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VOL. ?MB Mtt FARMVILLE, PITT COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1837 NjQMRER THIRTY-FIVE
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Roosevelt Again Calls
For Action to Remodel
Nation's Highest Court
Would Save the Consti
tution From the Su
preme Court and the
Supreme Court From
Itself; Flatly Denies
Flan to Pack High
Bench With Mere
'Puppets'
Washington, March 9.?President
Roosevelt called for swift enactment!
of his court reorganization bill to-1
night to "save the Constitution from '
the (Supreme) Court and the court!
from itself."
In outspoken fashion, the Chie?
Executive asserted the high tribu
nal had "improperly set itself up"
as a "super legislature," and bad
read into the Constitution "words
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Utt impucauvus ?uu
there and -which were never in
tended to be there."
At the same timet he disavowed
any intent to "pack" the court with
"spineless poppets who would dis
regard the law" and decide cases as
he might wish them decided; and
asserted the precesses of constitu
tional amendments were too slow for
the pressing problems of the day.
His address, a "fireside chat" de
livered from the small oval room
on the ground floor of the White
House, was the second devoted to a
fighting appeal for passage of his
bill to permit the enlargement of
the court unless justices over 7G
years of age retire.
"We must find a way to take an
appeal from the Supreme Court to
the Constitution itself," he said.
"We want a Supreme Court which
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Hon?not over it. In our courts
we want a government of laws, not
of men.
"I want?as all Americans want
?an independent judiciary as pro
posed by the framers of the Con
stitution. That means a Supreme
Court that will enforce the Constitu
tion as written?that will refuse
to amend the Constitution by the
arbitrary exercise of judicial pow
er?amendment by juricial say-so.
It does not mean a judiciary so in
dependent that it can deny the ex
istence of facts universally recog
nized."
A major section of the address
was devoted to answering the three
most frequently heard criticisms of
his proposal?that it is an effort to
"pack" the court, that it would cre
ate a precedent which a future
President with dictatorial ambitions
could turn to his advantage and
that the solution of the problem
lies rather in a constitutional
amendment.
Of the ''packing" charge, the
President said:
"If by that phrase the charge
is made that I would appoint and
the Senate would confirm justices
- worthy to sit beside present mem
bers of the court who understand
modern conditions?;that I will ap
point justices who will not under
take to override the judgment of
the Congress on legislative policy?
that I will appoint justices who will
act. as justices and not as legisla
tors?if the appointment of such
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courts', then I say that I, and with
me the vast majority of the Ameri
can people, favor doing just that
thing?now."
Of "precedent":
"Fundamentally, in the future, if
the American people cannot trust
the Congress it elects to refrain from
abuse of our constitutional usages,
democracy will have failed far be
yond the importance to it of any
kind of precedent concerning the
judiciary."
And of the amendment process:
"It would take months or years
to get substantial aggreement upon
the type and language of an amend
ment, It would take months and
years, thereafter, to get a two-thirds
majority in favor of that amend
ment in both Houses of Congress.
Then would come the long course
of ratification by three-fourths of
the states. Na amendment which any
powerful economic interests or the
leaders of any powerful political
party have had reason to oppose
has ever been ratified within any
thing like a reasonable time.
"And IS states which contain only
five per cent of the voting popula
tion can block ratification ever
though the 35 states with 95 pei
cent of the population are for it"
Analysing the opposition that hai
developed against his proposal, Mr
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yroape, on* which "fundamentally
thiwto to social "and economic leg
Mtrton along modern lines"?and i
second composed oi individuals whi
"honestly betiere toe amendmeni
pro esse?? is the beet and who wouI<
be wffltog to support a reasonable
amanrtnwnt if they could agree oa
one."
Them obviously irtdiemim
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J, T. Thome Urges
Use of Improved
Cotton Slid
It Seems Only Good
Sense For Every Far
mer to Plant at Least
| Some Improved Seed
This Year
The few cents extra required to
plant an acre in improved cotton
over gin-run varieties should return
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I John T. Thome, director of the North
I Carolina Cotton Growers Coopera
[ tive Association, said here today.
Mr. Thome, who attended a regu
lar meeting of the board of directors
of the farm cooperative in Raleigh
last week, pointed out that farmers
can secure Coker cotton seed one
year from the breeder for planting
at a cost of approximately 80c an
acre above gin-run seed.
