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Enterprise DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE PEO PLE OF WALLACE AND DUPLIN COUNTY VOL. XII. WALLACE. NORTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY. JANUARY 31. 1935 No. 42 Sales Tax Now In The Spotlight Administration Would Remove Exemptions; Others Want Tax Abolished; Fight Predicted By M. L. Shipman (Special to The Enterprise) Raleigh, Jan. 29—Battle lines are rapidly forming in the Legis lature. The joint linance commit tee of the two houses, adopted recommendations of the Admin istration for removing exemptions .in sales taxts on staple foods such as flour, meat, meal and milk, which it is estimated will add from one to two millions dol lars annually to the State reven ue, but this was only the begin ning of the battle.' The North Fair Tax Association was heard the following day in a vigorous denunciation of the sales tax. The North Carolina Retail Merchants’ association hasn’t been heard yet. The big argument in favor of j the sales tax is that it produces 1 revenue in large amounts. The revenue for the month of Janu-| ary will be close to a million dol-1 lars. Four and one-half million j dollars has been collected since last July. The argument against it is that it is a tax upon the rich and the poor alike, that it rests more heavily upon the poor than upon the rich. Another one is that it drives business from the State as there is no tax on inter state sales, and none can be levi ed by the State. - ! Another battle is in the offing on the question of the ratification of an amendment to the Federal Constitution that would permit Congress to- make child labor; un lawful:—The Supreme Coftre rul: ed that Congress di<i not have the power. President Roosevelt has outlawed child labor through the simple expediment of setting up business codes by which business enterprises by their own agree ment outlaw child labor. The child labor amendment was sub mitted ten years ago, but only a half dozen states had ratified it prior to the Roosevelt Adminis tration. Now it has become a live issue again, with the American Legion backing it, and a lively fight is expected in the North Car olina General Assembly. While it appears certain that the Legislature will reduce auto mobile license taxes, there will be a battle over the amount of re duction. Senator Browning, of Swain, wants to make the reduc tion 45 percent or 30 cents a hun dredweight instetad of 55 cents with a minimum of five dollars a car. Represtntative Carr, of Dup lin would make the reduction 40 percent. Reduced automobile taxes was an issue in th cam paigns of a number of members of the Legislature. It is a live issue in the Legislature. There is a general sentiment in the Legislature for licensing of automobile drivers, but in or der to make it effective it will be necessary to increase the num ber of highway patrolmtn, and it will also be necessary to set up machinery for examination of drivers. While the cost can be taken care of with a license fee, it is difficult to frame an act that will not become merely the means or raising revenue. That has been the case in many cities, the issu ing of drivers’ licenses becoming merely a formality. With nearly a thousand fatal ities from automobile wrecks and accidents on the highways dur ing the past year, or more than three a day, it has become imper ative to make saftey measures ef fective, and Senators Burrus, of Guilford, and Teague, of Wayne, propose as one means that every automobile owner shall carry a bond for a thousand dollars to make him financially responsible for damages. This has been tried out in some states with good re sults. The idea is that it would keep reckless drivers off the highways. The Legislature got away to a Vhurried start with the passage of \ (Continued on Page Six) I POPULAR KEMANSVILLE YOUTH CLAIMED BY DEATH, Kenunsviile, Jan. 28.—-William' Joseph Penny, son of Mr. and] Mr:> E. I!. Penney died al him home here Friday morning, Jan. 25, at 9:25. lie had been in ill health since Christmas' but pad not been looked upon as critical-1 ly ill until last Friday. His death came as a shock to all who- know. Dim. Th-3 deceased was born in we. ho County August 8, 1U17, ami . h.-.s hved in Warsaw and Kenansville since moving to this section of the . 'tie, lie graduated villi i-rai honor from the Kenansville high r.choo) last spinor ami en tc'/ed Wake Forest College It: -;t fail to piVj.aAt hi;r"-if for t'uo tr.ctlit-:: 1 pro.V.-'sim. lie !.ad cu doinvLir':d,' :;i the h.p ■ rt.