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i 4 S A home newspaper dedicated = § to the service of Washington S = County and its 12,000 people. = Ullllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllillllllllllli^ The Roanoke Beacon ******* and Washington County News ******* ' ,/n y ' ■’"ertisers will find Beacon = ^ ’’f jrr t columns a latch-key to § 1 r,.. ^ishington County homes. § =7llllllllllllll!lltllllllllMlllllllllllilllllllilllltlllllllllllllllllllin VOLUME XLV—NUMBER 9 Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina, Friday, March 2, 1934 ESTABLISHED 1889 TAX REDUCTION BY VIRTUE SALES TAX OVER $22,000 Sales Tax Collections ir County for First Six Months, $6,326 Sales tax collections in Washing ton County for the six months period between July 1 anti January 30 a mounted to $6,326, it was learned here today from A. J. Maxwell, Com missioner of Revenue and Harry Mc Mullan, director of Assessments and Collections. The indicated yield of sales taxes for one year in this county is given at $12,652. Of course, this is judged by the first six months and no con sideration is taken of the fact that poor business seasons will come in the period from February to August. Tax relief afforded by the last leg islature in enactment of the sales tax and other measures adopted By them affords property tax reduction of $34, 823 in this county. As the indicated sales tax return for this county is figured at $12,652 then this leaves a property tax reduction in excess of sales tax collections made and anti cipated for the year of $22,171. This property tax reduction is af forded by the removal of the 15-ccnt levy for schools, elimination of levies for current expenses for districts, county-wide and special charter in ex cess of sales tax paid by this county iased on the first six months collcc tons. Included on property tax reduc tions for the year of 1933 are four subjects of tax levy which were ac tu: 1 levies in 1932 as follows: 15-cent St;te-wide levy; current expense for special charter schools; current ex pense for special tax districts: cur rent expense for county-wide levies. Under the act of the 1933 Legis lature the first three were entirely eliminated while the last item was eliminated except as to charges for maintance of plant and fixed charges. Fines, forfeitures, dog taxes and three-fourths of poll taxes are re ceived by the county to take care of levies for this purpose. -$ Licenses Issued Recently By Register of Deeds -$ Licenses to wed issued in Febru ary by Mrs. Mary O. Sawyer, regis ter of deeds, of Washington County, included two couples who were fully old enough to know what they were about, as Cits Mann, 63; and Frances Garrett, 50, both of Plymouth, secur ed the precious documents, as did George Spruill, 50; and Sadie Swain, 62, both of Roper. Others were David Pettiford, Ply mouth, to Mattie Mae Cox, Roper; Wilbur Brooks and Hattie Downing, both of Plymouth; Edward Sawyer, Edenton, to Ruth Ambrose, Ply mouth; John Smallwood, Plymouth, to Eva Downing, Roper; Ernest Dav enport to Lillian Downing, Plymouth. Charles Pritchett to Mildred Dav enport, Creswell: Seaton O. Respass, Plymouth, to Mary E. Latham, Pike Road; Willie Brown to Mary Bate man, Plymouth; Wilson Chesson to Cordelia Swain, Mackcys. -$>— Miss Gertrude Brewer in Training at Hospital -® Miss Gertrude Brewe", daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W C. Brewer, of this place, is now in Rocky Mount, where she has entered .he Park View 31 os pital for a nursing course. Miss Brew er was a former student in the local Jschool and is well known, having met many people while Helping her moth er, who is supet mtemlent of public welfare in this county -$ Rev. Walter R. Noe To Preach Here Sunday -® Rev. Walter R. Noe, of Wilming ton, secretary of the Diocese of East ern North Carolina, will preach here at the morning service Sunday at Grace Episcopal church. I'lie public is invited to attend. -® Dance Pupils To Give Recital Here Friday -® Probably one of the season - most interesting events will take place on Friday night on the stage at the New Theatre when the dancing class, trained by Mrs. McAvoy (formerly Miss Zelma Russ) of Washington, will give a recital. Among the mem bers of the class we find Miss Vir ginia Bradshaw, who recently gave Plymouth such a treat when she ap peared at the New Theatre. A 14 piece band will furnish the musical accompaniment and background. Kay Francis in “The House on 56th Street’ will be shown on the screen before the recital. NO LOANS FROM i THIS COUNTY YET REJECTED Around Fifty