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IF YOU HATE A MESSAGE FOR ALL OF THE PEOPLE PUT IT IN THE COURIER WHICH REACHES ? MOST OF THE PEOPLE ESTABLISHED 1881. PERSON COUNTY'S OLDEST AND BEST NEWSPAPER. UNDER SAME MANAGEMENT AND OWNERSHIP FOR 47 YEARS. J. W. NOELL, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER. HOME FIRST, ABROAD NEXT Best People on Earth; Good Churches and Schools; Where Optimism Rules. . $1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. VOL. L. ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 26, 1933. NO. 31. Industry Roars Hearty Approval of Roosevelt Drive To Help Business More Than 6,000 Telegrams Of Endorsement And Co operation Received By President and Johnson CHIEF EXECUTIVE IS HIGHLY PLEASED WITH RESPONSE TO APPEAL Washington, July 25. ? American ' Industry roared its approyal today of President Roosevelt's uniform higher wage and shorter hours pro gram to bring back prosperity. Simultaneously, General Hugh S. SMtohnson, National Recovery Ad ministrator, promised flexible and ^Considerate administration of the blanket agreement to prevent any hardships. Telegrams of approval which showered upon the White House and Johnson's office today had reached a total of 6,000 early to night, and still were pouring in. In dustry took the President at his word when he asked it to telegraph him in his nation-wide appeal for co-operation. The Chief Executive expressed his pleasure at the re sponse. Some industries announced im mediate action. Others desired more inform Si tion. All were eager. The campaign opened last night by the President was carried on to night in addresses by Johnson and Donald Richberg, counsel of the ad ministration. Blank forms will be on the way to every industry in a j few hours. Johnson Pleased. Johnson was well pleased when j he faced newspaper men late today, shirt open at the collar to temper the suffocating heat, hair slightly tousled, weary lines about his eyes. He was again the tireless figure who administered the World War draft act which sent millions of American boys into training camps and overseas. It was this experience to which he harked back constantly today as he discussed administration of the! uniform code designed to establish a 35-hour week and a $14 minimum wage for labor and a 40-hour week and $15 minimum wage for the "white collar" worker. As in the draft case, he said, numerous questions come up in trying to apply a general rule to industry. "We'll find undoubtedly that we've made mistakes," he said. "And whenever we find we've made a mis take, we'll come out and say so and correct it. We attempted to strike as near a medium as we could with out upsetting too many applecarts. But we will deal very promptly with specific cases of hardship." The administrator made it very plain, though, that he contemplated individual exemptions. Industry ^^Jpays comes forward with a plea ^Bnat its problems %re "peculiar" in any such program as this, he com* mented with an understanding smile. The changes, if there are any. will be in the general rule, he explained. Gives Warning. When Johnson's attention was called today to increasing reports being received here of violations of the cotton textile code, which went into effect a week ago, he said (Continued on last page) Musical Service At Presbyterian Church A musical service of unusual in terest to music-lovers of the com munity was presented last Sunday night at the Presbyterian Church by the choir of the church assisted by several visiting artists. Outstand ing on the program were two so prano solos by Miss Agnes Dodson, a member of the faculty of the Wetminster Choir School of Prince ton, N, J., who "is visiting her sis ter. Mrs. Clyde Crowell, and several violin Selections by Mr. R. S. Phifer, a well-known violinist of Jackson, Miss., who is visiting his mother at their counrty home-place, Burleigh. Other assisting artists at this time ; were Mrs. J. A. Long, Mrs. Wheeler Newell, Miss Claudia Carney and Mr. Clyde Crowell, all of whom are members of the choir of Edgar Long Memorial church. The program was varied in char acter, consisting of choir numbers,' solos, duets, a women's trio, men's quartette, besides the violin Selec tion, and the entire service was greatly enjoyed by the large con gregation present. NOTICE Owing to the change in the Textile Code, and in order to meet the new schedule of working hours, so as to give each of our patrons an op portunity to see the shows, we have arranged to have on each change of Pictures a Morning Matinee at 10:30 A. A., with the usual Afternoon Matinee as heretofore. Palace Theatre i ROBBERS GET AWAY WITH IRON SAFE Penders Store Entered Sun day Night And Safe Removed LOSS PLACED AT $430.00 Monday morning somewhere around four or five o'clock thieves! entered the Penders