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J. W. NOELL, EDITOR
VOL. LII.
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ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA MONDAY, JULY 22, 1935
(County Correspondents Solicited)
NUMBER 42
President Will Take
Action On Tax When
Court Rules On AAA
Special Cabinet Report On Tex
tile Situation Is Delayed
DISCUSS COTTON TAX
Effect Of Processing Levy On
Textile Industry Gone '
Into In Detail
COURT RULES IN FALL
Whole Structure Of AAA At Stake As
Congress Fonder Revised Set-up
To Take Place Of Much
Attacked Measure
Washington, July 21. ? President
Roosevelt will wait until the contro
versial AAA processing tax problem is
definitely settled before further action
with respect to the report of his special
cabinet committee on factors precipita
ting the domestic cotton textile trouble.
This decision was increasingly ap
parent here tonight following admis
sions from high administration officials
that the recent Hoosac decision, in j
which the circuit court of appeals at j
Boston declared the Rrocassing tax
set-up unconstitutional, has changed
the entire face of AAA.
These officials, refusing to be quoted ;
directly "as a matter of policy," ex- 1
pressed the belief that the special cab
inet committee's textile report will be
withheld indefinitely, pending s Su
preme court ruling on the legality of
the various processing levies.
Report Deals With Tax
It was said that the report, as ten
tatively outlined by the subcommittee J
of the cabinet group, centers around
the processing tax in great detail.
When textile manufacturers from all
portions of the country converged in j
Washington for the purpose of out
lining their troubles to the cabinet
committee, they complained against
the cotton processing tax of 4.2 cents
per pound, increasing imports of Jap
anese textile products, the north-south
wage differential now existing, and ob
selescent machinery in many New
England mills.
Their chief points of contention,
however, condensed into the processing
levy, and the Japanese textile sales in
this country. It was held that the
processing tax has proven a heavy
burden despite the assurances of AAA
officials that the expense is easily
passed on to the consumer.
Because of these complaints, the sub- j
committee had directed special atten
tion to the tax situation More than a
month ago, indications were given that
the subcommittee had completed its
studies and a report had been drafted
for the cabinet group. The latter inj
turn, would approve or disapprove the1
subcommittee's findings and submit
their recommendations for relief to
DnmpuAlt.
ritoiuvnv av-w?-.
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Going After The
Tobacco Business
Pioneer Warehouse Is Out For
The Sale Of Tobacco With
Able Managers And
Competent Help
The pioneer Warehouse makes an
nouncement In this issue that it is
fully organized,, with competent man
agement and help, and invites every
tobacco farmer in the county and ad
joining counties, to sell "with them
the coming season. The proprietors
will be Messrs. R. L. Hester and T. T.
Mitchell, both with large experience
in the warehouse business; the well
known and popular auctioneer, Mr.
S. R. Mlncey will be with them again
this season, and the office force will
be Messrs. I. T. Stanfleld, R. I. Feath
ers ton, John Hester and J. I. Brooks,
and a more competent or accommo
dating set could hardly have been
found anywhere.
The Pioneer has long been one of
the most popular houses here, and the
coming season gives promise of a most
successful year. The house is large and
commodious, well lighted and ventilat
ed, and tobacco shows off for its full
worth when placed under the well ar
ranged lights. You will make no mis
take when you carry your tobacco to
The Pioneer.
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ATTENDED ROTARY MEET
Mr. J. 8. Walker, president, and Mr.
S. P. Nicks, Jr., secretary of the Rox
boro Rotary club attended a district
meeting of Rotary In Elizabeth City
last week.
Terraplane Coach Is
Completely Torn Up
In Wreck Sunday
Car Operated By Douglas Davis
Crashed With Another Car
In Early Morning
Smash-up
A Terraplane six coach, operated by
Mr. Douglas Davis, of this city, was
completely demolished about 3:00 a.
m. Sunday on the Roxboro-Durham
highway when it is alleged that it
crashed with another car, reported to
have been operated by Mr. Eugene
Evans.
