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THE COUNTY THE STATE THE UNION -TkeF riMEi WATCH THK LABEL ON YOUR PAPER Renew Your Subscription Before Expiration Date To Avoid Missing An Issue. VOLUMN LXX SUBSCRIPTION $1.50 ? Ye LOUIS BURG, N. CAROLINA FRIDAY, SKPTKMBKlt IK), 1930 (EIGHT PAGES ) NUMBER 33 COTTON FAR MERS MEET M. G. MANN MAKES ADDRESS Others Speaking Were L. B. Gunter, Director and County Agent Boyce; Better Seed, of One Va riety and Poisoning Boll Weevil Stressed Mr. M. G. Mann, President of the N. C. Cotton Growers Associ ation, strongly stressed the use of one variety of improved cotton seed for North Carolina farmers and the poisoning of boll weevils as a matter of profit to cotton farmers. In the first instance he j would get a better price for his cotton by getting the premium for staple and in the latter he could make a crop of cotton under boll weevil conditions. He told of the advantages in delivering cotton to his Association because it was . government graded, protected from the elements and insured against loss. Also any farmer delivering could sell at will to any one he wishes, or to the As sociation, the cost for this service having been reduced to the minl ^mum. L. Br%uce Guntr, Director for this District, spoke very encour- I agingly for the farmers, who fol- I lowed good farming judgment in the use of seed of a good variety and sold on grade and staple, es pecially if this was through the , Association, which was rendering 1 great assistance to the cotton grower. W. T. Moss, of Youngsville, told of hew he will make a bale \ of cotton to the acre this year un der boll weevil control. He said he dusted three to five times each year and found that it pays him. L. P. Gupton and N. H. Griffin | told of their one variety organi- 1 zatlon at Certervllle, and how Well it was working. R. J. Rose told of the organi zation which he heads in Frank lin County, to increase the use ot cotton products and explained he was asking each farmer for one cent for each bale of cotton he | has ginned to help promote this campaign, which they hope would be worth a great deal to the cot- ! ton growers in future years. H. F. Mitchell, F. W. Justice, A. F. Johnson, O^B. Arndt, ? . j ? . Etherldge were among those called upon and responded. B. G. Mattox, Held agent for the Association in this County was congratulated for a splendid meeting and a delightful occas ion and County 'Agent W. C. Boyce. proved a mJ3t efficient presiding officer. Just before the meeting was called to order the one hundred or more guests present were en tertained with a most bountiful and delicious supper, prepared and served in a most' pleasing and inviting manner by Miss Lil lie Mae Braxton, County Home Agent and members of the Home Demonstration clubs of the Coun ty. A rising vote of thanks were extended these ladles, Mr. Mattox and the Cotton Association for the splendid repast. SEVERAL INJURED Reports reaching Loulsburg yesterday morning stated that the W.P.A. truck taking workers to Justice for work on the Spring Hope-Loulsburg road project, ov erturned Just east of C. M. Oattls' home and as a result several of the workers were injured, some painfully, but none seriously. PROGRAM AT THE LOUISBURG THEATRE The following is the program at the Loulsburg Theatre begin ning Saturday, Spet. 30th: Saturday ? Double Feature ? Wm. Boyd as Hopalong Cassldy In "Renegade Trail" and Aklm Tamlroff In "The Magnificent Fraud." Also Chapter No. 10 "Daredevils of the Red Circle." Sunday, Oct. 1 and Monday Matinee Only ? Artie Shaw and His Orchestra and Lana Turner and Richard Carlson In "Dancing Co-ed." Monday Night and Tuesday ? Edward 0. Robinson and Ruth Hussey In "Black Mali;" Wednesday ? Special Return Engagement ? Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, Randolph j3cott and Nancy Kelly In "Jesse James" In Technicolor. Thursday - Friday Melvyn Douglass and Joan Blondell In "Good Girls Go To Paris." Last Times Today ? Bob Burns In "Ovr Leading Cltlien." MR. M.. G. MANN i Henderson Man Killed In Cafe V. C. Robertson Jailed For First DegTee Murder Of Hunter Coggsdale, 33 Henderson, Sept. 21. ? Hunter j Coggsdale, 33, was almost in- , stantly killed today in a small cafe known as Joe's place when he was shot by V. C. Robertson, , 25, barber at the Vance Barber Shop. ! Robertson is being held with- ] out bail, charged with first de gree murder. No inquest was deemed necessary since a young Negro boy, James Otis Hampton, was in the cafe at the time o? the shooting and was an eye-witness, j Officers said Robertson accused Coggsdale of being friendly with , iiis (Roberson's) wife. Oft'icerB also quoted the little N'egro as saying that Robertson came into the cafe early this . morning and that he and Coggs dale were talking across the coun ter. The two men. according to the Negro, got into an argument | and Robertson pulled a gun and fired twice. The boy said that he was so frightened that he crawl ed under a counter. Coggsdale, who was the broth er of Joe Coggsdale, owner of the cafe, was rushed to the hospital ( but died before he was entered . there. Officers