"Records at State College show
that such good seed should produce
a staple of around inch and 1/16,"
Mr. Thome said, adding that on the
basis of the grade and staple prem
iums now being paid by the Cottonj
Association strict middling inch and J
1/16 cotton will bring ?11.25 more
per bale than strict low middling 7/8
inch.
"Since it takes no more land, no
more fertilizer, no more cultivation
and no more expense in any way
except the small outlay for good seed
?to produce this longer staple cot
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ton LfliiL Drill^S a yicuuuu^ <?**?
Thorne said, "it seems only good
sense for every farmer to plant at
least some improved seed this year."
The cooperative leader pointed out
that last year only about 13 per cent
of the State cotton crop ran inch and
1/16 or better and added that the
supply of North Carolina grown cot
! ton of this quality was not near
enough to fill the demand.
The Cotton Association, which for
Id years has been interested in im
! proving the quality of the State crop,
! is again sponsoring the distribution
of improved seed, through the State
wide Farmers Cooperative Exchange,
and fanners should contact the Ral
eigh office for their needs.
I Pointing out that much of the seed
from last year's cotton crop has has |
a low germinating power due to the
late maturity of the crop in many
Sections of the State, Mr. Thorne
urged farmers, to plant only seed
that have been tested for germina
tion. All seeds handled by the Far
mers Cooperative Exchange are first
tested for germination.
Mr. Thorne also reported that the
response to tlx- "Re-Purchase Pool"
has been most satisfactory and said
it is apparent that as more farmers
become familiar with it they will use
its facilities for learning their grades
and staDles and the true value of
their cotton before offering it for
sale.
Liquor Profits
SougbtFor. Cops
Bill Provides Money To
Be Used For Pitt Law
Enforcement.
Greenville, March 11.?A bill in
troduced Monday by Senator E. G.
Flanagan, and understood to have the
support of Pitt County's delegation,
would authorize the Pitt County Al
coholic Beverage Control Board to ex
pend up to 20 per cent of the profits
from the legal sale of liquor in the
county for law enforcement purposes.
The proposed measure provides
that the Board-shall employ one or
more persons, to be appointed by and
directly responsible to the Board.
It further provides that if the
Board, in its discretion, finds it desir
able, may financially aid municipali
ties in paying the salary, or salaries
of an officer, or officers, employed in
linn at* law*
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Orangized efforts have been under
i way recently <m the part of officials
' of several municipalities in the coun
ty to have part of the profits turned
i over to the various cities to be used
. for law enforcement purposes.
> If the proposed lull passes the
t house, it probably will kill all chanc
? ss of a measure being enacted to give
l the various counties a split of the pro
> fits.
t While the bill does not specifically
I state that the officers employed by
s the A. B. C. board shall have power
? of police, it is understood that the
state-wide measure makes such pro
fc) visions. Under the old Pasquotank
{act, under which the local board op
eratfd, officers hired by the board die
not have power of arrest.
If the proposed measure is enactec
it is understood that the Board woulc
set up-its own law enforcement agen
cy to work in cooperation with, bu
independently of all other peace of
ficen in the county.
Would Junk Gas
GMtr; PWA
fundsjii Danger
The Power Company
Amendments Would
Emasculate Revenue
Bond Measures '
Raleigh, March 10.?The State will
junk its elaborate lethal gas chamber
and go back to electricuting its capi
tal felons if a bill approved unani
mously by the Senate Calendar Com
mittee yesterday is enacted into law.
The action followed closely upon un
favorable action upon a proposal to
abolish the death penalty.
With bills being handled so rapid
ly that no one connected with the
Assembly could know what was go
ing on in all seven rings, the im
portant revenue bond bill$ were
facing amendments in a finance sub
committee which proponents charg
ed were prepared by power com
^rlo. I
pany represenwiuvea buu nuuiu w
stroy the bills.
The bills, sponsored by the Pub
lic Works Administration, would
permit the issuance of bonds to be
retired by revenues rather than
taxes without a vote of the people.
Since no tax would be involved, it
is not believed they would be af
fected by the debt-limitation amend
ment adopted last fall, but they
would be limited strictly by mar
ketability. Projects for which they
could be issued extend from power
plants to swimming: pools.
Huge Sum At Stake.
Informing the sub-committee that
PWA projects amounting to $10,246,
000 would be jeopardized by fail
ure to enact the bills as drawn, R.