■ -t>. tile *}. *o of U ;:;;e Fo/esl to . e extent that he was ccoutmasiirr ot one of the Boy Scout Troops there. Joe was a great worker in Boy Scouis. He became an Eagle Scout about eighteen months ago and has always lived up to the Scout Oath and Laws. He has served as one of Hie officers in the l'uscarora Camp, and has" proven his ability as a leader with boys. The people of Kenansville fee! that in the death of Joe Penney they have sustained a great loss in leadership among the youth and material for future building. The funeral services were held in the local Baptist church of which Joe was a member, by his pastor, Rev. R. C. Foster, assist ed by Rev. Frank L. Goodman at 2:00 P. M. Saturday. Five of the fellow scouts from Troop 50 of Kenansville, Dunvood Murray, Beecher Sitterson, Erie Long, J. O. Bowman, Jr., and Carlton Dob son, and one fellow officer of the Tuscarora Council, Roy Liles of Goldsboro, were the pallbearers. The.seivivC at-the grave v.v;a'con ducted by the scouts from all ov er the Council under the direction of Scout Executive, W. E. Pen nington of Goldsboro. Lovely floral contributions testified some thing of the esteem that Joe won among his many friends. The lo cal high school girls carried the flowers. Besides his father and mother, Joe is survived by the following brothers and sisters. Mrs. Chas. Guthrie of Kenansville; Mrs. No ble Martin of Perisocola, Fla.; Mrs. Alfred Kafer, Jr., of New Bern, and Mr, Brantley and Jen nings Penney of Kenansville. LOCAL ‘AG’ CLASS STAGES FATHER AND SON BANQUET The annual Father and Son banquet of the vocational agri cultural class of the local school was held in the basement of the Methodist Church last Friday night with approximately 50 stu dents, dads and other invited guests present. Gathered around the banquet able, which had been artistically decorated with bamboo and yel low and white grains of corn, the students and quests of the ev ening enjoyed a sumptuous repast served by the ladies of the church after which toasts were given and responded to. L. L. McLendon, Bounty Agent, made a very in teresting talk using as his theme he new era which has dawned for agriculture. Several other guests made short talks during the evening and several piano se lections added much to the suc cess of the affair which is always eagerly looked forward to by the agricultural boys as well as their dads. William Ivey Rivenbark, a mem ber of the class, acted as toast master and during the course of the evening, gave a brief sum mary of the work accomplished by the class during the past year. The basement of the Church had been artistically decorated for the affair, a color scheme of i red, white1 and blue being used. County Court Monday (The regular monthly session ot General County Court is schedul . cd to be. held at Kenansville next week beginning on Monday, How ever, due to the fact that the Jan uary term was not held until the 21st, it is doubtful if there will be many cases to try at this time, especially since no jury, will be present.. Hauptmann Trial Witnesses from Germany FLESH NGTON, N. J. . . . The above three witnesses were brought from Cermany by the state in the trial of Bruno Hauptmann on the charge of murder of the Lindbergh baby. They are close'-kin of Isidor Fisch now ti : 1 but from whom Hauptmann stated he had received Lindbergh ransom money. Heading 'left to right they are Czerna Fisch and her husband, I'incus Fisch, brother of Isidor (deceased) and Hannah Fisch, sister of l’inc'js. “'t’iiE PAINTED VEIL" COMES i O WAN OCA NEXT TiS LIUS. “The Pointed Veil,’’ Greta Gar bo1!' ne\y Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture that opens next Thursday at the V’. arnica Theatre, Wallace, N. C„ briars the glamorous Swed ish tar bade to the screen in .the twe. tit i: t a r r i in; production since her arrival in America less, .than ten years ago. As a distinct contrast to her last lilm, “Queen Christina,” Gar bo returns once more to the Told of modern women in her char acterizations and comes- through with the most gripping dramatic Performance of" her career. “The Painted Veil”, an adapta tion .of Somerset Maugham’s do mestic drama of marital discord in the seething center of China’s plague-ravished regions, tells the story of a modern woman married to a medical scientist who thinks first of his work before thinking of his Wife. The wife, lonely and yearning for'love, believes she finds it when she meets a presentable English man named Townsend. When the husband discovered his wife’s in fidelity, and when Townsend re fuses to divorce his own wife to marry Katherine, he drags ner Into the plague country. The role of the wife is made a memorable one in the performance of the incomparable Garbo who gives it all the depth of feeling and sincerity it demands, adding besides that undercurrent of ex citement and glamour which only i the presence of this remarkable (Sweedish actress can give toe the | screen. | As Dr. Fane, the husband of Garbo, Herbert Marshall contrib utes possibly the finest perform ance of his career, one that gives him opportunity to escape from his earlier roles of “the suave gentleman.” Marriage Licenses issued Only four couples secured mar riage licenses in thjs county dur ing the past week, records of the Register of Deeds reveal. Of this number two were white and two colored. White couples were; El bert Henderson and Bernice Daii. both of Duplin, and J. W. Radford of Lenoir County, and Mrs. Pearl Hunter Pike of Duplin. CORRECTION In our article last week headed “Methodists of County Back State’s Dry -Laws”! it was stated i that a resolution requesting tile I Duplin County Legislators to up hold the present laws for the con I trol of liquor, which was brought ! up at the first quarterly confer ence of the Faison-Kenansville | charge, was adopted by a dissent ing vote. The sentence should have read “Adopted without a dis senting vote.” we regret this erroi and gladly make the correction al this time. i . -- — I Leave it to Congress and this ' country will spend more money if it will mean more votes. ytfi¥rt^ifra i^riV-'ViTi'*itI tpPDGE TOURNAMENT AT KikSAi.SV (LLE DRAWS MANY i-| iytvra, from practically every • e; lion of. the county participat ed, in the bridge tournament v i.h was held at Kenasville on Monday night under the sponsor ..'nip of the Kenansville Junior .'