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ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 6, 1933.
NO. 37.
Hurricane Leaves Wide |
Trail of Desolation In
Texas'Rio Grand Area
Cities Of Brownsville, Har
lingen And San Benito Bear
Brunt Of Terrifflc Winds
And Rain
NO ACCURATE REPORT
AS TO LOSS OF LIFE
Kich Rio Grande Valley Overran
by Water In Wake of Destructive
Winds; Property Damage Will
Ban Into Millions; Relief Agen
cies Straining Every Nerve in Ef
fort to Reach Needy; Food Sup
plies and Medical Aid Urgent
Brownsville, Tex., Sept. 5. ?
^ Twenty persons were killed in
and around Brownsville when
the most serious Gulf hurricane
in 60 years hit the city last
night and this morning, blow
ing nearly ten hours in two
terrific sections.
Fifteen hundred persons were
Injured in this general area, in- [
eluding two huge coastal coun
ties, Willacy and Cameron.
Edenburg, Tex., Sept. 5. ? Twelve j
known dead, more thap 50 Injured
and many millions of dollars dam- j
age constituted the toll of the gulf ;
hurricane that last night and today j
laid waste to the rich and populous
lwoer Rio Grande valley. !
Ten were killed at Harlingen and
two at Rio Hondo. These were the
only verified deaths. Seven were in
jured and in a hospital at Merce
des and 48 were at Harlingen. Of
the injured at Harlingen, ten prob
ably will die.
Reports from Brownsville were
meager, but, judging by the de
struction ranging east from McAl
len 60 miles to Harlingen, with the
heaviest damage wrought in the 21
mile stretch from Mercedes to San
Benito, Brownsville suffered heav
ily.
Under Water.
From La Feria to Harlingen,
about nine miles, all telephone wires
were down and the valley highway
was urider from one to four feet of
water. . Harlingen itself, where at
least 80 per cent of the buildings,
both business and residential, were
damaged, was under water so deeo
that only a few automobiles could
plough through.
The hurricane hit Hariingen De
tween 2 and 3 o'clock Tuesday
morning, blowing from the west and
northwest, reversed Itself and
struck again from the east and
southeast at 10 a. m.
Not only were flimsy structures
broken to bits by its tremendous
force, but many heavily-constructed
brick and concrete buildings were
wrenched apart by the angry ele
ments.
Extensive Scope.
e scope of the storm ranged
Falfurrias on the north to
Brownsville and Port Isabel on the
southeast, with its full force being
felt as far east as Mc Allen, beyond
which only ranch country extends
to the west.
From Falfurrias to Edinburg, 85
miles, numerous flimsy structures
were blown down, as were huge trees
and poles carrying power lines. In
Edinburg one storage warehouse and
a packing plant were demolished,
many roofs were taken off and small
structures were blown away.
At Pharr, eight miles south of
Edinburg. many large palms were
down. East of Pharr the water was
18 inthes*d6ep on the highway and
telephone poles were blown across
the road.
At San Juan, two miles east of
Pharr, deep water covered the
steeets. The San Juan hotel was
damaged badly and ? nearly all
store porches were blown away.
Three miles east of San Juan at
Alama three fruit packing sheds
were damaged badly and a lumber
yard was wrecked.
Engineer Reports.
W. R. Marler, engineer of a north
bound train on the Missouri Pacific,
reported upon his arrival here to
day from Brownsville that the bodies
of three persons had been recov
ered from the hurrican area in the
lower Rio Grande valley, Ma?d
there undoubtedly are at least a
hundred more."
He said the body of one person
was found at Brownsville and two
others were located at Harlingen.
8*78 800 Hurt.
A newspaperman. Jack Fowler,
made a trip from Brownsville
to McAllen, estimated 200 persons
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EIGHTEEN PER
SONS DIE IN DIXIE
ACCIDENTS
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 4. ? Week-end
accidents over the south cost the
lives of eighteen persons as thirteen
were killed in automobile mishaps,
one in a train wreck, one in a
game of tag and three drowned.
ASK BANKERS 10
HELP BLUE EAGLE
Roosevelt Calls for Immediate
Loosening of Credit to
Spur NRA Campaign
SAYS, "ITS UP tO YOU!"
Chicago, Sept. 5. ? President Roo
sevelt told the bankers of America
today he expects them to unleash
the flow of credit and enable in
dustry and commerce to take the
fullest advantage of the National
Recovery Act: ? ~J
"I am confident you will work
with me to meet the credit needs
of industry and trade," he said in
a speech read before the annual
convention of the American Bank
ers Association, attended by 5,000
bankers from over the nation.
