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Committee Vote
For Erection New Prison
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Appropriations Committee
Restore Bmiget Figures
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Raleigh* Much 5.?By unanimous
vote the joint appropriations commit
tee yesterday approved a bill to allow
the Wm of $400,000, the amount of the
betid issue authorised for the pur
chase of a prison farm in 1927, to be
usedin the erection of a new central
prison at the prison farm just west of
Raleigh.
Even the moot stringent economists
of the committer declared that to con
tinue the use of the present prison
would be poor economy and all agreed
that the State wae in danger of a dis
astrous prison fire as long as it con
tinued to use the old building.
After hearing Corporation Com
missioners W. T. Lee and Stanley
Winborne, I. M. Bailey, commission
attorney, and R. 0. Self, commission
clerk, the committee voted to restore
the $5,670 it previously had taken
from Corporation recommendation
for riie next fiscal year, making the
amount the $59,120 recommended by
the Advisory Budget Commission, and
to increase the recommendation for
the second year of the btenmum, put
at $55420 by the budget commission,
by $6^55. The reason for the increase
was that the commission had allowed
nothing for apodal rate work for the
second year.
The recommendation of the Cor
poration Commission were originally
cut substantially but gradually they
hare gone back up to the point that
for one year it equals, and for another
it exceeds, that of tike budget bill.
Without argument the committee
approved the budget bill figures of
$144,300 a year for Caswell Training
School, $30,000 for Morrison Training
School, and $19,200 for the State in
dustrial Farm Colony for Women.
The House committee began con
sideration of the Johnson bill to have
the State appropriate $$125,000 a
year to pay the State's part of the
salaries of county agents in each of
the 100 counties. The plan is to take
this amount of mosey from the bud
get recommended appropriation of the
Department of Agriculture. Commis
sioner Graham and Dr. Clarence Foe
member of the board, appeared be
? - .1, I, .. - - fi
lore use conmuwee w urge no lurvner
idea and appointed a sub-committee
to make recommendations, if found
advisable, of abolishing some items
and divisions of the department in
order to reduce its budget by $125,000.
The joint appropriations committee
is practically through with its final
recommendations on the appropria
tions of every department and institu
tion which it feels can be concluded
before the Legislature has acted on
pending legislation. For instance, the
appropriation of the State Industrial
Commission cannot be finally decided
until it is known whether a State in
surance fund will be set up nor can
there be any division on the County
Government Advisory Commission un
til the Legislature has completed the
proposition to abolish it and set up
the Local Government Commission.
Is the appropriations of all State
departments there has been included
the cases of constitutional officers.
The same cut has been decided on for
the solicitors of the State, the com
mittee having withdrawn from its
first decision to cut these salaries 20
per cent However, the Governor's
proposal to cut the salaries of all pub
lic servants, including school teachers
was never accepted and as it stands
at present the appropriations of the
educational institutions of the State
have been made with an idea that the
administration will either reduce
clerical and the number of employes,
but not cut the salaries of professors,
teachers, physicians and the like.
I SHARP SWINDLER
PEKPmATCSJOB
Gets in Possession Of School
Vonchers At Rock'ngham
And Cashes In.
Rockingham, March. 5?The slick
est check flashing job in years was
?? polled here yesterday span the Hal
v fant fanfare store, and the erook got
away with $75 in cash. Be gave his
name as A. EL Cowan, at Gibson, but
there is no sock party living there
^TOggt^iyed the :oflfae of the
the'day and informed tfro cfcrica.
force that he was sent by the Stau
get prices on school vouchers, ant
aaked for half a dozen Manfc fbrais
TU? was granted. He then depart*
and shortly afterwards showed up ?
the HsHiwi store wttfigWate schoo
voucher, apparently properly signet
?" W As Scotland County aaditOr. boart
chairman end sehoot ra|mTT>**f*d*nt
f,, mm O0HC Q* * ? ?
wr fBZD. w oougnt #iou irartn oi
furniture, and gave instructions tha
v it be delivered* his supposed horn,
in Gtes*. and took the difference a
?iis|?%
DANGER!HEN
ARE AT WORK
A Little Less Grumbling
And More Boosting Win
Do Lot Of Good.
We are entering, let us hope, the
I final stage of oar folly. The air is
charged with rumors. The whispering
campaign is on. No business is im
mune. i
Have you hear about such and audi
a bank ? Do you know old So-and-So
is going to the wall? I hear the Doe
Company is headed for receivership.
The Roe Company has passed its divi
dend.
Only by wearing ear muffs can one
walk a block without having his confi
|dence shaken.