/••r.m'tvV. Club .for the purpose ; , dining funds with which to beaut iiy the courthouse grounds. Nineteen tables of bridge, set hack, rummy, hearts-dice and rook were in play during the ev ening. which was thoroughly en joyed‘by all those present. Quite a neat sum was realized from file sale of table tickets which, .ogether with other funds on hand mid to be raised at other like : (fairs, will be used in this worth which undertaking. At the conclusion of play de le to us refreshments were served •nul prizes awarded to the fol ■ owing: Contract bridge (grand is.;h score), Miss’Lee Bailentine. Rose. Hill, and Judge R. Hunt darker, Roanoke Rapids; Auction fridge’ (grand high score), Dr. I, V. Gooding, Kenansville; Set back. J. L. Williams, Mrs. Harvey Roney; Rummy, Miss Brand a Mc Lendon,; Hearts-dice, Luke Hous oii, Mrs, R. V. Wells, J. 0. Bow nan;' Rook, Mrs. J. L. Williams, Alton Newton. Table prizes were iwarded to the following; Mrs. ' km Bowden, Warsaw; Mrs. Vick, | Varsaw; Mrs. J. B. Wallace, Ken nsville; Mrs. Oliver ijtokes, Ken ! nsvilie; Mrs. Gilbert Honeycutt, I o nausville; Mrs. W. J. Pickett, | oiutnsvilie, Sam Roberts, Faison, ' od J. S. Blair, Wallace. d!NE-YEAR-ORD BOY VICTIM OF INFLUENZA-PNEUMONIA Funeral services for Elwyn i Powell, nine-year-old son of Mr. | nd Mrs. John Powell, of Wal j nice, who died early Monday | corning at the home of his pa ] rents, were, held from the home Moilda.v afternoon at «> :flO o’clock, j Rev. W.‘ P. M. Currie, pastor of j the local Presbyterian church, • nduc ted the. last rites and in terment followed in Rockfish Cemetery. / Elwn had. been ill just six days ’.■hem death overtook him. A vic tim of influenza, he was thought | .o be on the road to recovery when he developed pneumonia yhieh resulted in his death early •Monday morning. In addition to Cis p; rents, he is survived by hreo brothers and two sisters: Luther, George and Charles Pow ell, 'Mrs. T. M. Fields, and Ruth Powell, all of Wallace. I Many Apply For Loans Approximately 200 persons -have applied for short term loans : to date through the Kenansville Production Credit Association ac cording to officials in charge. While the association has only re cently begun receiving applica tions for this season, the large I number applying indicates tnat will have a good season despite :e general upturn in agricultur al prices last year. ERADICATION OF PELLAGRA ! IS ONE AIM OF RED CROSS In cintinuing the distribution of powdered yeast in its fight against pellagra, the American Red Cross hopes that eventual eradication of the disease in this and other communities may be ac complished. The Duplin County Red Cross Chapter has asked that all per sons suffering from the disease or those who believe they may be victims of it, apply for the yeast to their family doctor or to the public health officer so that they] may begin taking the cure imme diately. Doctor William DeKleine, Me-| died} Adviser of the American' Red Cross at Washington, D. C..| mints out that pellagra is always I .i.-'.' ociattd with faulty dietary ha-! jii.'.. It is a vitamin deficiency! disease. “Individuals who sub sist on diets deficient in a parti cular food eessential, commonly [ called vitamin G”, says this health authority, “will sooner or later develop pellagra. Milk, lean meat and a variety of vegetables j have this particular vitamin in j greatest abundance, arid if regu-| larly used in sufficient quantities,' will protect against this disease.! Powdered yeast is also rich in] this food factor and is therefore] a very valuable measure for treat-i ing pellagra. If we could induce! all pellagrins to take powdered! \east and educate families to be I more careful about the foods they | eat this disease would soon bej eradicated everywhere.” “Already there are hopeful j .