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ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1935
(County Correspondents Solicited)
NUMBER 41
SENATE VOTES PRICE FIXING OUT
OF AAA MEASURE, BY 44 TO 41
Protests Of Eastern
Tobacco Producers
Influences Decision
Davis Contends Bill Not Injured
By The Senate Action
IS TEST OF STRENGTH
Smith Reserves Right To Guide
Bill And Then Vote Against
Its Passage
OUTCOME IS UNCERTAIN
Washington, July 17. ? With the
shadow of the Boston circuit court of
appeals falling athwart the chamber ?
a decision which yesterday went heav
ily against AAA? the senate today con
tinued its confused and uncertain con
sideration of the AAA amendments.
Just how pronounced is the element of
uncertainty was revealed when it is
noted that yesterday the senate ap
proved by a majority of two votes the
controversial section G, an integral
part of the section under which it was
proposed to authorize the fixing of
minimum prices on a number of com
modities, while today the body reversed
itself, and by a vote of 44 to 41 eli
minated this committee amendment
from the bill. ?
For some days there has been an
impression that advocates of the AAA
amendments were skating on pretty
thin ice, and there is little question
that the situation in which the sup
porters find themselves has been ren
dered increasingly precarious by the
decision of the Boston Court, whiciy
in some particulars struck at the en
tire philosophy, and the super-struc*
ture, of the AAA set-up.
Point Is Debated.
There is some question perhaps, on
the point of Just how essential the
price fixing provision may be con
sidered from the point of view of the
department, but there is no question
that officials were highly pleased yes
terday when the close vote was record
ed in favor of the section, which was
opposed by members like Byrd, Tyd
ings, George and Dickinson, and it
maf be assumed, therefore, that the
converse is true today, and that the
department sustained a serious rever
se when the section was voted out.
In other words, it was to an impor
tant degree a test of the strength of
the bill, and in the vote today the bill
failed to survive the test. Some said
the bill was suffering from the results
of a campaign of attrition, and that
its advocates might find that it would
be broken down, or . its effectiveness
nullified, paragraph by paragraph,
long before a final vote shall have been
reached. The price fixing, or section
G, it was generally felt, would pro
mote the co-operative marketing agree
ments, which is looked upon with dis
favor by many of the tobacco growers
of North Carolina, and for this reason
Senator Bailey lost no time in calling
into question the wisdom of such a
policy.
A number of telegrams were receiv
ed here today from the state opposing
any form of federal activity that
would lead to a revival of the co-op
erative marketing devices.
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J. H. Shotwell Puts
In Barn Of Tobacco
Mr. JT H. Shotwell, one of the lead
ing farmers of the Providence sec
tion, tells us that he put in his first
barn of tobacco Monday. So far as we
hare been able to learn this is the first
curing in the county. Mr. shotwell is
a live wire when it comes to farming
and you will * always find him there
with the goods. And Mr. Shotwell's
friends say that, when it comes to sing
ing, he can hold his own among the
basses.
DOES COMPANY
EMBARRASS YOU?
When company comes in unexpect
edly for dinner or for a visit of a few
days, are you embarrassed on account
of a lack of enough chinaware for the
table? Or is your china chipped, crack
ed, or with pieces missing?
Your troubles will be at an end as
soon as you see this really admirable
collection of fine chinaware that we
have in a variety of patterns at prices
of $19.95, $22.95, and $25.00 for sets of
fifty-four. Also a set of fifty-three of
Noritake china for $33.95. Come and
bring your friends with you to see
these wonderful values in chinaware.
THE NEWELLS
Jewelers Roxboro, N. C.
Favors Nat'l Lottery
WASHINGTON ... We will soon all
be discussing national lotteries, pro
and con, if Congressman Edward A.
Kenney (D) of New Jersey (above),
has. his way. Despite shelving of his
lottery bill at the last session, Ken
ney has presented a new bill with
three choices of lottery plans, "anyone
of which will bring the government
$1,000,000,000 a year in revenues of
"painless taxation," he says.
Second Batch Of
Adjustment Checks
Arrived Monday
117 Checks Representing Ap
proximately $20,000 Are
At Co. Agents' Office
23 MORE TO COME
Adjustment checks on the 1934 to
bacco crop, representing about $20,
000, arrived at the county agent's of
fice Monday. This is the second batch
of these checks, the first arriving some
months ago. The first batch was the
largest, representing approximately j
$88,000.
All those who received payments in |
this batch have been notified to call j
at Mr. Sanders' office and get them. ;
This is all of the payments with the ;
exception of twenty-three more, and
it is not known when to expect them, i
These checks are sent to the grower ;
from the government and are to be j
divided between the landlord and the
tenant, each getting his proportionate
share as he did in the crop that was
raised. In this they differ from the ren- i
tal check which goes entirely to the |
landlord for land kept out of the pro
duction of tobacco during a given sea- !
son.
