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The Family News paper, with some thing for every member of the family. ESTABLISHED 1881. PERSON COUNTY'S OLDE8T AND BEST NEWSPAPER. UNDER SAM^ MANAGEMENT AND OWNERSHIP FOR SO YEARS. J. W. NOELL, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER. HOME FIRST, ABROAD NEXT $1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. VOL. LI. ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 25, 1934. NOl7. Facts And Figures Vindicate Roosevelt WHOLE COUNTRY ON WAY TO GOOD TIMES Immense Gains Last Month Nationally In Orders, Pay rolls And Employment The Associated Pr?Ss national re port released last Thursday shows ,most encouraging increase Jil both. ;rial activity and employment, tere seems no gainsaying that the "New Deal" is working the country back to prosperity. It quotes the U. S. Government figures that 2.750,000 people had ob tained jobs within the past year and that during March 419,500 more men found jobs, augmenting the to tal to the largest since December 1930. And in the year poyrolls increas ed $79,000,000. The March increase was $12,904,000, or a 20% jump forward. Railroads gave most encouraging reports of new kusinesfTmd-of--their giving orders for new equipment, in turn adding to activity of steel workers and other craftsmen. From Ohio the word is that not in years have the potteries had such large orders or so many of them for dishes. ROTARY CLUB IN REGULAR MEET Howard Strang, chairman of the Industrial Committee, presented the Rotary Club with an interest ing program at its regular meet ing at the New Hotel Jones Thurs day evening. He spoke on the de velopment of the present industrial system as compared with the bar ter stage and gave numerous illus trations indicating its present de velopment. G. L. Allen spoke on life insur ance and industry, and pointed out. how closely associated the two were The facts he presented to the club relative to life insurance and in dustry were very interesting. Col. G. C. Sims, a guest of the club, told of the excellent oppor tunities N. C. had for development He stated that with its abundance of raw materials that N. C.--Jiad great things to look forward to. J. W. Noell briefly presented a picture of Roxboro ten years from now. The picture was most opti mistic. and the anticipated future development of Roxboro and Per son county appeared most gratify ing. t. G. BULLARD VERY ACTIVE (Special to The Courier) Raleigh. April 24.?A. O. Bullard, teacher of vocational agriculture at Bethel Hill High School, spent a great part of the past month in su pervising the constructing of an agricultural building at his school. Twelve of his afternoons were spent in sand, logs' and rock for construction of the building. The remaining part of the month was spent in preparing evening classes for adult farmers, visiting projects, running terraces, and following up evening classes at Bethel Hill. He also attended two meetings of the County Relief Administration and helped to prepare the county program of work. Two township oommittee meetings were conducted by him to revise the tobacco con tracts. He teaches a total of 71 in his high schol and evening classes. SERVICES AT BAPTIST CHURCH Regular services at the First Bap tist church here Sunday. Sunday school at 0:45; preaching by the pastor at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. The public is cordially invited to all of these services. Mrs. Davis in Hospital Mrs A. R. Davis of Ca-Vel Vil lage is in Watts hospital in Dur ham where she underwent an op eration one day last week. Mrs. Davis is improving and her friends hope she will soon be able to return home. TAX LISTING NOTICE - All persons are required by law to list their taxes during the month of ApriL I have been at my office in the court house since the first of April, and the citizens have been very slow in listing. This is to warn you that you MUST list' this month, or suffer penalty for not doing so. Please tome in -and-list this? week and save trouble and cost. Geo. W. Walker, Tax Lister. ! Hancock States He ] Won't Make Speeches i Washington, April 24.?Represen tative Frank Hancock said today he did not expect to make any speeches in his campaign for re ncmlnation as the Democratic Con gressional candidate from North Carolina's Fifth District because of the pressure of legislative business here. ~ ?r* i? Hancock said he did not "in any way "discount the opposition of "Mrs;-r.tty?Moulicad Mebane. "of Spray. N.. C., who