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2^ gf , fii. - m S^-fr HARNETT COUNTY NEWS de:voted to the interest of harnett county primarily, ano of.,the state generally. Vol. XX—No. 29 $1.50 per year—5c a copy Lillington, N. C.| Thurtday, July 21, 1938 *Tf It Coneonit Hmott, IPi in THE NEWS" MOVE TO STRIKE IS REJECTED BY ERWIN WORKERS Harnett Youth Wins Place In State Speaking Contest T E X T I E K MILL KMI’LOYKKS OVERWHELMINGLY IN FAVOR OP COXTIXUINO WORK, DE SPITE t3}i PER ('EXT (7UT In a vote that became unanlmoua when the lone dlaacnier reverseU hla' decision and cast Ills lot with the inajoiity, employees ol the Erwin Cotton Mills last Saturday afternoon thrust aside all proposals to striko by agreeing to continue their work despite a 12 1-2 per cent wage reduc tion. The workers’ mass meeting, held in the Erwin high .school audi torium, was called by the Textile Workers Organizing Committee of file C. I. O. to determine the reaction' to last wt>ek’s announcement from company officials' that the reduced pay scale would become effective Monday of this week. Jf. W. Turnage opened the session vrlth prayer and State Director Hines of the T. W. O. C. and D. S. Up church, union organizer, presided over the approximately 1,000 mill hands who assembled for the meet ing. Both these labor leaders ex plained that wage cuts wore now be ing made In textile mills throughout the nation and (hat the slash order ed In Erwin was no larger .than those of other companies. They advised the workers to accept the reduction rather than to cut off all Income by staging a strike. When a show of hands was asked from all who favored a strike, only one arm was raised but that was soon lowered when the worker, re buked by his fellows, realized he was staging a single-handed flght and agreed to make the vote unanimous. On the previous Saturday. July 9lh, a preliminary meeting was call ed to see horn many were In favor of ■trlklng if the wage slash, whilch had not then definitely been ordered, should be Invoked. Prevailing sen timent at this meeting appeared to favor a strike and during the early days of last week the strike fover Is reported’ to, ha.ve spread rapidly throughout Harnett’s Industrial cen ter. Toward the end.of the week, as the time for making final decision neared, this sonliment subsided and workers agreed It was better to ac cept this wage reduction rather than to cut off all Income at a time when the mills were running on short schedule and wore apparently experi encing difficulty selling goods made In the few days per week the factory was operating. Throughout the strike negotiations that have been carried on since the wage reduction was ordered, compa ny executives have remained silent as to what course they expected' to pursue If the workers staged a walk out. The mins operated full time last week and several carloads of manufactured goods were shipped away from Erwin, a precaution taken pending the outcome of the mass meeting. Relations between Erwiti mill em ployees and company officials have been unusually amicable and Har nett citizens are ,glad that they have again patched up their difficulties. COTTON MEN ARE TO BE NOTIFIED TO SIGN BLANKS (mOWEUS ELIGIBLE FOR PRICE ' A DJUHTM ENT PAYMENTS WILL BE NOTIFIED AVHKN APPLl- CATION FNIRMS RECEIVED DISTRICT WINNERS COMPETE AT THE YTHF ANNUAL CONVENTION ■Harnett growers eligible for price ad'Justment i^yjnents on' the 1937 crd,p will' be notified by County Agent C. R, Ammons when forms ■for making application for these i:' ' Pictured, above are the five stu dents of vocational ttgrlcvvltur'e who represented their .districts In, the finals of the State public speaking c,cutest which was u feature of the Young Tar Heel Fanners* ],0th/an- liual convention at State College last week. John D. Turner of the Boone Trail school, 'pictured' on the iCxlreme left, represen'ted district one and., was; awarded fourth,iplace. Others In the photo, reading from-, left to right, are':.