Mr. Davis, with a party of friends
was enroute from Durham to his home
here, when he struck the car operated
by Mr. Evans. Details of the acci
dent were meagre, but it is understood
that the Terraplane was heading north
in the vicinity of Somerset Mills when
the other car is alleged to have pulled
from a side road onto the highway.
This car was damaged only slightly.
After crashing together the Terra
plane continued down the road, turn
ing as it went. None of the occu
pants were injured to any extent, one
of the men being cut by flying glass.
The Terraplane was so completely
wrecked that the license plate which
ordinarily rides on the front of the
car near the bottom of the fender was
torn from its position and thrown up
near the radiator and it was twisted in
to a ball, just as though a giant had,
in a fit of temper, twisted it as an or
dinary mortal would crush a piece of
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Thousands Throng
Associate Grounds
Thruoul Week-End
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Primitive Baptist Association
At Wheelers Church At
tracts Thousands Of
People
The annual meeting of the Primitive
Baptist Association, held this year at
Wheelers Church in this county at
tracted many visitors over vthe week
end. The Association officially began
on Friday and lasted through today
with preaching each day, business
meetings and conferences beinp car
ried on among the leaders during this
time.
But before Friday those who planned
to stay on the grounds had been there
and selected places for their encamp
ments, the brush arbor where the
peraching was done was erected and
everything was in readiness. On Thurs
day tents began to go up and when the
association met in its first formal ses
sion it was reported that there were
one hundred and two tents on the
ground. There was possibly a thousand
people who camped on ths grounds
during the entire week-end.
.But the peak was reached Sunday
when many old residents of that sec- j
tion and friends from everywhere ga- j
thered to listen to the preaching and
to take part in the gathering. It is es
timated that six thousand people at
tended the Association on Sund&y.
The meeting formally^ broke up to
day after having enjoyed a week-end
of fine preaching by the Association's
leading ministers and a general meet
ing of old friends and relatives.
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Paralysis Victim
Buried Today
At 3:00 P. M.
Funeral Services For Mr. Tom Pool
Conducted From Olive Branch
Church
Funeral services were conducted this
afternoon from Olive Branch Church
at 3:00 o'clock for Mr. Tom Pool, 49
| year -old resident of the Olive Branch
community who died early Sunday
morning. Mr. Pool had been ill for
: four and one-half months prior to his ;
I passing. His death was attributed to
i paralysis. Rev. J. B. Currin was the
officiating minister at the services.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Pat
tie W. Pool, two sons, Billy ?nd Leman
six daughters. Misses Rosa Mae, Mary,
Blanche, Es telle, Bertha, four broth
ers, Lum, Willie, John and Charlie
Pool, and three sisters. Mrs. Lizzie
West," Mrs. Luvenia Whitt, and Mrs.
Minnie Gravitte.
Immediately following the funeral
services the body of Mr. Pool was in
terred in the Olive Branch cemetery.
Tobacco Baron Weds Former Secretary
LONDON . . . One of America's wealthiest men, George Washington
Hill, president of the American Tobacco Company, is shown here with his
new bride, the former Mary Barnes of N. Y., his former secretary, Just after
the marriage ceremony here.
Contract Signers Will
Receive Forms To Fill Out
Mr. Sanders Urges All Contract
Signers To Give Immedi
ate Consideration
BY H. K. SANDERS
Within a few days the County Agent
will send to each contract signer in
Person County a form to be filled out
by the producers who will in this way
inform the County Agent how many
allotment cards they will need for the
sale of the 1935 crop.
Eacn contract may have Just one al
lotment card, if the contract signer
wishes only one; or there may be as
many cards as the contract signer re
quests. If there is more than one
card, they may all be in the producer's
name, if he so desires; without any
other name appearing on the cards.
However, if the producer requests that
a tenant's name also appear on a cer
tain allotment card then that card
will be made in the producer's name,
and the tenant's name will also be ad
ded to this card, in the space provid
ed for that purpose.