Of comfort let no man speak;
Let's talk of graves, of worms, and
epitaphs.
Depression is on every tongue. It
is the most widely advertised product
of our times. Headlines, headlines
everywhere ,and no one stops to think.
And our vaunted salesmanship]
Give a salesman time enough and he
will paint so drab a picture of the
future that a likely prospect will re
place his fountain pen? and lock the
safe.
r^t .?T anaripot there
VI U-U^Uiyzv j Uivuv. * _?
are more idle tongues than idle hands j
The folly of too many of us is to I
accept the echo of the locker room
and club car as the Voice of Ameri
ca.
For example, consider 1930, lately
interred. Now lies he there and none
so poor to do him reverence. Yet that
much-maligned year loaded and un
loaded 45,800,000 freight cars, and
with three million trucks on the job,
too. It made and sold a new automo
bile for each ten families at a cost of
52,159,600,000, and saw registrations
highest of any year, with a gasoline
consumption of 399 million barrels,
an all-time record. It saw electrical
production hit its highest mark.
Nineteen hundred and thirty manu
factured four and a half billion yards
of textiles, and 315 million pairs of
shoes, the usual two and a half pairs
to the person.
It provided work for forty-odd
h^Uatt W anJ wumen, kuSMiiliiifr
through dividends to the amount of I
?$4,500,000,000.
Nineteen hundred and thirty saw to
it that expenses of living did not ex
ceed income, as evidenced by hund
reds of millions of dollars increase in
savings banks and eighteen and a half
billionr'of new life insurance.
Nineteen hundred and thirty added
one million in population to our con
suming public?a city the size of
Cleveland.
With all its faults, 1930 furnished
a national market-pi ?oe where goods,
service and labor were exchanged to
the extent of 100 billion dollars, and
the returns are not all in yet.
One would think, from the wailing
(Continued on page two)
Legislators Hoping Visit of
"Gov. S. C. to Gov. N.C."
(By Carl G?orch)
Virginia sent its former governor
Mr. Byrd, to talk to our legislature,
and New York sent its former gov
ernor, Mr. Smith, to do the same,
but things around the capital dont
seem to have improved materially.
What most of the legislators prob
ably are hoping for is a visit from
the Governor of South Carolina to
the Governor of North Carolina.
Some important legislation. has
been acted on during the past week,
the boys are beginning to do them
selves proud. The Governor's road
biH has gone through a-kiting and
there is no question or doubt, about
most of the other legislation be re
commended at the beginning of the
session. Of course he probably wont
get through everything he actafcated
but his batting average is going to
.v..
T?
be mighty good, nevertheless.
And while we're on the subject of
the Governor Jet "me tell you a lit
tle secret
The old boy's got sense. Plenty
of it I dont pretend to know all of
the inside workings of our State
politics ,but I'm willing to bet dol
lars to doughnuts that two weeks
before the legislature met Max could
have told you the fate of each meas
ure to come up during this session.
In other words, it Looks to nje as
though he's got NApoleon, Alexand
er the Great and George Washing
ton completely outclassed when it1
comes to skillful maneuvering.
There's another thing to be; con
sidered, too. You've heard of the
expression that So-and-so knows his
onions? WeU, Max knows his legis
lators like nobody's business. He's
got 'em card-indexed and cross-index
ed. He knows what each one of
then likes for breakfast, what land
of cutf-buttons they wear, whether
they are addieted to halitosis or the
seveh-year-ltch and whether they
approve or do net approve of drink
ing.
By the way, wbat'sbeeome of CoL
Kirkpatridr and ftfth 'Sprunt kill ?
^Tbere ^larg^
ke^^ tetreated liP h& presence and
his speech. |
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presidency.
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Another Iowa Success
I as offkl bGf b hU fitter's
t aace office ? Iowa 31 rars igb. vg
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Thfe Los Angeles Board of Education is now tajtfitf MWtMPFhtr
calf for a ride?a ride around to-*11 the- srhftoli fcTthrfritj ?tif* ill
became ? recent survey disclosed that there Wo*, tko chads of dty
school children who bad never seen a cow ?# calf or f thorn. The
caravan is shown hers at its first atop. - T
The Eastern Carolina
Chamber of Comrmrce
To Hold Exposition
Greenville Gets 1931 Show;
Big Program Now Being
Arranged.
At a meeting of the Board of Direc
tors of the Eastern Carolina Chamber
>f Commerce last Jfriday night in
5reenvilte it was decided to hold the
1931 Eastern Carolina Exposition. A
committee from Greenville appeared
before the Directors and asked thai
die 1981 show be held in Greenville,
feeling that this would stimulate the
norale of the people of the section as
1 whole.
