AN AI>VKRTKUiU
MEDIUM THAT
BRINGS RESULTS
The County,
VOLUMN LXH.
LOUI8BURG, N. CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 10S1
TEN PAOES
NUMBER 17
A. F. JOHNSON, Editor and Manager
SUBSCRIPTION 91. SO Per Year
BVHRYBODY
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LOUISBURG
EXPLAINS NEW
SCHOOL LAW!
State to Maintain
Six Mon&s Term I
Reasonable to Expect Special
Tax Rates To Be Less This
Year With Larger Tax Re
duction Fund
Supt E. L. Best, very kindly con
sented to give the FRANKLIN TIMES |
the following very clear and Informa
tive digest of the new school law,]
particularly as it affects Franklin |
County:
According to we new scnooi law,
alter July 1st, 1931, the State will
support the Current Expanse of the
six months school tern aecordtng to
State standards. Heretofore the
county has been making a levy tor the
Current Expense of the six months
gohoot and receiving aid from what
vtas known as the State Equalisation
Kund. Now the State will pay for all
the Current Expense for the six
months school term, and th? cOunt.es
are required to levy a 15c tax to aid
the State in running the schools. This
Uc levy must be made on 1980 val
ues. No county is allowed to levy any
more than the 15c rate on the 1930
-aiues unless it gets the approval ot
the Board of Education, the Board of
County Commissioners and the State
1 oard of Equalization. In the school
year 1930-M Franklin County had to
levy 54c for the support of the Cur
rent Expense of the six months school.
If the values remain the same, there
fore, the Current Expense bf 'the six
months school for 1931-32 will cost
trie tax payers of the county 39c less
on the one hundred dollars valuation
o; property, by the State's supporting
the six months school. The following
are the Hems that will be paid for
by the State after July 1:
1. Salaries of . superintendents,
principals, teachers, all clerical help,
per diem of Board of Education, Wel
fare Officer, and all instructional sup
plies for the schools.
2. The operation of* school plants,
such ha, janitors, fuel, janitorial sup
plies and such other items as may
te found necessary for the efficient
operation of the plant.
3. Maintenance of plants, such a?,
repairs on buildings, grounds, heatlnf
p'ants, lighting plants, plumbing, firfH
nlture, etc.
4. fixed charges, such as, insur
ance and rent.
5. Auxiliary agencies which in
cludes the transportation of pupils,
library books, health Work, interest
on temporary lp'ahs, etc.
The Board of Education of the coun
ty will make out its budget for the
Current, Expense and send to the
State Board ot Equalization in Ra
leigh who wil approve the same in
whole or in part. This budget having
been", approved by the State Board ot
Equalization will be sent back to the
county, and the county is required to
operate its school for the six months
t^rm on this approved budget. What
Capital Outlay and Debt Service funds
are required will have to be approved
by the Board of County Commission
ers as heretofore and a levy, made in
the county for the same.
If a-school runs longer than the six
months term, funds must be provided
for this extended term by local tax.
To aid districts having an extended
term the ne wlaw provides for an ap
propriation of one and one-half mil
lion dolars known as the fax Reduc
tion Fund. This fund is distributed
to the districts in the State that have
a local tax and extended term, by the
State Board of Equalization, and each
district has to reduce Its local tax
l;y the same amount It receives- from
this Tax Reduction Fund. . The. bid
law provided one and one-quarter mil
lion dollars as a Tax Reduction. Fund
and this year the live high school dis
tricts in the county had to reduce
their local tax levies as follows; , i
The Bunn Special Taxing School
District was reduced from 60c to Sic.
The Cedar Rock-Cypress Creek
Special Taxing School District was
reduced from 60c to 19c.
The Qold Sand Special Taxing
School District was reduced from 60o
lo 22c.
The Youngsville Special Taxing
School District was reduced from
60c to 17c.
The Epsom Special Taxing School
District was reduced from 60c to 2 Sc.
Inglealde, a local tax district, re
ceived $16.47 from the Tax Reduction
Fund and its r&te was not rednCM
any from 20c.