has announced against him but he did not be lieve he should leave Washington at this time to make campaign I speeches. Tobacco Producers Have Received Pink Contracts R. L. HARRIS ENTERTAINS BOY'S TEAM One of the outstanding social functions of the week took place Friday night in the New Jones hotel when R. L. Harris entertained the members of the Roxboro high school basketball team and several other guests. After a supper was served G. C. Davidson, superintendent of the city schools, presented the team with the loving cup which honored their winning the north central basketball championship. Coach E. N. Jones was congratulated for his efforts in producing one of the best; teams that has ever performed for Roxboro high. The cup was received for the the 1934 aggregation. The cup will be placed in the office at the school. Others present at the banquet were: L. T. Heffner. Billy Miller. Douglas Davis, Arch Moore, Thomas BumpasA Bjckford Long and James Abbitt. " L PARALYSIS IS FATAL TO EARL MITCHELL Prominent Woodsdale Citizen Dies at Watts Hospital on Thursday, April Mr. Earl Mitchell of Woodsdale i died last Thursday following a stroke of paralysis suffered about three weeks ago. In the early part of December of last year Mr. Mit chell had pneumonia which de veloped into pleurisy. He was car | ried *to Watts Hospital in Durham, where he recovered, and had been at home for a few weeks when he was stricken with paralysis in early I April. He was carried back to the i hospital, dying there on Thursday, i April IB. Mr. Mitchell leaves his wife and two children, besides many friends and relatives to mourn his passing. Funeral services were held from Shtloh Baptist church on Friday at J P. M, with Rev. J. A. Hern don of Durham in charge. A num ber of old favorite hymns were sung by a quartete composed of Messrs. Howard Young, Kendall and Nor man Street, and Rev. Furman Her | bert. Mr. Mitchell had been a member of Masonic Lodge of Per son County for a number of years. The pall-beafers were selected from the membership of the Person Lodge, and many others of the Masons were in attendance. Fol lowing the funeral services burial was made in the Shiloh church ! cemetery. Attend Bankers Meet Mr. Oordon Hunter will leave this afternoon for Pinehurt td at tend the State Bankers association; j Mr. D. 8. Brooks will leave tomor row to/attend the same meeting. Mr. R. L. Harris, who is in South Carolina on business expects to re turn by way of Plnehurst Friday and take in the association meet ing. D Letters Have Been Mailed Tellins Exactly How Much You Can Sell I The pinVJ copy of the tobacco contract, belonging totthe producer, has been received by/the Roxboro office from the representative of the Secretary of Agriculture, and the pink copy has been mailed to each producer. There was enclosed from ; the Representative of the Secre tary of Agriculture a sheet of paper 1 showing the official acres to plant and the amount of tobacco that each producer can sell this fall without tax. Several will notice that their acreage was cut a little in order to ;help absorb the 4071 acres that the Secretary ordered the committee men to take off the contracts before the contracts should be accepted and the pounds were cut some by the Secretary of Agriculture on a percentage basis to help absorb an over-run of more than a million pounds on the contracts that the Secretary states is in exoess of what was actually sold. The committee throughout the county have done their best to make these adjustments as best they could under the conditions. None wanted to take one acre from those who had given in their acreage right, but in order to get within the allotment, a certain number of acres had to be taken off, The signers of the contract cooperated with the committee in making "this ! adjustment, and now the contracts , are in line for the rental payments, which should be here in a few weeks. The committee wishes to express | their appreciation of the coopera- i tlon given by the signers of the 3 contract to enable the contracts to 1 be accepted. I The price of tobacco on the Rox- < boro market in 1932 was 6.2 cents ' per pound. The average price in j 1933 was more than 16 cents per 1 pound, and this was obtained in spite of the fact that the 1933 crop ' ; was the third largest, crop of flue cured tobacco ever produced. The I farm agent has never been in a movement started by farmers In a coperative way where such imme diate results were obtained In such a short time. H. M. CONTEST IS POSTPONED Due to the fact that we have -measles In our school, the decla mation and recitation contest has I been postponed from Thursday 1 evening. April 28th, to Tuesday evening. May 1st, at 7;30, . ?? H 1 The high school play, "A Poor Married Man." will be presented on I Thursday evening. May 4, at 730 t Look for further announcements t and for fuller details of the play ( in next week's Courier. 