THE COURIER, A
SEMI - WEEKLY
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AND HER PEOPLE.
J. W. NOELL, EDITOR
VOL. LII.
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ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA MONDAY, AUGUST 5, 1935
(County Correspondents Solicited)
NUMBER 46
Georgia Tobacco
Prices Pleasing
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Averages Range From 16 To 24
Cents On Various Mar
kets; Sales Heavy
Nashville, Ga., August 3? The Nash
ville tobacco market, one of the oldest
la the state, today claimed the distinc
tion of leading the entire state in 1
pounds sold and in average price dur
ing the first two days of the bright
leaf auction season.
A. W. Starling, of the Nashville Her
ald, .said he checked warehouse figures
which showed 1,458,897 pounds sold for j
$371,661.07, at an average of 25.47 cents
a pound for the first two days, "there
by leading the entire state in pounds
sold and price average, according to
available statistics at this date."
The opening day this season showed
a considerable poundage increase over
the opening day of 1934, when only
373,624 pounds netted the farmers $94,
628.09. The increase on the second
day's sale was also in proportion to
that of last year.
All Pleased
Starling said "not a single grower
was heard to remark during the two
day sales that he was displeased with
prices received."
Based on reports of opening day
sales from the warehouses, the State
Department of Agriculture said the
price ranged from 16.02 cents to 24.
55 per pound. Reports of the ten
warehouses showed the following sales
and averages for the opening day:
Farmers Independent Warehouse at
Hahira, 95,000 pounds, $22,642 at an
average of 22.83 cents.
Way cross Tobacco Warehouse, 72,
292 pounds, $15,960 at 22.09-cents a lb.
Ccbb and Foxhall at Statesboro, 222,
146, $35,938 at 16.06 cents a pound.
Growers' Warehouse at Metter, 131,
362, $23,949.05 at ,10.25 cents a pound.
Farmers' Brick at Douglass, 154,320,
at 17.86 cents a pound.
Leath's Warehouse at Adel, blocked
sales.
Vann's Tobacco Warehouse at Vid
alia, 262.800, $48,017 at 19 cents a lb.
Cook County Warehouse, at Adel,
241,744, $56,692 at 23.44 cents a pound.
Farmers' Warehouse at Moultrie, !
blocked sales.
Union Warehouse at Nashville, 388,
500 pounds, $96,201 at 24.55 cents a lb.
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Tribute Is Paid
To Veteran Dead
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Dr. Graham Addresses Memor
ial Service- To Start
Legion Convention
Fayetteville, August 4 ? "The white
crosses of the war cemeteries stand in
mute protest all over the world," Dr.
Prank Porter Graham, president of the
University of North Carolina, told his
World War comrades here tonight in
a memorial address which opened the
17th annual convention of the North
Carolina department of the American ,
Legion. President Graham served in
the Mariner Corps during the great
war.
Dr. Graham spoke in rememberance
of the soldier dead an J made the giv- j
ing of their lives for a cause a call to i
others to give more to the great cause ]
of worid peace, social justice, inter-]
racial fairness and human freedom.
He recalled the principles upon !
which America was founded, and em
phasized the present need of an intell
igent and fair retranslation of liberty,
equality of opportunity and democracy
for a saving of true Americanism in
the midst of modern industrialism.
Parity for farmers, collective bargain
ing for workers and business men, due
processes of law and 'fairness to Ne
groes, social insurance for the old and
the unemployed and other such pro
visions for the hazards of modern so
ciety, are sections in the contempor
ary version of the Declaration of In
dependence with its new provisions
toward human freedom and social se
curity, Dr. Graham declared.
Dr. Graham closed on the note of a
remembrance of the teaching of Jesus
in His ancient but everfresh recogni
tion of the spiritual potentiality of
every personality and spiritual democ
racy of the fatherhood of God and the
brotherhood of man.
