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I d?rfa? wft* pj^ggn^eg up to 800 ^ (ff I XrCZv W ' ?? ?r_*,r **? , ?? m mK Mfflcfv * wp I I jQ^, ^ I tltfji )wn tNfls* i IlLm!"*- it ttfWt JU* ,*^ | - Ode wOa^P . ***** Rfffny^i*^ * vwJUa *ffW jr WuWiVljr All W1UW1 Ct X^Wmv TJI 1 ??.'*? otlMro I [ThO ,iRtUTWff' -v- tfc- *? I^sriii uffrmng imdbMimmi^ they^jroroa ChSw?lW.b^Crumley nat to ed the negro was sttf alive. A few , /e a ??f<w amIMAI ft minutes aster uvnttys amvai, toe ed f or a drink of water. Hf waa brought to Darin and given mrdirel attention. Deputy Sheriff Malone then told Coroner Crumley thai he and hia two companion officers early this morning approached a negro house, and that Bryan ran out, find two pistol shots at Hw and fled. MwV)?* said he find onee at the fleeing negro with his shotgun, and that the negro dropped. The negro had been wounded by a shot gun eharge in the chest and bad an additional wound in the head He was returned to Darien in a truck, with an escort of national guardsmen in an automobile. The shooting of Bryan followed the invasion of the county jail here yes terday by a group of men who killed Prod Grant, another negyro held for the attack on the officers* in his celL Grant was placed in prison early that day after a gun battle with officers in which Robert L. Freeman, chief of Glynn county police, was killed and Deputy Sheriff J. H. Collins of Mcin tosh county, and John Fisher, a resi dent of Darien, were wounded. The officers had traded the negroes into a swamp after they had shot and wounded R. J. Anderson, the night marshal at Darien, who suspect ad them of attempting to rob a bank and sought to arrest them. ? . STORE FOR $30,000 ES^ r SMtMSaMMeSBimB -.???V ?i ? ? -f-r*' .r. Miss Roseau Lamm of Lu came, Sues Chartes Stores In Bad Check Case. R Greenville, Sept 9.?The civil term et Pitt. County Superior court which convened in this dty yesterday with Judge Walter L. Smsfi, of Elizabeth City, preaidi^v involving the case of Miss Boeelyu'Lautm* of Lucama, a gainst the Charles Stores of this dty. ' Jiha Lamm is suing the concern for the mm of $30,000, and the en tire action is centered around a check AaWSSR ' ? TCss Lamm, a former student of the East Carolina Teachers College, loaned checks on her father's banking ?eeenat while in school here. -The Charles Stores allege thai a check for W *m Rhren to them by Miss! amp and that collection waa denied when i v wiUm ni x/BCEiro. Miss Lamm waa said to have stop ped payment on the cheek, dabbing that it wae forged. The Charles Stores immediateiy started legal action and the young woman was arrested on the streets of Tsicama and ordered to ap the charge of giving a bed check. Sfie was found not guilty and immediately The case promises to be one of the most steUmrnly contested of the George Tsanoff, of Sofia. Bulgaria aaaerte that he has set anew world r?aati>y smoking 144 dgmrettCs In "L\ . ; ?* *? Iif '" i f *'??-" j' ?._ j '' H ?'iK29F s- ?i"~v. _ * -' ^.-'???- VSB "flu I ea *??^1^4 &*" t?* KS^ .?. ? . 58 l ' WilP _ ^y? I I llll'ft f^il 4t M?Jk AM ? ^-' ^ ,. -a I v_ mm ?' ? ^S ? I ? ? ?;?. .MHMt.l-iiMWWHg^By Ily 8 MM ^ ym, " - , ._ jfc-? ? ?'k<i-.' ( I >?? ^ .#1 I OltvW J1 Hii ??l^RVwll9'i I (Mmnpr (ififlHIiBMfcl ? I 7.vS wWP,,MV?? *?? ???? ? ?'? v>7! I w^. . #? s_ ^1m_- ;? ? '.. ?, - .'" BEMdRt ' 'lAr -'-. -?-7i.^.'V ^ IT JLl -?_!-"? :'. II [ frfy fifr^tip*fffy? J I! fully tlu? l4li%Tav? import of the I mifVt Hill iirMint fA 1LA ?infg>i tnoHfii | W2W1 TcopeCl W MBUMr I present economic situation in Nvtt I eratively anki determinedly, to face with inteTHgence and courage fight I our way back to solid ground. At the present prevailing prices of I tobacco and .cotton,. the cash incoipe I of the fanners of North Carelta*fd? I 000,090 less this year than Wa^re- | l eaved from cotton and tobaoco "in ? 