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ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14, 1933.
NO. 25.
Roxboro Citizens Interest
Themselves In Swimming
Pool On Depot Street
Mr. Pass Offers Rent Free
Site And To Furnish
: Dressing Rooms
ESTIMATE OF COST
IS BEING PREPARED
One of the things which is a near
neoessity is a swimming pool, for
old and young, big and little, in
Roxboro. and It lokos right now like
it is going to materialize. Some of
our citizens have interested them
selves in the matter, and find an
location for a pool. Several
Brs ago Mr. W. T. Pass dug the
^^Kindation for an addition to his
warehouse on Depot Street, and
this can be utilized nioely; nothing
to do but cement the site, which
Mr. Pass offers to lease the City
free of charge, and also offers the
use of the brick building adjoining
for dressing rooms.
The City has agreed to donate the
water, and the welfare department
hai been asked to furnish labor,
and Mr. Anderson Timber lake, who
Is connected with Mr. Geo. W. Kane,
has offered to Supervise the work
free of charge. An estimate is in
preparation as to the cost, and be
fore another week passes we expect
to see real work started-' on this
proposition. *
Three Convicts
Wounded in Scuffle
With Guard
Raleigh, June 14. ? Three convicts
were wounded, one seriously, in an
escape attempt at Caledonia Prison j
Farm In Halifax County yesterday.
Three comrades came through the i
fracas uninjured.
Thirty-one other convicts, work- j
ing in the cornfield where the trou
ble occurreed, looked on as the re
bellious prisoners overpowered W.
C. Whitley, a guard, taking his pis
tol. Other guards aided him in
quelling the uprising and none of
the prisoners escaped. f ^
Louis Pennington, Sebt up from
Cumberland CountJ last March for
murder was in a critical condition
in a Roanoke Rapids hospital last
nigh.t not expected to survive bul
let wounds in his chest.
The others wuonded were Stanley
HodgeS, serving a 14 to 25-year sen
tence for storebreaking and larceny
in Gaston County, and Louts Smith,
of Columbus County, serving a 7 to
10-year term for the same crime.
Hodges was shot in the chest and
Smith in the leg.
Pennington was serving a 6 to 10
year sentence.
The prisoners who joined with
the injured men In the escape at
tempt were J. B. Owens of Transyl
vania; Tate Stanley, of Onslow, and
^^fcr Ferguson, of Rockingham; all
Mng maximum terms of five
^^ars each.
It was the second attempted break
at Caledonia in a week. Last Fri
day Clarence Stafford, Forsyth Ne
gro, was killed and two others were
wounded when fire convicts made a
break for freedom. Two escaped
and are still at large.
Several other attempts have oc
curred recently.
Coach E. N. Jones
At Work Here For
The Summer Months
Mr. E. N. Jones, teacher and
coach of the Roxboro High School,
will remain In Roxboro for the
summer. He is connected with the
Knight's Insurance Agency. If any
of his friends are interested in in
surance he will appreciate it if you
?will talk to him about your insur
ance needs.
They represent three of the best
insurance companies known. The
companies represented are: Pilot
Life Insurance Co., Greensboro, N.
C.; Indianapolis Life Ins., Co., In
dianapolis, Ind.; and the Mutual
Life of New York.
Business is getting better, there
fore you can increase your inst
ance. You may heed to replace
some you lost during the past de
pression. Insurance don't cost you
anything because it is a savings.
QNIQHTS INSURANCE AGENCY
Garden Club To Meet
The Oarden club will meet in the
Woman's club building on Monday
afternoon, June 19, at 3:30 p. m. All
ladies interested In this work are
cordially invited to meet with the
club.
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McNinch May Head
Federal Power Com.
I
Washington, June 13. ? Congres
sional leaders have been informed
that President Roosevelt plan* to
ask George Otis Smith for his re
signation as chairman of the federal
power commission. Reports were
that Frank McNinch, of Charlotte,]
a member of the commission, is
slated for Smith's place.
Smith, former head of the geo
logical survey, was appointed to
the power commission -by former
! President Hoover.
GLASiwiNSHIS
| BANK BILL FIGHT
j Comprehensive Measure To
Unify Banking System Now
j Goes To President
; GUARANTEES DEPOSITS
i
j Washington, June 13.? Without
a dissenting- voice, the Glass-Ste
gall banking bill? the center of so
much dispute in the Senate in an
other session? went through that
branch to final enactment today and
was dispatched to the White House.
The measure, called by some the j
most important banking legislation
since enactment of the Federal Re
serve act, came to the Senate from
a House that had given approval to '
the final draft of conferees by a
vote of 181 to 6.
