Single Copy 5 Ccntfc
4i Year, In Advance,
■FOR GOO, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH."
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VOL. 36
PLYMOUTH, N. C., FRIDAY, AUG. 7,1925
Sli'E IS BEHIND
I SUICIDE RATE
AMERICAN RATE 15 PER 100,000
WHILE IN NORTH CAROLINA
RATE IS ONLY 3.9.
Raleigh.
With the 1924 suicide rate in Ameri
ca a little over 15 per 100,000 popula
tion North Carolina lags far and hap
pily behind, with a rate of 3.9 per 100,
000 population, according to figures for
the State compiled by the State Board
of Health. The suicide rate in Raleigh,
however, was 6.5.
The highest suicide rate per 100,000
population was in. San Diego, Cal.,
where it was 45.2. Strangely enough
San FYancisco with 37.8 and Los An
geles with 32.8, were in second and
third places, giving uncontested hon
ors to California.
In North Carolina during 1924 there
were 108 suicides, of which 94 were
white persons, 13 negroes and one In
dian. Sixty-four of the total number
of suicides used firearms to kill them
selves. Ten of the 13 negroes suicides
used guns.
Asheville led the State curing the
period with seven suicides. Charlotte
was second with four. In Greensboro,
Hamlet, Rocky Mount, Raleigh, Salis
bury and Winston-Salem there were
two sucides each. Kinston and High
Point each had three suicides during
the year.
Kee Saved From Death Chair.
Judge Thomas J. Shaw and Solicitor
Porter Graves, two of"the slowest trail
officers to interfere with jury verdicts,
saved Ernest Kee from the electric
chair and the Forsyth boy of 19 years
will get a life sentence at hard labor.
The removal of Kee from death
chamber will make space for another
corrdemned man. The prison is filling
up with capital felons and it had been
emptied after a record-breaking half
year for the electric chair. There are
only four men awaiting death days;
but there are numerous men held for
•afebreaking who will later be sent
back, condemned to death and then
brought back to die.
Announces New Advisory Board.
An advisory board to make an inves
tigation and survey of the scope of the
work that should be undertaken in
the future at Caswell Training School
at Kinston, was appointed by Gover
nor A. W. McLean. Members of the
advisory board are: Dr. W. S. Ran
kin, Raleigh, chairman; Dr. Thomas
W. Vernon, Morganton; Dr. Thurman
D. Kitchin, Wake Forest; AV. C. Dowd,
Sr., Charlotte; Gilbert T. Stephenson,
Raleigh; Captain Nathan O'Berry,
Goldsboro; Henry A. Page, Aberdeen,
and J. O. Carr, Wilmington.
Deny Right to Sue State College.
Contending that although the North
Carolina State College has been de
clared a corporation by statute it is
still a mere institution of the State
and therefore cannot be sued, Attorney
General Dennis G. Brummitt and As
sistant Attorney General Frank Nash
filed a demurrer in the Waae County
Superior Court t,o the complaint filed
recently in the suit of Emmett Mc
Coy, negro janitor, for $5,000 damages
for personal injuries while working
at the college.
Financial Satement on Prison.
Governor McLean announced that a
detailed statement of the financial
status of the State’s Prison would be
Issued soon.
“A public accountant, employed by
the State auditor’s department, made
an audit of the prison at the same
time audits were made of other Insti
tutions,” he said. “His report is in
the course of preparation, and as soon
as it is completed it will bo given out
for publication.”
Prisoner Gets Brief Parole.
Governor McLean has paroled Oscar
Dacus, o£ Mecklenburg county, who
was convicted of prohibition violation
at the July, 1924, term of court and
sentenced to serve 18 months on the
county roads. He has been 12 months
In prison.
Governor McLean places the clem
ency on the ground of first offense
and further on the perhaps fatal ill
ness of the prisoner’s father. The
parole, however, lasts only a few days.
The prisoner is to return to the camp
on or before August 15 and give him
self up to the sheriff. A right to re
voke this brief parole is reserved by
the governor. .
Otis Wright, of Cleveland county,
and B. F. Dickerson, of Wilson, are
not so lucky. They are serving 12
and six months respectively for pro
hibition violations and their petitions
gro declined. _ __ .
story to Peal’s carriage facto
ry is a decided improvement.