Store and car ried off the safe. It was" fhe bold est robbery imaginable, as the store is located on Main Street, and en trance was made through the front door, and the safe loaded on a car almost in broad daylight. The ex act hour of the robbery Is not known, but Mr. S. A. Oliver, chief of police, said he passed the store about four o'clock and everything was all right. After the safe was loaded in the car the occupants drove out on the | Roxboro- South Boston highway and when about five miles out the safe was unloaded and broken open, and the money removed. The safe contained $450.00, all of which was taken save 75 cents, which we sup pose they left to pay for getting the safe back to the Store. While the robbers were cracking | the safe Mr. June Mooney, who lives near where they were at work, heard the noise and went out to see what the trouble was, and when he arrived on the scene one of the men asked him if he nad any business elsewhere, and if he did] he had better go and attend to it 1 Mr. Mooney says he had business ; elsewhere and he immediately left to attend to it. No clue as to who, or where the robbers came from, has been dis covered at this writing. o Steel Corporation Report Favorable New York, July 25? Out of the' red on operating results for the vrst time since the end of 1931, the United States Steel Corporation to-; day reported net earnings of nearly $5,000,000 for the June quarter af ter deduction of ordinary operating expenses. The corporation also announced Ihe declaration of another dividend of 50 cents a share on the preferred j stock, payable August 30, to stock holders August 1. Similar payments were ordered in the last two quar ters. Prior to that period the stock received the $7 annual rate -to which it is entitled. I Dividends on the issue are cumu- ! lative. High Point Strikers to Hear Settlement Plans ______ High Point, July 25. ? A proposed agreement for settlement of the strike of 5,000 seamless hosiery workers here will be submitted to a mass meeting of the strikers tomor row night. E. H. Dunnigan, commissioner of conciliation for the department of labor, announced the plans for the meeting late today and said leaders of the Industrial Workers' associa tion, which is conducting the strike, and the managements of the 25 plants involved had agreed upon submission of the proposal to the strike mass meeting. Filling Station Robbed] 8ome time Sunday night thieves made * raid on the filling station of Mr. Geo. Ashley, on South Main Street, and got away with about! one hundred gallons of gas. .Prob ably the same party which carried off the safe in Penders. F. O. CARVER, JR., JOINS THE COURIER STAFF We feel proud of ourselves in being able to secure the services of Mr. F. O. Carver, Jr. ,who will have charge of our adver tising department. He is well ' equipped for this work and our advertisers will And him of great help to them. When you want ysur advertisement to be jots* right, copy so written that it will draw the attention of the reader, and bring satisfac tory results you only have to call Mr. Carver. Besides being cor rect in every detail you have the satisfaction of knowing it fe going to be read, for nearly every reading family in the Ccunty reads The Courier. When you think of advertfe ing, think of The Courier and call F. O. Carver, Ir. o Farmers To Meet At Providence Aug. 1 The Providence Farmers! Club will meet at Luther Whitt's home Tues day night, August 1 at 7:30 o'clock. This is a special meeting and every member cf the club and others in terested in the club are urged to attend. Plans will be made for attending the field day at the Ox ford Experiment Farm August 3. COnONCONTRACTS EXTENDED FOR YEAR Farm Administrators Enable Growers To Withhold Op- i tion Staple From Market Washington, July 25.? The life of cotton option contracts between the government and growers who agreed to plow up from 25 to 50 percent of their crop was extended for one year today by farm administrators. In their original form, the con tracts provided that farmers must exercise their options by May 1, 1934, but this limit was extended to May 1, 1935. It was provided, however, that the farmers who have not called their options by May 1, 1934, will be required to pay a carrying charge of 40 cents per bale per month. The order will affect more than 2.000,000 bales of cotton on which about 60 percent of the growers signing contracts to agree to reduce their acreage will be given options at 6 cents a pound. Oscar Johnson, director of fl- 1 nance, said the secretary of agri culture, under the tierms of the contract as now revised, has made it possible for producers to with hold this cotton from the market for a longer period. SINGLE SALES TAX SCHEDULE WILL BE EFFECTED AUGUST 1 New Program Makes It Im possible For Merchant To