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THE COUNTY THE STATE THE UNION cv riMEf VOLUMN LXX SUBSCRIPTION $1.50 a Ye LOUI8BCRG, N. CAROLINA I IJID.IV, KKI'TKMBEIt 22, 1?3U (EIGHT PAGES) WATCH THE LABEL ON 'YOUR PAPER Renew Your Subscription Before Expiration Date To Avoid Missing An Issue. Xl'MBER 33 Franklin County Fair To Be The Best And Biggest In The " history of The Associa tion Everything points to the big gest and most interesting fairs ever held in Franklin or any oth er county. For the past three .weeks carpenters and laborers "have b^en busy putting the grounds and buildings in shape for the greatest Franklin County Fair. New booths have been built throughout and this will greatly improve the condition on the lot. Among the interesting exhibits that will be seen at the Fair this year will be those put on by the Vocational students in the numerous schools and these exhibits promise to be of excep tional educational value. The Triple-A exhibit put on by the Farm Agents will be most inter esting and every farmer in Frank lin County should see and study all of these exhibits. After all the Fair is primarily for the edu cation and interest of people who are interested in farming and in dustries and Franklin County has in the past surpassed any County around us in its exhibits of farm products and handcrafts of var ious description. Ope of the largest and best Carnivals coming South this year will play the midway and with its numerous rides and shows it is expected that everybody will have a good time. Since the manage ment has decided to accept the cotton and tobacco for admission to the fair grounds, there will be no excuse for those who wish to attend the fair not to come, and it is going to be a whole week of educational fun and amusement. The gates will open each day at 4 o'clock except Wednesday and Saturday on which days they will open at 9 o'clock in the morning. Wednesday will be special for white children of school age and they will.be udmltttd free between the hours of ? and 2. Saturday will be special for colored school children who will be admitted free between 9 and 2 on this day. There will be no parade for the colored children as in prev ious years but they will be wel come on this day. Bring an-1 ex hibit and win some of the prem iums that are being offered In the various departments. Thousands of premium lists have been mail ed to almost every person In the county and hundreds of dollars will be given as prizes for the numerous exhibits. The Fair will open promptly Monday. October 2nd at 4 o'clock and will continue during the en tire week. BOY SCOUT ACTIVITIES The Loulsbu^g Boy Scout Troop met on September 13 to reorganize for the fall and winter program. Rev. J. O. Phillips, Scoutmaster, was In charge. Day ton Hardwick. Jr., was made Senior Patrol Leader. The troop was divided into three patrols which will be led by Eaton Hoi den. Joe Barrow, and Hugh W. Perry, Jr. The fall enrollment is good and new members are coming in. The patrols demonstrated a number of features of scout-craft which had been learned In the Council camp during the summer season. Eaton Holden and his Wolf Patrol were appointed to give an exhibition at the next meeting of several advancement tests for the benefit of the new members of the Troop. POSTPONED The TIMES is requested to state the annual Wilder v'Kmlly reunion, which was to be held at the home of W. C. Wilder, haa been postponed until the second Sunday in October because of Ill ness in the home. BARBECUE HIPPER The TIMES is requested to an nounce that the annual barbecue supper for the benefit of Ebeneez er Church, will be held at Seven Oaks Dairy on Friday evening, Sept. 22, 1939. .All are Invited to go out. PROGRAM AT THE LOUISBURG THEATRE The following la the program at the Loulsburg Theatre begin ning" Friday, Sept. 22nd. Friday ? Olnger Rogers and David Nlven In "Batchelor Moth er." Saturday ? Double Feature ? Gene Autry In "Colorado Sun set" and Phil Regan In "8he Married a Cop." Also Chapter No. 9 "Daffedevils of Red Circle." Sunday-Monday ? Judy Garland and Frank Morgan In "Wizard of Oi." TuesdayFred Stone and Gloria Dickson In "No Place To Go." Wednesday ? Bonita Granvill and John Litel In "Nancy Drew And The Hidden Stafrcase." Thursday-Friday ? Bob Bufns in "Our Leading Citizen." LOUISBURG THEATRE K. GLEXX DAVIS | General Manager of the New I Louisb.urg Theatre, which held | the formal opening of its new building last night. Teachers Meet Hold Interesting Session Satur day at Mills High School. Miss Lillie Harper was elected President of the Franklin County i Unit of the North Carolina Teach-) er's Association in meeting in the auditorium of Mills High School on Saturday morning, Sept. 16th at 10 o'clock. Miss Harper, a classroom teacher in the Gold Sand High School, succeeds Prof. M. T. Lamm, Superintendent of the Bunn High School. Other of