Applications Have Been Made; All For Small Sums I i j None of the 50 applications filed for loans with the Home Owners Loan Corporation from Washington Coun ty have been rejected so far, but of course it is not known what will he the fate of some of them in the future, according to Carl L. Bailey, local at | torncy representing This organization in the county. !. These half hundred applicants arc seeking loans totaling close to $4,00(1 from owners who are seeking to save their homes from the grasp of the parties holding mortgages, some oi j which would have foreclosed before now had not the owners opportunity to apply to the government for aid. These loans range in amounts from about $50 to over $1,000 in some cases, but most of them are for small amounts to take care of urgent needs. Mortgages were plastered on the home places to take care of repairs or to , provide ready money for some emer I gency. j At the present it appears that none I of the deserving applicants will be denied, as the bonds issued to the mortgage holder by the government for the home owner are now more in demand and arc rating betttcr in the bond market than was the case when the organization for distributing the loans was perfected. Back in August and September of last year the bonds went down as low as 84 cents on the dollar, while now the government guarantee of the prin cipal and interest, the rate has jumped I to about 96 cents, and at one time they were worth as high as 98 cents on the dollar. Efforts of the government to make these bonds solid have made it so t 'bat the mortgage holders will accept these bonds and in turn release the home owner, who will have plenty of time in which to pay the government which guarantees the bonds—and their interest. Already about $2,000 worth of these bonds have been issuetl to mortgage j holders in Washington County who (would accept them, and now it ap pears that the remaining number will receive the same benefits in time as it is taking time for the state officials to clear up all the legal entanglements entailed in the transaction. 1 he $2,000, while half of the total, does not mean that half of the 50 ap plications have been accepted and re turns made, but it means that the amount of money in question has been settled. The large majority of the ■ applicants wanted smaller sums. Not all of the applications are filed through the office here of Mr. Bailey, but all of them from this county have to come through his office before the transaction is completed, as lie has to look up the titles and deeds. So in this way, Mr. Bailey predicts that already about $2,000 has been passed about in the transaction, but he has little to base his estimate of the balance that is to be paid, as he has not been in contact with all of the applications as yet. Small Child of Mr. and Mrs. Walker Taken To Hospital C reswell.—The four-dav-old child of Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Walker was taken to the Tavloe Hospital Monday suffering from hemorrhagic disease of the newborn. Or. John Tayloe came here Satur day and gave the infant a blood trans fusion. A second was given in Wash ington from blood supplied by Miss Nina Credle. Before marriage, Mrs. Walker was I Miss Rena Harding, prominent rcsi ident of Washington, N. C. -® Warren Visits Byrd Relative To Peanuts Washington, I'eb. 26.—Representa tive Lindsay Warren today conferred with Senator Byrd, of Virginia, in reference to making peanuts a basic commodity under the agricultural ad justment act. Bills are now pending ; before the house committee of agri culture, which were introduced by Mr. Warren and Judge Kerr, while Sena tor Byrd is sponsoring the measure in the senate. Urges Scattering Straw Over Tobacco Plant Bed -$ K. V. Floyd, tobacco specialist, recommends scattering about 30 pounds of clean, oaf, wheat, or rye straw over each 100 yards of tobac | co bed. The straw seems to have a j beneficial effect in controlling downy | mildew. John D. Langston, Jr., Resigns Position Here -- John I). Langston, jr., who has been stationed here since last August J as deputy commissioner of revenue assigned to the special duties of the j collections of the sales tax in Wash ington. Tvrrell, and Hyde Counties, 1 • has resigned and is now ‘.gain living in Goldsboro. i No reason for his resignation was I learned here other than chat the cli mate here was not conducive to the health of his children, who were sick ; at the time they left. I Mr. Langston is the son of Colonel John D. Langston, of Goldsboro, who is well known in state p<: litics, having | served a term