Two of the administration's
spokesmen. Governor Eugene R.
Black, of the Federal Reserve
Board, and Chairman Jesse Jones,
of the Reconstruction. Einance Cor
poration, expressed in even strong
er tones a demand that banks loos
en their credits.
Black declared the government
had made provision for the bankers
to make credit more elastic, saying:
"Now, it's up to .you to do it."
On Vault Door.
"The Blue Eagle should be on the
I vault door as well as on the bank
j window," Jones said. "The greatest
| obstacle to the NRA would be fail
ure of banks to extend available
credit for every unit in our econo
mic structure."
ROXBORO SCHOOLS
OPEN NEXT WEEK
Registration and Classification
Of Pupils Will Begin On
Thursday, Sept. 14th
EXERCISES ON SEPT. 18
The schools of Roxboro district
will open for the registration and
classification of pupils, Hiursday,
Sept. 14th. There will be no pub
lic assembly or exercise of any
kind for the parents and friends of
the pupils in the Roxboro city
schools until Monday nXming,
Sept. 18. This arrangement will be
made in order to give the teachers
and pupils time to get the class
room work completely organized
and in regular running order by
Monday morning. All parents and
interested friends are cordially in
vited to attend the chapel exercises
at the schools at 8:45 on Monday
morning.
Mrs. Phillips will make due an
nouncement. about the opening ex
ercise at Cavel school, and Miss
Armistead concerning her school at
Longhurst.
Pupils entering the fourth and
sixth grades will need copies of the
new geographies, but there are no
other changes in books unless some
of the schools did not introduce the
new arithmetics last year.
High school Latin pupils should
keep their second year Latin books
for the fall term's work. In buying
any second-hand books, the pur
chasers should be sure that the
books are In usable condition. Some
of the old books are no longer fit
for school use.
G. C. Davidson,
Supt. Roxboro Schools.
Sept. 5, 1933.
Another New Building
In our last issue we mentioned
jthe fact that several new buildings
were under contract, and this week
we have another to add to the list.
The Sinclair Oil Company began
work on a new service station on
South Main street, on the Dr.
Nichols property. A large force is
at work on this job and it will not
be very long before there will be
another up-to-date filling station
on South Main.
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A worn-out cotton field has been
I transformed into a valuable pasture
J by the use of lesepedeza. says S. O.
Rich of Wake Forest, Wake County.
Tobacco Farmers Held
Meeting Last Saturday
Unanimously Vote In Favor
Of Reducing Crop For
Next Year
DELEGATES IN RALEIGH
Pursuant to a call by Mr. H. K.
Sanders the farmers met In a mass
meeting in the court house last
Saturday afternoon. A fairly good
sized audience was present, and
Mr. Sanders explained the object of
the meeting, to-wit: To get an ex
pression as to their desires con
cerning the reduction of the to
bacco crop for 1934. He emphasized
the fact that unless the farmers
showed a willingness to cooperate
with the government they need ex
pect no relief. After his talk the
meeting was called to order and Mr.
Jas. H. Foushee was made chair
man, with Mr. T. B. Davis secre
tary.
After much discussion a motion
was adopted declaring that the
farmers assembled favored a reduc
tion in the crop for 1934, and pledg
ed the best efforts of all those pres
ent In carrying out such a pro
gram when, and If, It is attempted.
Of course during this discussion
the present tobacco situation creep
ed In, and many were the views as
to what should be done; however,
this matter was not settled and
those who are in Washington today
will have to get along as best they
can, without suggestions from the
meeting of last Saturday.
The following delegates were
elected to represent the County at
the meeting which is being held In
Raleigh today: H. W. Winstead, O.
M. Crowder and J. D. Winstead, Jr.
Alternates: Dr. E. J. Tucker, J. H.
Foushee and C. T. Hail.
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Six cotton counties ? Craven, Dav
idson. Gaston, Martin, Pasquotank,
and Pender ? exceeded their allot
ment In acreage to be destroyed.
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! FALL IS HERE!
Fall is here. The time for the
seasonal pickup in business has ar
rived. You will be needing more
office supplies than you have need
ed during the summer. Look over
our list and select what you need.
We have : Ledgers, single entry and
double entry; Day Books; Receipt
j Books; Loose-leaf Books; Price
Books, etc. Give us a call for any
thing in the office supply and sta
tionery line. We buy direct from
the factory. Our prices are right.
Why not enjoy an evening at
home by reading a book? We have
a varied assortment of novels. Come
, in and look them over.