1929. In 1929, the cash income from l ? these crops wat$42iOI6j900 lsas tfcanl I I in 1927. The effect of cutting off $89*- I [000,000 from-the productive gross ii>-' I come of- the two big >agfrf|ri|uuif ? crops of North Carolina in tfeppe I ? years means something?and means 1 | something big^-to every citizen, in- I I stitution, occupation and professlon'm ? I this itstt. A decrease of S4O,O00gf011 ? in the gross income of-the mast-proa- a I perous businesses and the mdefprtdk ? ? perous individuals in this state rep- I ? resents h staggering blow, not only I I to them, but to all the rot of usjfl I farmers of North Carolina is a devas* j tating blow that taker its 'tolMlrt m* ? I lone from the land owner and the ten- I I ant but from the state itself. As Gov I erAor, nothing gives me graver con I cern than the problem of attempting I I to adjust the public service of North I ? Carolina to the economic conditions I I today confronting our state. Tbis year, at the prevailing prices, I 1 will lack $24,000,000 of bringing as I I much ar la 1929, and that the tobac I co crop will laek more than |15>D00^ I 000 of bringing as much it thereilb I ties is selling for less than befW^Uftl War, and no authority in the govern' ? I ment hesitates to say that both C3t Iton and tobacco are selling belMr I cost of production. I11 October, 19S I ? the Federal Farm Board stated tha? I ? 18 cents per pound was too low a I I price for cotton and actually pegged I I the price and " purchased l^SO^Ob ? I bales at 16 cents per pound. Aprfl '15, I 11980, the Board took cold feet- and 1 I [peg ^the price. Cotton today sells for I | $80 a bale, under the 16 cents level; ? Tbe-weiid-knows that at their psput I [prices cotton and tobacco are selling I [below dhe cost cf production. EM? I [thoughtful: citizen knows the present I ?prices 5Bf cotton and tobacco insrita- ? I We have met herts today to take ac [EMtMn^rWe are face* inseems ?to*'mar- with bwn-jwoMem*i Rm, I I what can-bw dene be improve therim- I (mediate ifttf *ifrirtnc^iTiri/ iho|i1 ?can we prevent our present condlttoh IpM can we do to meet the im-jl I mediate situation ? Is there an j thing I ? that this group or the agencies of tltfajl state can do to* Impiwre^h# frrtSMht I tobacco for th? farmer TODAY ? 11 stgte to you in all tincettfty "tint if I any practical or sound proposal can I be--advanced to do this I, as Governor^ I a# ready?nay, anxious?to; throw I the full power of the state to em- I bpee the mown** Spind I believe I that there is a way end that this eon-J it* to discover it and set it beforetbel rest of the state. It has been charged that a eombina tion exists on the part of theimyenrj r^^ees j ? it* UfB^d that I tobacco farmer for hi* product I un a ? tfOVtifll" j? w -' '?.? . it - it 1?A4&m1 VlNEiiP : IB6 T ? **uc ~ i. tAicco for tWs W 1 ,:-~."wu**-y_?'.? - ,? . tiii'it:m_ I taw.^ ^ ^ eI^8tie*1$7 " "'Ti equnri r sre found to be, in the opinion of the I P^ewey General or the Fedmal I Uade Commission, buying tobeeco in ? North Carolina in violtaion of law. I iis as lawyer, however, I realiae fl prosecution la a alow, tedious process. It offers no immediate rw- s I tfcf to the farmer who must sell lib fl mW*, today, or tomorrow, or next ? I week. If the Attorney Gesbral cf <1 this state should deem an investiga- I Eton of the practice df the buyers of | tobacco in North Cafota* warranted, Knftretistep would he to subpoeaa Ettaeeaes, and bring befoio him those I who have evidence upon wbbh he l?mld>dkaw a Mil of indictment Time fl would- be consumed h| thb prodem ? la t1w? hr found, upon investigation, ? that the facts warrantedan tedid- I meat, atrial before a Ipry would be ? Khe -oext step in the procedure, *t ? would undoubtedly require, even with ,| the sfete cofaU give to the J ?Attorney General, at least six months M Eftn a decision be rendered, without ? any assurance that Gib decision , would be accepted aa final, ho tBe ;? 