Misses Blanche Barden
and Miry Hilliard have been
visiting Miss Nellie Chesson.
Mrs. J. H. Smith and
daughter, Isolind, have been
spending a few days in Rop
er.
create Bureau at State Prison.
Superintendent George Ross Pou of i
the State’s Prison addressed a letter |
to each sheriff of the State and to 150
chiefs of police throughout the State,
calling tlielr attention to an act of the
recent General Assembly creating a
State Bureau of Identification.
Superintendent Pou announced the
appointment of Deputy Warden H. H.
Honeycutt as director of the State
Bureau of Identification. Deputy
Warden Honeycutt has for the past
three years been in charge of the iden
tification department of the State's
Prison and is one of the leadding
finger print exeptrs of the South, hav
ing been so declared by the chief of
(he Bureau of Identification of the city
of Richmond. Deputy Warden Honey
cutt will perform his additional duties (
without* increase in his present com- ;
pensation. The act creating the Bu
reau of Identification was sponsored
by the Police Chief’s Association and
by Superintendent Pou.
Mr. Pou stated that the taking of
finger prints was not alone for the
purpose of detecting criminals but for
the protection of the innocent as welL
Within a few years the bureau is
expected to be of invaluable assis
tance to Solicitors in giving in detail
the former prison record, if any, of
the defendant. The informaitcn
should also be of aid to the trial judgo
in determining tho sentence of the
prisoner.
The Identification Bureau of the
State’s Prison was established by Su
perintendent Pou during his first term
of office. The Bureau has been high
complimented by Wm. J. Burns, for
mer Cliief of the Bureau of Investiga
, tion of the United States Department
of Justice. It was established after
Mr. Pou had conferred with Mr. Burns
relative to the most modern method*
in uso.
; There are on file now more than
2500 prints of State Prisoners.
Thirty Counties Benefited.
When loans by seventeen counties
,o the State Highway Commission al- j
ready approved are executed, the ■
State Highway construction fund will !
Have been supplemented by $12,313,000 !
and thirty counties will either have j
benefited or will he in way of recciw |
ing benefits of road construction j
. whioh otherwise they might have wait- '
‘ e l years for in the pro rata dlststbu* j
tirn of bond money. j
Thirteen counties have already |
oaned ,he State commission $6,064,040. i
Cleveland Flags Fly at Htrif Mast ;
Cleveland.—Flags on aU municipal
buildings here will fly at half mast in
honor of William Jennings Bryan,
until after his funeral. This announce
ment was made by William J.. Murphy, j
secretary of City Manager William H.
Hopkins, in the absence from, the city
of Mr. Hopkins and Mayor C„ C. I
Townes.
The country has lost, its leader in j
politics and religious movements. New- j
.on D. Baker, former secretary of wajr, |
declared when informed of tho death
"of William Jennings Bryan.
Bicscle For Sale—in Rood con
dition; Herman Chesson, Route 2
A Home Suggestion
THE SPIRITUAL STANDARD OF A COMMUN
ITY IS STAMPED 3Y ITS CITIZENRY. THE
TOWN OR COMMUNITY WITH THE WELL-FIL
LED CHURCH PEWS IS THE PROSPEROUS; THE
PEACEFUL AND HAPPY PLACE IN WHICH TO
LIVE- BECAUSE- THEREIN ARE PEOPLE WHO
KNOW THE WISDOM OF THE PRACTICE OF
‘“THE GOLDEN RULE.”
IN THIS DAY OF MOTOR CARS - GOOD
ROADS AND THE APPEAL OF PLEASURE—EVERY
CITIZEN SHOULD TAKE PARTICULAR CARE TO
SEE THAT THE SPIRITUAL STANDARD OF HIS
HOUSEHOLD IS NOT WEAKENED. CHURCH
SERVICES HAVE THEIR UPLIFTING INFLUEN
CES WHICH CANNOT BE EXPLAINED IN MERE
WORDS- IT IS ESSENTIAL THAT EVERY MOTH
ER AND FATHEtR-BY EXAMPLE-GIVE THE.'R
CHILDREN EVERY OPPORTUNITY TO BALANCE
THEIR LIVES WlTH CHURCHINFLUENCES-THE
SPIRITUAL—AS WELL AS *THE MATERIAL.