^ Durwood Hay.wodd. of Lenoir county,'district" two; Lee Bavnhardt of Cabarrus county, district three; ' r • ‘ 1 A.u,brey Goodson of Caswell county, district four; andiRay Dietz of Hay wood county, di'scrlct five. Goodson,'the winner, will repre sent his 10,000 fellow members in the,‘ regional and' national con’ests to be heW, next, October. Bob Young Perfects Petition Charging Irregularities In Johnston County Primary 17 FROM ANGIER AT RIDGECREST ktate-WUle Baptist Training Union I 'Assembly AttiaCls Large Bplega- tion Prom Harnett Totvn HARNETT CANDIDATE FOR SO- LICITORSHIP asking STATE BOARD TO CUT 8,076 VOTES FROM OANADAY’S TOTAL ' ,Sovintoen from Angler last week attended the annual State-wide Bap tist 'fralulng Union Assembly at Ridgecrest, Baptists’ summei gather- In'g center i» the heart of Western North Carolina. More than 1,100, young persons and leaders attended the «lx-day assembly. Delegates, whose ages ranged from 10 to 26 years, spent the morning In classes devoted to religious study and their evenings In lecture groups. In, the afternoon, mountain climbing, swim ming, horse-back riding and tennis were enjoyed. The Angler delegation was com- po.sed of the following: Rebecca Beasley, Helen Flowers, Mary Lois Overby, Mrs. J. D. Crowder, Joyce Strickland. Ruth Carroll, Jack Barnes,, Jr., Elizabeth Stephens, Nedgelena E. Morgan, Inez Williams, Mrs. R. Kno'lan Bentleld, Helen Nor- daii, Bill Byrd, Llz-Me Willlains, A. ' C. iBarcfoot, Jr., and E. Knolan'.'.Ben- i field. The delegates, who went to I Rldgecret early In the week, return-, ; ed to their homos Friday afternoon Ten religious conferences, bring-' Ing each week a new crowd of.1,000 or more, are held at Ridgecrest each^ summer. This week the South-wide Simday 'School conference Is In ses sion and next week the South-wide h, T. U. will meet. CONVICT’ llE-CAPTURED OPENING DATES ARE UNCHANGED Eastern N. C. Warehoiwemen Un successful In Attempt To Have Markets Open Earlier Than 25tl» Despite protests from the Eastern Carolina Warehousemen’s Associa tion, the United States Tobacco Asso ciation has definitely, ruled that to bacco warehouses in the eastern bolt will open on August 25th, the date originally set by the Association at Its meeting In White Sulphur Springs. Throughout the eastern bell, to bacconists are of the opinion that their markets should bo allowed to open not more than two weeks after the border markets, which this year are scheduled to hold first sales on August 4th. Efforts to persuade the association to alter this schedule tailed and warehousemen are going forward with plans to open August 26th. Dissatisfied with the opening date, eastern tobacconists met recently In Farmville to formulate a .plan where by some concession might be obtain ed from the governing group but the sales committee over-ruled these, protests and refused to change the dates. The majority of the warehousemen seemed to feel that eastern markets should open on August 18th. , “Swedle” King, the Negro tru.sty 'stationed* at Harnett’s Prison Camp who escaped Mondavi, July ^4th. was' re-captured last Thursday in Whlte- vlUe and returned here by District Supervisor Kyle Matthews. J. Robert Young of Dunn, un successful candidate for the Fourth ■ / ’ ♦ Dlitirlcl Soilcltors'Ulp, completed his charges that fraud and Irregularities existed in Johnston county’s June 4th primary when lie filed' with So licitor , Claude Cauadny affidavits claiming 3,076'.votM for Canaday should^be thrown out. These affidavits, which were drawn up after Young had -.checked the election books'iii Jolmstoii county and had Intervle'wed some . of the voters whose ballots he claims' were illegally cast, will be considered',by. the State Board of Elections Friday , o I I of this week.’A-then they itieet to con tinue their Investigation. ' i, • In these affidavits. Young claims a total of 466 Republicans voted In four townships; in another town ship, 200"non-residents' voted; 25 persons are alleged to. haye voted twice and the names of 12 dead', per sons were listed as having voted In the primary. Should.I'he State Elections Board favor Young and discard the. 3,07,5 listed by the Harnett' candidate as il