TUI Directors unanimously accept
ed the invitation of the Greenville
people and set the date j^f the 1931
Bx^sition Apr# Jfaty
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retary N. G. Bartlett are now appoint
ing the various committees for real
work.
This will be good news to a large
part of Eastern North Carolina be
cause the annual Exposition has been
looked forward to for the last nine
rears with a great deal of interest by
the forty-six counties of the State,
rhe usual program will be staged in
cluding prominent speakers, popular
Plfice entertainers and cefebrities?
THE OLD REPOBATE
Mother?Is it true that you put an
advertisement in the paper to obtain
i husband ?
Daughter?Yes, ma.
Mother?J dont know what your
father would say to such goings on.
Did you get any answers?
Daughter?Only one, from father.
GOOD ADVICE
The next time Che fanners want
somebody to show them how to keep
prices up on a high levelj they ought
to go to whotever it is that advises
the bakers,?Judge.
. Planning to make money and get
ting it into your bank account are two
very different undertakings.
EASTERN DISTRICT
MUNICIPAL ASSOC'N
MEETS IN FA WLE
Organization Composed Of
Water And Light Super
intendents.
The. regular monthly nfeeting of
the Eastern Carolina Municipal As
sociation was held in this city last
Thuhsday afternoon at three o'clock
in the City Hall, and was presided
ojver by Mr. Dick Grantham, of Wil
son, president of the organization.
yThe Towns representing the Dist
rict are Wilson, Greenville, Kinston,
New Bern, Tarboro and Farmville,
each of which was represented.
A'jpperal round-table discussion
of plant" problems is proving of
much benefit While one o? the main
objects of the organization, which
ems recently perfected, is to keep
the public more closely in touch
ulth operation of their Water and
light plants.
Nothing is so good but what it(
couldn't possibly be improved, and
thesr monthly round-table discus
sions" of each town's peculiar advant
TOWN PRIMARY
CAI1EDAFR1L7
Election Day Set For May \
Fifth; Mayor And Com- (
missioners Be Elected i
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The Town Primary, in which the '
Mayor and Town Commissioners 1
will be voted upon, is officially an- 1
nounced as Tuesday, April 7, the j
election to be held on May 5th.
The registration books will be (
opened for registration on March ^
7th and closed on March 28. The ]
last day for registration of candi- :
by the executive committee, compos- !
ed of J. R. Davis, chairman, J. W. ,
Holmes and J. T. Thorne, which met
on February 28th. In addition to ]
setting the above dates, R. A. Joy- ,
ner was appointed as registrar, T. ]
W. Lang and J. T. Bundy as poll j
holders by the committee. 1
I
SOMETHING MISSING
Mrs. Newly wed?Hurry up and
carve the turkey, dear; you know how
to do it now.
Husband?Um?yes; but where in. i
thunder are the dotted lines ??Every- i
body's Wfeekly. .I'J
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Bom^^tidenAuri And
^lalra^Are Deaf And
Dimb. i.-iu io
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Last week Judge J. Paul Prixtelle
tried a somewhat unusual caste in the
Superior Court ?t Turlington?a case
in which the defendant and plaintiff
were both deaf and dumb. Miller Cain
34, was chargedwith an assault upon
Miss Julia McBane, 28, "with intent to
commit rape." Hie was found guilty
by the jury, which returned its verdict
within less than two'hours after be
ing given the case, and was sentenced
by Judge Frizselte to serve 10 to 12
years in state's prison. An appeal
to the supreme court was noted. >
From the Burlington Daily Times
of Last Friday, we quote: i ?
"To progress with a congested
docket for the one week term, the
court was in night session last night.
Judge Frizzellte completed ^his charge
to. the jury about 9:30 o'clock and
ordered the gentlement to retire and
agree upon a verdict They were out
less than two hours.
"Returning with" the verdict the
foreman .spoke the words 'Guilty
with a recommendation for mercy.'
"?* * ~rr? +V,?
wrj nenircr&uu, uvwiuc^ iw*
defense, made a strong plea for mer
cy, pointing out the good character
the man had brought to the courtroom
and also his life in the silent world of
the deaf as tending to limitate his
sphere of mental environment
"Judge Frizzelle who has but re
cently been elevated to the bench after
practicing in the court for the past
23 years, replied that he had discov
ered his duty to sentence the difficult
task of his position but that so long
as he shall kit in judgment, duty alone
shall gover* his decisions.