ficers elected are Vice-President. Supt. R. E. Tlmberlake. of the Edward Best High School, and Secy, and Treas.. O. J. Kochester who succeeds himself. Besides reading the minutes of the last meeting Mr. Rochester also rwMi. as requested, a copy of the constitution of this unit of the N. C. E. A. The meeting was begun with ? the singljig of America and pray er after which each superintend end presented Ills group of teach er*. The main speaker for this oc casion was Mr. Jule B. Warren, member of the N. C. School Com mission and secretary of the North Carolina Education Associ ation. Mr. Warren told the teachers 1 just what their state associatl >n > contemplates doing for the copi- J lug year, these plans having been i made by the headquarters' staff after statewide conferences were j held this past year on the issues . of major concern regarding the i future interests of our state edu cation. One very impressive fact that Mr. Warren told was that In the research work that the staff of the N. C. E. A. has done, they found that for many years past, every piece of progressive legisla tion regarding education on the statutes of N. C. was first written in the minutes of the N. C. E. A. Therefore, said Mr. Warren "Al though, personally, I might not be ao interested in the continuation of the N. C. E. A., as a private | citizen and as a patron of Bchools I ani vitally Interested in it." Other speakers were Mrs. John I Mltchlner. Franklin County Supt. of Public Welfare, who expressed her desire and that of her depart ment to cooperate in every way possible with the teachers in help- | ing to solve problems with which ? they are confronted concerning | the well-being of their students; and Supt. W. R. Mills, who wel- i corned both the old and new teachers and expressed his ap preciation for the work <)one by the teachers in the past and his faith In what good work they will do now and lu the future. ( P. T. A. TO MEET The TIMES is requested to state that there will be a meeting of the County Council of Parent Teacher Associations. Friday, Sept. 29th at Mills High School at 3:30 o'clock. All P.T.A. offi cers and School Principals are urged to attend. Mrs. Laurence Wall. Henderson. N. C? Director of District No. 6 will be present. CARRIER PIGEON Supt. E. R. Richardson of the Franklin County Home reports catching a carrier pigeon on Tues day. On the right leg of the bird was a band containing the following 287-P, and on the left' leg a like band containing the figures and letters as follows: 1413-IF 39-RVA. Mr. Richard son brought the bird to Capt. Chas. P. Green, of Battery B, 113th F. A. who will check up to see if ft belongs to the U. S. Army division. A new three-in-one feed mill, powered by either a one-plow tractor or a 5 horsepower electric motor. Is especially designed for use on small farms. i ~ Dedicates Additions Kxcrcism Held At Epxom School On Friday ? Many Present \ I Friday was another big day for Epsom School Community. It was the time for the dedication of the new additions to the school, that would increase its useful ness to the boys.and girls of the community. But this 1 was not the most important feature. The most important was the fact that the thing" that Was being dedica ted was the product of boys of school age. some from the par ticular school community. It was a building provided by the labor and . efforts of the boys, with the encouragement and sponsorship of the County, State and National governments. These boys were working under the National Youth Administration, under the Supervision of Sam Koberson and E. S. Merritt, as Construc tion foremen. M. S. Davis. Archi- ] tect. Mrs. Lucy Allen White, lo- : cal Supervisor, Frank W. Law- j rence, District Supervisor and Whit C. Purvis, Supervisor of the j Epsom Training Center. The services were held in the auditorium and presided over by Principal C. P. Rogers, who In troduced, besides the officers mentioned, members of the Board of Commissioners and Education and the local School Board. Mrs. J. F* Mitchiner, County Welfare Officer and Mrs. ? . ? . Taylor, .j Granville County Welfare Officer, j He also presented Supt. W. R. 1 Mills who after paying tribute to 1 the fine work or the boys, Intro- i duced the speaker, Mr. John A. , Long. Stute Administrator of N. Y. A., who made a most interest- I ing talk, telling his hearers the objects of the N. Y. A. and the I splendid results they were get- 1 ting in training the boys and in giving assistance in a material way to communities. He pre sented the building to Superinten dent Mills, for the County, who accepted it in a line little expres sion of appreciation and in turn presented it to Principal Rogers tor the use and benefit of the Ep com School community. Princlpul Rogers accepted In a fine spirit of cooperation in making it more useful. Prayer was offered In the open- ; ing by Rev. S. E. Madren who al so dismissed the meeting with benedicton. Splendid music was furnished throughout the pro- | gram. V. M. C. A. BLBCTH OKFICKHS At a recent meeting of the Y. M. C. A. of Louisburg College the following officers were elected: Ed Comer, of Dobson, president; Elwood Mintz. of Shallotte, vice president; Alton Petteway, of Kinston, secretary and treasurer. Since the time of hlsy election President Comer has named the members of the following com- ! mittees; Program ? Clyde Stal lings, of Morehead. Fred O'Keef, of Wilmington, Joe Newsonie, of Littleton. Social Committee ? 