legal ballots, the outcome' of the sollcltorial race would .be re-j’^ersed, with Young Instead of Canaday cer tified as tihe nominee. Young polled majorities In Har nett, 'Wayne and' Chatham while Canaday ran up a.l,o6o-ieadi,in .Le.e, and clinched his victory with,a 6,000 majority in his home county' of Johnston. The vole, by' counties,’, was: Harnett, Young 3406, Canaday 26'3C; Johnston, Young 2006, Cana-’ day 70'83; Lee, Young 1260, Cana- day 2'187; Chatham, Young 2676, Canaday 947; Wayne, Young'3'343,. Canaday 2616. These figures give, •the 'Incumbent a majority through- (Please Turn to, Pago 2,) QUOTAS WILL BE READY BY AUG. 4 Ainiiioti.H Says Tobacco Poundage Al lotments *W111 Be Ready for Grow ers When Boirdor Markets Open opening sales. 1938 School Salary Would Be King’s Pay To Teacher of ’59 Because of the tremendcus in- ■tluence they 'have in moldlpg cliaracters of teenage, and young er, children entrusted toij them many hours a day during the hablt-formln'g stages of their lives, school teachers',have often! been referred to as a group of tvorkers far under-paid it their duties are efficiently performed. i. The North Carolina General As sembly has done much ':oward raising tl.ls wage level by jjrovld- ing employment eight months, of the year and by stretching the school appropriation to ' make vouchers as large as possible,. The annual teacher salary is stlU 'too low to enable present day jicbool “alarms”; and masters to live like successful corporation directors but ; their and bank presidents, stipend Is handsome when com pared wl’;h the '$60 received ,by .Jacob C. Williams for condiicting a three-months school term'' In Black River township during the winter of 1'869. Mr. Allen M. Shaw of Lilling ton, who.has .a large eollectibn ,of old documents connected j; with Harnett’s early history, recently brought into The News office the voucher, paid Mr. Williams for teaichlng that' winter, 79 years ago. Not only does the draft show, the amount paid and specify the length taught but it contains other informatlbn which sheds light on schools of nearly three genera tions ago. The draft stated the'.school was In Black Rlveri townshipjjbut did not give its exact location. Signa tures of the two ’'committeemen, Edwin Adams and’ William Wil liams, were affixed. Schoolmaster Williams taught students,., grand children and great-grandchildren of whom still reside in the rich section of,Harnett that Is Black River township, “wreadlng, write- Ing, spelling and English gram mar.” “In his Claes were "nine males and 10 females,” 'and the^ term extended from Sept. 15th to Doc. 9 th.- Salaries for teachers are still 'far below those' paid' In other pro fessions which require similar education and training ,but 'would n’t Jacob Williams’ eyes pop (and big pocketbook bulge) with pres ent day salaries, more than twice as m'uch for' one month as be re ceived for the term? 'Barring an unexpected Jam In ,the State AAA office where actual calcu lations are made, tobaccoj,marketing quotas for- all Harnett gr.owers who have turned, in sales recorderfor 1986 and 1937 will be avallaible in,plenty of time for farmers to participate In the border markets’’ August 4 th. This was the anuouacement made yesterday,. by .County Agent C. iR. Ammons, In response to inquiries from ^Veral growers' who. feared that the mass of work connected with establishing quotas, Jwould , prevent distribution of poundage' allotments until the season was uad'erway. Har nett growers usually keep their best grades,off the market until' later in the season, hut many, of them have offerings;on border floors to deter mine how the weed Is selling and.-to get enough 'money' to, tide 'them 'over the remainder of the summer. j Adijusted marketings,, basic figures for.