a-- state chairman of the Democratic Executive Commit tee. i _~_ - * - TEAMS WIN BUT 1 GAME IN SEASON -$ Local Boys’ Team Has Run of Tough Luck This Season -s Probably the hardest luck team in this section at this time is the boys’ varsity basketball squad of the Ply mouth High School, who have won but one game this season. The locals nosed out Roper, one time by a 19 to 17 count, while the same club from Roper defeated them thrice, by score of 32 to 12, 38 to 8, and 25 to 19. The boys played thru a schedule of 10 games that included some pretty tough opponents. Tine scores and teams they have played follow, with the last mentioned in each case being the score of Ply mouth: Farm Life, 40 to 22; Farm Life 28 to 0; Jamcsville 19 to 6; Gates 29 to 11; Bear Grass, 15 to 9; Farm Life, 25 to 9. The junior varsity girls of the same school lost all three of their tilts, but they showed pluck by holding the op position to low scores, as follows: Creswell, 15 to 8; VVilliamston, 12 to 3; and Farm Life, 12 to 7. These two teams are coached at odd times by Albert Sculley, who has i been in this work after joining the | staff of the local school. The varsity i girls club is coached by Principal E. H. Hicks. FARM NEWS By W. V. HAYS, County Agent ^ The cotton reduction agreements that have not been finished should he attended to right away. The delay will hold up rental payments. -® Legislation is being considered to put tax on cotton grown outside the agreement at half the market price of cotton. -<s> Corn and hog reduction agreements are being signed at the county agent’s office in Plymouth and by Mrs. C. H. Rabon at Creswell. Get your sales substantiated by some neighbor in writing and signed. -$ Now is the time to sow some per manent pasture. Land rented by the government may he planted to per manent pasture. Spring oats with lespedeza and carpet gras*, make ex cellent pasturage. Lespedeza makes good hay and is also a good seeding crop. From 5 to 10 bushels of seed may be saved from an acre of lespedeza hay, if cut rath er late, and still have plenty of seed for reseeding. A peanut reduction, campaign will most likely he started at an early date. The reduction in this crop will probably not be over 10 to 15 per cent. FATHER AND SON BANQUETISHELD BY ROPER CLASS E. N. Meekins Speaker at Meeting of Young Tar Heel Farmers -<s> Roper,—Revealing that seven out j of every ten boys reared in rural ] communities spend the remainder of their lives on the farm, FT B. Meek i ips, of Raleigh, supervisor of voca i tional agriculture in northeastern North Carolina, pleaded for coopera tion between the boys, their parents ! and schools in a speech at the Father and Son banquet here recently. In his speech Mr, Meekins also pointed out man/y interesting facts about farm life in North Carolina and j again and again used statistics to prove his point that the country boy, ' through vocational agriculture in high schools, was extended an op ' portunity to improve his condition. This was the fifth father and son dinner held here. This is an annual occasion when boys and their fathers sit at the same festival board, eat together, hear speakers on farm topics and revel in mirth produced by jokes expounded by the boys and speakers. Elmer Turner, president of the lo | cal chapter of the Young Tar Heel Farmers of North Carolina, served as toastmaster while B. B. Spencer, oldest of the 15 fathers among the 3fi guests, asked the blessings on the re past. Woodrow Collins, for the lads made a toast to the fathers, i Cecil Craft (not the Plymouth bar ber) started the hilarity among the guests with his jokes and gags, while by the time Raymond Ambrose had finished his prophesying of the boys it’, the class and what they would be doing in 1944, the crowd was con vulsed in laughter. One of the most interesting and timely addresses of the evening was made by E. N. Riddle, principal of the local high school, who spoke on Interest Parents Should Have in the School Life of Their Boys.” B. G. O’Brien, head of this department in the school, allowed the boys full charge of the event. The three course dinner—tomato cocktails, chicken salad and dessert— was prepared and served in great style by the members of the parent teacher association. Radio music was furnished for the event. The tables were appropriately decorated for the | occasion. Thomas Sculley Returns To New York After Visit -<$ Thomas Sculley, of New York City, [ a mail teller in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York City, left Tues day for his home after a visit with his brother, Albert Sculley, a