Include Tax In Price SALES TICKETS BARRED Raleigh, July 23. ? One urtiform sales tax schedule, effective August 1, was announced today by Com missioner of Revenue A. J. Maxwell to replace the four-schedule plan by which the state has collected the three percent sales levy dur ing July. "The use of a series of schedules has been confusing and hasv made uniformity of observance and prac tice difficult," Mr. Maxwell said in announcing the change in method by which the tax will be passed on to consumers. ' The new schedule, applying to all retail merchants, follows: Less than 10 cents, no tax. Ten cents to 35 cents, one cent. Thirty-six cents to 70 cents-, two cents. Seventy-one cents to $1.05, three cents. ; Above $1.05, a straight three per- , cent tax will be applied, fractions to be governed by major fraction. Cumulative Scale 1 The new schedule gives the pur- s I chaser use of a cumulative rule on | purchases during one trading per iod while under the July schedule 1 this was denied. "Denial of this 1 right to the customer in ' many cases resulted in tax charges Of five and six percent when the total purchases were large enough to ap ply a straight three percent tax," Mr. Maxwell said. j Under the new schedule, it will not be possible for the merchant to j include the tax in the price of each , article, the revenue commissioner j said. "The amount of tax on a | given article is not an exact sum, | i but will vary with reference to [whether two or more purchases are ! to be made at the same time and , depends upon the total sum of i such cumulative purchases," he ex j plained. "The new rule deos not require j use of coupons, stamps or sales j tickets and can be easily applied j by every merchant and easily un derstood by the customer," Mr. I Maxwell said. Unsatisfactory Schedule Explaining that the July Regula tions were experimental, the reve nue commissioner listed the follow ing unsatisfactory features discloS I ed during the three weeks of its op jeration: Merchants in the same general I class would fall into different sched ules because one would have a | larger percentage of sales below 10 cents than would the other. For j instance, schedule three applied to one drug store and schedule four to another. Merchants not in the same gen eral class carry some merchandise (Continued on last page) ROOSEVELT'S TEXT Washington, July 24. ? The text of President Roosevelt's speech to night follows: After the adjournment of the his torical special session of the Con gress five weeks ago, I purposely re frained from addressing you for two very good reasons. First, I think that we all wanted the opportunity of a little quiet thought to examine and assimilate in a mental picture the crowding events of the 10 days which has been devoted to the starting of the wheels of the new deal. Secondly, I wanted a few weeks in which to set up the new admin istrative organization and to see the first fruits of our careful planning I think it will interest you if 1 set forth the fundamentals of this I plnanlng for national recovery; and this I am very certain will make it( abundantly clear to you that all of the proposals and all of the legis lation since the fourth day of March have not been just a collection of haphazard schemes, but rather the orderly component parts of a con nected and logical whole. National Necessity. Long before inauguration day, 1 became convinced that individual effort and local effort and even dis jointed Federal effort had /failed and, of necessity, would fail, and the rf ore, that a rounded leadership by the Federal government had be come a necessity both of theory and 1 ? - ( of fact. Such leadership, however, ? I had its beginning in preserving and t strengthening the credit of the s | United States government, because \ without that no leadership was a j | possibility. For years the govern j ment had not lived within its in j come. The immediate task was to | bring our regular Expenses within ( j our revenues, That has been done. 7 1 It may seem inconsistent for a t | governmnet to cut down its regular s ; expenses and at the same time to borrow and to spend billions for an t emergency. But it is not incon sistent, because' a large portion of ( the emergency money has been paid s out in the form of sound loans f which will be repaid to the Treas- t i ury over a period of yearS; and to a | cover the rest of the emergency s money, we have imposed taxes to s [ pay the interest and the install- e ments on that part of the debt. ^ So you will see that we have kept c our credit good. We have built a , granite foundation in a period of ^ confusion. That foundation of the j federal credit stands there broad and sure. It is the base of the whole recovery plan. l ? Credit Problems. Then came the part of the prob lem that concerned the credit