^flrial determination .of quotas, for apprbxim'ateiy .,1200' HaVnett growers were complefed last^tweek'^anJ were carried Mon-d'ay to' the State lOffice ‘in Raleighi. ’Another’12011 will be ready by Friday of this'week and the re maining 800—there 'are approxi mately; ,3,20p| tobajj'co growers who will receive quotas-j-wlll be finished next week. ' , ■ State A'AA officials, have announc; edi that the staff in'Raleigh is pre pared to deliver Ihe'se poundage' al lotments ..'within 24 hours'after the data compiled by Rio township and ccunty'comimittees'is forwarded, to them. The work In. the.'lUlelgh' of fice, is . wholly mechanical. To cal culate’ theseA quotas,' the same ;for- niula will be' appliedlfUBing the ad justed normal marketings as the basis, I Unless they turn TEXAS OFFICERS STATE LESTER PARKER’S CASE HAS NOT BEEN IN COURT Working Hard benefits are received In hlg office. The original act pegging lh'e;price of cotton provided that payment^; would' not; be made^ to..anyi,.gr6wci’8i ■ivho failed' to cooperate" with-, the 193'8 soli; conservation, programr ...b^. planting more than his: allotted num ber of acres. This provision meant' that no checks could be, ma’ile' 'until late In, the|fall,, after, fields had,been checked, and lists completed, of fairmji era W'ho did and did not comply with the 1988 program. In the closing' days of Congress', an amendment was, rushed through which specified these payments could he ' distributed to. farmers- v^lthout waiting for them to prove compliance' with the cotton acreage, allotments. 'On, ttte strength of.^thls* amendment, -leaders of the agricul tural program are proceeding, wl'id plans to distribute these payments; asi soon as proper application forms are, filled out and returned to: State and? Federal offices'of the AAA.' v Growers applying for these pay ments, however, must certify . that they have ndt knowingly overpianted, llielr allotment and agreeirin writing' to refund the payment if it Is later found they have not met the re-; quirements. Procedure for haudlingr these, applications and assisting: farmers in filing claims' for parity^ payiinentsl have not yet been worked; but by. officials o-f'-'Haraett’s soil con-' servatlon program. -Arrival of the’ blanks wlU star.t the rush .to them properly signed and', returned so Harnett framers will be among' the first to r,ecelve'the. checks. SAY SEARCH FOR COATS OFFICER LASTED 6 YEARS SHERIFF MARSHALL’S ACCOUNT OF MURDER CHARGED I TO I ! COATS POLICEMAN REii’UTBS SBLF-DBFBN')R PLEA' , J. ROBERT YOUNG .Attorney Young' filed a report of several weeks' hard work Saturday [whenijhe presented.affidavits for the State. Boar'd of Elections to consider when] it ncleetS' again. Fi'iday to .con^. ttnue. the investigation of' the John ston c-ounty primary. 'Young, who states ”1-don’t mean to let up "even- Ilf I have to carry the thing.'to the; liSuprem'e Court," claims 8,076 votes' (Should be'! thrown out. COMMISSIONERS SIT AS BOARD OF EQUALIZATION :F O V R INVESTIGATIONS ARB ORDERED BY. EXECUTIVES IN ' FIRST HEARING ON 1 The payment for ■ cotton sold be fore Septembe-r 10, 1937, will be. the. amount by which the, average ■ price' of 7-8 inch middling cotton' was lens titan 1'2 cents a pound) on the 10 spot markets on the day the cotton vvas sold,': provided- that In' no case' can the rate exceed three cents a pound'.* ; I Under the 'amendment, cotton not sold on 'Septem'ber 10, 1987, wllU be eligible tor the maximum payment; of three cents a pound. ThlS'mean:^ ■that grower8|i,who have • put their, co.tton under" the n'lne-cent govern ment loan, may. receive the thre^. VALUATIONS Convening as; a Board of Equall- fiatlon to' hear first complaints aris- .-ing from 1938-89 vahiations, Har- nett’s' Board of- Commlssibners last "Friday afternoon adjusted^ improve- menls. made, on; two items of real estate'during, the year and ordered four'! Investigations of complaints wliich. had. been‘filed by properly owners. As fast as list books are being valuations, Stedma'n .checlred against I former Countyj;,Tax Supervisor. J. .MOLVan?: .Is. mailing . -notices to all ''prppeHy .owners;;who have, made im- iproye'mentsi during ' the' year, an'd cent price adjustmenfiipaymeut with ■in information at once, farmers 'wlni have not re- ported on 1936 and 1937 jaales may be unable to secure quotas until'af ter markets are;,opened.' METHODIST CHURCjH INSTALS NEW