mem ber of the local school faculty. The visitor has been connected with the bank for 10 years. The institution is located in the financial district of greater New York, just off Wall Street. Home Agent Announces Schedule for Next Week -& Miss Eugenia Patterson, county home demonstration agent, announces her schedule for afternoons next week as follows: Monday, 4-H cooking group at Ply mouth. Tuesday: Hoke. Wednesday: Roper. Thursday: Chapel Hill. Friday: Beech Grove. Saturday: Curb market. -- Ninety-eight per cent of the hurley tobacco growers of Haywood Coun ty have signed the adjustment con tract. Subscr 'ptions to the Beacon Must Be Paid Now Today the Beacon embarks upon its intensive subscription cam paign. During March, every subscriber to the Beacon will be visited and offered an opportunity to renew their subscription. Unless they do so then their paper will be stopped. Postal regulations require paid-in advance subscribers. It is too expensive to send the papers out to peo ple in arrears. The canvassers will spend every moment possible in visiting the delinquent subscribers. Please prepare for a canvasser. They will sure ly visit you this month. Be prepared to pay them in cash or produce. Something must be done. Get your receipt from the canvasser to avoid mistakes. New subscribers will be sought. See any of the following about your subscription. Prepare and see them before they call on you. Help them along. Liberal discounts will be allowed by them and generous prices will be paid for produce. Help the management and the canvassers to put the circulation on a better basis. These are duly appointed subscription solicitors: Miss Mildred Mar row, Mrs. Delma Peal, Miss Callie Davenport, Walter H. Paramore. Fined After Assault on Officers Last Saturday -$ J. S. (Jack) Brown, jr., was re quired to pay not more than $25 to ward the doctors’ fees for attending Patrolman George W. Coburn and to have a glass replaced in a showcase in the Plymouth Cafe by Recorder Darden here Tuesday. Jack was arraigned on charges of being drunk and disorderly as the re sult of a fracas in the local cafe last Friday night. He hit Policeman George Coburn on the nose, breaking it, and assaulted P. W. Brown. Judg ment in the case was continued until March 13 to allow Brown to comply with the order of the court. -® VOICE HEARD 16 YEARS AGO REMEMBERED Government Agent Has Re markable Memory for Sound John Lanier may not remember faces but his recollection of voices is almost perfect. Sixteen years ago Henry Chopic was making a speech in certain quar ters in an up-state town in New York when federal agents swooped down on the place dispersing the crowd and breaking up the meeting. Before they entered to bring the meeting to an abrupt end the gov ernment men stopped at the door to listen and they heard the guttural tones of a man speaking in foreign language and then they acted. Lanier was in the group of agents Little did he see of the speaker as darted for cover or was being ques tioned by the leading officers of the government as Lanier was busy with others in driving away the audience. The raid was caused by a tip that communists were having a meeting. In the dark clouds of the World War no criticism of the government or the spreading of propaganda against patriotism. Instead of this they fell in on a group of socialists. Lanier was in the beer parlor here of Alexander when Chopic entered talking in his broken English that carried the foreign accent. It sound ed familiar. Stirring the recesses of his brain he remembered that he had heard the same voice in the New i York town. , He picked a conversation with : Chopic who admitted his identity. No arrests were made in the raid and | no charges were brought so there was nothing to embarrass the former I justice agent and the socialist, so they chatted together amicably, j In no way could Lanier have re I membered the name of Chopic as in , those days Chopic was known as i fvachiuw. When he came here and , they cultivated many local friends of j English descent the family changed to the surname of Chopic which was the family name of Ivachiew’s wife before marriage. His children today arc known as Ivachiuws. C hopic as a socialist thinks that j President Roosevelt is a revolution ist or rather a reformer as he has changed the system of economics and is bringing many other reforms into government and politics. He appears to he a man of the hour, according to Chopic. At tlie age of 17 years Chopic came to America from Austria, living in New York for sometime, and as fate would have it, moved down