick, of Guil j ford, and Senator Angus D. Mac ! Lean, of Beaufort. The latter is ! author of a bill, now on the Sen j ate calendar, calling for an election on "convention or no convention," j with delegates to be voted on at the same time, at the regular elec tion in November, 1934. The committee on constitutional amendments reported it out favor ably in preference to Senate Way nick's measure under which this legislature would call the conven tion and delegates would be chosen at a special election next Novem ber, which the committee consider ed unconstitutional. However, the House committee reported favorably a bill similar to the Way nick proposal, introduced by Representative Walter Murphy, of Rowan. The resolution last night calls for presentation to the Supreme Court of both measures, and requests it to adjudge which, if either, of the two is constitutional. ? o Has Eye Injured By Acid Dye Mr. Sidney CBriant, well known young man and employee at Collins and Aikman, had the misfortune of getting some acid dye in his right eye last Thursday. Although it has caused much pain he Is now improving after medical treatment from Dr. Gentry and at McPher son's Hospital. His friends hope he can soon go back to his work. , Senate Adopts Substitute Bill and Early Action Upon Floor of Both Bodies Planned WETS BOO DRY SPEAKERS Raleigh, March 29 ? With the vo ciferous cheers of beer-thirsty Tar Heels echoing in their ears, mem bers of Senate Judiciary Committee No. 1 yesterday went into executive sessfion and reported favorably, 10 to 3, a bill to legalize the manufac ture and sale of 3.2 per cent, beer in North Carolina after May 15. In formal polls of both House and Senate last night indicated major ities in each branch for the meas ure. Their executive session followed a public hearing which found the Hall of Representatives overflowing with hundreds of people who howl ed their championship or lack of sympathy with present prohibition laws. Last night the Senate adopted the bill, a -committe substitute, and it was ordered placed on the calen dar as a special order immediately upon disposal of the appropriations , measure. Drys who stand unequivocally for retention of the law as now written (Continued on last page) o Woman's Club To Meet Monday The Woman's Club will meet Mon day afternoon April 3 at 3 o'clock, in the club rooms. Thfe is the last meeting at which the present offi cers of the club preside, the new ones taking charge in May. The program will be in charge of the Study Club. We would be glad to see a large number present. ? o District Meeting OF - U. D. C. In Durham On Tuesday, April 4, the seventh district of the United Daughters of the Confederacy will meet with the Julian S. Carr chapter, hostess, for the regular spring meeting. The session will be held at the King's Daughters home in Dur ham, at 11 o'clock, with Mrs. B. L. Tyree, district leader, presiding. State president, Mrs. Jane Edwin Woodward and Mrs. John Huske Anderson, historian general, will also attend the meeting. Included in the seventh district are Chapel Hill, Roxboro, Dunn, Pittsboro, Sanford and Durham. .Luncheon will be sefVed by a cir cle of the King's Daughters. All members of Person County chapter who can attend, especially those who have cars, will please let me know at once. ? President. o Services Sunday For Mrs. Sarah Bryant Death Doe To Heart Trouble Fol lowing: Five Months Illness Mrs. Sarah Jane Bryant died at her home here Saturday morning at 8:40 o'clock. Death was attributed to heart trouble. Mrs. Bryan, who 14 well known in Roxboro, had been ill for about Ave months. She was 71 years old. Surviving are one son, Willie Bryant, two daughters, Mrs. J. M. Clayton and Mrs. C. T. Duncan and 17 grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. Funeral services were conducted from the Grace Methodist church in East Roxboro Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Interment wag at Stories Creek cemetery. Stockholders Will Meet April 6th Definite plans are now being formed for the purposie of permit ting The Peoples Bank to operate without restrictions. The plans will be submitted to the stockholders for ratification on April 6th, 1933. J. A. Long, President, The Peoples Bank. Death Of Baby On March 30th, the death angel visited the home of Mr. and Mrs. Irving Gentry and took their in fant son. James Alton was born March 18, therefore his stay on earth was short. Let us not grieve for him but rather let us think of him as one more blossom added to God's Heavenly flower garden.