A few minutes after pa-^ng the
measure, the Senate added $150,000 - 1
000 to the $3,500,000,000 deficiency
reconstruction appropriation bill iif
order to take care of the goverrf
ment's subscription to stock in the
1 bank deposit insurance fund.
I The legislation, which carries a
| plan for insurance of bank deposits, I
was called by Senator Vandenberg
| Republican. Michigan, "a landmark
on the road to permanent stabiliza
tion oi the banking structure."
Comprehensive Bill.
Designed originally to curb the1
use of Federal Reserve credit for
j speculative purposes, the bill has
j been enlarged to provide insurance
, for deposits and other features that i
j Its friends believe wUl bring a uni
fied banking system.
The controversial measure was
(virtually lifted from ite deaTh X
! to become one of the major legis
jlative accomplishments of the re
cord-breaking special session of
Congress.
President Roosevelt's approval of
the bill foreshadowed during the
toal debate when Senator Glass,
Democrat, Virginia, who has fought
unremittingly for the bill for more
than two years, told the Senate it
represented a "complete accord" be
tween the President and the Con
gress.
-The bill provides for insurance
of all deposits up to $2500 begin- I
nlng January 1 but contains a pro
vision that the President may bv
proclamation fix an earlier effec- 1
tive date.
A broader system of insurance
will go into effect July 1, 1934, for
members of the reserve system and
non-member state banks, but the
latter must become members of the
system by July l, 1936, or drop out
or the insurance system.
Hranch Bonks.
The bill will permit national
banks to operate branches in states
which specifically permit their own
state institutions to do so.
Great power is conferred on the
Federal Reserve board to regulate;
credit, by refusing to extend It
where it is being used for specula
tive purposes deemed unwise by the
"oftrQ , I
*u?tiler banUn? changes Include
the divorcement of national banks
from their security affiliates; appli
cation of a similar principle to pri
Hle. tb?nks- and * prohibition
against loans by member banks to
their own officers. --- j
The bill also will prevent pay
ment of interest on demand depos
it board to
limit the Interest on time deposits.
Notice to Water Users
All delinquent water users not
j Paid up by the 2lst day of June
mat dft**64 *? ** dJ*COI?ected after
I Town of Roxboro.
PERSON COUNTY IS
OFFERING PROTECTION
BY TREE VACCINATION
For Typhoid Fever, Diphthe
ria And Smallpox, Among
White And Colored
SCHEDULE/ OF CLINICS
Penson (bounty and Mhe North
i Carolina State Board of Health are
offering protection by 'free vacci
nation against typhoid fever, diph
; theria and smallpox, to every man,
i woman and child in the county.
Vaccination with typhoid vaccine
has been one way of reducing the
number of deaths and cases for the
past eleven years. Three treatments
; are necessary. Take it every three
; years.
Take it! Your neighbor may be
careless.
Every child between the ages of
six months and ten years should
take diphtheria vaccine. It had
been shown by carefll records that
three doses will immunize 85 per
cent of children treated .
Three treatments of diphtheria
toxin antitoxin, or two treatments
of diphtheria toxoid are necessary.
Each is harmless, practically a cer
tain preventative, and almost pain
less. Neither causes any sore.
Bring the whole family to the
nearest clinic. Remember, we wish
to improve the health and save
the lives of white and colored, old
and young, rich and poor, you and
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Hon. A. J. Maxwell, who has re
cently been reappointed Commis
sioner of Revenue.
Mrs. T. A. Loving
Buried Thursday
Mrs. T. A. Loving, formerly Miss
Allene Crews, of Oxford, died at
her home in Goldsboro Wednesday
morning at 3:30 o'clock. She had
been ill for several months.
Mrs. Loving was a graduate of
the Nurses Training school of Brant
wood Hospital. She was formerly
engaged in public health work in
Person county with the department
of health. She was popular in Ox
| ford and throughout the state where
she was known. She was a member
of the Methodist church.
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There are professional cheese
tasters in New York.
Washington Will Accept
Partial British Payment
1
Will Take 10 Per Cent On
Condition It Does Not In
validate Remainder
ITALY ALSO OFFERS
PARTIAL PAYMENT
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Washington, June 13. ? Carefully |
distinguishing between receiving
and accepting Great Britain's prof- j
fered partial war debt payment,
President Roosevelt is expected to
take the sum offered with a distinct
understanding that such action will
not invalidate America's claim to
the unpaid remainder.
This authoriative word came out
tonight just about the time that
President Roosevelt, his close ad
visers gathered around him in pri
vate conclave, prepared to reply to
a formal British note received at
the State Department late in the
day.