1rrrr.*u^i the tobacco which b today J in the hands of the farmer by foree pLT^mnve bee^^ieted f or J and g*e?|p of another . Of course, the AttoWey General 1 mi Noib Carolina we#d have no ? jnrbdictiomuto theses of South || Carolina and Georgia in his inveati- ;l Cation of the price fixing. H the buy- fl Ers are in fact acting In violation of M the law in North Carolina, they also -fl operated in violation of law in Geor- ? ?!<? and in South Carolina. An inves tigation of their alleged flfcgaj con duct, therefore, relates to interstate I commerce, and b peculiarly in the M province dWbe Federal Trade Com- .1 mission, created Ay Woodrow WOson 1 and especially edgtoped and organb * ihvertiga- 1 ItlpteaidMe pnmeadfe the guilty. 1 |< % repent,writh alhfce power of my fl ?ogfice . OettiS thb administration b fl ready to artmUli or vrt&put tfr Fefr fl Ctd Trade CmpmlsstoniOf through ? lite proper lefj*epa*jjt & iMj I I formed that suffldtedAiiience exists ;| to warrant the conduct of such an in- ? IvettigWhm. N^mattee if the process fl [of piuwHUw* tt*te?friglt trims two | |yens of IWgutbte^bbath Carolina ? [should not-instrif cTiminil ?nspfri^ fl Ey exbV tmtB the gnflty ara baoaght: ? Eothe-barof justtoe. 1 I WcotoTm. fendfeljta vjato; "SjJ fl [charges of price" fithg hfttit-.the fl [price of That^hn- I provement in' the iprioa Pjjjjj?jj PROBLEM i I What can we do that may hsves bear-1 jng jon tha^rice -paid ^or tbe present ? mm JwrwJfS I ikmmmi SWifcH* WW**- I FflTmort Kttaa we I I'Mitiei lilMiTr f ft fj- -1 Me price oftobeeee to to eowfaee ??l lulisjfpii liifiiff that the growers inf the tobacco belt are determined fag IjhetoJfcepPtfbBrt******* the acre-|9 age planted next year by at leastjj I twfa!kf*five p|IUM>. ; I IhmmwodMhertlteiaP???*te tl>?| I unwelcome practice of reminding our. unfortufiste tobaceaAHSere tf the< sound advice I tried to impress on urged all over Nwlh Carolina that ?medbafty vimt production. The Uve-at-beme program I lam-beenif marvelous success this ? first year. Tbe federri govwMMsnt j i ? < * f... )U jLiiiati^o* fVo ol?fcf/)i C I DOUb"* irwlu ' A"^; fyfll | ? , ,'11, a _ _p iL!? Pi ft AA|b AAi\| I rrT ^ mm ? L L-. la - m p ? n -j t qA J . #uaw.jifnffl - iRPflft 11 r wkowv : ? , ? i l , -:V * ' ?. t- - H ^'--7,-. s ./ ' -.V- . ' . - ? ^ Vv.4>"JS^?t*?' f"'-,i.^* ;f^% ]^*?Si^^jJLi???f' *%.V 4k^vi SfitfM mitotf* tb* ^W^*Wc lig^ it is Prtrafddd M certain SISLTtl tempting to avoid any discussion of 1982 'politics, a<ftnit that Governor Gardner #ill be relied upon to a large extent to help the party. It is regarded as certain that AotUd an easterner getthgnpmina "r to t*>m tfjb B?a? ??tyw l# 86MW t? ?B. Oll^BMW R?<M Mtt and owtoerw* now Wn? mm *>?>?*< t*> SO*" 22?- '-.-^ lAltto ?mo*hat handtcappad S7 utMliW MUo?M?y ' B?? ? some Mo an flgilBi* IB the early jredictions, the name of Governor Sardnerv U being freely mentioned ovefc the eopntty, and tt & an^at ed that idthin the fiext two years he will have : gained, added prominence through his "tfotR in the'StatJA . ^ _ _ MRSBY MATBaW Th*dtat??*tn? Sf fl* ajPf. tfatnaa to thafail ooMohwheld on Tuwday ?*?????? <a..J.'W> Part*. wth Mb. J. V* fohgood lasiildlnii ? ' In thanbsenoe of the aacrctary; Mm I. W^Le^Iaos mdthemtautes. Afc tor dlapoatag of the hwlneee <erj? afternoon, the year books we: $led n by *tbe members, who are contemr dating' a year to be pIsaaantiyjMd itofitably spent in ? the study of "S* Jiitory of North Carolina" n' outfin d by R. Do W. Connor. Two charming vocal numbers wmj Jej?efc M Mb laatweatal oeleettoeetBrtt ifter adjournment HaBdaome-dahMas ijtd. other fall roses were used in a Hwdande throughout the heme. The logteoa-had ae especial guests,t Mrs. H'C. Pgwetfc Mrs. J. W. I. W< Harrtll. Mrs, W.R. Willis and Mrs. J. L. Shackleford. i in"" ? . " FARMVfLtf? IMm Wv-C. <A?fcw < Hit' herfss* to I^tol^al toll wet^inf ^ the Parm* dUs Utessry dub eU'TOih?wde?Jf| enwonMrs- i. Wa tit* Mrs, 0. A. loBee ?etod a? wcord ng secretary. A eommnnicattondBrew "aiwl Ifflirr*- Cos eeiHWng <3iin =.