Mapleville, a local tax district, re
ceived $177.62, which reduced Its tax
rate from 30c to 28c.
The Board of Education or the
Board Of pounty Commissioners have
nothing to do with the allotment of
this Tax Reduction Fund. As stated
above, (his is made by the State Board
of Equalisation to each district. Next
year the. State Board ot Enualliatlon.
will have one and one-half million
dollars to give to the districts of the
New Baseball Chief
William Hsrridge has been ejected
president of the American Baseball
League, succeeding the late Ernest
RarnarxL . ?
State Instead of one and one-quarter
million. ? It eeeme natural, therefore,
to expect that each district should
receive more from this fund than it
did last year, when only one and one
quarter million dollars were distri
buted, and It is hoped, therefore, that
the local tax rates will be even less
in 1931-32 than in 1930-31.
According to the new law the teach
ing load has been Increased and a
number of teachers, In the State will
be eliminated. Franklin County will
probably loBe from ten to fourteen
teachers. New requirements have
been made for one, two and three
teaeber elementary schools, and no
high school will be allowed to run
that has fewfr than fifty pupils In
average daily, attendance. The State
xlcard of Equalization will determine
which of these schools must be con
solidated and after coming to a decis
ion, Will hOt furnish money tor the
running of any school that is not con
solidated according to its. plana.
Sfncefhe State is going to support
the six months school term, it will
check arid supervise the work in detail
through the proper county authorltlee.
and all expenditures will have to be
made according to State standards.
This new law is set up on the basis
of complete State support for the six
months term according to State stand
ards. The people of the county,
therefore, should adjust their think
ing as rapidly as possible to that con
ception as the General Assembly of
1931 has written it Into the law.
Frank Nash Paid
$23 for "Fortune"
In German Bonds
Raleigh, June 9. ? Frank Nash, as
sistant attorney general who will be
come clerk of the North Carolina Su
preme court July 1, became a "mil
lionaire" for $23.
Cleaning up his desk in the attor
ney general's office today prepara
tory to moving Into his new quarters,
Mr. Nash ran across $1,500,000 of se
curities he has held since 1924.
"I better take these along," he
said. "I bought them in 1924 for $23
just to feel like a millionaire."
The securities are German gov
ernment and munloi])al bonds and
worthless unless Germany strikes an
era ' of overwhelming prosperity, Mr.
Nash said.
He said shortly after he bought
them the German counsel at Washing
ton offered him $10 for the "Invest
ment to get the bonds out of circula
tion." * ?
Shooting Occurs
At Poetical Spot
Fayettevllle, June 9. ? Fayettevllle
yollce are working on a neat crime
puzzle while Fannie Mae Saber, negro
cook, la recovering from a pistol
wound. Fannie Mae says a strange
a- an, apparently drunk, rushed up
and shot her while she was picking a
magnolia, but the police shortly after
found a discharged revolver in her
room In the servants' quarters at the
home of Edgar Allen Poe, where she
cooks. The shooting occurred half
way between the Poea' and the home
if Oliver Wendell Holmes, who Uves
next on Bradford avenue. Th?j cook
was In company with another negro
woman and a negro prise fighter when
the assailant appeared, she saya.
Auxiliary T^O Meet
Mrs. Cecil R. Sykes will entertain
the American Legion Aailllary, Tues
day afternoon JYfre 16th at 4 o'clock.
Mrs. W. H. White has charge of the
program tor this meeting.
Mrs. J. Forrest Joyner, Sac'y.
Subscribe to The Franklin Tlm?$|
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Farm Board Not
To Dump Cotton
Washington, June 8. ? Carl William*,
farm board member, said today tbe
a, 300, 000 bales of cotton held by the
Cotton Stabilization Corporation will
not be sold at present low prices.
This policy of holding the cotton
for improved prices, he said, will be
continued beycnd July 31. He did not
fix a time limit .
The farm board has promised not
to authorize Its sale prior to July 31.
A meeting of the Cotton Stabilization
Corporation and tbe American Cot
ton Cooperative Association will be
leld on June 25, probably In Washing
ton. At that time a more definite an
nouncement a c to future policies may
be made.