to Wash ington County where lie has been for a number of years. Lanier is an in surance man and was here in the in terest of his company when he heard Chopic. The Chopics here are very nice people and with their two children are well known. Tnougli well vers ed in the tenets of socialism only a few around here before this time knew the political views of Chopic as he uses most of his time in his store and not in arguing his views. Colored Team Wins Over Bricks Junior College! * . . i 1 lie Washington County Training School quint howled over the Bricks Collegions here Tuesday night, 54 to 38, before a large crowd. This was the first defeat this year for the visi tors, who defeated Shaw University,' Chapel Hill. Raleigh, Durham, and other colored quints in a row. Ransome led Ahc locals with 21 points, followed by Principal Berry, who annexed 18 to help his mates at forward, while Roberts counted 7 and Spruill 5 at the guard positions. Gray, center, played a good game for the visitors, collecting 14 points. The locals have dropped only 4 games out of 12 this season. Berry was allowed to play by the collegians, as they were a college quint playing a high school team with the exception of the principal. FUGITIVE GIVES HIMSELF UP TO OFFICERS HERE Zion Alexander, Wanted in Beaufort for Murder, Surrenders Here -G> 1 Weary and cold on a wintry day after spending a restless night roam ing the places less frequented by man kind, Zion Alexander, negro, wanted I for inurd r in Beaufort County, was i Tuesday afternoon turned over to of ficials from the near-by county after surrendered himself here. The stinging cold drove Alexander into the clutches of the law here to secure temporary comfort when lie walked up to Sheriff J. K. Reid and explained that he was a fugitive from justice and that he wanted to surren der himself. Alexander, known and reported in the newspapers to be named Arm strong, is wanted for the murder of I Roscoe Radcliffe, white man, in Bel hav last Saturday night, after he was alleged to have shot him dead with a pistol on the streets of the Beaufort County town. The negro admitted that he shot Radcliffe, allegedly because Radcliffe followed him dowrn the street and pushed his (Alexander's) wife off of the street and cursed him, shoving him down an incline from the side walk into the street. Alexander said that he did not mean to kill Radcliffe, but he w’as seized with sudden anger and wheeled a round after having been insulted and shot the white man in the back, drop ping him to the ground. Realizing what he had done he fled. 1 here has been an intensive man hunt on in that section of the state since the slaying of Radcliffe, and in the meantime Alexander had wan dered around cold and hungry, evad ing the authorities until his resistance was worn with the continual vigil. lie was reported to have been taken to Raleigh for safe-keeping by the Befort County sheriff. ACTIVITIES OF SCOUTTRQOP -® Eight New Members Are Added; Scouts Are Now Directing Traffic . The regular meeting of the local , Boy Scouts troop was Held last Wed nesday night, the regular meeting time, with a large number of scouts present. Eight new members have been added to the troop since its re I organization. Wc have started the routine of di recting traffic at the intersection of Main and Washington Streets for the primary school children. The members of the troop have been on duty for about one week. Last week we assisted our scout master in preparing for and removing decorations at the Brinkley hotel. H c sincerely hope that the meeting of all the teachers of the county was a success, because we really worked hard trying to make it so. All the hoys in our troop under stand that there is one tiling that is not tolerated, namely, that no hoy shall in any way tel! less: than the truth about any matter. The infor mation is ours that should anyone not tell the truth, we will he one mem her less than at presen*.—Reporter. Tenants Entitled To Part Of Payments on Cotton All rental or parity payments un der the cotton reduction contract are equally divided between owners and managing share-tenants. In case of cash-tenants, the tenant receives the iull rental and parity payments dur ing the term of his lease. Where the tenant is farming on shares the pay ments are made to the owner, but lie is under contract to turn over to the tenant a part of the parity payment as determined b\ tin tenant’s share of the crop. --$> Distribution of Checks Boosts Signing Contracts --fc rile distribution of cotton option checks in Bertie County recently boosted the signing of cotton-reduc-l lion contracts. Ninety per cent of the growers having options on govern-! merit cotu a secured the loan of 4 cents a pound. Small Crain Will Be Aided By Top Dressing of Soda Small grain damaged by recent cold weather will be aided by a top dressing of nitrate of soda. The ni trate should be applied just before the plants begin to tiller, say extension specialists at State College. 