Official Pictures of Torpedoed U. S. S. Kearny * -{ y i % 'Wmm * \ \ EHf' w v<^ 3i %i v wiP' J \ Hfe'l ;. f*~ : ’ . - ~>fr .• vr-' y 4 ■' ~ 'ft M&ijy - 'I! ..—-—■ Official pictures released by the navy department show the damage done to the 17. S. S. Kearny when she was torpedoed by a snbmarine off Iceland. At left, crew members look at twisted wreckage below decks after the torpedoed destroyer steamed into port. Bight: the Kearny, tied to sister ship, is shown limping into unnamed port. Arrow points to the hole made by the torpedo. Cotton Census Outstanding Achievement Os D. C. Roper Former Secretary Os Commerce Will Review His 50 Years Os Public Life In Coming Book Daniel C. Roper’s life story may prove, to be an outstanding con tribution to the elimination of sectionalism, according to those who have read the manuscript of the autobiography soon toi be published by the Duke Universi ty Press. The former Secretary of Com-j merce and Minister to Canada during the Roosevelt Administra tion lived under 16 United States’ Presidents and served under nine of them in an equal number of key posts. No other figure in American public life ever held so wide a variety of important gov ernment positions, or served in so many capacities for so long a time—so years. The record of the Roper life in Who’s Who reads like the combined records of a dozen men. He has been working almost constantly upon his mem oirs since hi 6 retirement in 1938. One effect of sectionalism, dur ing the reconstruction era when Mr.‘Soper was born in Marlboro JWv.V>. Wanted! Wanted! Want to boy a small farm near Roxboroj containing about 60 acres. Would like to have this land on hard surface road. Dees not have to have dwelling on it. Price right for cash. ’ • v- WRITE YOUR LOCATION and DESCRIPTION TO TIMES OFFICE. FRESH SHIPMENT MULES VH ■VmHj WE HAVE RECEIVED A NICE SHIPMENT OF MULES —AGES 3 TO 6 YEARS OLD —WEIGHT 900 to 1300 POUNDS CASH or CREDIT - SELL or TRADE YOU CAN FIND THE MULE YOU WANT HERE —FROM THE BEST THAT GROW TO THE CHEAPEST PLUG. Creedmoor Supply Co. Rear Winstead. Warehouse. E. B. Bragg County, South Carolina in 1867, was to make impossible an ac-j curate United States census. A bortive efforts to establish a com modity census had completely failed. Throughout several post-bel lum decennial periods, the Fed eral Government had.tried to ap proximate the Cotton crop by a canvass of cotton gins. The sta tistics so obtained were grossly erroneous. The planters and gin ners of the South had evil recol lections of the carpet baggers who had confiscated their cotton and levied harsh tribute against them during the earlier reconstruction days. In many cases they flatly refused to give information to the Federal enumerator and in others their estimates were va gue*’ or erroneous. Not only did they refuse to give true accounts of the cotton ginned, they like wise gave evasive answers to questions as to the ppmbPl Os children in the family or thf number of Negroes living under the individual. These refusals throughout the cotton States made an accurate national census im possible, thus each effort to pass a Federal law to make the tem porary Census Bureau at Wash~| ington permanent was defeated in Congress. The obstinate and rebellious at titude of the planters, according to the Roper version, was costing them millions of dollars each year. A firm of statisticians, the Neale Brothers of London, made an annual visit to the South for the purpose of estimating the volume and quality of the cotton crop. Their reports invariably ov erestimated the quantity, thus giving an exaggerated impres sion of overproduction which caused a decline in Liverpool prices and enabled the Manches ter mills to grab the Southern planters’ cotton a low figure be cause of the fear throughout the South that the English market would fall still lower. As a young civil service em ploye of the Census