WHY NOT ESTABLISH A STANDARD IN YOUR
HOME THAT EVERY MEMBER OF THE FAMILY
WILL ATTEND CHURCH SE JWICES REGULARLY?
EACH MEMBER SHALL GO TO THE CHURCH OF
HIS OR HER CHOICE—BUT BY MUTUAL AGREE
MENT ALL SHALL GO
—and—THIS SUNDAY
Kaao)"
•SKSSBt-l VSSSMBO»<>-tf.
Basket Fic-Nic At
. Wenona
Mr. J. L. Ray superintendent
of Blackland fehiperipnent Stati
on. which is a state conducted
farm operated at Wenona, was
here this week passing out in
vitations to the people as a whole
to attend a Field Day and Basket
Pic—Nic which is to be held at
that place Thursday of next
week.
Full program appears else
where in this issue. The people
of that section joim Mr. Ray in
issuing this invitation and it is
expected that a large crowd
will attend. The occasion is well
worth the trouble it takes to
prepare for it and it is hoped
that Plymouth wifj be well rep
resented.
Frank Davenport
Mr. Frank Davenport, aged
81 years, died at his home near
Bath, last Sunday at, 9:30 A.. M.
after a very brief illness. He
was* bured in the community
grave yard Monday afternoon.
The deceased was born in this
county and Proved to Beaufort
county about th’rty years ago.
He is survived by two sons,
Messrs T. F., and Luther Dav
enport af Oak City, and two
daughters, Mrs. George Cutler
and Mrs- Virginia Ga y of Bath.
R. L. 'Whitehurst
D. D, S.
Offict; in the Harney Building
for practice of Dental Surgery.
Office hours: 8:30 to 5:30
Special appointments can be
made for any hou'.rs.
Phone 79
Sunday School
Institute
A Sunday School Institute for
religious workers will be held at
the Methodist church at Mack
eys begining Friday night, Au
gust 7th, and running through
Saturday.
Rev. H. E. Spencer of Duke Un
iversity and Mr. L. L. Gabbel
our Sunday School field secretary
will conduct the institute.
Sunday School officers and
teachers and others interested ir
a better trained church and Sun
day School are invited and urged
to attend.
VV. G. Lowe
Two Million Dollar Hotel.
Hendersonville.—J. I5- Stolz, ownei
ai the Fleetwood Hotel in Miami, Fin.,
and prominent Flo da and New York
Hotel man, announced his intention ol
erecting a liotel iiere similar to h
Vliami hotel, costing approximated
fL'dOO.OOO. Mr. Stoltz made his an
no-.'nwment at a banquet given by the
lor-id chamber of commerce. He alsr
.wmonTH-ed that he would construed
\ hr,* be described as one of the hu
gest Im'adcasting stations in the Unit
ad r.tatobS. Work « n the projects wii
start with the least practical delay.
To Abolish New State Salaries.
It was officially predicted that th<
new schedules to be reported by th<
Salary and Wage Commission will no
he approved by the CovCTnor and pt:
.Vto effect bet'ore October.
The prediction was accompanied h;
She official announcement that Juliai
Price', chairman of the commission
will not return to the State from
business trip .until August IQ and the
the next meeting of the commlssio;
! will not lx* hel l until after that datt
I The repoa: : t’ the commission wa
iue ou .Tuly 1. but was delayed.
R.F.D. 2, Plymouth
sso
Party For Popular
Bride-Elect.
Miss Mavis Thigpen enter
tained Wednesday morning with
a delightful bridge and rook par
ty h noring her sister, Miss Mar
tha Tri pm, a bride-elect of this
month, i h_> guests were receiv
ed at the door by the hostess and
shown into t h e iiving room
where the tables were arranged.
There were prizes for the top
score3^and an attractive bride’s
book for the honor guest.
Little Miss Meredith Johnson,
dressed as a minature br,de, pre
i sented the book in a very origi
nal manner.