1 -o?- j 1 Presbyterian Church Rev. H. P. Ruppenthall of' Dur 1 ham. will preach at the Presbytar , lan church here next Sunday even I ing at 7:30 o'clock. The public is ' cordially invited to this service. FLOWERS Presh flowers, wreaths, potted plants, shrubs, at good prices Phone 30 for flowers. Roxboro Flower %hnp Proceedings Of Superior Court For The Week Variety Of Cases Disposed Of By Court With Judged. A. Sinclair Presiding State vs. Jeff O'Brlant, aban donment. Not guilty. State vs. Paul Carver, deadly weapon, plead guilty; judgment suspended upon payment of costs and fine continued to August term. State vs. Leon Hinnant, assault with deadly weapon; prayer for judgment continued upon payment of $20 on costs at this term. State vs. S. C. Davis, illegal beer; guilty, $10 and costs. State- v-4.Oinifon -Day, assault^; plead guilty. Six months on roads. State vs. Crawford Bumpass, es caping prison; plead guilty. Six months on roads to start at expira tion of present sentence. State vs. Linnie Lyon, escaping prison; plead guilty; Six months on roads to begin at expiration of present sentence. State vs. Gray Wallace, sale of whiskey; not guilty. State vs. William Crumpton, case Nfo. 406; nol pros with leave. State.? vs. William -Crumpton, ; a s e number 407; payment of (250 to the Clerk of Court for use >f Mr. jim Clayton and Qie costs n this action and being prohibited rom driving a car for two years in ?forth Carolina. State vs. Charlie Dancey. care ess and reckless driving; guilty, 'our months to roads, suspended hat defendant pay prosecuting witness $56.80 and costs of court. State vs. Richard Springfield, iurglary; plead guilty. Five to ieven years in State Prison. Lowury vs. Lowury. divroce; [ranted. Seams tor vs. Seamster, divorce; [ranted. Otho Wilson vs. Annie Wilson, livorce; granted. MISS GENTRY GETS FREE TRIP Miss Laylage Gentry, a student lurse at the Baptist Hospital in iVtnston-Salem, left Sunday morn ng for Washington to attend the National Nurses' Association. Miss 3entry 1s from this county, the laughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Larkin 3entry of the Allensville section. 3he was elected by the hospital and .tudent body to take this trip. We :ongratulate her on receiving this lonor and wish for the several days' hat she will spend there to be peasant. TWO ATTRACTIVE ADVERTISEMENTS There are two advertisements in his issue which will appeal to the armer, for they talk about things fou are direotly interested in. Be sure to read both of these adver isements advertising plows and :orn planters sold by Wilborn's Hardware, South Boston, Va. o $75,000,000 Available For Relief Uses Roosevelt Orders Sum to Take Care of Work During Re mainder of Fiscal Year Washington, June 24.?President loosevelt today made available 175.000,00 for /elief purposes during he remainder of this fiscal year indlng June 30. 1 The relief money comes out of he *450.000,000- recently allocated ,o the federal civil works adminls ration by Congress. The *75,000. KX) wilL hii. adni nlstered by Harry iklns. Hopkins, federal emergency re ief administrator. NOTICE Pay your current water ac count promptly. Delinquent water accounts must be paid now. Pay your privilege taxes and avoid penalty. Action will be taken on delinquents a* once. W. F. Long, City Manager. MANY VISITORS ARE EXPECTED HERE TO ATTEND WEDDING Preparations About Complete For Double Wedding On Friday at Central School PARTICIPANTS POPULAR Preparations are being made to entertain the many guests who will arrive on Friday, April 27th, to at tend the double wedding which takes place at the Central School at 8 o'clock. Miss Furmine Herbert will become the bride of Billy F. West, a very popular young man of this city. Miss Herbert is a very accomplished ynnriy lpHy having studied all the fine arts, specializing in oratory. She is a direct descendant of Henry VIII and has many illustrious re lations. she is a third cousin by > marriage to a former governor of our state. The groom has traveled exten sively all over the world. He is liv ing at this time