related that after the shooting Robertson walked from the cafe a short distance to the Motor Sales Company, where ^ he told an employe of the com pany, Adkin Stainback, that he had shot Coggsdale and handed over his gun to Stainback, Funeral services for Coggsdale will be conducted Friday after noou at 3 o'clock at the family church in Southampton County, t Va. The body will leave Hender son Friday morning and will be interred in the church cemetery. Surviving are Coggsdale's moth- ' er, of Franklin, Va.; five sisters, Mrs. Ernest Bryan and Mrs. Jack Bryan, of Franklin, Va.; Mrs. C. W. Burgess, of Courtiand, Va. ; Mrs. Leroy Bracy, of Ivor, Va. ; and four brothers: J. I. Coggs dale, of Henderson, L. R. and J. R. Coggsdale, of Franklin, Va., and W. W. Coggsdale, of Roanoke Rapids. At a preliminary hearing on Saturday Robertson was allowed $10,000 bond. RENEW YOUR SUBSCRIPTION . i WARSAW IN RUINS Budapest, Sept. 26. ? The city of Warsaw is "entirely in ruins" after daylong bombardment by German guns and 200 planes, the Warsaw radio station announced tonight before it went ofT the air suddenly with a brief apology to its listeners. The announcer was telling how hundreds of horses killed by the shelling were being butchered and distributed among the desti tute population when he halted his account and said: "Sorry, we must close down now for the night." The radio reports said the de fenders of the shattered city still were determined to resist "until death" and that the old Russian fortress at Modlin, 18 miles north west of the city, continued to hold off Nazi assaults from that direction. Conflicting lie ports In "Warsaw, it was said, the Po lish defenders fighting hand-to hand against the Germans repul sed a German attempt to seize the suburb of Mokotow on the western outskirts. (The German high command In Berlin announced the taking of Mokotow fortress, five or six miles from the center of the city, in a surprise attack and said part of Mokotow had been occupied.) The Warsaw radio, describing today's attacks, said "the last 24 hours, if anything, have been still more terrible than those of the preceeding few days." "We have had continuous air raids by 200 airplanes and shell ing by heavy artillery. Hundreds of incendiary bombs caused many fires, probably more than 50 to day. "Most of the public buildings in the city are aflame. "Warsaw is entirely in ruins. The fires and debris make circul ation difficult, if not impossible." There is small chance of extin guishing the fires owing to a scar city of water, while the food situ ation is becoming steadily worse, the radio said. The German planes and long range guns encircling the city were said to be carrying out a methodical destruction. Most of Ihe aerial bombs were incendiary, it was said. Nazis Bomb Civilians "Military detachments entren ched inthe suburbs had smaller losses than the civilian popula tion because the Germans are bombarding civilians especially in order to shatter morale by de struction of life," the radio said. "It is impossible to estimate :he number of victims. I'OUNtiSVILLE I*. T. A. MEETS The Youngsville Parent-Teach- j er Association held Its first meet ing for the current school year in the School Auditorium on Mon day, Sept. 11. 1939. Miss Frances Mien entertained the group with two readings, after which matters business were discussed and transacted. The Association is to meet again on Tuesday, October 3, 1939, at 7:45 P. M., at which time Mr.^hrl Georch, of Raleigh, will be the guest spaker. The public Is cordially invited to be present. Who remembers when the bath room didn't look like a branch Irug store? MEETINGS TO EXPLAIN CON TROL ELECTION (By W. C. Boyce, County Agent) Ten Meetings have been sched uled in Franklin County Monday and Tuesday, October 2nd and 3rd, (or the purpose ot explain ing the available information to the farmers of Franklin County regarding the question being vo ted on in Tobacco Referendum October S. Requests for these meetings were made by leading business men and farmers attend ing called meeting in Court House Thursday, Sept. 22. It is with regret that tobacco quotas cannot be announced prior to the Tobacco Referendum, however, such steps would delay the refer endum approximately 2 months. Mr. J. C. Broome, Member of State Committee, will lead dis cussion at a general meeting Monday afternoon, October 2, in the Court House at 2:00 o'clock on the Tobacco Referendum. In cooperation with Mr. J. W. Sander, County Agent of Vance County, one meeting has been scheduled at Epsom School joint ly for the farmers of Franklin and Vance Counties in that sec tion Monday night, October 2, at 7:30 o'clock. Other Meetings scheduled Monday night are as follows: Frankllnton Community ... . .. Franklinton School Cedar Rock Community Edward Best School Sandy Creek Community Gold Sand School Youngsrllle Community .......... Youngsviile High School Meetings scheduled for Tuesday night, October 3, at 7:30 o'clock are as follows: Dunn Community . . Bunn High School Harris Community Harris School Cypress Creek Community Old School Building Oold Mine Community Centerville