The producer may designate any
tenant or share cropper who produced
tobacco in 1935 on the farm covered
by the contract in whose names he
wishes tobacco sales to be permitted on
the basis of the allotment cards is
sued to him. However, the producer
is not required to designate any of
his tenants or share-croppers for this
purpose.
The County Agent requests that all
contract signers give consideration to
this matter in order that they may fill
out the blanks and return them as
soon as possible. These forms will
probably be sent out by mail the lat
ter part of this week.
POLITICAL CRISIS IN
GREECE IS ENDED
Athens, July 20. ? A 24-hour political
crisis was ended without disorder as
Greece settled down today under a
reshuffled cabinet in which Premier
Panayoti Tsaldaris and General Geo.
Kondylis again were collaborators.
"Hie success of the Kondylis maneu
ver and his retention in the cabinet
were hailed as a victory for royalists,
brightening the prospects for early res
toration of the monarchy.
Tsaldarls managed to retain the Re
publican Rhallis as minister of inter
ior and ruled out Theotokis, a militant
royalist. The new ministry contains
two new royalists and three new re
publicans.
The revised cabinet caused consider
able dismay in republican circles, where
it was asserted the government now Is
openly royalist.
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Beulah Baptist Asso.
To Meet At Antioch
The Beulah Baptist Association, com
prising the Baptist Churches in Cas
well and Person Counties, will meet
Thursday, July 25th and 26th with
Antioch Baptist Church. The high
spot will be an address by Dr. I. G.
Greer_on Thursday night at 8 o'clock.
The public is cordially invited to
attend these two all-day meetings, but
be sure to bring a basket lunch along,
as this is the custom now prevailing
with this association.
ILL IN HOSPITAL
Mrs. Fannie Snipes, who was car
ried to Watts hospital early Thursday
morning for an operation, is reported
at -this writing to be resting as well as
could be expected. Mrs. Snipes was
taken ill Wednesday night -and her
physician deemed an operation imper
ative. Her marty friends hope that
she will recover i-apidly. .
Account of Roxboro
Rotary Meeting
The weekly meeting of the Roxboro
Rotary Club was held Thursday even
ing at the Community Center. Messrs.
Gordon Hunter and Bill West spoke |
to the club their topic being "Com
munity Service." The program was in
charge of Otey McBroom.
The club accepted an Invitation to
meet at Prospect Hill next Hiursday
evening, July 25th. President Walker
announced that this invitation included
the Rotary Annes and requested 100
per cent attendance.
Dr. Z. V. Hooper, Baltimore, Md..
Rev. Lawrence, Raleigh, N. C., and El
mer Walker were the guests of the
club.
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Recovery - Relief Outlays
Over $10,000,000,000
Washington, July 19 ? Expenditures
for "recovery and relief" since July 1
1933, together with outlays prior to
that on account of the reconstruction
corporation and for capital stock of
federal land banks, have exceeded $10,
000.000.000.
The treasury's dally statement today
showed expenditures of about $254,
000,000 for "recovery and relief" in the
current fiscal year had boosted the to
tal above the ten-billion mark.
Original appropriations and alloca
tions for such purposes have been in
excess of $18,000,000,000 since they be
gan but more than $8,000,000,000 of this
was listed as "unexpected."
Of the unexpended total nearly $2,
000,000,000 was reported by the R. F. C.
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First Case Infantile
Paralysis In Roxboro
The first case of infantile paralysis
developed here Sunday, when Tom
Woody, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. T. B.
Woody, was declared to have the di
sease. He was immediately carried
to the hospital in Durham, where he
is being treated.
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Byrns Remembers Session
That Lasted Nearly Year
Washington, July 20 ? To many con
gressmen, this may seem longest
session ever, but Speaker Byrns knows
better.
"This session hasn't been so hard/'
he said today. "Why I recollect that
back in 1918 we had one that lasted
354 days."
The present session is 198 days old
today. Forty-seven previous sessions
have lasted longer than that.