What the British government
pays ? and reports from London
placed the sum at 10 per cent of
the $75,950,000 due next Thursday ?
President Roosevelt is determined it
shall be regarded as only an Install
ment upon the installment.
Hectic Dev.
These developments followed a day
in which the delicate debt subject
was vigorously raised in the world
economic conference and the Sen
ate heard an outburst against de
velpments in the debt field.
Senators Lewis, Democrat, Illi
nois, and Robinson, Republican, In
diana. determined opponents of can
cellation or reduction, demanded
that the American delegation walk
out if other delegates Insisted upon
bringing up the debts, which, at
America's insistence, were omitted
from the agenda.
The London government's note
followed (protracted informal (dis
cussions between the two nations in
which it was understood that its
contents were thoroughly gone over.
It was delivered at the State De
partment late in the day and soon
after Ambassador Rosso, of Italy,
called with a memorandum sug
gesting that his country also make
only a partial payment on its in
stallment of $13,545,000.
President Roosevelt was inform
ed by Acting Secretary Phillips of
the note's arrival. After dinner, Mr.
Roosevelt received Mr. Phillips at
the White House, and the note was
delivered. ?
Its details were subjected to a
minute analysis preparatory to
drafting a reply for dispatch to
London tomorrow.
Acceptance of the British and
Italian offers was made contingent
upon the conditions attached to
them. President Roosevelt, Insist- 1
ent that the debtor nations pay
and mindful that Congress is still,
In seskion, proceeded with the ut
most caution.
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Bethel Hill Y. T. H.
Elect New Officers
The Bethel Hill chapter of Young
Tar Heel Farmers held its regular
monthly meeting Friday night, June
9, in the high school building.
Business consisted of a report on
the two acre club corn project,
which is being sponsored to raise
some money for the club; a discus- I
sion of the campinp trip which will
probably be taken to Washington.
New officers were elected as fol
lows: A. G. Bullard, advisor; Wil
liam Smith Humphries, president;
John Russell, vice-president; Joel
Lee Day, secretary; Robert Monta
gue, treasurer and Robert F*uJly,
reporter. The retiring president
is James Day.
After the meeting, . ice cream,
made by the club members, was
served.
William Humphries, reporter.
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Collins & Aikman
Give Another Five
Percent Increase
Last Monday morning the Collins
& Aikman Corporation posted a
notice advising workers in the in
dustrial departments that a five
per cent, increase would be in effect
from that date. This is the second I
raise this plant has made within
the past few weeks, and every one
is rejoicing in this show of pros
perity. Few people realize what the i
Arm of Collins & Aikman mean to
this vicinity, and the County at
large. With possibly a thousand
men and women employed you can
readily see that these increases will,
largely augment trade in Roxboro.
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Telegraph Line Ex
tended to Ca-Vel
The Western Union has just com
pleted the extension of their tele
graph lines to the offices of Collins
Si Aikman Corporation. Instead of
phoning messages the Western Un
ion have placed machines in the of
fices and will thus deliver.
Notice
The regular monthly meeting of
the Boy Scout council will be held
Tuesday night, June 20th, at 7:30
at the Jones Hotel. There are sev- 1
eral items of importance to come up j 1
and it is requested thlt all mem- ;
berg attend if possible.
Roxboro Boy Scout Council, i 1
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Vaccination of dogs against rab
ies is usually effective for a year or
more. , ? 1
<
l Alaska produced gold worth $9,- 1
342,000 in 1031, an increase of al- i
most a million dollars over 1030. '
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NEW BOOKS BEING
ADDED EVERY WEEK
AT PUBLIC LIBRARY
A Charge Of Ten Cents Per
Week Is Now Being
Made
5 NEW BOOK JUST ADDED
The library Is making the small
charge of 10c per week for reading
, these books to secure at end of
each month other new books. Will
you help us: to build a library in
this way. We wfculd appreciate
suggestions as to book you prefer.
THE RAVEN. Sam Houston, our
greatest pioneer, one of our ablest
statesmen, a shrewd and daring
soldier, a very romantic ideal to a
nation of women. Woven through
his career is a tragic love story, the I
facts of which are here for the first j
time published. Here are revealed j
episodes of mad daring, drunken
bouts, the minor love affairs.
Marquis James has written a com
plete biography, the saga of an
American giant.
JOHN PAUL JONES. An engross- I
ing study of romantic action of the
greatest American hero. Letters
hitherto unpublished are quoted to
show that the character of John
Paul Jones has never been under
stood. A very interesting portrayal
by Phillips Russell.