THE NEWELLS
Jewelers
Book and Stationery Dept. 2nd floor
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Montgomery Clerk's
Shortage Is $15, COO
Troy, Sept. 5.? The Montgomery
county board of commissioners an
nounced today an audit of the af
fairs of Edgar Haywood, veteran
clerk of court who was found shot
to death in the cellar of the court
house on March 17, revealed a shor
tage of $15,063.78.
The auditor's report, made by H.
C. Northrop and company of Char
rlotte, was filed with the commis
sioners yesterday.
Haywood, who was about 50, -had
been clerk of court for 2' years. A
coroner's Jury at the inquest into
his death returned a verdict that
he has been shot by an unknown
person.
The auditor's report said no audit
had been made of the office since
1924. That audit showed a shortage
of approximately 13,400, thf report
said, but there "is no evidence that
( any official -action was ever taken."
I Haywood was bounded for $10,000.
Paying Out Millions
Secretary of Agriculture, Henry
'a. Wallace, under whom the Agri
cultural Adjustment Administration
is functioning, has the wheels ac
tually turning in his part of the
great recovery program, millions of
dollars now being paid to farmers
| fulfilling crop reduction agreements.
Mr. Holeman With
Sergeant & Clayton
Mr. Clarence Holeman has accept
ed a position with Messrs. Sergeant
& Clayton and invites his old cus
tomers and friends to give him a
call. Mr. Holeman is an experienc
ed salesman and will be qifite an
asset with these live grocerymen.
He says when you want the best, at
! the right price, and want it quick,
just phone the "Sta-Klean Store"
and you will make no mistake,
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Excellent yields of wheat and rye j
are reported by farmers of Avery
County who have recently complet- j
ed their threshing.
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Night School
Opens Sept. 12
Classes To Be Conducted In
Jalong And East Roxboro
School Buildings
NEED MORE TEACHERS
Plans for the night schools are
going forward and we hope to be
gin the night of Sept. 12. The class- i
es will be conducted in the Jalong
I school building and in the East
Roxboro school, the same as last
year. A meeting will be held in
each of these buildings Tuesday
night, Sept. 12, at 1 o'clock. All
adults desiring to attend these
schools will please come to the meet
ly in their community. . We are
hoping that all the teachers who
helped us last year will volunteer
again for this work. Those whom
we have seen so far and who are
going to teach are as follows:
Winnie Wilburn, P. O. Carver.
Jr., Dr. Robert Long, "Myrtle Riley,
Charlie Stewart, S. F. Nicks, Jr..
Mary Hester, Jessie Duncan.
We are going to need around
twelve to sixteen teachers in thess
two schools. We urge anyone who
has not been asked to help to vol
unteer. It is impossible for us to
see every one. We would appre
ciate your cooperation. We need it.
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STOCK
Quotations
The following are today's closing
prices on some of the more popular
1 stocks on the New York Stock Ex
change. Every effort is made to
keep the ligt absolutely correct;
however the Courier does not hold
itself responsible for typographical
or other errors therein.
j American Radiator 16
Amer. Tel. and Tel 126%
American Tobacco B 90
Anaconda 17
Chrysler 44%
Cities Service 3
Collins and Aikman j| 23 %,
Com. Solv 38
Gen. Motors ...., 32%
Int. T. and T. 16%
Liggett and Meyers. B 95
N. Y. Cent ?%
Otis Elev 18
Packard 5
Penn. Dixie Cement 6
Reynolds, B 52%
Radio Corp 9%
Southern Ry 30%
U. S. Steel 52%
Lorillard . 22%
Texaco . 27%
North Amer. Aviation ........ 7% ;
MRS.PAniE ANDREWS
PASSES AT HER HOI
Well Known Lady Succumbs
To Paralysis Stroke Re
ceived Several Weeks Ago
Mrs. Pattie Andrews, widow of the
late D. M. Andrews, died on last
Friday just a' few minutes past the
noon hour. Mrs. Andrews had been
ccnfined to her bed for several
weeks, suffering from the effects of
a stroke of paralysis. Her death
came as no surprise to her many
friends, but she will be missed by
her family and all of the commun
ity. One son, Ralph, of Peters- j
burg, Va? and a son-in-law. Mr.
Charles Royster of Bullock, N. C., j
with numerous grandchildren and
a few great-grandchildren, are left
to mourn her parsing.
The funeral was held at the home
with her pastor. Rev. J. Furman
Herbert of the Long Memorial
Church in charge. He was assisted
by the folloling ministers of Rox
boro: Rev. W. P. West of the First
Baptist Church, Rev. A. J. McKel
way of the Presbyterian Church,
and Rev. T. A. Sikes, a former pas
tor, but now in charge of a Metho
dist Church In Edenton, N. C. Hie
members of the Maiy Ellen Dowd
Sunday School class served as flor
al bearers. Messrs. Preston Satter
field, P. O. Carver, W. Y. Pass, J.