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BARKSDALE SMITH IS
ERECTING NEW HOME
Mr. and Mrs. Barksdaie Smith are
erecting a new home just in the end of
Reams Avenue. It will be of brick and
? when completed report* say it wtH be
one of the nicest and most attractive
homes In the town.
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Soft Ball Game
Is Called Off
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Owing to the hot weather and
further fafct that so many of
the players are out of town the
Kiwanis-Rotary soft ball game
scheduled for tomorrow after
noon has been called off. Later
date will be announced through
these columns.
Business Makes
Strong Advance
Universal Note Of Optimism
Prevaded Business World
During P&st Week
An almost universally optimistic
tone prevaded American business last
week with current indications of the
upswing anchored on a firm founda
tion.
Retail trade in the aggregate, moved
swiftly forward. Merchants noted a
good response from consumers to spec
ial sales of summer supplies, and into
the larger wholesale markets came
signs of a lively interest in fall lines.
Private reports show the retail vol
ume has reflected back to the whole
salers who fn turn have extended their
demands for merchandise to the man
ufacturers of consumers' goods.
The Department of Commerce in its
survey covering 33 cities for the week
ended Wednesday, declared: "Stead
ily increase buying also was manifest
in building materials, furniture, house
hold equipment and electrical supplies
as a corollary of the consistent gains
in construction."
Bank clearings for that period were
up 5.9 per cent over the same week
of 1934, but the previous week gained
24.2 per cent over the like week of
last year. .
Automobile production, due to the
shut-down of the Ford plant, dropped
abruptly to 69,415 Units, as estimated
by Cram's, compared with an output
of 82.894 in the previous week.
Ford's curtailment, anticipated for
several weeks, accounted for 9,500 units
of the 13,479 unit loss.
Such restrictions had no effect on
the production of steel since the rate
of operations was extended to 44 per
cent of capacity from 42.2 per cent
the previous week.
Steel's upturn from the low point
of the year during the first week of
July was one of the outstanding de
velopments of the week in industry,
and trade authorities were particularly
pleased because of the broadening of
demand and the mounting evidence
that there may be no let-down durine
Aueust.
Electric power production again set
a new high mark for the year for the
week ended July 27. but freight car
loadings for the same period increased
ever the previous week to a point of
slightly less than expected for this
time of year.
Lumber production continued to
climb, reflection of growing buiiding
movements in many parts of the coun
try.
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Charles Wood Gets
The WPA Post As
Director Finance
Charles Wood of friis city and Dur
ham has received appointment from
Philip R. Whitley, Dorector of Dis
trict No. 3, as the Director of Finance
for this district.
Five of the 11 North Carolina Con
gressional districts are represented in
the appointments that were announc
ed by Director Whitley Friday.
Mr. Wood has not decided yet as to
whether he will accept this appoint
ment, but is giving it consideration.
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A WELCOME VISITOR
Mr. O. B. Cabaniss, who was for
several years located her as station
agent for the Norfolk & Western
Hallway, was a welcome visitor for
the week-end. Rarely has the town
had more desirable citizens than Mr.
aqd Mrs. Cabaniss, and their leaving
was a distinct loss to the town in
many ways.
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Bogus messages on Utility Bill burn
ed, inquiry Is told.
Third Of Married
Couples In U. S.
Have No Children
Washington, Aug. 4. ? One out
of every three married couples in
tthe United States are classed as
"childless" by census bureau ext
perts.
The last exact count was in 193CT
when the percentage of couples
without children stood at 31.9. A
new study estimates the percentage
now has moved higher.
Officials apply this estimate to
the so-called "normal" families.
If divorced families, or families
broken by death are included the
percentage of childlessness is great
er.
In the "normal" group there were
23,352,990 couples in 1930, of which
7,477,328 had no children. Fam
ilies having one child numbered
5,254,863, or 22.5 per cent; those
having two children, 4,246,459;
three children, 2,650,730; four or
more children, 3,753,610.
City couples had fewer children
than rural families. The percent
age of childless couples was 34.8
in the city, 31.7 in small towns and
25 on farms. ?
Childless negro families are re
ported more numerous than white.