in Roxboro, the city of his choice. The- second bride, Miss Bebe Knight, a "flaxon-haired" JSlonde beauty is the daughter of her fa ther. Mr. Knight. She holds a re sponsible position with Knight's Insurance Agency. Miss Knight wilI "Be weddea to Mr. Howard Strang, a most prom ising young man of sterling char acter. He is now in the employ of Messrs. Collins and Aikman. Among the many prominent wed* ding guests will be: Mr. and Mrs. Tobe Acco Pass. Dr. and Mrs. Ben Ache Thaxton, Mr. and Mrs. Berty bul Strum. II Adjustment Pro gram Doubles Tobacco Income ] Farm income from tobacco grown ( in the United States during the 1933-34 marketing year will approx imate 214 million dollars, an in- ' crease of 100 percent over The re turns from sale6 of the previous ^ season. Included in this estimate ^ are payments amounting to 28 mil lion dollars accruing to producers under tobacco adjustment agree ments. Market receipts for the 1933-34 sales season are expected total 186 million dollars as against j 105 million dollars for the 1932-33 season. Prices per pound for all ' types of tobacco combined have av-' eraged about 25 percent higher dur ing the current season than during the previous one, despite the fact that the crop this year is about 200 million pounds, or 16 percent, above world consumption. The higher re turns to producers have been made possible through prompt action of a large percentage of tobacco grow-! ers in agreeing to reduce the 1934 production as much below the level of consumption as the crop mar keted this year exceeds the level Also, domestic manufacturers have! entered into marketing agreements negotiated by the Agricultural Ad- J | justment Administration, in which i they have agreed to Increase prices ? to producers. Growers of flue-cured i tobacco have enjoyed the greatest i increase in income. The 1933 crop i brought growers about 112 million 1 dollars, or two and one-half times ] the returns from the previous crop. I In addition, over 100,000 growers i will share in $8,600,000 rental, ad- 1 Justmentt. and price - equalizing i payments in return for participa- i ting in the program to curtail 1034 < production. < ANNUAL. SCHOOL PLAY AT HELENA L . FRIDAY, APR. 27 On Friday evening, April 27, at 7 45 o'clock the annual high school play will be presented In the audi torium of Helena High Sch'ool. The presentation this year will be "Val ley Farm." a rural drama in four arts. Among those Included In the rast are Liza Ann Tucker, iwho bor rows but never gossips; Azarlah Keep, who has difficulty In popping the question; Hetty Holcomb. a country flower transplanted to city jj soil; Perry DCane, a son of the soli; j and Harold Ruthledge, a young 1 New Yorker. In addition to these ' characters, thenp are others equally dramatic. Other Interesting features of the program will be choruses and string music. Make your plans to come t to this program and spend an even- t lng filled with wholesome enter- I talnment. FORCE OF 5,000 MEN NOW SEEK TO BAR HIM CHICAGO . . . Above is Arthur W. Cutten, Grain Trader here, whom Secretary of Agriculture, Henry Wal lacqr seeks to bar from doing busi ness in any U. S. market for al leged "violatlbhoftKej^ act. FEEDWELL CAFE INSTALLS NEW EQUIPMENT Mr. David S. Belman spent sev-; ?ral days last week in Richmond ] buying new equipment for his res taurant on Court Street. Mr, Bel- j man says that he intends having me of the most modern and up-to- | the-minute cafes that Roxboro has :ver known. He came here about three years ago, establishing a business at his present site, and,' since that time, he has developed a' patronage of which he may Justi fiably be proud. But, being a man who is always on the alert for the pest interest of his customers, he pas gone into improvements on a pig scale in order to make his place v more sanitary and pleasing place to dine, and so that he can give pis customers a faster, more effi-1 ;'.ent, and more satisfactory ser- j rice than he has been able to ichieve before. NEW FIRM WILL OPEN NEW FURNITURE STORE Huntley-Stockton-Hill, Large Durham Dealers, To Open Branch Store Here in depot^st! BUILDING Huntley-Stockton-Hill, prominent furniture dealers of Durham, are now making preparations to open a! store In Roxboro. In the building1 nwned by the Peoples Bank, and vhich has been occupied by "Pro fessor" L. T. Bowles tailoring es tablishment. Mr. T. A. Richards of Durham will be the manager of the store here with Mr. E. H. Hlnes is his' assistant. These two men | nave