ESTABLISHED 1ML PER8 ON COUNTr 8 OLDEST AND BEST NEWSPAPER. UNDER' SAME MANAGEMENT AND TOB A In^Roxbor*; , "Ne Better Matt* In The SIW? Sell Person County TOBACCO In Person County And We AU Witt Be Benefitted j. w. NOELL, EDITOR - ? ? \ - HOME FIRST, ABROAD NEXT^f---' , ? <1.50 PBR-YEAR jRi T ? V~ VOL. LL. ' EilL ' ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 26, 1934. TOBACCO CONTRACTS EXTENDED INTO 1935 Certain Modifications Made Optional?Notice Issued by Secretary Wallace CHANGE IN ALLOTMENTS Washington, Dec. 2?.?Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallate today extended Into 1935 the two-year ad justment contracts signed last win ter by producers of fue cured to bacco (types 11, 12, 13 and 14) own In Virginia. North Carolina, ith Carolina, Georgia and Florida ^administrative ruling accompany the notice of extension of the make optional certail< flcatlons in the oon tracts, pe notice of extension provides the contracts shall be contin ln 1935 with the same force "and effect as in 1934, with the fol lowing changes. , The tobacco acreage allotment and the Initial production allotment are charged from 70. percent of the base tobacco acreage and produc tion to 85 per cent. > 2. The reduction is one half as large as it was in 1934 ano the rates of the adjustment and the defic iency payments are reduced one half. The rate of the adjustment payment in 1935 will be 6 1-4 per cent of the net sale value of the crop and the rate of deficiency pay ment Is one per cent per pound. 3. The rental payment, which will remain at $17.50 an acre for each acre rented to the secretary, will be made after compliance is check ed, whereas in 1934 the payment was made after acceptance of the contract. .Under the administrative ruling, the program is modified as follows: 1. Thq acreage of tobacco planted raay be as much, but not more, than 90 per cent, of the base tobacco ac reage, provided the rental payment Is reduced to one half of the am't. of the payment that^ would have been made if the acreage planted did not exceed 85 per cent of. .the base tobacco acreage . 2. A quantity of tobacco equal to not more than 12 1-2 per cent of the initial production allotment "specified in "thecsntrsreT "may be sold in excess of the initial pro du~tion allotment provided the rate of the adjustment payment is re duced progressively from 6 1-4 per cent specified in the notice of ex tension of the contract to zero when saWs repch the 12 1-2 per cent fig ure, a result of the 1934 adjust '"?^.?vjQgram. the surplus of flue ifotfc.^. been entirely Lpdnated ano the carryover Is Tatty below normal. It is esti [ that the crop for 1934 will proximately 86^000,000 pounds consumption U estimated at \ 650.000.000 pouAds. Conse it annears rlwL.hi. to plan L deduction . a etion . ?- ^icers ? _ ? nonre will totai ,h-,ot'fw.000. 000 pounds and It Is exacted, that production by contracting producers under the administrative ruling plus production by* non-contracting growers will be around 700,000.000 'pdhnds. The program announced todav is in Jlne witp the recommendations made pecembei 12 by the producers advisory committee for flue cured tobacco. DRUNKEN DRIVER I We see where Governor Hy-ine hatis trailed a drunken driver foi several miles, and we had a slmllai experience Fridav nlxht. We wen on our'wav to Durham to meet t party to arrive on the Southern end when about half way on ou: journey-we drove up behind a drive' "?ho was heavily , loaded Inside, wbl booae. He was do'ny the best h' . could to keen In the-middle of t*y road, yoln efrom- one side -to thi .ether, and when we blew to advlsi that we wanted to oass. he still di< his beat to keep In the middle of tb ' road, trolpv from one side to th him. Well, we are -reminded of th ' ioke of Governor Aycock. which h ? dellehted to tell when h^was mak trie hi" race for Ooverftr "Th poor Hlndod, he does the best h fctrfdo." artrt this drunken drive was doihgthe best he could do. ' kv XMAS PROGRAM Weslevan Methodist Tabei (forth Roxboro. will pr> tma* proffram Monda at f o'clock Kverj NYE'S COMMITTEE TO ASK CONGRESS EOR MORE MONEY Munitions investigators Have Exhausted Their $50,d00 i Fund For Arms Probe CLARK TO SPEAK ON RESULTS OF INQUIRY Washington, Dec, 23 ? Having spent $50,000, the Senate ' munl toins Investigating committee found itself pehrvlle-ss tonight, but .an nounced plans to carry its light Into the next Congress. Investigators will continue to work despite the fact Congress may refuse to appropriate any more money for the committee that spent the autumn and early winter dig ging into the International arms ] traffic. Chairman Cferald P. Nye of the committee, said he would offer a resloutlon on' January 3 to appro priate more money, and was' confi dent it would pass. Sen Bennett C. Clark (D., Mo.) will make a Senate speech on January 4 on the results of the Inquiry. Later In the Congressional session, Nye will fight for a bill enabling the government [ to take over the munitions fac-. tories. Gives Summary. Tonight he issued a summary of the committee's achievements in the September session and the one that closed Friday. He said these were included in the outstanding developments: 1. "Hie government can manu facture, munitions at 33 per cent less cost than private industrjt, ac cording to.industry itself. / t 2. "The e is evidencs_that the Du Pont Company has bene willing to sell to E irope for less than to the United ? tates, provided sdcrecy of the diffe ence can be maintained. 