" 'If the time eVer comes when any
thing but the purest of motives enter
into mydecisions, I will resign,' he
said. He added that he leaned natural
ly to the side of the defendant, as the
underdog, but steadied himself to the
exlercise of duty.
"Miss McBane, whose nerves show
ed the trace-of strain throout the trial
revealed an instant reaction when she
had won her hattle to ^
grasped their hands and smiled upon
them her gratitude.
"On the opposite side of the court
room sat Cain, staring into the omin
ous shadows ahead, not seeming to
realize at the moment the full weight
of the price of "that night" by the
side of the road. His accomplishment
had become a long sentence?nothing
more.
"Other hands of silent men and
women in the courtroom flashed in
hurried gestures of sign language.
The faces of a majority of them mir
rored their approval. Deaf citizens
believe in protecting their womanhood
and the jury had said, "there has been
a violation."
"Just two hands were outstretched
(Continued on page two)
Measure Permits Either
Party To Sue After 5 <
Years If No Children. '
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Raleigh, Mnr? B?The Senate Tues- {
day night passed the Johnson bill to* (
liberalize the .divorce laWs by al- t
loving either party, injured or not,
to bring action for divorce after five ^
years separation if there are no chil- ,
dren. The present law requires that T
the action be taken by the injured *
PVty. ;t
The bill , will not become law until j
the House has concurred in the Sen- ?
ate amendment and, if the House (
doese concur, ia ratified. t ,
Senator Folger explained the t
bill grew out of judicial doubt if {
divorces could be granted when both t
parties had signed a deed of separa- ^
tioh, the doubt being that either ^
party.
Senator Ward of Beaufort re- t
minded the Senaator from Surray t
that the word "or otherwise," fol
lowed the elause about deeds of se
paration and would allow a hus- ,
band who had deserted his wife to (
get a divorce himself after five
years. He submitted an amend- ,
ment to strike out "or otherwise."
Senator Folger went on to say
that the bill affcdted only childless
couples.
SoMatnv CriVv nhleeteri tfl the nro
vision in the bill which would allow -
a wife to receive alimony from her '
first husband, divorced under the
bill, without limit or time or condi
tion. He sent forward an amend
ment to disallow her allimony or i
property rights after the divorce. <
After Senator Peel spoke against 1
the Ward amendment, which Sena- ]
tor Folger had accepted, it was kill- ?
ed but Senator Crier's amendment '
was adopted. 1
Senator Dorch. of Wayne ptalled '
tiie best piece of legislative strate
gy of the weeks by having the long 1
fought .. moving picture bill tabled 1
before the Senate had debated it 1
at, all. |
*"'Noi1^~KiiiJr a"longer/eonramee '
fight than this, the independent op- '
erators sponcing it on the ground '
the producer gave every advantage i
to the large theatres. The bill had ]
passed the House and gotton a fav- i
orable report from the Senate com- |
mittee. <
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REMARKABLE EGG.
i
Smithfield, March 3.?Rufus Lee i
of Four Oaks, has been displaying i
a remarkable egg laid by a Leg- i
horn pullet. The egg is 8 1-2 inches
iong and 7 inches around, and <
weighes six ounces. 1
If the average man could make his <
dreams come true there would be no i
more dreaming. ,
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Widespread Violation Of
Dry Law in Large Cities
Washington, March 6?The WScker
sham commission yesterday lifted the
lid upon prohibition conditions in five
states, only one of which escaped the
charge of widespread and flagrant
liquor law violations within its bord
er*.
One survey?of Illinois?laid with
the others before the Senate?spoke
frankly of widespread corruption a
mong public officials. It listed the
names of 330 reputed Chicago gang
ster* together with their sources of
revenue, and reported such details as
the discovery of "large quantities of
poison-dipped bullets" in rooms said
to have been occupied by A1 Capone's
followers. .
Other surveys covered the states of
New York, New Jersey, Louisiana and
Colorado. In only the latter was pro
hibition declared satisfactorily enforc
ed.
Chairman Wickersham, in a letter
of transmittal, said three of the sur
veys were the only ones available.
Several hour* later the report upon
Colorado up8 submitted, and later in
the evening the Illinois survey reach
ed the capital.
Aparently fearing reprisal by Chi
eago gunmen, the author of the Illi:
nois report ,an employe of the prohi
bition bureau, signed the assumed
name of "Guy L. Nichols.'' His infor
mation has now been in the hands riff
Federal authorities for nearly a year.