of ? the individual citizens themselves^ Tou and I know of the banking crisis and of the great danger to j I the savings of our people. On March 1 (Continued on page seven) |t t PASSES SUDDENLY Herbert T. Bamett, 37 inches tall, 14 yearg old, weight 40 pounds, who iied suddenly Sunday night while returning by automobile from Dan ville. Photo shows Herbert as he appeared on the New York stage. MICK WILL OPEN HIS OFFICE SHORTLY High Point Editor To Go To Raleigh This Week For Re Employment Work APPOINTMENT POPULAR Raleigh, July 24. ? Senator Capus j K. Waynick, editor of the High Point Enterprise, is set for Raleigh ;his week during which time it is :xpected that he will open the re imployment office to which he re *ntly was appointed. Mr. Waynick has been in Wash ngton the past few days and the ietails of his duties here have not >een given. It is understood that le will take offices in the agricul tural bulding in which the em- 1 jloyment agencies which have been liscontinued, did their work. Maj. V. L. Fletcher, commissioner of la >or, has his office on this floor and Mr. Waynick is to have quarters lear this division. The name of the office connotes ts functions and the primary pur jose of the director is to set people a work. There were for something ike 10 years Such offices here but 'ailing revenues and steadily de ceasing employment queerly put lie department out of business. The lew department will not be the old ?e-enacted, it is said, but it will be j ievofced to putting people back to vork. ? ;4 There was great satisfaction in Raleigh when Mr. Waynick was de lignated as the head of this place, le has been in two terms of the gen jral assembly in Raleigh. He served us member of the house in the long session of 1931 and returned to the lenate for the protracted sitting of lie 1033 body. In both houses hej ound his largest interest in the so :ial measures. He led the striking slements of High Point back to vork in 1932 and gained the praise )f people and press everywhere. Hen and women who seek the right o make a living will find him ttrongly predisposed to them. Mr. Waynick'jf office will deal with he lists of unemployed which are leld by the present relief agencies ind also by the employment divi ions now in existence. These work ers will be carefully classified so hat on call they may be instantly lent to contractors or others who eek the kind of labor that Is avail- i ible. The re-employment agen cies will also help persons now at rork to find assignments more ac- < ieptable to them and for which i rork they are better fitted. Mr. : Vaynlck is expected to come to , : laleigh early in the week to open : lis offices. h o [I Henry IV of Prance issued an im- ' >erial order forbidding use . of cor ets by men or women. ? ! 1 World production of automobiles n 1932 totaled 1,979.250 units, of rhich 69.3 percent were produced in < he United States. j! News of Death of Herbert Barnett Shocks Community a Roosevelt Is Given Four Cotton Suits Washington, July 25. ? The campaign to put King Cot ton back on the wearing ap parel throne was carried to the White House today. Representative Fulmer, of South Carolina, on behalf of the Association for the In creased Use of Cotton, pre sented Roosevebt with four cotton suits. SEVEN MEN DIE IN PLANE CRASH Perish - When Wing Drops From Big Army Bomber; No Chance to Escape WAS ON SERVICE FLIGHT Oceanside, Calif., July 25. ? Seven men were killed today in the wreck of a giant, twin-motor Army bomb er. which lost a wing in mid-air and careened downward from 1,000 feet Into a hollow at the Oceanside city limits. Second Lieutenant Carl A. Mur ray, flier, Idaho, the pilot, attached to the 17th group headquarters at March Field, Riverside, home base of the plane. ? Sergeants Snodgrass, of the 64th Squadron, and Herrick, of the 95th squadron. Privates of the 95th squadron. T. Taylor, Los Angeles; Stanley Book, Detroit; Albert Ov??end, CoronadQ. Calif., and Vincent Galdin, Green Rapids, Mich. On^ Service Flight. The plane, an amphibian, was bound from March Field to Rock well Field, San Diego, on a service mission, and appeared over Ocean side at noon. It flew smoothly un til it reached the southeastern city limits. Mrs. N. W. Glasco, near whose house the crash occurred, said her attention was attracted to the plane by a loud report when it was over head. "I thought they were starting bcmbing practice and was frighten ed because they were so close," she said. "I went outside and looked up. I saw what appeared to be small particles and smoke coming from the rear of the plane. I could See they were in difBculty. They seem ed to be coming down, looking for a place to land. "I heard a rasping noise, and the right wing tore away and ? went soaring off by itself. ?The main body of the plane floated fdr an Instant and