Native white citizens rank next,
while foreign born white couples
are found the last childless.
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W. M. Bohannon
Stabbed By Son
In-Law Friday
Mr. W. M. Bohannon, about fifty I
years old, was stabbed about the
shoulders Friday night around 10:00
o'clock with a pocketknife. The sab
bing was alleged to have been done by
Loyd Jacobs, about twenty-five years
old, and a son-in-law of Mr. Bohan
non.
It seems that the trouble arose over
a family dispute of some nature and
the stabbing occured in the yard of
Mr. Bohannon's home at Jalong. Both
men are employees of Roxboro Cotton
Mills.
At a hearing Saturday morning be
fore Magistrate J. M. O'Briant, Ja
eobs was bound over to the Recorder's
Court under $200.00 bond.
Want To Work!
You (an Get It
Coan Says Money Will Be Spent
On Able And Willing
Workers
Wilmington, Aug. 3. ? Works Prog
ress Administration funds in North
Carolina "are going to be dealth a
round to the cities and counties on
one basis only ? the number of men
who can work and will work ? " Geo.
W. Coan, Jr., Winston-Salem, State
PWA director, told members of the
North Carolina Society of Engineers
as they concluded their annual two
day session at the Seashore Hotel,
Wrightsville Beach today.
He said the 80 millions of dollars
the federal government is making a
vailable in North Carolina through the
new WPA and the PWA "offers the
most attractive proposition the cities
and counties have had in a genera
tion."
Lapsing into an "off the record"
candor that apparently delighted the
engineers, Mr. Coan spoke his mind on :
such questions as public spending, wag
es paid by industry, government in bus
iness and business in a government.
Incidentally, he gave a clear picture
of the PWA and its two chief func
tions ? to put men to work on "out
right grant" projects costing less than
$25,000 and to supply relief labor for
the new PWA "45 per cent grant"
projects.
He said the PWA will give employ
ment to 35,000 men and women dur
ing the coming year "if they are men
and women who can and will work,
if they don't they'll be cut off."
Mr. Winstead's House
Makes Big Average
We received the following telegram !
from Mr. H. W. W instead, showing
the big average made by him on the
opening day. You will note the a- '
mount is not "about" but is specific.
The telegram reads:
Twin Brick sold three hundred and
eighty-four thousand pounds, aver
aged $22.72.
UNDER THE TEMPLE
News And
Comment
BUREAU OP INFORMATION ?
i There is no regularly constituted bu
i reau of information here, but the tra
! dition has grown with the passing of
the years that at the courthouse may
be found such an organization.
On a cold morning in the winter time
this bureau may be found in session
around the table in the Sheriff's of
fice, or in the summer tune they will
be found lined up on either side of
the main corridor in the courthouse.
There are no parliamentary rules
that must be observed, and one of the
few requirements to belong is that all
members cannot be on the same side
of any question. And some of the
discussions that take place are rare
and worth hearing.
Mr. W. T. Daniel is president, with
Messrs. J. Melvin O'Briant an J. T.
Newton as ranking vice-presidents and !
all others who engage in the discus
sions as members in good standing.
All come loaded with information in ,
the morning and it is all discussed,
chewed and absorbed before the day's
session has adjourned.
Someone nicknamed it the "Do-No- ]
thing Club", but that is a misnomer,
for it applies to physical labor only.
The mental strain that they undergo
daily is terrific. They do say that
Vice-President Melvin O'Briant was
he was discovered by one of the mem
almost turned out the other day when 1
bers holding a lantern while his wife
chopped kindling wood. But when a
man's wife gets after him, he is apt
to take almost any kind of risk.
More cases of local and national
import have been tried before this tri
bunal than any other anywhere around.
A lot of good-natured teasing goes
on among the members, and when
there is a wedding in the courthouse
all Join in congratulating the bride and
groom, and rejoicing with them.
Most any day one can find some
thing of current interest being dis
cussed by them, and for this reason it
is the mecca for those who get into
town for only a short while.