at Raynor'g Store All farmers are Invited to attend the meeting In the Court House to be conducted by Mr. Broome, also the Community Meeting most i convenient. r Recorder's Court Franklin Recorder's Court held two sessions since our last report, one on Thursday of last week and one on Tuesday. On account ot stt eases on docket the Court will hold another session on Thursday of this week. The following cases have been dispos ed of: Marvin Bowden. charged with operating automobile intoxicated, , requested a jury and the case was continued. J. C. Perry was found guilty of assault on a female and non-sup port, and given 12 months on roads, execution not to issue up on payment of $15 per month and costs. Appeal. Ed Kannon was found not guil ty of operating an automobile in toxicated, but guilty of careless and reckless driving judgment suspended upno payment of $25 fine and costs. Appeal. Douglas Perry was found not guilty of larceny and receiving. ' Aubrey Pearce plead guilty to unlawful possession of whiskey and Judgment was suspended up on payment of costs. Fletcher Arnold, charged with operating automobile intoxicated, requested a jury and the case was continued. Charlie Johnson plead guilty of aiding and abetting in the manu facture of whiskey, and was given | 6 months on roads, execution not , to issue upon payment of $25 | fine and costs. Robert Spivey was found not guilty of larceny and receiving. Alex Morton, Jr., was found guilty of operating an automobile intoxicated and given 60 days on | roads, suspended upon payment of $50 fine and costs and not to , operate car In 12 months. Lit Alston was found guilty of , possession of still material for making whiskey, and unlawful possession of whiskey, and was -;iven 90 days in jail, suspended j upon payment ot $10 fine and costs. George King plead guilty to I carrying concealed weeapons. and was given 90 days on roads, exe cution not to issue upon payment of $50 fine and costs. The following cases were con- , tinued: Henry Dunston. fraud. Several cases were left open I for further consideration on, Thursday. The following dispositions were made on Thursday of last week: | Jack Strickland, violation mo-1 tor vehicle law, not guilty. A nolle pros was taken In the cases of violating fishing laws and trespass against Johnnie Fra zier and Odell Young. Kemp Moore, tried by Jury for unlawful possession of whiskey, nuisance, was found not guilty. DUKE ALUMNI TO MEET The Annual Fall Meeting of the Franklin County Duke Alumni Association will he held in the Agriculture Building in Louis burg on Friday night, Sept. 29 at 6:30. The speaker will be Dr. H. E. Myers, professor of Bible in charge of undergraduate Bible in Duke University. Dr. Myers Is j himself a Trinity graduate and is well qualified to speak of Duke both as a former student and a professor. Dr. Myers' subject | will be "Duke University: Begin- j ning the Second Hundred Years." In addition to the address those who atteud the supper will have {he privilege of seeing a moving picture of the Rose Bowl game. All former students of Trinity and Duke, their families^ and other Interested friends are cor- j dially invited to attend. It you | have not made your reservation, I please call Miss Cora Beasley in ' Ijoulshurg, or Rev. S. E. Mercer j In FrSfikilnton at once. WOOD P. T. A. The P. T. A. of Wood Elemen tary School met Monday night, Sept. 25, In the school auditorium for the purpose of electing offi cers. New officers are as fol lows: President, Mrs. F. A. Read; Vice-President, Mrs. H. B. Shearin; Secretary ? Treasurer, Mrs. Alan Oupton. -. ? The different committees were appointed and grade mothers na med. Friday night before each fourth Sunday was selected as time of meeting each month. Mrs. Edgar Fuller and Miss Mary Dickerson, accompanied by Mrs. J. W. Neal, gave several vo cal selections for the enjoyment ot those present. The meeting adjourned with high hopes and plans for a big school year. Excessive horsepower under the hood is dangerous If aot ac companied by corresponding horse sense under the hat. i THE FRANKLIN COUNTY FAIR READY TO OPEN ITS GATES I Monday, October 2nd is the opening date for the 24th annual Franklin County Fair and every thing is in readiness for the best Fair held in any previous years. Owing to the fact that the Tobac co Market has been closed for a short time it has given the peo-J pla time and opportunity to work up and prepare what will be probably the best exhibits seen in a number of years. The Fair Management is stressing the ed ucational value and sincerely hopes that every one who visits the fair will visit the exhibit hall which will have all products of Franklin County and which will be of special interest to see the things put on by the Vocational students from six schools in the county teaching Vocational Agri culture. These exhibits will be more interesting in view of the fact that the people of Franklin County more thoroughly realizes this year than before that ft is impossible to make a satisfactory living in the county by raising cotton and tobacco only. Frank lin County is one of the best wa