TOILERS OP SOCIETY. By Vic
tor Hugo. Religion, society, and na
ture; these are the three struggles
of man, at the same time his three
peeds. He had need of faith; hence
the temple. He must create; hence
the city. He must live; hence the
plow and Ship. These three solu- |
tions comprise three perpetual con- ,
flicks. This book deals with the
third or nature.
THE BLUE FLOWER. By Henry
Van Dyke. A story of the search
for happiness, which is life.
THE AMERICAN CLAIMANT.
By Mark Twain. Portrays the Strug- j
gle between a family of nobility in
England and a family of laymen, in ;
America, over an historic manor; J
legally owned by the latter, but .
having been passed and owned by
the former for many generations.
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M'DOWELL RACING
BILL IS DISCARDED
Commissioners Rescind Call
For Referendum June 27
On Pari-Mutuel Betting
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Marion, June 12. ? The McDowell
county board of commissioners in
special session today rescinded its
call for a special election to be
held June 27 on the question of es
tablishing horse racing with the
pari-mutuel betting in the countly.
The action came after a petition
signed by members of the local min
isterial association and by three
pari-mutuel betting in the county,
agricultural and breeders' associa
tion commission had been submit
ted before the board asking that
the order calling for the vote be va
cated.
The petitioners said "violent op
position" had been raised against
the establishment of racing here.
They said the opposition tends to
"disrupt the good feeling that here
tofore existed between people bf
this county and to divide our cit
izenship into hostile camps."
The Agricultural and Breeders' As
sociation and the privilege of calling J
a referendum on the establishment
of a race track "here were provided
for in an act passed by the 1933
session of the general assembly.
Similar acts were passed for five
other counties.
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350 Employes Get
10 Per Cent Increase
Richmond, Va? June 12. ? H. Wat
kins Ellerson, president of the Al
bemarle Paper Company today an-i,
nounced a 10 per cent, increase in!(
the pay of the company's 350 em
ployes, effective at once. Mr. Eller- j
son said a similar increase hag been <
given employes of the Chesapeake- ,
Albemarle Corporation, at West j
Point, Va., in which the Albemarle,.
Company owns a Substantial inter- ' i
Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Clay, of
Richmond. Va.t are spending a few
lays out in the county near Jielena.
Mr. Clay was born in Person County
knd is now located in Richmond
urtth the Export Leaf Tobacco Co.
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Jeffress and Maxwell
Get Important Places
In State Government
Massachusetts In
List For Repeal
Boston, Jane 13. ? Massachu
setts today became the 11th
consecutive state to favor the
prohibition repeal amendment,
incomplete returns showed to
night.
Even with returns from the
very wettest sections missing, it
bocame obvious early that the
eo mmonwea Mh had voted con
sistently wl'h previous tests of
opinion on the prohibition ques
tkm.
Returns from 24 cities out of
39 and 117 towns out of 316,
gave: Wet, 187,021; dry, 43,066.
INDUSTRIAL BILL
TO PROVIDE JOBS
Comprehensive Measure Also
Expected To Put New Life
Into Business
PROVIDES NEW TAXES
Washington, June 13.? The In
dustrial Recovery bill upon which
Congressional action was completed
today is intended to provide jobs
for thousands of idle men and in
ject new life into sluggish industry.
These are the main features of
the measure.
Gives President Roosevelt and his
administrators wide power to pro
mote self -regulation of industry
under Federal supervision as a
means of curtailing overproduction,
improving wages, shortening hours
and thus increasing prices and em
ployment.;
Authorizes a $3,300,000,000 bond
issue to finance construction of i
Federal, State, local and public- j
benefitting private projects to create |
new employment;
Invests the President with au- 1
thority to work out codes of fair
competition to be accepted by in
dustry voluntairly, with additional
power for the Chief Executive to
compel adoption of the codes and
Subjects violators to a $500 fine;
Provides the President with pow
er to license an industry so as to
force unwilling minorities nto line;
Th? bond issue will require $220,
000-.000 annually for financing. To
meet this cost the fololwing new
taxes are provided:
A tax of 1-10 of 1 per cent, on
corporation net worth, with a 5 per
cent, additional assessment o n
earnings above 12 1-2 per cent.; a
6 per cent, tax on corporation divi
dends to be deducted at the source;
an increase of one-half cent in the
present gasoline tax; three-year ex
tension of corporation consolidation
return authority with increase of 1
per cent, in Income tax rate on con
solidated returns, instead of- the
present 3-4 of 1 per cent.