Nor can the membership sit on the
same side ol the corridor or on the
same side of the table when they re
pair to the sheriff's office. They
must take seats on opposite sides to
give the gathering the proper setting
of an open forum.
A couple came to get married the
other d*y. They applied to the Reg
ister of Deeds office for license and
then inquired for someone to marry
them. A look around and no Justice j
of Peace was on the scene, so a nearby
preacher had to be called in. He !
married them, and the bridegroom
handed him a nice fee. The story
goes that the J. P.s were very much
chagrined when they returned and
found out what they had missed, but
that the preacher was so delighted
that he set up everybody in the court
house to a drink.
And so they go. Men matured in
age with the responsibilities of fam
ilies yet keenly alive to the things that
go on around them, talking not of
things that are gone and buried in the
past, but of the affairs of today and
speculating on what tomorrow may
bring forth.
' SKETCHES
jilSS BESSIE DANIEL . . . Secretary j
to County Agent . . . lived here prac
tically all her life . . . well versed in
the history and lore of Person Coun
ty ... chief hobbies are farming, fig- !
ures and folks.
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J. M. O'BRIANT ... Merchant and
Public Officer practically all his life . . .
has served as Justice of the Peace for
twenty-five years . . . Assistant Judge
of the Recorder's Court ... is also Fire
Chief and Building Inspector for the
town ol Roxboro . . . married Febru
ary 24, 1895 to Miss Maude Humphries.
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R. B. GRIFFIN . . . Superintendent '
of Education . . . took office July 1st,
1935 . . . native of Wake County ... ed
ucated in Raleigh High School and
Wake Forest College ... finished col
lege in 1925 . . married . . hobby is
attending football games and reading
baseball news.
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RirfH McCOLLUM O'BRIANT . . . j
health nurse . . born on a horseshoe
in Lane's Creek in Anson County . .
birthplace, a two-room house belong
ing to her Methodist Circuit-Riding
grandfather . . . started to school when
five because sister, seven, was afraid
to cross stiles . . . lost one year from
school on account of blindness In left
eye . . . rode mule three miles to school
when in eighth grade ... biggest scare
when she was ten . . . fell out of stable
loft and thought for hours that she
was dead ... ambition is to write a
book . . . married I. D. O 'Brian t Oc
tober 6, 1933 ... chief hobbies are
flowers and chickens.
Gov., Virgin- Islands
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WASHINGTON Lawrence W.
Cramer, the newly appointed Gover
nor of the Virgin Islands, photographed
Just before he departed to take over }
the job.
Borah Facing Hard
Fight To Hold Job
ROSS IS HIS REAL FOE
Democratic Governor Who Op
poses Veteran Senator Is
Said Popular In Idaho
IS SERVING THIRD TERM
Washington, Aug. 4. ? Conflicting
statements on whether the new deal
will try to "get Borah" next year today i
apparently left unchanged Idaho's ex
pectation of a lusty battle between the
veteran senator and Democratic Gov.
C. Ben Ross.
Ross, ex-cattle man who rose from
the farm through a half dozen polit
ical offices to the governorship, already
has announced he will oppose Borah
in 1936.
To some Idahoans it appears the
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Funeral Services For
Robert Sanford Fri.
Man 111 For Eight Years Found Dead
In Bed Thursday Morning
Funeral services for Mr. Robert San
ford were conducted from the Olive
Branch Baptist Church Friday after- 1
noon at 1:30 o'clock by Rev. Joe B.
Currin, the pastor.
Mr. Saniord was fcrund dead in bed
about 2:30 P. M. Thursday. For the
past eight years he had been ill with
asthma, and his death was not unex
pected.
Mr. Sanford was a well-known resi
dent of the Olive Branch community.
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Mr. H. B. Gentry
Obtains Degree
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Wake Forest, Aug. 5 ? H. B. Gentry
of Roxboro Is numbered among those
who will obtain degrees here on Aug
ust 9 at the commencement exercises
of the Wake Forest-Meredith summer
school. He is a son of Mrs. Z. T.