100 GROWERS AT MEET HELD HERE LAST SATURDAY Resolutions Advocate Com pulsory Control of Acreage -® Upwards of 100 peanut growers were present at the meeting held here j Saturday morning, at which time a resolution was passed endorsing the I movement to control the acreage of I the nuts in this country this year. The meeting was called at the be l hcost of \V. R. Hampton, chairman of the board of Washington County 'commissioners, and A. L. Owens, one 'of the largest growers in the county, ; with \V. V. Hays, county farm agent, explaining the purpose of the meet ing. I The following resolution was passed: "Wheeras, there has been a ten dency for several years to annually increase the acreage planted in pea nuts, this being accounted for princi pally by the fact that the peanut belt ; has continuously expanded in area. And whereas, the peanut growers 'anticipate with alarm that farmers i within wdiat is the present peanut belt and in other territory capable of pro ducing peanuts, may greatly increase the acreage planted in peanuts in the years 1934, on account of the fact that acreage reductions are being made I in other cash crops, and even that acreage leased to the United States government under reduction ag.ree ! mints may possibly be planted in pea [ nuts on account of the fact that pea nuts have not been designated by act | of Congress as one of the basic crops | under recent agricultural legislation, 'and which would not b eprohibited as would be the case with other crops which have been so designated. | “And whereas, the present produc 'd s of peanuts feel that their position 1 is endangered to a greater extent in | the calendar year 1934 than ever be fore on account of the situation as stated. ' "Therefore, be it resolved that the I United States Senators from North j Carolina, and the members of congress i from the various districts of the state : of North Carolina, and particularly i Hon. Lindsay C. Warren, member of j Congress from the first congressional district, arc extremely urged to spon sor and support immediate enactment of legislation by Congress naming peanuts as an additional basic farm crop, to be governed and controlled by the same laws applicable to tobac co, cotton, and other crops. That it is the sense of the peanut growers of Washington County, North Carolina, that a compulsory control plan of acreage reduction, to be based on the production for the years 1929-30-31-32-33, would best serve the interest of the present growers in the present peanut belt. That such plans should be so de visvd as to absolutely prohibit plant ing of peanuts in any quantity on farms not heretofore producing pea nuts. That plans for the consumma tion of the above or some similar plans should be rushed to completion as quickly as possible on account of the urgency of the situation and the nvarness of the planting season for peanuts. W. A. Swain Named As Trustee for Drys Mackeys.—VV. A. Swain, wfinning candidate in tlie prohibition election last November, when he carried the county as a dry, has been named a trustee for this county in the perma nent organization formed by the United Dry Forces. Mr. Swain will help in the state work of obtaining better enforcement of prohibition laws and to promote temperance education. The state board of trustees, of which Mr. Swain is a member will meet in Raleigh on March 20 to elect officers for the per manent organization. tale K. Burgess, state director of the United Dry Forces, has declared: The people of North Carolina are greatly interested in the election of a General Assembly that will not leg alize the manufacture and sale of al coholic beverages or attempt in any way to weaken our present prohibi tion laws.” -^ Seventh Graders To Take Tests March 21 Seventh grades in fhe Washington County public schools had just as well get down to some hard studying as they will have to stand their usu al test> on March 21, it was learned today from James W. Norman, super intendent of public instruction. Already the order for the test ques tions have been placed with the pub lisher by j. Henry Highsmith, of Ra leigh, director of the division of in structional service in the North Car olina schools.