LIGHTING FIXTURES I^ill'ington .Methodist^ Church- has InstaMed ,lte lightingJfixtures. Love- S '■« lyj chandeliers In' the.laudkorlum and lamps on . the front! are the gift of .Mr. Charles Hannum.iia friend- of the' church. They wlli' bear his name, and we'i’e -accepted by the pastor' and the bulld'ing 'committee in an apprio- prlate service last Sunday-morning. Shorter Season ; Meeting'; last week' in Morehead City, the State BoaiM of Cooaerva- tion and Development cut' an en tire month off next (winter's quail and turkey hunting season .In North Carolina. The gimnlng season for ttieae two birds will open December 16th, 86 days later than Ivst year’s November aoth opening, and will extend,to Februar:i' aoth, five earlier than ‘ the February 8Bth "closing laat .seaaou.[ No extra closed days were decreed, except Sundays as at present. The department also antumneed 1( was-trying to secure more and' better paid fish and game protect tors to .pivscrve the' State’s wild life. out transferring the title- of ' their cotton. , ,, The appropriation of 3130,000,f 000 for ma'kihg cotton price ad-Jus'Cr- ment -pay-ments is not., enough to cover , all, '.the , 1987- crop. ' After enough applications are in to estlr nnate the total amount^ of cotton eli gible for 'payment, -it; will toe: d'eter;;^^ mined what'percentage of the,,total can be paid' with th'e’.imouey' that, Is available. - The'' same percentage figure will^.then; be applied to all 1937 cotton growers.. JERNIGAN IN CALIFORNIA Dlstrict'-Llons Governor M. M. jer- nlgan of Dunn Js In California at tending the 22nd, annual convention' of Lions International. -With' him. are Mrs. Jernigan andi two relatives. whose'; assessraente have been.-raised • , - It .accordingly.' Complaints,- if there .are anjr, will-be filed'and- brough-t be- (forec-th'e Commls'sion'ers. Since all .property was re-vauled ,last yWir, odRclals-areHsxpecUng- onljr a small uuiniber-of complaints which the B,oard will be required’to-.investi- gate,’ The'Contmiselbners, at their meet ing last Friday, ordered the Improve- 'ment's- on J. B. -Horton’s farm in ;Nelll-’s>',Creek be reduced rfom. 3136 iHarnett's dime novel plot of a murderer w-ho came to this county six years ago to evade Texaij officers ’ and who has since been recognised' as a good citizen, indicated | by posi tions be held as , special: officer In East Erwin and- policeman, in-,Coats, advanced' Into, mid-book jehapters Iasi Thursttay night when' Sheriff E. H. Marshall and State 'Aang-sV Lamar.. NTolan, of' fSan Augustine ;i»me to take -Lester Parker back to .Texas,' ■Parker was Jailed Monday night, by Sheriff Bill Sahnon on ijeceipt of a. telegi’a'm from Texas officers ask ing, that he be taken into! custody and held until they arrived! ' ■ Although the telegram contained- no, other details, -Parker! confessed) that In 1932 he had shot aiid killed , Laurie Amey (‘first given as "A'ble" but charged- in the warrant as Amey") In self-defense ap,d- further asserted that the Grand Jury had twke investigated the. slaifing. and on both occasions! bad. falb^d to re turn a true bilk Sheriff Marshall,, who arrived about 6 in the evening and left three hours later on his 16000-mlle ride back to the Texas county where Parker will be tried, told ail entirely dlfiferent version.-of the murder and' contradicted- Parker’s clalnjl that he had' been cleared 'by the Qrandj Jury; ■In an entirely d-Hferent iilgnt, the Texas shertR ptetnred tb« killing which Parker claimed resuUe(l| when Amey picked a Quarrel wlth| him and' . tired.at. least five Hmeo before he killed his assailan't.u''Marshalit said . the row- which leil to Amoy’sdeath started over liquor. - Parker'j thought, to have been bootlegging at!|the time,. is charged with .-way^laytrig ..lA-mey,- an-d- killing him. The bullei|‘.traveled,. . a peeuUar route in coarslng ttirougtr Amey's body. 'It! ^iRbred'-!hls; right ,8ide^ and emerged!