1 Matt McDade, of Hillsboro. Sam Arrlngton. of Hollister, Harold Morris, of Fayettevllle, J. L. Johnson, of Slier City. Bill Mc- 1 Artan, of Dunn. ATTKXTIOX GOIiFKKS The TIMKS In requested to announce that play for the Johnson Trophy at the C.reen Hill Country Club was iwgun yesterday and all nolfer* par ticipating in this play have un til through Sunday to get In their 18 holes. Handicaps are posted on the hoartl. When you begin signify It to the Pro. COLLEGE SPEAKER O. AMX (JAUO/SICK-* Principal Rpeaker at State Col lege's 60th anniversary celebra tion (Wt. 3 will be Former Gov ernor O. Max Gardner, above, one of the college's most distin guished alumni. Exercises will start at 1. : 30 A. M. with an academic procession containing representatives of senior and Junior colleges throughout the State. r RETIRING COMMANDER MR. W. BkAIK Tt'CKKK Who served as Commander of Base Hospital Unit ?>"> American' Legion the past year and was succeeded by Everett J. Jones, of Gastonia, for the coming year at! the annual meeting of the Hos pital Unit held In Kaleigh. on Labor Day, Sept. 4th. .Mr. Tnck-j er is oiie of Franklin County's most popular and prominent citi zens. An interesting item in the meetings records was that :tl members of the Unit had died since the War. "What Is A Fair" Fairs are older by far than schools or churches, states Dr. A. ! H. Fleming. Secretary Franklin County Fair, as t he ancient Egyptians were famous for their j lairs and bazaars long before the Christian Era, yet nobody seems to know exactly what a fair is. The Franklin CConnty Fair is going to give 10 free tickets to any person in the county who sends 111 the besl answer in not ; more than 30 words, to "WHAT IS A FAIR." This is open ? to everybody ill Franklin County and ill addition the Fair Associa tion will give 5 tickets to the student in any of the schools in Franklin County who will write the best answer to the same question. "WHAT IS A FAIR." The students competing should write not more than SO words and sign their name and the name of their school they attend and have your card or letter signed by yoUF ^teacher. This contest promises to be of much interest and all who wish to enter should send their answeis just as early as possible. Send them to A. H. Fleming. Sec. Franklin County Fair, Louislnirg, N. C. Tile con test closes September 30th. [ LIBRARY AT I'R.WKLIXTOV Rceently there has been open ed a public library in Fraiikllnton under the sponsorship of the Ma sonic Lodge. The library is lo cated in a large room adjoining the Masonic Lodge and upstairs over Sasser's Furniture Store. The library has been started on ; a very modest scale, but there is a good deal of interest in it, and It is hoped that from this small beginning there, will eventually develop a splendid library. Any person who may become interest ed in this project and would like to donate books, periodicals, or furniture may write to Rev. S. E. Mercer, Chairman of (he Library Committee or to Miss Marguerite Moss, Librarian. We nominate for- the Hall of fame a statue to the politician who cut expenses. Heavy Docket Franklin UlH'OixIrr's Court Tiics ?liiy ? Many ( 'ast's Disposed Of. After a three week's vacation caused by the Superior Court term intervening Franklin Re corder's Court had quite a heavy docket before it Tuesday. There were 41 cases on docket, thirteen cases were disposed of by trial, j twelve caBeS continued and six teen cases left open. The cases disposed of by trial were as follows: Wesley Merritt was found guil ty of unlawful possession of whis key and given 60 days on roads, suspended upon payment of costs. Uuck Hawkins was found not guilty of assault with deadly weapons. Nolan Cunningham was found guilty of bastardy and given 8 months on roads, suspended upon payment of costs and $5 per month for benefit of Ethel Cru dup. ? Jerry Cooke was found guilty of assault with deadly weapon | and given 2 years on roads, ex ecution not to issue upoupaynient of costs and $135.00 and not to j violate any laws of North Caro lina for a term of 2 years. James Coppedge was found guilty of assault with deadly wea- | pon and given 60 days on roads. ! , Summey Lattimore was found 1 guilty of_ using profane language on public "highway and public drunkeii^iess. and was given BO days oil loads. Clement Kicliardson plead gull- 