Bureau inj 1900, Daniel C. Roper was placed in charge of the cotton census. | By appealing directly to the j planters and ginners to abandon sectionalism in their own inter nals, an amazingly accurate cot ton census was obtained, thus re futing the exaggerated estimates Os London statisticians and excit ing sufficient interest in Congress to bring about an appropriation for a permanent! Census Bureau BE WISE “Go West Young Man” Buy and Build in SUNSET HILLS Thos. B. Woody, Agent DOLLY MADISON MONDAY-TUESDAY, NOVEMBER' 24-25TH. ■■■*■ ".r BRIDE OUTSMARTS "LOVE EXPERT"! Any woman can do itl Hilarious romance I ;> Starring ROBERT RUTH YOUNG* HUSSEY with FELIX BRESSART . LEE BOWMAN Sheldon Loonaid • Sam Uveno Scree* Ptay by Dme'ScSarV i. No morning shows; afternoons daily 3:15-3:45; Adm. 10-30 c; Evenings daily 7:15-9:00; Adm. 15-30 c. pataow county tpo» — aoxmma, &t whose work would proceed an* rsially "instead of each 10 years. *■ Roper’s achievement with the cotton census, which ha is said to regard as his most important life work, drew the attention of members of the Congressional Ways and Means Committee un der the chairmanship of Albert Sydney' Burleson and the latter took him along as first assistant when he became Postmaster Gen eral in the Wilson Administra tion. Subsequently, Roper became a member of the tariff commis sion, from which post he was per suaded by William Gibbs McAdoo to become Commissioner of In ternal Revenue and handle the immense responsibility of collect ing the World War taxes. LOEVIN GET LAWYERS (Continued from front page) Several months ago, Leovin al legedly came through North .Car olina and solicited money from merchants in several towns fe.r shipments of advertising mater ial. When the material was nev er shipped, police investigated and found that there was no such firm as the Metro Publicity Agency. He was brought to Roxboro by W. I. Gatling, an agent of the State Bureau of Investigation, Loevin allegedly fleeced some 10 Roxboro merchants out of ap proximately $245 when he W’as here. MERRITT-HORTON (Continued from Society page) ly entertained since the an nouncement of their engage ment in October. ». Out-Of-Town Guests Out-of-town guests, attending the wedding included: Dr. J. D. Bradsher, A. L. Bradsher, Sam Merritt, Mrs. Mamie Merritt, Misses Sue and Eglantine Mer ritt, of Roxboro; Mrs. Frank Capps and Miss Dora DeGrace Roundtree, of Washington, D. C.; Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Thompson, of Creedmore; Miss Ida Thomp son, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Cozart, Miss Helen Noel, of Durham; Miss Britt, of Kinston; Mr. and j Mrs. Bernard Crowell, of Hen dersonville; Mr. and Mrs. Wil |liam Taylor, of Warren ton; Mr. ’ and Mrs. P. K. Miles, of Dan ville, Va.; Mr. and Mrs. Percy Holden, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Mil ler, of Snow Hill; Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Taylor and Miss Grace Taylor, of Morehead City; Mrs. Nannie Hinnant, of Beaufort; Mrs. William Maupin and Mrs. William Anderson, of Raleigh. PALACE THEATRE MONDAY-TUESDAY NOVEMBER 24-25TH i At ajr .A I 15 Sauuli SeujHiti, iududiu|: Tj I "St. Louie BUee" -MetepUe Btece” II ■ "Tiger Beg- -My Mdeecbety ■ "Birth*of the ““J 7 " Btece* -The Weller e*d 1 -WekTBI the T*.,. I Sea Shince. Nellie* t»e U|>«ene mere I A Pa:aniOiin! P.it-’f * !”• BING MARY CROSBY MARTIN i Brian Oonlevy . Carolyn Lee Rochester i .. Directed bv * J. CARROL NA setertzmger Special morning show Monday 10:30; afternoons daily • 3:15- 3:45; Adm 10-30 c; Evenings daily 7:15-9:00; Adm. 15-35 c. John S. Baldwin Not Sorry That He Killed Doctor Jones Columbus County Farmer, > In Interview, Tells How . He Planned Slaying. j Durham, Nov. 21.