been In the furniture busi ness for years and have had a wide experience In the business. They -xpect to have the store ready for j opening by Saturday of this week. ? Huntley-Stockton-Hlll Is recog nized as one of the leading furnl ;ure establishments In North Caro lina and It is with pleasure that we welcome them to our city. Such an jp-to-date, progressive firm with tfert men to head it cannot help jut be a boast to the community. Vfr. Richards announces that this store will sell on terms to suit the tustomer, giving him ample time o pay for whatever he gets. Eastern Star To Meet A meeting of the Order of the Sastern Star will be held In the Ma lonle Hall on Thursday evening at r:30 o'clock. The district deputy' will be present at this time. AU nembers are urged to attend. GARDEN CLUB The Oarden Club will meet Mon lay. April 30th. at 3 p. m. An ex change of plants will be made. A 'ull attendance Is desired. Mrs J. J. Winstead, Sec. Federal Agents Express Be lief That End of Desper ado's Career is Near THINK GANG HAVE SPLIT Chicago, April 24.?Five thous and police officers in five states, every one of them armed to the teeth, were heartened tonight with the word of Federal authorities that the end of John Dillingers' bloody trail was in sight. Government men in charge of the man-hunt reviewed their ac complishments in -tracking Dillin ger during the past week and de? clared itwwvlv a matter of days, per haps hours, before the outlaw would be killed or captured?prob ably killed. Telephone calls, telegrams and personal visits from citizens came at the rate of hundreds an hour to the anti-crime directors of half dozen cities, reporting Dillinger to t>e here, there, everywhere?in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Indiana, Ohio,- Illinois. In Minnesota. From the many scraps of infor mation reaching them, authorities sifted out what they believed to be of value and deducedy-t!rrt_._lJillin ger and two or more of his outlaws ' had reached Minnesota in the neighborhood of Minneapolis and St. Paul. Another group of the seven Dil linger outlaws fleeing after north ern Wisconsin gun battles that cost two lives was believed have gone in the ppposite direction. Watches were kept for them in Indiana, Ohio and Illinois. Included in the 5.000 officers under orders to shoot the notorious fugi tive on sight were national guards men. sheriffs tmd their deputies, local authorities, state police and federal agents. o INDUSTRIAL PAYROLLS SHOW 4-BILLION CLIMB Industry's answer to whether it has cooperated in economic recov ery was given by Secretary Frances Perkins recently in a formal an nouncement that since March, 1933, some 2.750,000 workers have been returned to their jobs with an in crease of more .than four billion dollar'in annual wages to the Na tion's purchasing power. Announcing the report of the Bureau Of Labor Staistics, Miss Perkins said that about 419,000 workers were returned to private industrial employment in March of this year and weekly payrolls were increased by $12,944,000 over Feb ruary. , Since last March. Miss Perkins said there had been an estimated weekly increase of $79,000,000 in weekly wages, which multiplied Ky 52 makes a total of $4,108,000,000 more wages"'added to the annual buying power. With the presentation of these figures, prominent industrialists called attention to the attitude of paid labor organizers in fometing strikes and stirring industrial strife in the face of such a steady im provement in the position of work ing men. With this increase in wages has come a virtual elimination of child labor, toward which figures show industry has been moving consist ently for years, and the curbing of sweat shops operated by industry's "black sheep" and continuously con demned by outstanding indus trialists. LIVING PICTURES At the Palace Theatre Thursday night of this week a unique program of "Living Pictures" will be shown under the auspices of Circle 5 of the Mary Hambrick Missionary So ciety. Old Black Joe, Mother Mar chree. My Wild Irish Rose. School Days. Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes, and others of your fa vorite songs will be posed by people whom you know and sung by some of our best musicians. Plan to come and enjoy an unusual evening's en tertainment. the regular program of pictures and "Living Pictures" all for the usual admission prices. Mr. Clayton 111 Mr. A. P Clayton, the popular postmaster of Roxboro. has been confined to his room for the past several days.