Those attending were Misses
Isa Gordon Tucker, Sue Frai k
White and Mrs. Nathan Tucker
of Hertford, Misses Inez Bell,
Hope Hardison, Madeline Moore,
Dorothy Williams, Stella Ayers,
Mesdames B. G- Campbell, A. L.
Owens, H. A. Widifo.d, Robert
Johnston, J. B. Edmondson, J.B.
Flaugher, Van B. Mai,tin. W. R.
Hampton, W. H. Clark, Henry
Blount, A. B. Litchfield, E. I)
Carstarphen, F. J. Knight, Cic -
ro Norman, Macon Norman, Jas
W. Norman, R. P. Walker, Lew
is Horton, E G. Arps, Herman
Alexander, A. L. Alexander, B.
F. Read, J. W, Read, H. V. Aus
tin, H. A. Liverman, Abe Adier,
P. W. Brinkley and Zeno Lyon.
iligl.wuys Letting Draw Many Bids.
Eighty contractors submitted bids
foe twelve highway projects at a let*
ting by the State Highway Commis
sion. The projects will cost the State
around $2,000,000.
The low bid for the twelve projects
were as follows:
Project 131-B: Hyde county: 8.19
miles of paving on Route 91 from
Scranton to Swan Quarter. Low bid
for roadway by Frank Mitchell Con
struction Company, of Aulauder, at
$150,647.70.
Project 197: Washington county:
11.7(1 miles of paving on Route 90 bo
tween Roper and Martin county line.
Low bid for roadway by F. J. Mo
Quire, of Norfolk, at $726,004.
| Projesct 24G: Jones county. 7.72
; miles of grading on Route 30 be
tween Polocksville and Onslow county
line. Low bid for roadway by Nello
L. Teer. of Durham, at. $57,73(1.80.
i Project 395: Robeson county: 10.5
■ miles of grading and structures on
Route 21 between Lumberton and
j Cumberland county line. Low bid for
roadway by Jamison Brothers. Inc., at
i $52,923. Low bid for structures by
j Rhyne and Kitchen at $63,573.15.
j Project 424: Franklin county:.
, 5.73 miles of paving on Route 90 be
tween Wake and Nash county lines.
, Low bid for roadway by Zaigler Broth
ers at $135,543.70.
Project 434: Granville county: 6.19
miles of paving on Route 75 between
Oxford and the Tar Rivep. Low bid
for roadway by R. G. Lassiter -and
Company, of Oxford, at $195,520.20.
Project 547: Hoke county: 13.73
miles of grading and structures on
Route 70 between Reaford and Moore
county line. Loci' bid for roadway by
J. A. Marrow at $56,210.25.
Project f;S5: Randolph county: 2.23
miles of paving on Routes 70 and 75
east and south form Asheboro. Low
bid for roadway gy Ziegler Brothers
at SGI,420.
Project CIS: Cabarrus county: 2.07
miles of paving on Route 74 between
ML Pleasant and Stanley county
Hue. Low bid for roadway by Ziegler
Brothers at $113,012.95.
Project 851: McDowell county:
12.07 rules of grading and structures
on Route 104 from the intersection
with Route 10 to Yancey county line.
Low bid for roadway by W. if. And: r
non Construction Company at $277,
s 747.40. Low bid for structures by Ah
! bert Brothers. Inc., at $41,860.40.
Project 883: Rutherford county:
9.40 miles of paving on Route 20 be
tween Forest City and Cleveland coun
' ty line. Low bid for roadway by \Yil
1 son Construction Company at $275,
• 1)47.20. Low Dirt for structures by Ap
1 palacliian Conctruotion Company at
1 $11,330.
1 . Project 889: Yancey county: 7.81
' miles of grading and structures on
' Route 104 between Harvard and M ■
|j well county line. Low bid for road
- v.-ay by W. H. Anderson Construction
| Company at $73,848.20. Low bid i'o!
i structures by Albert Brothers, luc„ at
I $26,140.50.
f m OFFERS GASH PRIZE
Will Give Prize at Exposition This
Fall For Best Display of Cotton
Dresses.