Storage ( barges. -? -
Williams declined to say how long
'ihe (jotton, on which storage charges
tire between $3 and $4 a year, woufd
be held. He intimated, however, that
the purchase price of 16 or 17 cents
a pound would not be asked.
The cotton was brought fromr the
1929 crop, and has been in storage
neal-ly a year.|_
Williams said it could be held for
Lfty years without deterioration, and
was the "neareat to gold in tbe Treas
ury of all agricultural commodities.''
"Tbe bulk of it is held at Oalvooton,
Houston and New Orleans. *
He said cotton cooperatives have
reduced tbetr holdings from the 1930
crop to considerably under 2,000,000
bales. Their original holdings amount
ed. to 2.SQO.OOO bales. Tbe total held
by, the 'Stabilization corporation and
cotton cooperatives for better prices.
Williams Bald, is a little more than
.',000,0*0 bales.
Williams expressed the Opinion that
American cotton farmers can com
pete with the entire world In raising
o nd marketing cotton, but did not in
clude Russia in hla statement, be
cause of what he termed "abnormal,
conditions" In that country.
He said the farmers would raise,
their crop 2 or 3 cents cheaper this
year and even more cheaply next year.
Hi added, however, that tlila would
inevitably reduce the farmers' stand
ard of living. -
To Draw Plans For /
Prison This Month
Raleigh, June 9. ? With North Caro
lina's prison population at Its great
est figure in the history of the state
Governor Gardner this afternoon said
the prison board and an advisory pris
on commission would meet the lat
ter part of this mopth to prepare
plans for th? construction of a new
central prison.
The 1931 general assembly provided
$400,000 for the construction of the
rew plmpt which was recommended by
P special commission wh{ch made a
?survey <.p{ prison conditions in the
state and suggested a program of re
fcrm to the legislature.
Birthday Party
Little Miss Jewell Dennis delight
fully entertained a number of her
friends at a birthday party on June
9th, this being her ninth birthday.
She was the recipient of many lovely
end useful gifts, which were opened
soon after the guests assembled and
which were duly admired and ex
claimed over by a group of children, j
Many games were played amidst much !
merriment and Joy. The children
were then called into the spacious
dining room where they were served
Ice cream cones and cake and given
different colored suckers. Those
present at the"party were: Marie and
Horace Hilton, Charlotte and Claude
Colllnfa, John Sledge, Margaret and
Douglas House, Hortease Williams,
Louise Long, Margaret Matthews,
Blaine Miller, Dorothy and Jane Per
son, Emma GrlfTln, Ida Pearce, El
ton Bledsoe, Brn?at Pearce, Chrlsteene
Pearce, Jackson and Pauline Coley, ,
Hugh and John Perry, Eleanor Pearce,
Crlchton Claire Cwthrell and Henry
Vearca.
No Icebergs Floating
Washington, June 9. ? Br some
strange freak of nature the froien
Northland, of Glaciers has just pre
sented this spring the prise mystery
of all aeafarlng time, by keeping
tight-locked somewhere within the
vast confines of the northern seas the
whole fleet of giant lceberga,. which
every year before this had floated
with ita deadly menace ' Into the
steamer lanes of the North Atlantic.
Not a single Iceberg has been sight
ed this year by the International ice
patrol, maintain* by thlr govern
ment for several -shipping powers of
the world In the Interest .of safety to
human life and precious cargo.
Experts of (he United States coast
guard describe this complete absence
of Icebergs so far this year as posi
tively unprecedented, not only In the
annals of the Iceberg patrol, but In
tte memory of seafaring men.
rtfr FIRST CLA8S JOB PRINTING
PHONB ^0. 118
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Cotton Week
A Success
\
* Raleigh, June 9. ? U. B. Blalock,
?ice-prealdent and general manager
t?f the North Carolina Cotton Growers
Co-optratlve Association, yesterday
termed the first "National Ootton
Week" a "complete success". The first
week In June was set aside as "cot
ton week" In an attempt to Increase
the demand for cotton which for years
uas been the South's greatest money
trop.