then plummeted down in our pasture." o ? STOCK Quotations The following are today's closing priceg on some of the more popular stocks on the New York Stock Ex change. Every effort is made to keep the ltet absolutely correct; however the Courier does not hold itself responsible for typographical or other errors therein. It is hoped to make thfe a regu lar weekly feature of the Courier; if there is some particular stock In which you are interested, let us know what It is an4 we will be glad to furnish you the closing price each Wednesday afternoon. American Tel. & Tel 124% American Tob. B. 85 Anaconda T 18% Chrysler 33% Cities Service 3% Collins & Aikman 15% Com. Solv 33% CJen. Motors .30% rnt. T. & T 15% Liggett & Myers, B. 88% N. Y. Cent. 42% Otis Elev. 19 Packard 5% Penn Dixie Cement 6% Reynolds B. 47% Radio Corp ? 8% Southern Ry 27% CJ. 8. Steel 53% ... f> Coffee to the largest single Item m the foreign trade list of foods of the United 8tate*. Returning From Danville He Died While Companions Thought Him Asleep BIG CROWD AT FUNERAL Herbert T. Barnett, age 34, died Sunday night while returning from Danville, Va., where he and a party of friends had been visiting. On the trip were Messrs. Sam Oliver, Jr., James Carver and John H. Win stead. Leaving Danville about 11:30 Herbert was1 driving, but he com* plained of being sleepy and asked Oliver to drive, while he got on the back seat and lay with his head resting on Winstead's lap. When they reached Roxboro Winstead called Herbert to wake up, but re ceiving no response upon investi gation he was found to be dead. Dr. A. P. Nichols, County coroner, was called and stated that death was from heart trouble, and that he had probably been dead several minutes. Herbert was a midget, 37 inches tall and weighed about 40 pounds. For several years he traveled with Barnum <fc Bailey circus, covering almost the entire United States; he was connected with the New York stage for some time, playing the lead ing role in "Little Nellie Kelley," and later In a moving piature, "Some Baby." For the past few years he was traveling salesman for cigars; his ready wit and natural ability, wjth his genial disposition, made him a favorite with all, and he was decidedly successful In his affairs. Everybody liked Herbert, "Nub," as his intimate friends called him, in fact he was an especial favorite here with every one. His sudden death was a shock to a}l of his friends, for he had been in the best of health. While his body lay in state at the undertaking establish ment of Spencers a steady stream of friends and visitors viewed the body, attesting his popularity. He Is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Barnett, and three brothers, W. C? Jack, and B. K. Barnett. Funeral service^ were conducted Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock at Edgar Long Memorial Methodist church with Rev. E. B. Craven and Rev. W. F. West in charge. Burial was in Burchwood cemetery. Active pallbearers: E. G. Thomp son. William Moore, Barksdale Smith and Dolian Long. Honorary pallbearers: W. F. Long, George W. Kane, Lawrence Woods, R. P. Burns, J. A. Long, B. G. Clayton, G. J. Cushwa, O. T. Birby, Dr. B. A. Thaxton, W. A. Sergeant, O B. McBreom, Russell Newell, W. G. Bradsher, D. W. Ledbetter, S. B. Davis, M. C. Clayton, Kelly Paylor, Roy Picksley, Frank Howard and Carlyle Brooks. Floral bearers: Wesley Williams, Tuttle Williams, Stephen Glenn, - Tommy Barnett, Graham Barnett, Curtis Oakley, Billy Montague, J. E. Kirby, C. B. Kirbjjr, W. T. Kirby, R. P. Michaels, James Clayton, James Carver, Sam Oliver, Jr., John H. Wins te ad, Hugh Barnett, Walter Barnett and Sam Barnett. o Jimmie Mattern Now 1 Lap Nearer Home Fairbanks, Alaska, July 25. ? Jim mie Mattern, who crashed in Si beria while attempting a solo flight round the world, left here today for Juneau in a seaplane piloted by Bob Ellis He was accompanied by members f of the relief expedition of William Alexander, who flew here from the United States to take him home. ? The plans of the group were for j Mattern to fly tomorrow to Terrace, B. C., where a plane chartered by the relief expedition awaits him. Mattern then would take the. relief _ party to Edmonton and fly home from there to New York. General Motors In Favorable Report New York, July 25.? Net earnings of General Motors Corporation to taling $41,198,169 for April, May and June were announced today, Showing nearly a six-fold increase over the year's first quarter. ? The second quarter earnings were 90 cents a common share, compared with 11 cents a share made pos sible by the first quartet's earnings of $6,870,007. Holdings of cash. United States government and other marketable securities increased $64,777,077 from the first to second quarter. There are from 30,000 to 40,000 eggs in the average shad roe.