tered counties in North Carolina and there is scarcely a hundred acres of land in the county that is not supplied with water suffic ient for thousands of head of sheep, cattle and hogs and graz ing can be done 12 months of the year. The Vocational exhibits are stressing this feature in their ex-) hibits to be seen in the Fair this year. The Fair Ground has been' rebuilt almost from top to hot-' torn and new eatiug stands withj built-in kitchens will add consid-| erably to the comfort and pleas- I wre of those attending the Fair. Ttue midway will have some of the most interesting attractions found at any fair ground this year and there wili probably be the largest, carnival seen in anyj county fair in eastern Carolina, j The Bantley's AH- American 1 Shows have been playing the lar-l gest Canadian Fairs and this is (heir first trip South. There will be 13 rides to interest the young folks and 20 clean moral shows that will be of unusual interest. The gates will open at 4 o'clock every afternoon except ? Wednes day when they will open at 9 o'clock, which will be school day for all the white children in the county and every child .of school age will be admitted fre# between the hours of 9 and 2. The man agement has agreed to extend the time for the Children living in the country, since some of them live so far that it would be im possible for them to get here be fore two o'clock. Saturday will be school day for the colored children and the gates will open at 9 o'clock on Saturday and all colored children of school age will be admitted free, until 2 o'clock. There will be a special exhibit for the colored people which will be put on by the col ored farm agent for this county and this promises to be of unus ual interest to all the colored people. The admission to the Fair Grounds for the entire week will remain the same as previous years, and will be accepted in money, cotton or tobacco. This is an innovation among the fairs and the Franklin County Fair is the first one to announce this to the people in the <yiunty so they may all attend the Fair, and see the wonderful exhibits and enjoy themselves on tht midway. A magnificent display of fire works will be put on by the Dixie Fire works Co. each night and is guar anteed to be the most wonderful pyrotechnic display seen in any fair this side of New York. The Franklin County Fair is the place where - the people of the county meet annually to renew friend ships and make new ackuaintan ces. Go to the Fair and meet your friends, they will be there. FLOYD TALKS TO FARMERS One hundred or more Franklin j County farmers met in the Court House Friday morning to listen to E. Y. Floyd of the bxford Ex periment Station and State Tri pe-A officer explain the necessity j for and operation of the Control which the farmers will be asked to vote upon themselves at an early election. He could give them no assurance of much better prices but said the government would come to their rescue and purchase the surplus of the 1939 crop. He also said "Tlie Ware houses would not re-open until after this election was held. An swering questions he explained the same allotments as given in X9H8 and used by the Soil Con servation would be used under the new order with a still further I reduction of 20 per cent or more, j ( OI.I.IKB WINS JOHNSON TROPHV "Snooks" Collier easily won the Johnson cup for 1939 over a field of twenty golfers of the Green Hill Country Club, with the net score of 67. Collier's gross score was 73 ? just three over par. Dr. Bagby, Buddy Beam. Bill Huggins and Jonah Taylor tied for the runner-up. each with a net score of 71. ? This cup is donated by the Dr. Harry Johnson family and Is awarded each year to the club member with the lowest net golf score. Edwin Malone and W. E. White. Jr., are the members who have previously won this cup, and have their names engraved upon FOIl FIRST CliASS PRINTING VOTING PLACES FOR TOBACCO REFERENDUM (Px W. ('. Iloyce, County ARfnt) Voting places for tobacco ref erendum Thursday, October 5, have been arranged to follow reg ular polling places In Franklin County for General Election. Farmers voting In tobacco ref erendum are urged to vote In the Community In which he resides which is usually the Township In which his Work 8heet>ig signed as each farmer whose compliance has been checked will be regis tered in the Township in which his work sheet is signed. There shall be no voting by mail, by proxy, or by Agent, but a duly authorized Officer of a Corporation, Arm, Association or other Legal entity, or a duly au thorized member of a Partner ship, may cast Its vote. No far mer (whether an Individual, part nership, corporation, association, or other Legal entity) shall be I entitled to more than one vote In the referendum even though he may have been engaged In pro duction of tobacco in two or more Communities, Counties, or States in 1939. In the cage of a hug- ? band and wife Who are engaged j in production of Flue-cured to bacco as Joint owners of the farm, each is eligible to vote; and simi larly In the case of a husband and his wife or a father and his son who engaged in the