Extends for one year, also, all
special excise taxes voted by last
Congress and make administrative
changes in the tax law to prevent
carrying over into subsequent years
stock and bond los&es which exceed
the gains in the year in which they
occur. These apply to both cor
porations and individuals.
Provisions for publicity for income
tax returns under regulations to be
drawn by the President.
Not less than $400,000,000 of the
total public works money will be
granted outright to the States for
roads, with no strings attached,
seven-eighths to be allotted on the
basis of existing law calling for ap
portionment on the basis of one
third each for road mileage now ex
isting, area and population, and the
remaining eighth on the basis of
population.
The public works program, su3
finally agreed upon, stipulates no
special project,, but includes, among
other general work, the following:
Construction, repair and improve
ment of public highways and park
ways, public buildings, conservation
and development of natural re
sources, prevention of soil or coast
al erosion, development of water
power and transmission of electrical
mergy, river and harbors improve
ments and flood control.
Low-cost housing and slum-clear
uice projects, drydocks, naval vee
?fels permitted under the London
treaty, heavier-than-air craft, and
technical construction for the Army
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George Ross Pou Is Made
Supterintendent Of The
Prison Department
PUBLIC WORKS COM
MISSIONERS CHOSEN
Raleigh, June 10. ? Governor Eh
rinshaus lifted anxiety from sev
eral thousands tonight, when he
named E. B. Jeffress, of Greens
boro, chairman cf the highway and
public works commission; George
Ross Pou. a strong contender for
that position, executive director, a
new board of highway and public
works commissioners to work with
Chairman Jeffress. and Allen ' J.
Maxwell, revenue commissioner, to
succeed himself.
The governor did not pick his
budget director tonight. He gave to
the press about 8:30 o'clock his
statement announcing all these ap
pointments. He had conferred with
Messrs. Maxwell, Jeffress and Pou
one or more times. The executive
feels that there is perfect articula
tion and that all the appointees are
agreeable to the way he has set
tled the differences. The new ap
pointments become effective July 1.
Pon Heads Prison.
The governor announced that
after several conferences the larger
details of the merger of the high
i way and prison departments under
j an act of the last general assembly
have been worked out and that E.
B. Jeffress would become chairman
under the new organization and
Georee Ross Pou executive director.
For the time being, Mr. Pou will act
as superintendent of the prison di
I vision. The governor revealed also
that while a flattering number of
friends throughout the state had
urged Mr. Pou's appointment to the
chairmanship, Mr. Pou himself, in
line with his statement to that ef
fect before the reorganization com
mittee of the general assembly, htd
stated that he did not desire the
chairmanship. The new organiza
tion will take effect on July 1, next.
At the same time announcement
was made of the following as high
way and public works commission
ers:
Charles Whedbee, Perquimans
county; W. C. Woodard, Nash
county; James A. Hardison. Anson
county; Luther Hodges, Rocking
ham county; Ross Sigmon. Rowan
county; Prank W. Miller, Haywood
county.
The new highway commission, to
be known hereafter as the highwoy
and public works commissioners, are
scattered more equitably, it seems,
than any board that ever sat and
worked for the state. There was
something of a geographical jam
ming of the original board which
set the pace for the road construc
tion in 1921. While personnel chang
ed sharply over those years, not
much of the present commission
named by Governor Gardner re
mains.
The Maxwell appointment gives
general happiness. The revenue
commissioner has some tall taxing
to do. He will fall to the jefc next
week. And the governor has done
generously by a former political
rival.
Mr. Pou's work in the consolidat
ed prison and highwty department
will be the direction of the pris
oners. He will be in fact superin
tendent of the state's prison with a
considerably larger number to di
rect than he ever had.
Budget Post In Doubt.
The appointment of Jeffress and
Maxwell ended weeks of suspense
over their offices, and left only the
post of executive officer of the
budget bureau in doubt. This posi
tion has been held through the
McLean and Gardner administrt
tions by Henry Burke, but Burke
has announced he intends to leave
the services of the state shortly af
ter July 1.
Ehringhaus, however, has yet to
name the director of the depart
ment of conservation and develop
ment, and a member of the indus
trial commission. Col. J. W. Htrrel
son. director of the conservation de
partment, and Industrial Commis
sioner T. A. Wilson are believed in
line for re-appointm?fit.
Four offices were filled yesterday
by the governor, appointing Edwin
Gill as parole commissioner and
Charles Brantley Aycock as bead of
the workman's compensation bureau
ot-the relief office, and reappointing
Adjutant General J. Van B. Metts
and Col. Gordon Smith as assistant.
Maxwell, in a statement follow
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