1 ty to assault with deadly weapon, and was given 90 days on roads. W. R. Joyner was found not guilty of reckless driving. Calvin Wyche was found guil ty of assault with deadly weapon, and given 90 days on road. Ap peal. . ] John P. Baiter was found guil ty of an affray and given 30 days on roads. Appeal. Crudup Davis was found guil ty of drunk and disorderly, dis- i turbing public gathering and giv en 30 days on roads, suspended j upon payment of costs. Appeal. Floyd Myrick Parrish, operat ing automobile Intoxicated, was found guilty and given 90 days on roads, execution not to issue upon payment of $50 fine and ] costs and not to operate an au tomobile for 12 months. Addison Pearce, Plybon Pearce. M rs. Addison Pearce, assault and battery, profane and indecent Ian- | guage on highway. Not guilty as to Addison Pearce. guilty as to Mrs. Addison Pearce for assault and battery, judgment suspended upon payment of costs and $5.00. 1'lybon Pearce guilty profane and indecent language qh public high way, judgment suspended upon payment of one-half costs. MIC. II. II. JONKS llK.\l> Mr. R. H. Jones, of Katesville. one of Franklin County's most popular and substantial planters, died at hig home about four miles west of Louisburg on Friday night. He was about 50 years of age and besides his wife is sur vived by a brother, Mr. H. G. Jones. Mr. Jones was an active mem ber of Perry's Chapel Church, a | Justice of the Peace and an all round good citizen, being active ly interested in all public and civic matters. The funeral was held on Sun day at Perry's Chapel Baptist Church and interment was made in the cemetery nearby. Large numbers of relatives and friends attended the last rites and the floral tribute was especially targe and pretty. NEW PATROLMAN Mr. A. L. Toy lor, the new State patrolman assigned to Franklin County, arrived in Lotiisburg the past week. (EDITORIAL) LOUISBURG'S NEW THEATRE The FRANKLIN TIMES joins the many friend in ex tending congratulations to the owners and managers of the New Louisburg Theatre. Louisburg is justly proud of the finest Theatre of any small town in the State. The building has been completely modernised with all the convenience's of air conditioning, heat regulations, approved ventilation, a modern lighting system and the latest approved projection and sound systems. The seating capacity has been increased to 565, and every thing ha?j been installed anew. Mr. R. Glenn Davis, who came to Louisburg in May, 1933 and took over this theatre, through his eager de sire to serve the public with better pictures and more comfortable surroundings, has left no effort unattended tmvards keeping ahead of the times in moving picture presentation, and is due the credit for giving the people of Louisburg and Franklin County this moderu show house. In this venture he has been given undivided as sistance from Mr. W. F. Shelton, his able local manager. To this popular modernized show, place and' its man agement we extend the heartiest congratulations and good wishes for a continued successful career. Vr LOUISBURG THEATRE \V. K. SHKI,T()\ ( Wimple) The capable and efficient local Manager of Louisburs's popular play-house. Wants Repeal Neutrality Act WashiugtotR Sept. 20. ? -Presi dent Roosevelt was reported to night to have indicated to a bi partisan White House conference that he would prefer complete re peal of the neutrality act to any modification of the existing law. However, several of those who attended the conference, includ ing Chairman Pittman ( D.-Nev. ) of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, were said to have ad vised Mr. Koosevell that there was little chance that Congress would approve complete scrapping of existing neutrality statutes and returning to international law. The discussion tfieu veered to the possibility of repealing only the clause banning arms ship ments to belligerents, and sub stituting a cash-and:carry system for such sales. A person who attended the con ference said that during the dis cussion about complete repeal. Pittman advised Mr. Koosevelt that there would not be more than five of the Senate Foreign Rela tions Committee's 23 votes for I any such plan. Vice-President Garner, it was reported, told the President he al ways had favored international law as the basis of this country's j dealings with other nations. Mr. Koosevelt Vas said to have in dicated his assent to this view. At the outset of the confer- i ence. Mr. Roosevelt was reported to have outlined the working of international law in various past I wars, beginning with the Ameri can Revolution. Mr. RooseveR traced the work ing of this law down to the pres ent. and he and Pittman then were said to have engaged In a technical conversation as to how such law would affect Americans in the present world situation. The words "Find check enclos ed" are superfluous if a good check is really in there. LOCATED