A. Long, L. M. Carlton and Dr. G.
W. Gentry were the active pallbear
ers. The honorary pallbearers were:
W. R. Hambrick, W. H. Harris, J.
C. Pass. H. E. Ritchie, Tom Win
stead, W. I. Newton, A. M. Burns,
Hugh Woods, M. W. Satterfleld, W.
T. Pass and Dr. E. J .Tucker.
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Railroads Plan To
Boost Freight Rates
Washington, Sept. 5. ? Railroads
have notified the interstate com
merce commission that effective
October 1, when the emergency
freight surcharges authorized two
years ago expire, they will put into
effect increased rates on scores of
commodities on which experimental
rate reductions had been made to
meet truck competition.
The surcharges, authorized Octo
ber 20, 1931, to tide the roads over
the slump period, have been ex
tended twice, but the commission
recently announced they would not
be continued beyond the end of this
month.
Government Gets Behind
Dr ive For Parity Prices
For 1933 Tobacco Crop
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FINED $500 FOR
FORCING MAN TO
KISS BLUE EAGLE
St. Louis, Sept. 5.? Robert Wright, I
unemployed cook who beat MaxH
Komen, restaurant man and forced
Komen to kiss a "blue eagle" em
blem, was fined $500, the maximum
punishment, on a charge of pease
disturbance today. He will appeal.
VERMONT ALSO GETS
INTO REPEAL COLUMN
Green Mountain State Be
comes 25th To Vote Con
secutively For Repeal
WITH TWO TO ONE LEAD
Montpelier, Vt? Sept. 5. ? Vermont,
long a rockbound prohibition
stronghold, today joined the pa
rade of States favoring repeal of
the 18th Amendment.
Complete returns of today's spe
cial prohibition repeal election from
the 248 towns and cities in Ver
mont gave:
For repeal 41,279.
Against 20,572.
It was the 25th consecutive State
to record itself in opposition to re
tention of prohibition in the Con
stitution. No State has voted for
the amendment.
Regarded until the last as the
most doubtful State yet to act, the
Green Mountain voters recorded
themselves by approximately two to
one for ratification of the 21st
Amendment, by which the 18th
would be repealed.
The victory for the repealists,
! while sweeping, was not entirely
j one-sided. At least two of _ the
, State's fourteen counties recorded
! themselves in support of the 18th
j Amendment. LaMoille, largely ru
j ral, located in the north central
section, was one. Orleans, adjoining
LaMoille on the northeast, was
j another.
Stockholders of the Peoples
Bank Met T uesday Morning
Death of Mr. Cothran
Mr. Elgie Cad Cothran, age 48,
died at his home on Sept. 1st, near
Rougemont. He had been in bad
health since about the first of June.
He is survived by two sisters, Miss
Mollie Cothran and Mrs. Pella Lat
ta, and one brother, Mr. Jack L.
Cothran. The funeral services were
held at Bowling burying ground,
near his home on Sept. 2nd, con
ducted by Elder Lex Chandler.
The pall bearers were Messrs. Jim
Latta, Luther Latta, Oscar Cothran,
mllie Latta, Dennis Latta and
Bunnie Chandler. Floral bearers.
Misses Gertrude Oakley, Gertrude
Blalock, Mildred Latta, Frankie
Bowling, Fredie Lunsford, Dorothy
Bowling and Gertrude Jones. j
Better Times Evident j
It is great news to hear that our
bank is going to open. Those in
charge need to be thanked for
their hard and persistent work.
Everybody in the community should ;
back them.
The government is doing all it !
can for everybody. Now let us do
our part.
If you need automobile insurance,
fire on your home or store, give us
a chance.
We can sell you life insurance
,in the Mutual Life of N. Y., a bil
lion dollar cash fcapdtaflzed com
pany. We have two other good
companies: Pilot Life and Indian
apolis Life.
KNIIGHTS INSURANCE AGENCY
U. D. C.'s to Meet
Hie Person County chapter of
the United Daughters of the Con- !
federacy will meet at the home of ,
Mrs. R. H. Gates Tuesday afternoon, j
Sept. 13th, at 3 o'clock. A full at- ,
tendance is desired at this the first
meeting of the fall.? Pres. .
Unanimously Adopt Plans
Submitted By The
R. F. C. v
?