*, relief received attention. T^new yw hooka on "Folklore" by Hdph Stoela Boggs, were distrita, afrand the first program, wrud? jrc.ed most interesting, was as fop ows: a paper under the main topic 4 SThe Origin of Folklore" was read ity-Mrs. Claude mm and read in hewkheenoe by Mrs. B*. Joyner. Mrs. Madeline RoSntree, chairman j^Jhe book committee, made s report I lOdw list of 20 new books of fic-1 don was completed at this time. A frosen salad course rtfihoHvn fflfiffichfts and tea was wrved by tb4 hostess assistedjj>y Mrs. fr K. GHl?nf, an (espedai^rtA bopeo. I feel confident that'this flfi?* 0Df,000 is the biggest In money that th* North Camltofarmer. wM w cefcre from any mamtothis fssor. It wtt just a bma, beaming, however, and merely aerate!*** "ff- ?d this year $100,000,000 in cash, obtaxn irffrom cheap cottofi and to b*co will be sent out <T North Carp: Una to buy food and foed-stuffs that could easQy and profitably have been Umijk, the.#e?f.ynr:hih?M1ra; tion is going to continue to prosecute this campaign to the utmost in 1981. TJ thewfore .om^bacii^te iay^ will reduce the acreag? &*** ^ 1981 by twenty-five per cent Is there a man in AW house,whoidosS riofi be*; lieve that if this crop were mto-^ird km, twenty cents per pound? The anjww to this Cpastion is iridigpWMyjfOttn teavt? c?Ots? *n* J.***}? ? tt - *?'*-.^c. 1.i.'* ?? .V.'. '* '' ? a . *. .i* ?>.- 1:^1 atio " Not L?&&1 the North Carolina law which -taxes the stock in foreign corporations held by North Carolina corporations as part of their corporate excess and at the sane Am# exemobi from taxation 1 ' -on.v?n#fj? AAVM> lruiwmwii the stock in foreign corporations held by individuals is unconstitutional. "The opinion, an exhaustive docu ment, was written in the case of the Gsrysburg Manufacturing Company Company versus the County of Pen ' Judge Meekins characterised the tax as a "discriminating burden on the corporation, Without any logical, recognised, or nsoeMary reason for She dtyiaetion." H? that it was fo vtolfitfoa of the fourteenth amend ment to the United States Constitu tion and it "made the complainant bear unjustly a part of the taxation that should fairiy. and equally be di vided alike between a corporation and an individual." The case came beforeJudge Meek ins when, the sheriff of Pender lev ied a. 2 -per cent tax on $226,000 stock held by th^ QgryBburr Company in the Argent Lumber Company of South Carolina. The company refused to pay the tafr, The sheriff threatened to seise 1 m property and sell it for taxes. The company then instituted the suit on the grounds that it was uneon* stltutionai. .. iA. J, Maxwell/State Revenue Com-j missioner, said he did not know howl fair-reaching the decision would -be if uphaH by the United States Supreme Ceurt, where it is^expeeted to go for its ffoal review. WW FBB^ Rocky Mottnt, Sept. *9?Terrified j to see an unknown Negro creep into] her bed room early yesterday morn-] tog, Miss Annie WHowell, SO, house keeper at the KMNttff'Ifctttk Bradely, | Edgecombe farmer, jumped from hi* I bed, ran to an adjoining room, where she got a diet gun and forced the) Negro, William Henry Hicks, 21, to] sit on the Wring room floor until she] could -call local police . Miss Howell made the Negro keep I hie hands raised until police drove] five miles from the city to the Brad-1 toy home. He had run to the living] room when she went for the gun.