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Decline Is Shown
In Death Figures
Births Also Decrease In Compar
ative June Report; Auto
Mishaps Kill 76
Raleigh, July 17. ? A comparative de
crease in North Carolina's death rate
was shown yesterday in the monthly
report of the State Boaid of Health,
which stated there were 2,963 deaths
from all causes in the State during
June, a rate of 10.6, while in June of
1934 there were 3,128 deaths with a
rate of 11.5.
Births decreased along witlj deaths,
there being 6,828 children bora last
month as compared with 6,840 a year
ago, and the rate was 24.6 against 25.1.
Automobile accidents took 9 toll of
76 lives in North Carolina during the
month of June, a gain of 13 over the
63 reported in the corresponding month
last year. Twenty-seven persons werr.
drowned, four r'ewer thv. in June of i
1934, ar.d the 22 persons committing
; suicide were one less than in the prev
ious June.
Airplane accidents cost one life last
month and railroad-auto accidents re
sulted in 11 fatalities.
Tuberculosis claimed 170 lives, com
pared with 192 a year ago, and cancer
took 166, a decrease of three.
Pellagra resulted in 177 fatalities this
June and 179 last June.
PHILADELPHIA VISITOR
HERE FIRST OF WEEK
Mr. James H. Craig of Philadelphia,
president of Somerset Mills, was a Rox
b0T0 visitor the first of the week.
PREACHING AT
LONG MEMORIAL
ON COMING SUN.
Rev. J. P. Herbert wishes to an
nounce that he will preach in his
pulpit on the coming Sunday
morning. It had been previously
announced that there would be no
preaching at Long Memorial for
several Sundays. Due to change
of plans however, Mr. Herbert will
spend most of the vacation period
in Roxboro, and will preach on
those Sunday mornings that he is
in the city. There will be no
Sunday night services however,
and no prayer meeting services on
Wednesday night.
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Soil Conservation
Meeting Called Off
Meeting Scheduled, For July 19
In Durham Is Postponed
Indefinitely
The soil conservation meeting, about
whieh an announcement was carried
in Monday, July 15th issue of this pa
per, has been postponed indefinitely,
according to a report of the county
agent's office. No reason was assigned
for the postponement.
Though no date has been set to have
the meeting, it is felt that it will be
held in the next two or three weeks.
This is a very important meeting
and all those who are interested in
soil conservation are urged to look for
further announcement about the date
and plan to attend.
The terracing unit, a vital factor in
the soil conservation program, will be
discussed at the August meeting of
the County Board of Commissioners
it is understood. Should the board see
fit to underwrite this project, a broad
and comprehensive program will be
laid out for the terracing of land in
this county.
Sunday School Class
Enjoys Outing Tues.
The class of boys taught by Mr
Kendall Street of the Long Memorial
Sunday-school went up to Crystal
Lake, Va. near Danville Tuesday after
noon where they enjoyed a very de
lightful picnic. After a swim in the
Lake and a hearty supper the partj
adjourned to Danville where the most
of them went to see a picture show
On the trap home the boys stopped anc
cut a few watermelons that had beer
meant for -the final course on the sup
per program, but had to be left off or
account of full stomachs. About fifteer
members and invited guests made the
trip.
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Fly Next Sunday
The Chapel Hill Flying Service will
be at Morton's Flying Field, about 6
miles out on Route 144, all day Sunday,
July 21st. They have two machines
one open and one closed, and will make
long and short flights. They will alsc
make a parachute jump during the
day. See notice in another column
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Thirty - Five People
Have Been Placed At
Work Since June 17
Re-Employment Service Has Taken
Thirty-Five and Placed Them In
Gainful Employment
Since the opening of the Re-employ
ment office here on June 17 thirty-five
people have been placed In various
fields of work. Many of these are
at work on the Virgilina-Roxboro
Highway while others have been placed
in other places.
The Service is now in need of a to
bacco curer, a farm hand and three
cooks for the farm. Any in these fields
of work who are now unemployed are
urged to register at once with Mr.
Kenneth H. Oakley, manager of the
Re -employment office located on the
third floor of the court house building.
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IN HOSPITAL
Mr. Cliff Hall, who was operated on
Monday for appendicitis at Watts hos
pital, is reported to be getting along
nicely. Mr. Hall was stricken sudden
ly and rushed to the hospital. He had
suffered other attacks of appendicitis
periodically but had never deemed
an operation necessary until this last
attack.
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Over 1700 acres have been signed up
by Buncombe County fanners for soil
erosion control work, announces the
county farm agent. ? -
Commissioners
Discuss School
Project, Budget
Meeting In Extraordinary Ses
sion Tuesday County Board .