•signs”, Dr. DeKleine points our. I “In the present economic depres sion the death rate from pellagra] has decreased greatly. This de crease began in some states in, 1928, in others one or two years! later. The disease was increasing] rapidly Just prior to that time. The1 downward tfend began after sev- ] eral years of difficult economic conditions is agriculture and at the peak of industrial prosperity. | However, since pellagra is more] prevalent in rural than in urban communities the trends are no doubt closely related to agricul-l tural conditions. Times became] -10 hard that something had to be; done about it. Heroic measures, had to be adopted not only to] check the increase in pellagra but' also to help overcome actual food; shortage. LOCAL TEAMS SURRENDER TWO GAMES TO CALYPSO I On Tuesday night, Jan. 29, the1 boys and girls basketball teams: of Calypso high school came down ; to Wallace and took away two! victories. | The local teams fought hard to. defend themselves but the oppos ing teams were just a bit too much ; for them to defeat. Lose To Rose Hill On Friday night, January 30 the local high school boys team went to Rose Hill to bring home; tile bacon, but Rose Hill had de-i cided to keep the bacon, so the local boys were defeated. The Wallace team played a good gamej against a much larger and strong-; er team. The local all-star girls team al so went up to play their first: game of the season but were un-j succeessful in gaining the victory. The local all-star boys team met the Brinson Brothers team of Kenansville on the home court for their first game of the sea son but they were also unsuccess ful in winning. Come out and see our games, we need and appreciate your sup port. Pliniy ,r.f Labor Available Mr. B. C. Boney who has charge ox the local Re-employment of •'ice is anxious to hear from any one in need of labor of any kind, including domestic service in homes. Quite a few persons are registered with him and as the public works program in this sec tion is not sufficient to provide employment for all, private en terprises are being looked to to absorb some of the surplus. Any one in need of labor in requested to get in touch with Mr. Boney who will be abl« to supply it promptly. . , - ------ Short Session Of Superior Court Judge Parker Shows Speed in Dis posing of Docket in Two and One-Half Days This Week The shortest session of super ior court for the trial of criminal cases held in this county in some time was held at Kenansville this week when Judge R. Hunt Park er, presiding over his first term of Duplin criminal court, dispos ed of the docket in two and one half days. The greater part of the first day’s session was taken up in se lecting a grand jury and hearing appearance cases. But Judge Par ker took time to present one of the ablest charges to the grand jury ever heard in this county. He laid special emphasis on the matter of guardians, administra tors and others handling trust funds who fail to make reports as provided by law and warned the jurors that the practice must be broken up. He also touched ort the school bus problem and order ed the jury to investigate the situation in this county with the result that a complete check-up is now in progress. Late yester day afternoon the jury had not completed their investigation of the matter so their recommenda tions have not as yet been made public. The following appearance cases were handled on the first days’ session before the court got dowh to work on the regular docket: Borden Potter, charged with disposing of crops without pay ing rents, had his case dismissed after it was ascertained that the costs had been paid. Finding that the judgment had ment had befE compiled with the Court orck&ed the action dismis sed in the case of Hamptog Ap drews, charged with assault on a female. Jamefc Rose, Jr., appeared be fore the court, showed compliance with a, former judgment rendered in a case which he was charged with assault with a deadly wea pon, possessing whiskey and oper ating auto while intoxicated, and had the action dismissed. The court ordered execution is sued on judgment absolute in the case of S. W. Carroll, charged with assault with a deadly wea pon with intent to kill. Instantd apias was ordered issued on tne iefendant. Finding that thee judgment had >een compiled with, the court or dered the action dismissed in the case of Baldy Fussell, charged with assault with a deadly wea pon. An instanta capias was ordered issued for Harvey Mobley in a store-breaking and larceny case. An instanta capias was order ed issued to Wilson County for J. W. Ferrell in a forgery case. The court finding that Henry Bonham had failed to comply with the conditions of a suspended judgment at the December term when he was convicted of simple assault, he was ordered to servfe a 30-day road sentence. Going into the regular docket after the appearance cases had been disposed of, the Solicitor an nounced he would take a nol pros in the case of Willie Grady, charg ed with larceny and receiving. Charged with hunting without a license, Rob Hurst was found not guilty. The case of Blaney Bonham, charged with operating a slot ma chine, was ordered transferred to General County Court. Found guilty on a larceny and receiving charge, Johnnie Brown was sentenced to 12 months on the roads. Charged with larceny and re ceiving, Dave Wolf pled guilty ‘o temporary larceny of an auto and drew 18 months on the roamr. In a like case Harrison Cromatffll pled guilty to temporary larjjow of a mule and drew a 12 mon&fc road sentence. The case of Ezzell Mclver, charged with purjury, was order ed transferred to General County Court. Pleading guilty to a charge of storebreaking and larceny Ed mond Cavenaugh receieved.a sen tence of not lcs; than 2 or raoiite 1 (Continued on Pag* Six)
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