M. Gantt of Durham, chairman ofl
the North Carolina Emergency
Council, and C. N. Malone, regional
attnmev for the PWA. appeared be
fore the committee yesterday to
recommend passage of the bills in
their original form.
Governor Hoey, who has held
conference on the bills and indicat
ed to was in accord with their pur
poses, has received massage from
PWA officials asking for passage of
the measure in original form so that
the State may continue to -utilize
federal funds in public movements.
Power Opposition.
The bill particularly in question
HB 468, has been subjected to a
group of amendments turned over
to the sub-committee by Chairman
Victor Bryant of the House Finance
Committee as "anonymously sub
mitted." It was charged at the meet
ing yesterday, however, that they
came from R. Grady Rankin, Duke
Power Company lobbist, and were
directed at throttling municipal
pbwer development such as the City
of High Point is now attempting, but
is being held up by Duke Power
Company's legal action against it.
The bills are expected to be
brought into the full committee to
day. All are six-day bills, and de
lay could kill them as effectively as
an adverse vote or adoption of the
emasculating amendments.
Unanimous Against Gas.
The vote of the Senate Calendar
mrainsrfc the cas chamber was unani
mous.
The poll was taken shortly after
the committee heard Eh*. G. S. Cole
man, prison physician and execution
official, say: "In my opinion death
by gas is painful, tedious and horrf
ble."
Death by electrocution, he said, "is
a quick process and I feel sure is
without pain."
Addition of the gas chamber,
which has been in use little more
than a year, was proposed by Dr.
Coleman and Warden H. H. Honey
cutt of Central Prison.
Declaration that the doomed men
on Death Row preferred electrocu
tion and "have a horror against gass
ing," was made by the physician,
who said that the information came
to him "from prisoners now awaiting
for their time."
WHO KNOWS?
1. When will Venus become a morn
ing star?
2. Who referred to laws as spiders'
webs?
3. What are hors d'oeuvres?
4. How many miles of railroad are
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uiere ui wiic uiuvcu oi-ai^o .
5. How many individuals toraw pen
sons as a result of the Civil War?
6. When was the Panama Canal
opened to traffic?
7. Where is the Boonville dam?
8>.- When did President Roosevelt
ma^e his first radio fireside talk?
9. What was the division of the
Supreme court in the gold clause
cases decided in 1935?
10/ Is crop insurance near?
"tSee Answers on Page 6)
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FOUR YEARS AGO
THB CONTRAST TODAY
WOULD RESTRICT COURTS
BORAH'S AMENDMENT
COURT ISSUE DEBATED
A 5 TO 4 DECISION
ROOSEVELT'S PHILOSOPHY
SO-CALLED NEUTRALITY
LAWS
By Hugo Sims, Washington
Correspondent.
Four years ago this week, on March
9th, 19.18, Congress met in extraor
dinary session and rushed the Emer
gency Banking Act through both
houses in a single day to liquidate the
banking crisis, icaused by the closing
of banks in many States and con
firmed by the bank holiday pro
claimed a few days earlier by the
newly installed President, Franklin
D. Roosevelt. Three days later the
Chief Executive, in his first radio
address to the people, outlined in
tricate financial matters in clear-cut
phrases and related what had been
done to meet the financial peril.
The picture today is entirely
changed. Business 1 and industry
have forged ahead although much
unemployment remains to challenge
alleged national prosperity. Labor
and capital are resuming their strife
as conditions improve, with the more
aggressive labor leaders reaching out
into new fields of organization. The
nation's monetary system seems es
tablished as outside nations pour
unwanted gold into our borders.
Democracy continues its course in
the face of serious questions before
the people.
Last week the nation continued to
debate the Phesident's proposal to
enlarge the Supreme Court by add
ing new justices to offset those above
seventy who decline to retire. The
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discussion rangea we scaie ux puun
cal issues, with conservatives as
serting that what the President
sought would kill the court and make
him a dictator and the, President's
supporters insisting that something
is neces^wry -if .the republic.is-to
solve modern problems and that the
court proposal utilized a legal pow
er given to Congress by those who
feared an oligarchy of the judiciary.
Basically, the division of opinion1
is along lines clearly indicated in
previous battles between the New
Dealers and those opposed to its
j general philospohy of government.