Gentry.
For the past six years Mr. Gentry
has been teaching in the Hurdle Mill
High School. He has made a very
creditable record at Wake Forest along
academic, social and religious lines,
and this summer he has sung bass in
the college glee club.
Will Sample The
Lumberton Market
Messrs. S. N. Smith, R. B. Burton.
J. N. Watson and E. F. Smith of Pros
pect Hill section, will leave Wednes
day with tobacco which they will sell j
on the Lumberton market. They are '
going to see at first hands what the
early markets are doing.
Notice To
Our Patrons
Beginning with this week our
Special Shows on Friday Night
and Saturday morning will be
discontinued through the months
of August and September.
PALACE THEATRE.
Wyoming Senator
Would Build New
NRA Machine
O'Mahoney Drafts Bill Designed to Es
tablish Licensing System To Main
tain High Labor Standards And Fair
Competition in Business And Indos
- try; Would Meet Constitutional De
mands.
Washington, Aug. 4. ? Senator Jo
sephus C. O'Mahoney, administration
Democrat from Cheyenne, Wyoming,
announced tonight he would introduce
a bill to revive the chief objectives of
the defunct NRA ? high labor stand
ards and fair competition ? through
regulation of national commerce by
licensing business.
O'Mahoney, a lawyer, carefully a
voided the phrase "interstate com
merce." He proposed to define "com
merce among the states" in the lang
uage of the leading decisions of the
Supreme Court pronounced by the
most eminent jurists of history from
John Marshall to Charles Evans Hugh
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Licensing System
The bill creates a licensing system
for businesses engaged in commerce
among the states and provides a nat
ional incorporation law.
The Federal Trade Commission, the
government's business policeman in
the days before NRA, and the agency
to which the New Deal turned after
NRA codes were outlawed, would be the
keystone of the new plan. O'Mahoney's
bill would increase its membership from
five to nine, with three commissioners
representing employes, three employers,
and three the general public .
The bill would authorize the com
mission:
"To develop a general program for
the coordination, stabilization and or
derly development of the basic indus
tries of the United States in order to
bring about a more equitable distri
bution of the earnings of commerce
to those wh6 invest their capital there
in.
"To summon a national industrial
conference in which employers and em
ployes, the investing public and the
public generally may be represented.
"To make recommendations to Con
gress for methods of fair competition
designed to eliminate unfair trade and
labor practices, and make such other
suggestions as its investigations indi
cate may be desirable for the considera
tion of the lawmaking branch of the
government."
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State Driver's
License Will Be
Ready Sept. 1st
Cards To Go Into Effect On
November 1st. Issued Free
Of Charge If Application
Is Received Before
That Date
Announcement comes from Raleigh
that the new State Driver's License
Law will go into effect and that the
Driver's Cards will be ready for dis
tribution September^ 1st.
If applications for these licenses are
sent to the Motor Vehicle Bureau be
fore November 1st, there will be no
charge, but if they are received after
that date, a fee of one dollar will be
charged. These driver's license are
permanent until revoked for cause.
There has been no announcement
from the Bureau as to method of dis
tribution of these cards to the motorists
of North Carolina, but it is thought
that the State Highway Patrol will
-ha^e charge of the distribution.
Soon they will go on the highways
relieved of some inspection and other
routine duties that were a pa^t of
their daily job, and since the patrol
has been stepped up to more than two
hundred men, it is believed that this
will be one of their new duties.
Whether each driver will have to
undergo an examination or not has not
been made clear.
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$2,054,912 Spent On
Relief Purposes In
State In June
Raleigh, Aug. 4. ? A total of $2,054,
912.45 was expended for all purposes by
the North Carolina emergency relief
administration during June, according
to figures made public today by Mrs.
Thomas O "Berry, state relief adminis
trator. During the month there were
62.010 cases aided, 58,493 families and
3,347 single persons representing a to
tal of 284,436 persons.