production of flue-cured tobacco In 1939 as Joint tenants the husband and wife or the father and son, as the case may be, are eligible to rote. However, It any person gives a member of his family a part of the tobacco crop or Its proceeds but such member of the family does not have an indepen dent standing as tenant or share cropper then such member of the family is not eligible to vote. This In most cases means that both husband and wife is not eligible to vote unless each own and operate a farm independent ly and' share In the proceeds sep arately. Only persons registered will be eligible to vote an unchallenged ballot. All producers listed by Compliance Supervisor* as shar ing In the 1939 tobacco crop will be automatically registered. The following are the polling places by Townships: Cedar Rock Towashlp Edward Best School Cypress Creek Township Old School Building Dunn Township Pine Ridge and Pearces Franklinton Township Mayor's Offic?? Gold Mine Township , Raynor's Store at Centerrille Harris Township ' , Harris School Hayesviile Township Bpsom School -Xiouisburg Township . . Court House Sandy Creek Township I Qold Sand School YoMngsvllle Township Mayor's Office WAR IN EUROPE Berlin, Sept. 27. ? Besieged Warsaw, reported laid waste by bomb, shell and fire, surrendered unconditionally tonight, the Nail "? ; high command announced. The German communique re i porting capitulation of the Polish capital after 20 days of modern, siege shared attention tonight with the expectation in informed quarters that a farreaching Ger man-Russian accord would result from thfe flyiing visit of Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop to Moscow. Warsaw probably will be hand ? ed over to the besieging Nazi army on September 29, the high j command said, an General Johan nes von Blaskowitz has been ordered to arrange the terms of surrender. (The Warsaw radio, which al most throughout the siege had been on the air with exhortations I to Warsaw's citizens and soldiers | to resist the invaders, was heard in Budapest as late as 2:45 p. m. today. Its announcer insisted that the< city still held out and would resist to the last.) The surrender, In the German view, marked the end of the short but furiously-fought war which started 27 days ago today. The German high command, af ter the first brief announcement, issued a second communique as ! follows: , Formalities Friday "Warsaw has capitulated un conditionally. Formal surrender | of the city to the German army command will take place Septem ber 29. (Friday ) "It is established the military j garrison (Polish) occupying the city exceeds 100,000 men." London. Sept. 27. ? Britain to 1 night hailed the Admiralty's claim [ of victory against the first mass attack of German aircraft on Brit ish warships ? a claim disputed in Berlin ? as a satisfactory reply to the question of whether British seapower could withstand war from the air. (The Berlin communique as serted that the Nazi air force "successfully attacked" British capital ships in the North Sea, "destroying" an aircraft carrier and scoring severe hits on a bat tleship). British tacticians called yester | day's ' German aerial raid on a home fleet squadron in the North Sea. "a complete failure." Naval circles promptly boasted there Was no fear for Britain's con tinued mastery of the seas in the face of this new German effort to break it. The British version of the en gagement was given to the House of Commons by Winston Chur chill. First Lord of the Admiral tty, after an inquiry by Laborite A. V. Alexander as to the truth of a German communique claim ing Nazi aircraft had destroyed a British airplane carrier, scored "several severe hits on one bat tleship" and escaped unscathed. Reported Battle Churchill said the home fleet commander, Admiral Sir Charles Forbes, reported that approxi mately a score of German planes attacked a squadron . of British, capital ships together with an aircraft carrier, cruisers and des troyers. "No British ship was hit and no British casualties were in cur red," said Churchill. "One Ger man flying boat was shot down and another was reported badly damaged." The House cheered vociferous ly; and then he added that an other German plane came down In the North Sea and with her crew of toui was picked up by a British destroyer. Late tonight, the Ministry ot Information reiterated the Brit ish version that there had been no damage to British ships. In a statement It said: "The statement made by the First Sea Lord Is literally and ab solutely correct and there Is no truth whatever in the German counter statement." The Berlin "counter statement" said a heavy bomb had struck the British aircraft carrier and two lighter bombs had struck the bat tleship. THANKS We wish to extend our deepest thanks and appreciations to all who rendered so many kindness es and expressions of sympathy during the recent llKness and death ot our husband and father, R. R. Strickland. They will be long and tenderly remembered. Mrs. R. R. Strickland and Famtly. All you've got to do, <o wltB ai you've got. ... . .
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