The Republicans and conservative
Democrats openly oppose the manou
vere while ardent supporters of the
President rally to his standard. Ev-;
ery effort is apparently being made 1
| to intensify propaganda on both
sides, with the President's radio talk
the culmination of the drives. Actu
ally, ithe situation last week in the
Senate gave a slight edge to the pro
ponents of the change as it appear
ed that a majority of the Senators
would vote favorably. A poll of pub
lic sentiment taken by the Institute
of Public Opinion, along the lines of
its successful presidential tests of
opinion, however, revealed 53 percent i
of the people voting were against the
plan.
An interesting development of the
battle has been the proposal of Sen
ator Borah to amend the Constitution
to prevent the judiciary from using
the "due process" clause to kill laws
held to be unduly harsh or arbitrary.
His amendment would limit the ap
plication of the phrase, other than
in reference to certain portions of
the Bill of Rights, to the "procedure
of executive, administrative, or ju
dicial bodies charged with the execu
tion and enforcement of the law."
Significance lies in the fact that
when the Fourteenth amendment
was written it was 'adopted to safe
guard the lives, liberty and property
of ex-slaves but the Courts have
defined it to widen the authority of
the courts to set aside laws when,
in the judges' opinion, the laws were
arbitrary or unreasonable in effect
upon property. The result has been
that many laws have been affected
by what the judges thought of its
substance rather than its lack of due
process in procedure. Moreover the
judges themselves have often been
unable to agree as to whether a law
was arbitrary or unreasonable.
The Borah amendment would" lim
; it the Court in its consideration of
the laws of the States and thus pro
t vide latitude for social and regulatory
. legislation. It would probably end the
much discussed twilight zone which
has heretofore resulted when the
courts have thrown out Federal leg
islation because the Federal govern
l ment had no such power under the
constittuion and then, in other de
l cisions, denied State government the
I power to legislate under the "duo
? process" clause. It does not meet
t the President's purposes, however,
? for two reasons: First, it involves
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Would Regulate
Sale OfTooacco
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Fenner Introduces Bill
In House to Establish
Fair Trade Regula
tions
Raleigh, March 10.?A hill to re
stablish the fair trade regulations
of NRA code days for the tobacco
warehouse industry, under super
vision of a State commission, was in
troduced in the House of Represen
tatives yesterday by Representative
W. E. Fenner of Nash, leading ware
houseman of Rocky Mount and ma
jor operator on the Georgia markets.
Several members of the House
from tobacco counties joined the
Nash representatives in sponsoring
the bill.
The measure would provide for
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Tobacco Commission of Fair Com
petition, consisting of five ware
housemen, one from each of the
five belts in the State to linse
and regulate warehouses.
Paid $10 a day and travel ex
penses for each meeting, the com
n issionera would' employ a secre
tary and establish an office in Ral
eigh to be sponsored from a ware
house registration fee of $50 and
from a tax of 5 cents per 1,000
pounds on tobacco sold by ware
houses in excess of 1,000,000.
Authority would be given the
commission to revoke the license of
a warehouse violating fair compe
tition provision of the bill, which
include section prohibiting:
1. Soliciting tobacco for sale
while in transit from farm to mar
ket designation.
2. Soliciting tobacco in one town
for sale in another, after the sea
son opens.
3. Empoying any person to so
licit tobacco for sale on any ware
house floor.
4. Employing an unreasonable
working force to solicit tobacco.
5. Reserving any particular floor
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signor.
6. Making any resale for less than
full charges.
7. Permitting private sale .Ufttil
after the tobacco has been offered at
auction.
8. Moving tobacco before ten
minutes has expired after sale.
9. Discrimination against any pro
ducer.
10. Giving rebates on warehouse
charges as inducements.
11. Paying anything for delivery
of tobacco to any warehouse.
12. Extending special privileges to
any customer.
13. Furnishing transportation for
tobacco.
14. Financing purchase of trucks
for tobacco producers.
15. Giving rebates or prizes to re
duce warehouse charges.
16. Guaranteeing minimum prices
for tobacco.
Pines up to $260 and imprison
ment up to six months would be
provided for violations.
The State act would not preclude
local regulations.
Warehousemen
Endorse Bill
Sale Tobacco
Would Establish Fair
Trade Regulations Of
NRA Code Days For
Leaf Sale of Tobacco
Industry
| A special called meeting of the
Eastern Carolina Warehouse Associa
tion wes held in Farmville, Wednes
day evening, for the purpose of ob
taining an expression from ware
housemen of each market, regarding
their views of a bill recently intro
duced in the State Legislature by
Representative W. E. Fenner, of Nash
county, a leading tobacco warehouse
man of the Rocky Mount market.