* 1 puty Sheriff -Officers] Gupton and Robinson responded to the I call, telephoned by others in the] house while Miss Howell gamely kept] her gun trained on the Negro. He was ] rushed to tee Edgecombe "county jail] at Tarboro, where he is being held | pending ppelimtoary hearing. Miss Howell and two other women ] living in tee home returned late last] night after a visit and retired imme-j diately. It is bqtteved that Hicks was] hiding in the dhyng room at the time] and after the women were-'believed to] be asleep he is alleged to> have crept | into Miss Howell's bed robm. Bradley j vwas not at home at the thne and Ce-I cil Brake, who deeps in the house,] was not awakened until after officers] had been summoned and the Negro held. ] Hicks is said to have been drinking and was partially umterthe influence] of liquor when he was arrested Sher iff W. E. Baxdfa, of Edgecombe coun ty said today teat se had not had time to question the negW closely. Miss Beulah Bradley is an invalid and lives at tee Bradley home where Miss How I Elk MB B B lyi BBBBk 9 iwl iS ... '. v machine sruns mounted i?:thd streets, ^ ' P^ of Colonel Boy N^ comn??dJ*r :t^ Savannahunit of t^^Nationa^Qw^ and holding county. officers outside the m at t*y with ed 'brta'ttd'bhiih^rr 5'7' ' '**?%& \ . Grant :?*?- ahott6'6aa?Plathlgfc? while Colonel Nchl ipfctfa^Witk?#* men to "letthis negro live until we catch the other taf.^ ^ ^ ^ H neLby"marsh Mhd by sa??el ~!mn dred men and his capture was expect 4ed momentarily. \ ? ~Xi. I The group formed soon after poltee ; ? chief, Robert L. Frteiaan hwifcigl killed while attrtnptinr' to capture two rfctffoes***??****?*>*****'? a bank shortly after midnight andhad wounded R. J. Anderson, deputy mnr soall of Darien. John Fisher of Darien, an'employ. of the^State Board of Game addFiiB and Dejitfty Bhcfciftf J: H. G?Wd<r*d Mcintosh 'pourityrurtre-wfunded by- '? bullets from'the Negroes' pistole - at the -same time that Freeman.. was killed. v-B Colonel Neal <rf Arthnfcsh cktoe lo Darten immediate!? orttlF Wtein-wto setup machine gtosJ in:dhe itatW" while other guards or^te^-and** gan a search of the-^aAy *wamps add marshes for tire two iiftrt'l. /. Soon after nine captured ColoM JWtmtfhfr Aw** hurried Mm to the JalhtkHm^i wr ph? tetthfcg'gronp oTanae^mam - iA few minutes after he,had. been plhced M asaag^s?S#-| had died <tf Ml woh^fl. not the slayer of Fl^nMa/Tfet^Ofnc er> Ahdftfioh add he wwrtMr niair Who fired the ehtots. Ander*?,rw??*rf in. the hand, shoulder and tuWed to Darien from the Hospital and identM^tt^ k^?? ' actual kiHer. I Soon after the jaU-sta&tttg/'dffi- _ cera and men of the 118th Flrid Ar tillery, Georgia National Guard, were dispatched to Darieh %nd thttwufT* ? military guard' about thtf stmeta and r thh jail. He Artillerymen, in command of Cfertrfu-A, Wade Gordeh, Darien at the requeat of AdjdW General Homer C. Pwrker, who Md betem asked for aid by Darien authori ties. Captain Gordee estimatedUna? >ftse36d members of the Artillery*n ,, l guard in Darien. The official order -only '100 -area* Imt more - k^mbera of the artillery proceeded to Darien-without orders. ^ -j % Sheriff BotfpeB of KcIModv <*&* Whfle- taking ^ HeiW?t? ^jfgg. 0d Ms eOwpahiOn wfcOmbe ttftShd^lk Fred Bryan. iw Grant said Btyan came toRlshouBQ Wear here ht an Carly hour thift^nni-tt teg and-pertdaded hint Mm in an att*b>t to *ob' A*?"**? SSk, whe? AhdhttOh *as st&tened I ^^^?piroachedJ W .**? Grant ^They were found men und A ,p ty followed Which reault?i m Frea^^M fleath and the woonding of TUher W-CoUlna. ? I *lheriff-P.pwll tamedietayhegn search for th? N e gross^and^. iwl by-Bloodhounds, captured-Grant... I % t " U ' ,|| i, - *M MBS. JON1E8WOOTE6S I l|ari.%j|t ' ^^ ^itik vMbena in- blpe bowls, and sandwiches and tea were^jpassed |'?*? ? - . ?*. *v - - ? ? *?*" ?*y**
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