\ The report characterised A1 Capone
as "ftlphonso Capone, alias, A1 Brown,
alias Scarface ? vice-gambling, booze
and/beer.". i;'.^
The list of alleged gangsters, many
of them now dead, was obtained from
the sipcret files "of the Chicago aim?
commission. Each name bore such en
try as "dynamiter and bomb thrower,"
"slugger and gunman" or "booze and
many of them taken by "Nichols," ,
were included. One of these was a j
snap-shot of a hotel in Chicago.
"The entire second floor of some ,
50 rooms is . occupied by the Capone '
outfit," the investigator said. "Guards
are stationed on this floor and no
one has access thereto unless his
identity is satisfactory.
"Lieutenant Blahl, of the state's 1
attorney's office, in April, 1930, your
investigator is reliably informed,
made a raid and discovered on the
second floor a large conference room,
Number 230, with a long table and ]
chairs reinforced with armor plated 1
backs.
"Large quantities of poison-dipped
bullets, but no guns nor record, were <
found. Neither were any of the Ca- '
pon outfit about. There was strong
indication of a tip-off." ]
t
Vere Brabazon PonsOnby, Earl ?
of Bewboroflgh, who has been ap
pointed Gdfrernor-Gener-I of Can
ada He it a World V r veteran
and hi* wife la of Frenui birth."
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Individuals should be moderate in |
| everything; even t? beat up an editor. 1
feaR-S.'sw .it:'- V-- ? ? ?
Recent rtegrislatioii Makes
fTosftfble .Ti^e Necessary
<r' a UlttltvllSl
Greenville, March 2.?Shortage at
tends, which has been hammering: -
mrelentingly at the doqrs of cotuir
y government the last several
ttonths, will not force Pitt county
schools to close their doors at the
expiration of six months term, which
i few weeks ago it was thought would
?e necessary.
This fact became known today
vhen the board of county commie
lioners in regular monthly session,
ratified the members of the county
raard of education that operation of
chools would continue for their regu
ar eight months term. Following a
rpecial meeting of the commissioners
hiring the early part of February
he educational board was advised
hat the county would be unable to
idvance from current funds ayainst
incollected taxes the necessary funds
? operate the extended school term
for the present session. The action
jecame necessary as result of in
tbility of the county to realize on
ax collections.
It is stated that-recent legislation
passed by the General Assembly
rould enable the financing of the
sight months term.
oppose plan for
insurance?
Insurance Men Would Keep
State Out of Compensa
tion Business.
Raleigh, Mar. 5th.?Arguments
igainst the Whedbee-Nixon and
Soer bills, both of which would give
to the State all the workmen's com
pensation insurance written in the
State and create an insurance fund
whereby .the State could handle the
justness, was heard by the joint in
surance committee on Tuesday.
It was the second hearing on the
bill, but final action will not be
taken before s jthizd meeting, set
lie, as a member of th eSenate in
L929, who was most active in draw
ing and securing the passage of the
present act. Others who argued
igainst the bill were Thomas jouth
jate, of Durham; Thomas 0'Berry,
if Goldsboro, and Col. James Young,
former Insurance Commissioner.
It was the position of those
against the bill that the State
3hould not enter the insurance busi
ness and by its power to enforce a
monopoly throw out of business the
many private conderns and indivi
duals who have given to it their
time and capital.
The opponents of the measure
claimed that a mutual insurance
company could give practically as
cheap rates as the State fund and
that the services rendered "by both
mutual and stock companies, espe
cially in safety work, were far in
excess of that to be secured from
the State.
Previously the committee had
beard, from a representative of the
Ohib Industrial Commission which
has a monopolistic control, that the
proposal gave the employers of the
State a much cheaper rate, while
from a former actuary of the Cali
fornia commission, which operates a
fund in competition with the com
mercial companies, it had heard ar
guments against the proposal.
?? ^OSSIP
When .will the school close down;
Is the gossip of this fine town.
'Oh; I don't know", one will say,
Why don't all people their taxes pay.
Our children we must educate;
rhis school must not stop 'til they
graduate.
Mow what other means can we t*ae,
As this glorious school goes shake,
shake, shake.
[here's Miss Annie, seeing stars like
"Jiggs,"
And without a change she will have
to purchase a wig.
3er teacher friends all declare;
?What shall we do if she pulls our
hair?"
Poor Mr. Boyd is all furlorn;
As he toils at work from night til
morn. -
Mow how to straighten the funds
he can not see.
3h come on folks and be a friend; -
And money to this dear old school
. . : fend.
[jend the school a grateful pound;
And help to make this a better
town.
?W. B. Carraway
V- .? ,
ktnd reader tells the writer that
fe lends these paragraphs; that
nakes two of us.
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