Bruce Sugg, of Greenville, presi
dent of hte Association, presided over
the meeting, which was largely at
tended, practically every warehouse
firm in the Eastern Belt being repre
sented, with a few being recognized
from the Central Belt.
President Sugg read and explained
the bill in letail, anl the Association
went on record as faVoring its pass
age at this session.
At the conclusion of the meeting,
Mr. Sugg called the jnembers atten
tion to the Victory Dinner, to be held
in Raleigh Friday evening, and urged
each one present to attend the affaii
and assist in showing the country
that North Carolina is truly a Dem
ocratic State and wholeheartedly be
hind President Roosevelt
This is a good week in which tc
trade at home.
Dr. Deal Messes
Local Dnnocrate
' /
Introducing himself as a singer of
song of victory and not a Jeremiah
with lamentations, Dr. R. (J. Deal,
faculty member of the East Caro
lina Teachers College, Greenville,
prefaced his victory address to
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Farmville Democrats, gathered on
Thursday evening to pay honor to
the party and its present leader, 1
Franklin D. Roosevelt, by declaring
he had often been curious to know .
how chicken a la Maryland tasted,
but he knew now that is was chicken
pie minus the chicken.
"Why," he said, "it is unthinkable
to talk of Democratic victory with
out honoring the man who gave us
the victory, and I want to pay my
respect to the President of the
United States tonight." Dr. Deal
traced the political careers of late '
presidents and paid a tribute of high
est praise to Mr. Roosevelt, "who"
he stated, "has cast his political lot
with the working man notwithstand- '
ing that he had a background of 1
wealth, and has made a corner for
people in a helpless and hysterical
condition, put good times just
around it and has led us around
that corner himself."
"Mr. Roosevelt speaks the lan
guage of every man, woman and
child in America, and smiles at op
position. He is a man marked for '
Destiny; fighting off physical handi-.
caps and those created by his critics '
and enemies he is fast becoming the
outstanding leader of the. world; a
man who can warm the cockles of
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your Heart Dy tne mere sound 01 rus
voice with the words, 'My friends.' "
In connection with the reforming
of the judiciary, Dr. Deal traced the
organization of the Supreme Court,
declaring that it was not divinely
created, and not considered the holiest
of the holy at the time, and while '
giving the Supreme Court the honor
composed at present by an august,
Signified body of learned men, the
Speaker pointed out the advantages '
to be derived by Mr. Roosevelt's pro
posed changes.
Giving the unfulfilled promises of
the Republicans for eight years due
credit for winning the first victory
for the Democrats in 1932, Dr. Deal
gave the combination of the person
ality of Mr. Roosevelt, his rekindling
of men's hopes and the filling of the
dinner pail its meritorious place in
the second election victory, and ,
pointed to this victory as a challenge
from the nation to the Democratic
party to begin now the development
of a leader with qualifications for
succeeding Mr. Roosevelt and main
taining the confidence, hope and
courage he has inspired.
Dr. Deal paused to do honor to
Mrs. Roosevelt and eulogized the
couple as "friends and champions ;
of the average man and woman, who
can touch the mind, heart and soul
of the masses as no two people have
ever been able to do before."
Dr. Paul E. Jones, Democratic
chairman of the township, presided
at the dinner attended by seventy
five citizens and held in the Ameri
can Legion hall, and Mayor J. B.
Lewis introduced the speaker as a
"Great Deal who can tell us about
the New Deal."
A musical program was presented
by Mr. and Mrs. John D. Holmes,
Mrs. J. W. Joyner, Mrs. Daisy H.
Smith and Mrs. J. L. Shackleford.
Wilson Fanner
SM His Son
Kept Awake by Unruly
Family, Pridgon Blows
Son's Arm Off With
Shotgun
Wilson, March 9.?Albert Pridgon,
22-year-old Wilson County farmer
was in a local hospital today minus a
right arm while his 50-year-old fath
er, Dallas Pridgon, Wilson County
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charged with shooting the arm off
with a shot gun last night when "the
family got unruly and I couldn't
sleep."
Doctors at the hospital said the
arm was hanging by a piece of skin
when he was brought there and that
it had to be taken completely off.