—Penned in ( the Durham County Jail, John S. , Baldwin, Columbus County ] farmer who shot Dr. Randolph j Jones, Jr., to death Tuesday at , Duke Hospital, described how during nine long months he had . brooded over what he was con- vinced was a deliberately faulty operation by the surgeon until j he felt that “the only thing to do” was to shoot him. Alone and friendless, the 38- year-old farmer, who comment < ed that he did not expect any of ( his relatives would come to help him because he and they ‘ did not agree, still expressed no remorse over his action. “I am sorry Dr. Jones and I . both have to be in the condition j we are tonight, but I’m not sorry I did it,” he asserted, reiterating his belief that the surgeon had irreparably wronged him. Baldwin related how in Feb- . ruary he came to Duke Hospital c for a plastic surgery operation by Dr. Jones for the correction of ( a faulty circumcision several years ago. j He remained in the hospital a little over two weeks, he said, and almost from the time, he went home he was unsatisfied with the results of Dr. Jones’ surgery. Once at his home he was prac tically confined to bed for sev eral weeks, and when time came to plant his crops he had to hire the labor because he was unable to do so. All during the Sum- i mer, able to do very little work, he thought about the wrong he believed Dr. Jones had done him /lasythims*& L»**"*Aa IT'S SMART TO BUY TODAY There’s no need to sacrifice either safety or com* Our liberal Budget PUn la available for fort in your winter driving if you plan ahead. your convenience and yon can buy any- Here are some of the things you’ll be needing thing yon see here on easy terms by soon which we have in stock right today. > making only a small down payment. J§ 55*1*8 SILVERTOWN TIRES \ \ $ little as- ffy' :: TwEEifc‘ I TCC You can be sure B. F. I f J|V Goodrich Silvertown V Tires will give you the J WM||. 1 A WEEK extr mileage to see you ARBM I I safely through these try- Silvertowns are built with n BTTEDirC Duraniin, the amazing dMBBWEKjy 1 HH| IS /K. I I Be lm It W new “tire vitamin” that r9^Mpßß^HK|n|Hm Battery always down? 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Asked if he had not had a long time to get over his anger against the doctor before he shot. him, Baldwin answered, ‘I had at long time to get my mind set on shooting him.” “If it had been my arm or my leg that he messed up I could have sued the hospital, but I wouldn’t be in this shape for 10 Duke Hospitals,” he said to ex plain why he thought his onlyj recourse was to kill Dr. Jones. Dry weather made his com crop a poor one, and althougn the tobacco on his 26-acre farm sold for SBOO by the time he got through paying for the labor, paying for his fertilizer, paying for his farm supplies, and pay ing for the doctor and hospital bills, he had almost nothing left, j he said. Last week he sold his mule and all of his farm equipment he could, packed all his belong ings in three suitcases, and came to Durham with the inten tion of killing the surgeon, he continued. He rented a room on North Mangum Street and tried to make up his mind to go out to —i BUCKJONES FOR Public Hauling O R i Transfer Service SUNDAY, Novsmum 23, lt*i the hospital to see Dr. Jones and “get it over with,” Baldwin de clared. Asked why he waited until Tuesday to shoot the surgeon it he had already made up his mind to do so, Baldwin said “I dreaded what I had to do.” His room was paid for only through Tuesday night, so about the middle of the afternoon he went to the hospital to see Dr. Jones. He waited around “for more than an hour” for the sor geon, saw him for a moment once, and then got to speak to him about 5:30 o’clock. Baldwin complained that Dr. Jones “did not give me any sat isfaction,” but told him to come back in the morning. It was then that the shooting occurred, the farmer walking off without a hint that he was un satisfied, then wheeling and shooting Dr. Jones dawn at a distance of only a few steps, eyewitnesses said. 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