Talks Budgeting And
Schools
The County Board of Commissioners
wrestled all day long Tuesday with
two major problems that faced them.
They were of such importance that
the board deemed it advisable to talk
of them In extraordinary session. Hence
the meeting Tuesday in addition to
the regular meeting time on the first
Monday. The school folks had up a
proposition ailing for considerable
building at various . school buildings
over the county and the possible erec
tion of a new building within the
i bounds of Person.
Their proposition called for addit
ions, repairing, replacements and, as
said above, the possible building of a
new structure. This program calls for
an outlay of approximately $160,000,
45 per cent of which would eome as.
a direct grant from the PWA, and 55
per cent as a loan. It is figured that,
should the county undertake this plan
in its entirety, about $90,000 would have
to be borrowed through a bond issue or
in some other manner.
The Commissioners deferred action
on this matter, deciding to meet agaifi
on Wednesday, July 24, to probe deeper
into It.
The other matter of the budget was
also deferred until a later date, though
it is thought that they will consider
both of these at their meeting on the
24th.
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Boatwright Wins
Skeet Club Trophy
Breaks Twenty Out Of Twenty-Five
To Win Box Of Shells and 25
Targets.
ROTARIANS VS K I W A N I A N S
E. V. Boatwright shooting Saturday
over the local skeet course won the
box .of shells and twenty-five targets
I offered by the sponsors of the club for
I the first person to break twenty out
. of twenty-five skeets.
This form of sport is gaining in pop
i ularity in this section, as elsewhere
- and provides good target practice for
; those who love the sport of hunting
. and would-be hunters or for those who
I just naturally like to shoot.
1 The club is offering another box of
' shells and twenty-five targets to the
1 next pefson from Person County to
1 break twenty out of twenty-five tar
! gets.
A proposed shooting match between
the Rotary and Kiwanis Clubs has
been suggested and is even now in the
process of being arranged. This shoot
should produce some rare shooting as
| there are known to be many expert
1 shots in each club.
Heavy rains Wednesday afternoon
? prevented shooting on that regularly
! scheduled day, but it is expected that,
1 barring inclement weather, the course
1 will be open Wednesday and Satur
day afternoons of each week.
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Announcement
We are now glad to announce that
Mr. S. M. Atwater, who has recently
been with Clark and Sorrell of Dur
ham, Is here as a mechanic to espec
1 ially service Oldsmobile cars. Clark &
Sorrell state that he has been entirely
satisfactory with them and they re
gret the loss of Mr. Atwater because
of his great experience on all make
cars. We thinlo he is an asset to Rox
| boro to hav? a man of his ability to
work on any automobile.
We ask that you come down and meet
Mr. Atwater and have your car checked
over and give him a trial bn any
trouble you may have with your car.
GRIFFIN MOTOR CO
Oldsmobile Plymouth
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ILL IN HOSPITAL
Mrs. R. C. Garrison of Timberlake,
N. C. was carried to Watts hospital
Sunday for treatment. Prior to that
time she had been confined to her bed
for four weeks. At this writing Mrs.
Garrison is reported to be quite ill,
though she seems to be resting as
' well as could be expected-.
ON FISHING TRIP; GUESTS
OF FERTILIZER COMPANY
Messrs. S. P. Gentry, T. B. Davis,
J. P. Timberlake, and J. I. Brooks left
i Wednesday for Norfolk, Va. on a fish
ing trip. While there they will be the
guests of the Smith-Douglas Fertilizer
Company.
Mark Twain Queen
HANNIBAL, Mo. . . . Miss Marian
Rupp (above), hifh' school senior, is
counted one of the town's luckiest girls.
She has been selected Queen of the
Mark Twain Pageant of the Twain
Centennial which is being celebrated
here all during 1935.
Court At Boston
Holds AAA Taxes
Not Within Law
Circuit Tribunal, By Two-To
One Decision, Rules
Against New Deal
BATTLE NOW GOING
TO HIGHEST COURT
Test Case Brought By Hoosac Mills To
Escape Payment Of Processing Tax
es Decided Against Government; New
England Mills Approve Ruling
Boston, July 16 ? The processing tax
and floor taxes of the Agricultural Ad
justment Act, under which the Fed
eral government had collected approx
imately $900,000,000 and expects to col
lect an additional $700,000,000, were de
clared unconstitutional today by the
United States circuit court.
The court's ruling was based upon
a test case brought by the Hoosac Mills
Corporation, which sought to escape
payment of $81,694.
The processing tax and the floor tax,
the lattei^ a levy upon finished goods
on hand when the tax became effective
were considered the back-bone of the
AAA.