3. "Tb munitions industry agrees to fair t ade practices in their do mestic b isiness, but leaves the for eign field wide open to any and all competitive methods and makes no effort to put foreign trade"on a higher plane. 4. "QtiiEbling over the margin ~oT profit during the most critical period of the World War was the cause for over three months' de lay in fcompliance by the Du Fonts with, its government's request- to oonstrqct the Old Hickory powder iring the war men who were stockholders in munitions plants for the government in con with these plants. rrt was a tremendous profit Munitions -industry during tme. when men were giving 6n the battlefront at a a day and thereabouts, re showed how the munitions attempted to disrupt and the full purpose of arms . -grutrol legislation both domestic ' and international 8. "The attitude of the War and Navy departments shows . them willing to have our private manu facturers sell secret processes, pow der and everything else, even to countries likely to be our foes in another year. ?'"* 9. "We revealed a willingness on the part of the munitions people to secure tariff protection for their chemical business under the claims of preparedness, and their later un willingness to . submit any portion of that chemical industry to gov ernmental control." A BOTH THIEF , Saturday night the car of Mr. F. t G. Holman, of Wilkesboro, who was 'visiting Mr. and Mrs. j: W. Noell. f was entered and a number of ar r tides, including two coats and } numerous Christmas presents which ~ were intended for gifts _ .for his . grandchildren, were'stolen from his "cite.Hie car was parked within ten e feet of the bouse, with the street 3 light shining directly on it. The g thief was an expert at the bust P ness, as the car was , locked, and e ' still locked when the robbery was e discovered. JOINED THE f COURIER FORCE I * 1 . ? ri- /'iimr ? It Is with res! Prtde thai we an nounce the adtttr>n to-snir toree of Mr. Harry Pl|ltett, who . will be f'jreman of the department Harry is a./njenfld Roxboro ydyng ?- man. anf the law arrived and put an end x> the fun. ? METHODISTS HAVE ? v EVENTFUL DAY Bishop Kern Preaches In Morning; Rev. Creasy .Proc tor At Night j COLORDED CHOIR IS ANOTHER FEATURfc It isn't often that Methodists of Person Cdghty have the opportun ity of bearing the Bishop -of the North Carolina Conference preach. On Sunday they had a double treat in store for them. Bishop Paul B. Kern occupied the pulpit of Long Memorial at the morning service and he bropght a powerful sermon to an audience that taxed the ca pacity of the main auditorium and overflowed into the Sunday-school room. The Bishop's message was centered around the progress that has been made by the church since its inauguration in America one hundred and fifty years ago. using his reminiscences as the platform for the future activities that it must engage in to keep an ever progres sive and aggressive front in the the evening service Rev. Creasy Proctor of the ? Oxford Orphanage, preached from the pulpit of Long, Memorial and Inspired his hearers by his powerful message dealing with thp history of the church and Its future program. Other enjoyable features of the evening service were the singing by a choir composed of fifty local colored people who brought some excellent singing -of negro spirituals and other beautiful, and harmonious m^sic. and a pan tc mine written by Mrs. B. G. Clay ton from Dr. H. E. Spence's "March ing Men of Methodism." This pan tomine brought the story of the church in actlbn, members of the church taking the different parts of the famous men that have made the Methodist Church what It is today. ??i o BEAUTIFUL XMAS SERVICES AT FIRST > BAPTIST CHURCH Presented At Evening Service SPECIAL SERMON SUNDAY MORNING The pastor. W. p. West, preached a Christmas sormon Sun day; morning at the 11 o'clock ser vice,- uSlng as his text, "The Center of the Centuries." The sermon was very appropriate for the occasion | and the large congregation enjoyed it immensely. ~ At the evening service a pagoant entitled. "The star of HOpe," was | given and was Indeed worthwhile. Much time had been given tb thcFi preparation and evsry one concern- ' ed in the program had mastered their part. The scenes presented' were: The Journey to Bethlehem: the vision pf the Shepherds: Maid-, At Ova vt'oll ? TTorrtJ 'aw J ttvA' ens at the well; Herod 'and -the wise men around the manger.. j o * VISITING IN FLA. AUlne Wilkerson. who Is (Son- 1 with doting uif of the pfialn old Plrst National Bank. left, for Florida, where tho will Holidays. Good Dinner, Gccd Sp And Lots O? Fun Rep* In Thursday's Meet id FRANK PIERSON; OF* DURHAM, SPEAK! The Roxboro Rotary club i annual ladies night at its Thursday night, pinner was ed by Mrs. Barrett and Sta it was a dinner fitting the ?four course tufkey dinner, all of the trimmings. Business was dispensed president' Jack Hughes 'tun meeting over to Rev. Bill Wen as a toastmavtex is a.past r