-from hfs',-neck,- just above the right’ shoulder., i iyith the statement thatj no .war rant'had- ever^been served- oj|i Ijarker, Marshall, denied I’arker.’s ciiaim that he - had - been .twicer,.cleared'- byi- ,the Grand’ Jury , an'-)'-that bis ileparture- from Texas was not cloaked with. to'cll'OO' and-valued at 33.000 tbe im- .'provements made on the John- B; Spence i-property’in .Hector’e Creek township.. The Board ordered an investiga- ^on of:the Hotel IVarwlck property in Lillington. During the year, this- hotel has been entirely renovated' and many Improvements have been rn'ade.', Supervisor McLean and Commls- (Please Turn to Page 2) Texas Officers Steal Show From Man They Came For '■ ’When word spread throughout ■Harnett last week that the police man at Coats, Lester Parker! was' wanted in Texas and'that officers from that State were;coming for, him Thur^ay. evening, many Har nett people planned- to be at the Jail when the officers left with, 'their prisoner. Between. 8 and 9 -o'clock Thurs day night, a crowd' of approxl- 'mately 100 miUed -In and out of tbe courthouse and Jail. Moat of them, at^ualntahces of Parker, came from Br-wln and Coats and were here to-,bid, him farewell and to.express their confidence in his claims of self-defense. Others in the crowd assembled '.for - curios ity’s sake. ... . , ” -Parker was the center of atten tion until -the news was■’ noised around' t-hat the two. Texas otfK cers, Sheriff Marshall and-, Ranger Nolan,' were- faooest.to-foodtaesji ’Westerners. -They were clad in higb-heel'ed fancy riding boots, "In ■hats not as large as the ten-gal lon ones pictured ,ln all Western. movies but -larger tban the ordin ary'didss hats-iworn in this sec tion' of the country and their drawl was more pronounced tban had' been expected. .. Tbe officers’, westerners in every sense of the word, conversed freely about their 1600-mile .Journey to Lillington and about their 'iState of Texas. Both- are h’orsemm of' exeeptional ability .and ' Sheriff Marshall amused his listeners who gathered around the"' courthouse with stories of rodeos he h'Bd- recently! attended. The two appeared' to . enjoy Im mensely theu; lihort. stay In Llll- Ington—they w!ere guests of the -Rotary! Club at jits weekly supper —un-d'fo us^ one of the Sheriff’s own expreosionaj “I’ll bet a dime agin' a dough-nut" they were topics of conversations In 'many Haraett homes'. Thursday ntgb^ and' 'Friday. secrecy". The sheriff said that' Parker' left: immediately, after .Aniey was sh-o-t and'..his wherea^ut'!!was un- rknoVn uiitil' last month- ir three weeks .before Marshall com|-muntcat'- [ed .with memtoers-of;,the; sheriff’s-of fice.:'here 'gild -confirmed'rumors, that Parker was in Harnett coutks^. Parker’s, mottaier and liis halt- brother', ,who; were with him w-heu ' * r I he.killed -'Amey, ,are being held..In different ’^Jalls^as-material witnesses. It was through a letter Pari eri wrote to-his mother that Texas-! -iitficers learned where', he was. M!ar8hali ,8aid!,'.thai .she, had; been receiving flett'^s from Parker throughj a| friend who lived' in another section of (Please Turn to^Pageijg) COUNTY IS NOT AIDING PROJECT Local Oltimw Raising Fundii To Pay For Terracing Unit At Work On Town’s New Playgronlad In. last week’s article ab-sui Ltil- Ington's new athletjc field-' ,jnow In process of construction. Tile- News errored when It stated tb^l count/ was furnishing the tractor iind road machine without'cost. ! Civic leaders who directed l-the suc cessful campaign to secure amistance from the Works' Progress Adminis tration requested ^county officials to donate tlte use of the tracilor and. equipment. Siisoe this' maclilnery is the (property oT tbe Harnett Soil Cohservatiott Association, not the county, offioiaTs werepowerless to act and .Assistant Agent | J. B. Gonrlay, director of terracing work, told ^ sponsoik the reguiar! rental price bt 33- per hour would I have to be paid. From thess efforts, ptodgM su'd donations totalUng appro'ttmately ISOO resulted to make consitruotion Of the athletic Held and playground poistble. Thess funds will ..be 'used to ps.y ttor use of the terracing unic and dUmr eitoonoM not. coT-irsd in the WPA grant. I ‘ » I ! if !l'. I 11 ;| , * t J - K.ak^Wi4i t ..'.tjX I 4.