With funds thus derived, the Sec
retary of Agriculture compensated the
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Approve Bill
To Establish
30 -Hour Week
House Labor Committee Sup
ports Measure Designed To
Take The Place Of NRA
Washington, July 17. ? The house
labor committee today approved a
bill to establish a 30-hour week and
prevent child labor in industries send
ing products into interstate commerce.
Chairman Connery said the measure
was designed to take the place of NRA
and that the committee had instructed
him to use every available parliament
ary procedure to obtain passage at this
session of congress.
Federal Licensing Board
The measure would set up a federal
commission to license all industry us
ing interstate trade channels.
The commission would be empower
ed to withhold licenses from produc
ers, processors and manufacturers who
do not work employees on a 30-hour a
week basis, who employ workers un
der 16 years of age, use force or con
vict labor, fail to bargain collectively
with workers, and deal with parties to.
"yellow dog" contracts.
Connery said the measure probably
would be recommended to the house
formally tomorrow and that he would
introduce Friday a resolution asking
for a rule to give the legislation right
of way to the floor. He spoke, too,
of forcing a vote by a petition, if neces
sary.
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GARDEN CLUB TO MEET
The Garden Club will meet at the
community housri on Monday after
noon, July 22nd, at 4 o'clock. A good
attendance is urgently requested.
Doughton Leads
Battle To Defeat
Private Aid Bill
House By Overwhelming Vote
Turns Down Corporate
Old Age Pensions
SENATE NOW EXPECTED
TO RECEDE FROM STAND
Adoption Of Proposal Would Mean
Corporations Would Retain Only
Young Men In Their Employment,
Doughton Declares In Telling Speech
Washington, July 17. ? Under the
leadership of Representative Robert
L. Doughton, the House of Represen
tatives by a vote of more than 4' to 1
today defeated the Clark amendment,
which Mr. Doughton told the House
would either cripple or destroy the ad
ministration's social security bill.
The Clark amendment would have
permitted private corporations to con
struct old age pension plans of their
own instead of coming under the Fed
eral plan. The R!. J. Reynolds Tobaeco
Company, the largest corporation in
the State, already has such a plan, and
numerous other corporations would
doubtless have adopted similar plans
had the Clark amendment, as adopted by
the Senate with the support of both
North Carolina Senators, prevailed.
Democrats Vote Solidly
As usual, the entire Democratic
membership of the House followed Mr.
Doughton almost to a man. The House
first voted down, 269 to 77, the motion of
Representative Tread way, of Massach
usetts, to recede and concur in the
Senate amendment. It then adopted,
269 to 65, Mr. Doughton's motion to
further insist, which means that the
Senate will in all probability now re
cede in view of the overwhelming vote
of the House.
"This debate shows that many who
gave half-hearted or lukewarm sup
port to the legislation are at heart op
posed to it," declared Mr. Doughton.
He pointed out that the adoption of
the amendment would encourage cor
porations to retain only young men in
their employ, discharging employes as
they approached the age of retirement.
He also warned that the amendment
would make doubtful the constitution
ality of the measure.
The entire North Carolina delegation
voted with Mr. Doughton in opposition
to the Clark amendment, which was
j embraced in five formal Senate a
mendments.
The conference report embodying
agreements on the other 108 Senate
amendments was adopted without a
record vote.
Debate on the report centered around
the Russell amendment, which would
have permitted the 15 states having no
state old age pension systems, of which
North Carolina is one, to have received
benefits of $15 per month for each eli
gible old age person without the con
tributions which the bill requires. Most
of these 15 states are in the South and
members from several of them opposed
the virtual elimination of the Russell
amendment.
The amendment was so changed as
to apply only to Georgia, Florida and
one or two other states which have con
stitutional prohibitions against old age
pensions, and as to them Federal par
ticipation will be limited to matching
| dollar for dollar the amounts contribu
ted by counties and cities.
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Dwelling Destroyed
By Fire Wednesday
On Wednesday night the dwelling
of Willie Smith, who lives about six
miles west of Roxboro, had the mis
fortune to lose his dwelling by fire,
and practically all of his furniture.
The Are was discovered about one o'
clock and had made su".h headway
that it was impossible" to save any
thing, in fact two of his children who
were sleeping upstairs were rescued
with difficulty.
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Move To Roxboro
Mr. Hugh A. Sawyer, secretary of
the Roxboro Chamber of Commerce,
who has been living at Hotel Roxboro
since taking over the job, has moved to
town and he and Mrs. Sawyer are oc
cupying the Woody residence on La
mar street. The good people will give
them a hearty welcome, for we are al
ways glad to have such people come
with us.
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Miss Walker Returned Home
Miss Nartnie WaJIqer, who under
went an appendicitis operation at Watts
hospital, has returned home, and her
friends will be glad to know she is very
much improved.