Officers from the office of Sheriff
W. A. Weathersby here said today
that the boy's father told them that
"My family was so unruly that I
i couldn't sleep, so I shot at the boy."
They also said that after the shoot
' ing the boy's mother took a rifle and
hit the father over the head with it,
- wounding him' in the forehead though
not seriously.
Albert, doctors said, was getting
> along fairly well today at the hos
pital.
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Assembly Gets 266 New
BiUs, Works Overtime
Two Million-Dollar Se
curity Appropriation
Bill Reaches Houae?
Records Set For New
Legislation As Dead
line For Bills Passes
Raleigh, March 10.?The General
Assembly, in its busiest; day of the 1
1937 session, received 266 new bills
yesterday and passed or killed al
most as many more.
Both houses held two sessions, de- ?
voted for the most part to the sing
Bong reading of local legislation and
the sound of the speakers' gavels, as
laws were enacted some limes at the
rate of three a minute.
xuuay tiic law-uiOACi a uiiu VJUV
ernor Hoey will journey by special
train to Edenton, where a meeting
will be held in one of the state's
first capitals. The Governor and
Edenton's Mayor E. W. Spires are
scheduled to speak. ,
Receiving a total of 83 new bills
and passing 11 more than that* the
Senate killed with no debate a meas
ure which would have restored the
electric chair for executions and ap
proved House bills which will reor
ganize two State departments.
Change State Division.
The House bills that were passed
will, after their ratification, transfer
the administration of Blue Sky se
curities laws, now in the hands of
Stanley Wohl, capital issues clerk,
under the Utilities Commission, to
the Secretary of State's office; and
increase the board of Agriculture""
from five to ten members. The
capital issues bill passed the House
under suspension of rules.
Senator John Sprunt Hill of Dur
ham amended the Department of
Agriculture bill to provide that
when the Governor appoints the
members, he shall let one of them
represent each of the following in
terests: tobacco, cotton, truck farm
ing, dairying, poultry peanut grow
inc. and "onp whn shall hp a inan
experienced in marketing."
Security Funds.
At its night session, the House
received as one of 183 new bills?
a new high record?:a measure from
Representative Victor S. Bryant of
Durham to appropriate $2,185,000 an
nually for the old age pension-chil
dren's aid bill recently enacted by
the House, to be matched by Fed
eral and County funds to make a
total of over $8,000,000 a year.
In addition, the bill would pro
vide $80,000 a year for State admin
istration, $150,000 for aid to coun
ties for administrative purposes and
$149,000 for other services of the
State Department of Public Welfare.
No further new bills will be re- '
ceived by House and Senate, except
by consent of two-thirds of the
membership, and the Assembly will
go home a week from today, if its
schedule is followed.
A bill to create a five-man State
Banking Commission, with the State
Treasurer acting as its chairman
and the Attorney General as a mem
ber, was introduced by Represent
ative R. A. Patton of Macon, who
previously tried to abolish the of
fice of Commissioner of Banks. Two
bankers and a businessman would
be appointed to the body by the
Governor.
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of Hertford sponsored a bill which
would create a retirement and relief
fund for State highway patrolmen.
Members wishing to receive bene
fits from the fund would be charged
an "initiation fee" of from $2 to
$6, and court fees received by par
ticipating officers would be deposit
ed to the credit of the fund.
A measure by Representative E.
T. Bost, Jr., of Cabarrus would al
low any law enforcement officer to
receive court fees if required to at
tend a session of a criminal term
of Superior Court while not on daty.
New Senate Bills.
In the Senate, other department
reorganization bills were received in
the 83 bills which were dropped into
the basket New Senate bills in
cluded ones which would:
Authorize the Governor to increase
the Department of Labpr's appro
priation in vi^w of new labor legis
lation requiring enforcement by his
department (by Senator Tom Gold
of Guilford and J. H. Separk of Gas
ton).
. Appropriate $3200 for the domesti
cation of foreign corporations by the v
Secretary of State (by Senator '
Gold).
Transfer the oil and gasoline in
spection division now in the De
partment of Revenue to the Depart
ment of Agriculture (by Senator
R. L. Coburn of Martin, and others).
Provide a two-year residence
qualification for State employes ex
cept those hired for technical posi
tions (by Senator H. L. Ingram of
Randolph).
To Trim" Pension Rolls.
Appoint a commission to * "trim .
down" the pension rolls so that so
cial security may take care of many
pensioners now supported by the
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