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PREACHING AT BETHANY
Rev. W. F. West, pastor of Roxboro
First Baptist Church, will preach at
Bethany Baptist Church, near Moriah
on Sunday, July 28th, at 3 o'clock, p.
m. The pastor of Bethany, Rev. C. F,
Hydosn, is on his vacation. The public
is cordially invited.
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LIST DEATH AS SUICIDE
Kleidsville, July 20 ? Authorities to
day listed the death of Tyler K. Shor
ter 17, Spray textile worker, as sui
cide. He shot himself with a shotgun
after a lengthy pellagra illness.
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A red ho| torch singer with a Scotch
burr? Hiat's Ella Logan, who was told
she had a good 'voice but would have to
lose the accent she brought with her
from Scotland. She's- been a hit at the
Casino de Paree in New York.
Collins & Aikman
Entertains Their
Employees Sat.
More Than Five Hundred Em
ployees And Invited Guests
Were Present At Brunswick
Stew On Saturday Afternoon
The local plant of Collins and Aik
man, Inc., was host to all of Its
male employees at a stew Saturday af
ternoon. The feast was spread at
the farm of Mr. M. A. Stewart, locat
ed on Route 144, about one and a half
miles west of town.
More than five hundred partook of
the delicious stew that had been pre
pared for the occasion. The major
portion of those present were employ
ees of the mill with some invited guests.
After everyone's appetite had been
satisfied, music and clog dancing was
enjoyed by the entire group.
Mr. Baxter Mangum acted as Master
of Ceremonies, while Mr. John Mur
phy directed the cooking of the stew.
A good time was enjoyed by all those
present.
It is understood that Collins and
Aikman plans another occasion of this
kind at which time the lady employees
will be the guests.
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Person County Boy
To Enter Marathon
At Washington, D.C.
Ernest Hicks, Experienced On
Cinder Path, Training Every
Day For Event In Nov.
Taking a daily.- workout of twelve
miles running Ernest Hicks, well known
young man of Jalong, N. C., is prepar
ing for the twenty-six mile marathon
event to be staged in Washington, D.
C. on Nevember 11th. He is in fine
shape and says that he intends to
stay that way until the time comes
for him to hit the cinder path.
Every afternoon after he quits work
Ernest starts out on his daily grind of
twelve miles. Since he has started his
training he says that he has lost thirty
pounds and expects to weigh about one
j hundred and thirty-five by the time
1 of the marathon.
Mr. Hicks is a native of this county
and has had much experience in run
ning on the cinder track. He partici
pated in a similar race at Hopewell,
Va., some years ago in which Owens,
that sensational runner who has gain
ed national recognition, ran.
Should there be any business house
in Roxboro who would like for this
young man to wear his colors in the
footrace at Washington, you are re
quested to write to him and he will
come to see you. "It's your's for the
asking," states Mr. Hicks.
Ernest takes his training on almost
all the roads in the county, preferring
the soft dirt roads or the shoulders of
the hard-surfaced ones so that he may
protect his feet and legs as much as
possible. Watch him some time as you
pass by him. Everyone wishes this am
bitious young man success in his ef
fort and hopes that he will bring that
beautiful cup back to Person County.
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Dave L. Davis Dies
After Illness Of
Three Months
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Funeral Services Conducted From The
Home Sunday Afternoon. Burial
In Family Cemetery
Mr. Dave L. Davis, 59-year-old resi
dent of the Rock Grove community,
was buried Sunday afternoon at 3:00
o'clock. He had been ill for three
months prior to his passing and had
been in declining health for several
years.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Nan
nie Bet Clayton, two sons, James and
B. L. Davis, and six daughters, Mrs.
Ftosey Day, Mrs. D. P. Swanson, Mrs.
Green Pondexter, Miss Jennette Davis,
Misses Mildred and Bettie Sue Davis,
all of Person County. He is also sur
vived by four brothers, J. A. and J. A.