IN WARREN PATROLMAN PARKS ALEXANDER who has been serving as State Highway Patrolman for Franklin and Warren Counties for four years has been located In Warren County under the new set-up. At first his headquarters was at 1 Loulsburg, for two years or more I since which time he has had headquarters at Warrenton. Ho has made a most acceptable and efficient official and our people regret to se? him leave. He re quests the TIMES to convey .his appreciations to the people of Franklin County for their valued cooperation, without which he qould hot have given the service he HtiS, I WAR IN EUROPE Berlin, Thursday, Sept. 21. ? Troops and materials from 70 German divisions in Poland today were en route to the Western Front for what Nazis called a : "war to the bitter end" after an nouncement by the high command that the conquest in Poland is complete. Col. -Gen. Walter Von Brauch ltscli. commander-in-chief of the German army, was in front line 1 positions of the German West 'Wall on the Saar battlefront, mapping a plan of -.operations against the British and French forces. "The Polish army is annihilat ed." Brauchitsch said in an order .of the day late yesterday. "Tho operations against Poland are thus concluded." Brauchitsch said that the war in Poland ended when the last Polish resistance was wiped out in the great bend of the Vistula River to the southwest of War j saw, where nine Polish divisions ' were crushed and parts of 10 oth er divisions scattered. The semiofficial government I organ Deutscher Dienst called the battle of the Vistula, in which 105,000 Polish prisoners were i said to have been taken, tha ! greatest battle of annihilation [since Tanneuberg, where the | Germans defeated the Russians during the World War. Budapest, Sept. 20. ? A story of rumbling guns, the terror ot | 13 days of siege, and still the de termination "to hold out to the bitter end to defeat our enemy" [ blared out of the Warsaw radio I tonight, I "Big guns are rumbling heav | ily and probably soon there will be a big offensive against us," said a military communique read at 8:15 p. m. "Let the Germans not nurse any illusions as to constantly ; growing successes of our Warsaw l army. We will put an end to Ger man domination. Nobody doubts that Warsaw will come out of this bloody struggle victorious," the encouraging announcement con tinued. j Despite the fact that Polish .Marshal Hdward Smigly-Rydz has ! been in Rumania several days, the Warsaw announcer said: "Smigly-Rydz is now on the front and his presence cheered our sol diers." The Polish capital was bombed four times during the afternoon and incendiary bombs set the Red Cross hospital on fire. Paris, Sept. 20. ? Curtiss Pur suit planes purchased recently in the United States for the French Air Force today won the Western Front's first big air battle In which two German planes were shot down, Allied military reports said. The battle was fought when several squads of the Curtiss fighters, escorting observation planes taking photographs of Ger man troop movements behind the Siegfried Line, encountered sev eral German planes. '? Part of the fighting was over the German lines and part of it over the French lines, where, ac cording to tonight's war office communique No. 34, one German plane was shot down on French territory. The French airmen later re ported that a second German plane had been shot down behind the German lines around Saar bruecken. i The German defenders ot the west wall, apparently (earing a direct Allied offensive against the fortifications, heavily bombarded the French lines and rear line communications throughout the ! day. Council of War Britain and France held a coun ! oil .of war in Paris today to map i theii' strategy for a "final victory" I over Hitlerisnu to which both governments pledged themselves unequlvocably in formal declara tions. The smashing of Hitlerism. it Was announced, will bring "just and rightful reparations" to1 pros trate Poland ? shattered and over run by the armies of Germany and Soviet Russia. This assertion was open defi ance of Fuehrer Adolf Hitler's statement at Danzig yesterday that Poland is crushed "never to rise again in a Second Versailles" and that Germany and Soviet Russia together will determine Poland's fate. Shortly after the French cabi net meeting as a formal Council | of Ministers under President Al 1 bert Lebrun, defiantly rejected Hitler's Danzig speech, the Brit ish War Minister, Leslie Hore Belisha. arrived at the war office. He conferred with Premier Fdouard Daladler, who also is War Minister ot France, and General Maurice Gustav Gamelin, commander-in-chief of the French fighting forces. ! While the Allied heads conf?r red, three British stair officers who accompanied Hore-Belisha on his secret jonrney across the channel conferred with Gen. Louis A. Colson. French army chief of staff and AdQlirat- Fran (Continued on Page Five)