PEarJdffe.—ITove'rnnr V'. Me Lean
is not stopping with a vmbal 1 ' of
approval of th. id a of increasing the
interest among the women of North
Carolina in making their own gar
ments from Carolina-made good3. but
is now offering.a cash prize of $100 in
a contest to he held by the Made-in
Carolinaa Exposition this fall.
Governor McLean's offer came in a
letter to Mrs. Mayme Moore Sifford,
director of the fashion and fabric de
partment of the exposition, who vis
ited the governor's office recently and
secured from him a letter, of hearty
approval and endorsement of the idea
this department is. trying, to carry to
the w; men of the two states.
Details of the ward have not been
worked out. Governor McLean an
nouncing that he is so much interest
ed in promoting the. use of cotton
go.,ds in the making of wearing ap
parel that he is planning to offer a
prize of $100 for the I rest display of
dresses made from phoducts of the
North Carolina cotton mills.
Governor McLean’s letter to Mrs.
Sifford follows:
“Referring to our recent conversa
tion in regard to the Made-in-Oaro
linas Exposition, I am much interest
ed in promoting the use of cotton
goods in the making of wearing ap
'd have in mind offering a prize of
.-TOO to be awarded at your exposition
th. fall for the best display of ladies’
dresses made of products from North
Carolina cotton mils . Please look into
the matter and snag st to me if this
is practicable, and if so. what the
terms of th<- contest should be so as
to bring ab.—it the greatest amount of
interest.
“I am tremendously intorestd in the
success of this movement to increase
the use of North Carolina cotton
made good--.
“Sincerely Yours,
(Signed) ANGUS W. McLEAN,
"Governor.’'
Seaboard Air Line Extension.
Asheville.—Tentative plans for the
extension of the flfcabottrd Air Line
railway to Heudni .-.onvillc were an
nounced at a banquet riven by the
Henri e i son villa clu tuber if sue.
Solomon D. Warii-hi. . . 1 mi of the
Seaboard, is now in York city
negotiating with h •!•!; . f s the loan
of $35 000,000 for thrt fm ng of ilia
extension, it was iiiiinua .•(!, .old ac
cording to present indhat the rail
road extension into H m Hid sv ill
bo a reality of the near ht'uro.
The plans, hove nut. is ■ .. .. m on need
in detail, but it is g. n rally uu lo,-stood
that the extension v.i.l lie Xt ni . h
eri: niton through the i as- y jlock
section.
Jones and Onslow Have E'.ie Tc.’js:: ;o.
Kinston.—Jones and 411.. ■ ;■aun
ties have produced th • tin -t i si
crops since 1918, acorn r 1 ■<• -l
warehousemen returning ‘r-. u a ai
ming” in that territory. Tee o a •/
of Hie weed in these, cornu h - is n
perior to that in Lenoir id :• >. • '
the central counties of tli • >
yield will be of bumper p: apart'' s.
The “stand" in Jones is r - b r
than last year’s, while Onslaw, n ;• ■
among the Kudin:1 hi edit leaf t aim
, is believed to have made the lar; •:*.
j crop, in its h;.» lory; Cultural cot
, ditions ever Knee transplanting' d s
have been “perfect" in the lower be .
Campaign Against Fires.
Raleigh. An active camnahni
| against forest fires is being waged
t North Carolina, headed by Govern r
McLean, who, in cooperation with :ne
state department of conservation un i
development, has sounded many not s
of warning. The rovernor, in an ad
ciresa at Asheville, outlined his for
estry policy as enunciated by him on
previous occasions, and urged the peo
ple to unite in fighting forest fires.
During his address at Asheville, the
governor pledged She support of his
administration to all engaged in the
work of fighting forest fires, lie de
clared a united public opinion would
prove a very effective weapon land, at
the same time, urged educational
Campaigns against this form of waste,
to he carried on in the schools and
colleges.
The department of conservation and
development has assigned speakers to
numerous institutions, including n. uy
of the summer schools, to tell of die
evil results of fores' fires. 1
Large School of Cro p.
Madison. One i: . weighing 11 1-2
pounds and 21 m.W !.■ ;• (TOffilse-. 1 of
which weighed th v or Tour pon ids
each, were caught in Dan river, a few
miles below town one day this week
by Abe Neal and Stokesdale.