ONLY A QUESTION
OF MONEY NOW
The stockholders of the Peoples
iBank met yesterday morning; the
meeting was hejd in the court
house as the directors room in the
bank building would not accommo
date the crowd. Mr. J. A. Long was
made permanent chairman, and Mr.
E. S. Brooks secretary.
Mr. Long very clearly stated the
proposition and answered every
question concerning the bank, and
after Mr. W. D. Merritfr had read
the resolution which the stock
holders w^re asked - to ratify a
motion was made that same be
adopted. This motion was put in
the form of a rising vote, and was
carried unanimously, not a member
failing to vote ip the affirmative^
The resolution only carried out
the proposition which has been
stated in these columns before, the
principal ones being that the de
positors agree to leave for a time
one-third of their deposits; the
stockholders agree to place their
stock, that is the common stock, in
the hands of a trustee to safeguard
the one-third which the depositors
leave on deposit; and to issue $75,
000.00 of preferred stock which the
R. P. C. agree to purchase.
This brings the bank matter to
the last issue, that being to raise
a sufficient amount of cash from
those indebted to the bank to pay
off all bills payable. When this is
done application will be made to
the R. P. C. and to Mr. Gurney ]
Hood, State Bank Commissioner, ,
for permission to ope?\ the bank j
without restrictions, it is urgently |
hoped this condition will be met \
speedily, but It all depends upon
how prompt those indebted to the
bank pay up. i
To Launch Its 1934-35 Flue
Cured Crop Control Cam
paign Tomorrow in Hope
'Of Reopening Markets
In 10 Days
PARITY PRICE AWAITS
FURTHER DATA ON RISE
OF COMMODITY PRICES
President Roosevelt Evinces Per
sonal Interest in Situation in
Carolina ; Governor Ehringhaus
Returning Today for Meeting of
Tobacco County Delegates at
State College; Hutson Also Com
ing Here to Present Price-Rais
ing Plan
Washington, Sept. 5.? With the
national administration definitely
pledged to an effort to obtain par
ity prices for the 1933 crop of flue
cured tobacco and with President
Roosevelt having evinced personal
interest in the situation, an acreage
reduction campaign for 1934 and
1935 will be launched Thursday in
North Carolina, South Carolina and
Virginia, which it is believed will
be sufficiently completed for the
North Carolina and South Carolina
markets, now closed by proclama
tions of the Governors of those
States to open within a week or ten
days.
Individual Contracts.
The preliminary individual con
tracts, which it was decided today
to use instead of the group con
tracts proposed yesterday, will be
explained at the meeting.
However, the more important de
tails await future determination.
Governor Ehringhaus and the dele
gations from the three States which
accompanied him here are entirely
pleased with what has been ac
complished. They had hoped a
parity price would be definitely
fixed, but were quite content for
that to wait as the longer the delay
in determining the parity figure,
the more time there will be for re
flection of commodity price in
creases.
Parity Prices.
An official statement issued by
the Department of Agriculture to
day merely fixed the 1932 combined
parity price for all grades in all
belts at 15.3 cents, with the further
statement: "Due to the fact that
prices of commodities which farm
ers have to buy have advanced, par
ity price for this year's crop of fine
cured tobacco will* be higher than
that for 1932." p7
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ROTARY CLUB IN
WEEKLY MEETING
The Roxboro Rotary Club held
its regular meeting at 6:30 o'clock
on Thursday evening at the New
Hotel Jpnes.
The program was in charge of W.
H. Harris, chairman of the Attend
ance Committee. Mr. Harris briefly
outlined the work of his committees
and thanked the club for their co
operation.
J. D. Mangum gave an excellent
report on the local tobacco market
situation. He stated that he was
convinoed Roxboro had the betet
set of warehousemen that this
town had* ever had, and that our
goal of 10.000,000 would be reached.
He was very enthusiastic over the
manner in which every one was
working for the market, and he
stated results were inevitable.
Ben Davis then spoke on the ne
cessity of complete cooperation for
everything that pertained to the
building up of Roxboro. He stated
that the people with whom he had
talked were heartily in favor of sup
porting Roxboro in " its undertak
ing. With the reopening of The
Peoples Bank assured and a good
tobacco market, he prophesied big
things for Roxboro.
The program this week will be
in charge of the Rural Urban Com
mittee, land the meeting will be
held at Prospect Hill.
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Announce Revival
At Long Memorial
The annual revival meeting at
Long Memorial Methodist Church
pill begin October 1st Rev. J. P.
Herbert the pastor, will preach for
hese services, which will continue
tor ten days or two weeks.
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Seventeen kinds of palms grow
iaturally in the United States.