Davis, of Warsaw, N. C., W. R. Davis
of ? Stem, N. O., ttnd C. T. Davis of
this city, and two sisters. Mrs. J. D.
Berck of Keansville, N. C., and Mrs.
W. O. Lea of Roxboro.
Funeral services in charge of Rev.
J. B. Currln and Rev. Roy Monk were
conducted from the home with burial
following in the Davis Family Ceme
tery near Rock Grove Church.
Continue Drive
To Prevent War
In East Africa
British And French Ambassa
dors Seek Parley With
Mussolini
FASCIST LEADER SAYS
DOOR TO PEACE CLOSED
Italy Continues Active Preparations
For War With Ethiopia As Diplomats
Carry On Negotiations For Peace In
Atmosphere Of Skepticism
Rome, July 21. ? British and French
ambassadors to Rome today sought
consultations with Premier Benito Mus
solini in an eleventh-hour effort to
avert war in East Africa. They were
told Emperor Haile Selassie's fiery
speech at Addis Ababa had closed the
door to peace overtures but persisted
in an effort to deter II Duce from his
war plans.
Diplomatic conversations were con
ducted in an atmosphere of skepticism
as II Duce:
1. Ordered the steamer Arabia to sail j_.
from Naples for Bast Africa I with
troops, war supplies and 580 mules.
2. Announced Italy's appropriations
for military measures in east Africa
to June 30 totaled $107,500,000.
Conversations between Sir Eric
Drummond, British ambassador. Count
Charles Pineton De Chambrun, French
ambassador, and Italian under-For
eign Secretary Fulvio Suvich, in prog
ress lor two weens, nave reacnea tne
point where Mussolini must be con
sulted sometime this week. Hie gov
ernment viewed final outcome of nego
tiations with decided skepticism.
The plan Drummond and Chambrun
desire to submit to II Duce reported
ly embraces four points:
1. Limitation of Ethiopia's frontiers.
2. Economic concession to Italy.
3. Construction of an Italian rail
road across Ethiopia from Eritrea to
Italian somaliland.
4. Appointment of Italian counsellors
to the Ethiopian government similar
to British advisers in Egypt.
Egyptian officials took exception to
reported French proposals for an "Ital
ian protectorate over Ethiopia sim
Egypt." They stressed that Eygpt is an
independent kingdom, that in 1922 the
Britain communicated to the Egyp
tian government that:
"The British protectorate over Egypt
is terminated and Egypt is declared
to be an independent sovereign state."
Italy's attitude toward diplomatic
negotiations was reflected by the of
ficial newspaper Giornale D'ltalia,
which said:
"One thing regarding Italy and
Ethiopia is definite. Hie League of
Nations is not authorized to inter
vene."
Commenting on alleged attempts of
the British press to involve the United
States in the Italo-Ethiopian dispute,
Giornale D'ltalia said:
"Washington desires neutrality on
i question interesting the United
States only remotely."
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Business Makes
Much Progress
Survey Shows' Remarkable
Gains In Steel Industry
New York. July 21. ? That rugged in
dividual, big business, is recovering des
pite uncertainties of legislation, a vast
spending program which means high
er taxes, and an unfriendly Adminis
tration in Washington.
And along with big business, little
business ateo is making progress which
in some instances eclipses the efforts
of- the giants.
A United Press survey tonight show
ed remarkable gains in the steel in
dustry, prospects of further gains in
the automobile division, some improve
ment in the heavy industries, substan
tial progress In retail trade, outlook for
a rise of around a billion dollars in
farm income, and prospects of a real
boom developing in the building in
dustry.
Steel operations have turned sharply
upward. After touching the years high
at 52.8 per cent on February 4, they
declined to 32.8 per cent cm July 1.
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MR. HUNTER CONFINED
TO HIS ROOM
Mr. Gordon C. Hunter, acting vice
president of the Peoples Bank, is con
fined to his room. He has been ill for
the past several days, but his friends
hope it is nothing of a serious na
ture.