A review ot newspapers, Mr. Bla
lock continued, showed universal In
terest In the history of cotton and Its
uses, which now number 832. Radio
talks, style shows, displays and other
IbeCTuins featured cotton and cotton
prctluets during the week.
"National Cotton Week" was usher
ed In North Carolina by an elaborate
page&nt, "The Voice of Cotton", pre
Mrted In Concord May 28 and 29 with
X cast of nearly 1400. Over 10, 000
persons saw the show which not only
told the story of cotton's progress
from 1200 before Christ to the pres
ent, but introduced many new uses for
cotton products.
.. Feat urine new uses for the fiber, a
cotton style show was held In Greeiis
loro during the week with "Gate City"
girls acting as models.
Home and County agents through
out the cution belt held style shows
and educational meetings during the
week to stimulate greater Interest In
Uie use of cotton products.
Government Needs
Student Nurses
The U. S. Civil Service Commission
-announces an examination (or Stu
dent Nurse for duty at St. Elizabeths
Hospital at Washington, D. C. There'
will probably be about 60 positions to
be tilled and high school graduates
between the ages ot 18 and 30 will
be admitted to the examination. This
position In addition to quarters, sub
sistence, laundry and medical atten
tion pays a salary of $288 per annum.
Applications will be accepted and
Competitors examined at any city
within the states of Maryland, North
Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia and
the. District of Columbia where a
frst or second class post office ia
located,. Appropriate application form
may b?] secured from the Secretary,
Board of U. S. Civil Service Examin
ers at any first or second class post
office and muit be on file with the
manager, Fourth U. S. Civil Service
District, Washington, D. C? not later
than July 1, 1931."
Curb Market
A Success
The Hpme Demonstration Clab Mar
ket opened for 'the first time Satur
day, June 6th at 8:00 A. M. in the Al
len Building next to the post office
with sixteen women selling. Quite a
few were present and tor the first
s-alee day it was felt that it was suc
cessful. At nine o'clock the draw
ing took place and Mrs. Robert Smlt?
wiik held the lucky number and re
ceived a basket of groceries. Bach
; Saturday morning the Market will
< pen at 8 A. M. and the drawing will
take place at 9:30 A. M. The following
Woman's Clubs had producers selling.
Kpsom, Cedar Rock, Gold Sand, Bunn,
Mitchlners, Wood, Maplevllle, Seven
Paths, Harris, and CenterVUle,
Miss Timber lake
Entertains
Miss Elisabeth Timberlake delight
fully entertained the members of the
Friday afternoon dontract Club at
her home near Loulsburg the past
week. Quantities of garden flowers
were used to brighten the living room,
for the occasion. At the conclnqfon
of the game, the hostess, assisted by
her sister, Miss Lucy Timberlake,'
t erred delicious refreshments to the
following: Misses Max Allen,. Jewel
Clark, Lucie Clifton Boddle, Helen
Smith wick, Lucy Burt, Annie Perry
Neal and Mesdames Mack Stamps,
Sam Watktns and Conrad Sturgeea, of
Henderson. Charles Hoyt, of Washing
ten P. S. Allen, and F. N. Eserton.
At The Louiftburg
Theatre Next Week
The following is the program at
the ' Lonlsburg Theatre, beginning
Saturday, June 13th:
Saturday, 'June ISth ? Wallace
Beery in "The Secret PIx," also corn
ed* and serial "The Indians Are
Cafen*."
Jlonday and Tuesday, June 16-16
? Norma Shearer and Robert Mont
gomery In "Strangers May Kiss."
Wednesday. June 17th ? George
Bancroft In "Derelict."
Thursday and Friday. June 18-19
? Marlon Davles in "It's a Wise
Child."
Saturday, June 20th ? Richard Ar
ies ?nd Pay Wray la "JUe Conquer
ing Horde," also chapter No. 9 "The
Indians Are Coming."
After Lindy'a Mark
Ruth Nicholt U reported all jet (or
an attempt to crots the Atlantic by
W. J. Woodlief
Fatally Burned
Mr. W. J. Woodlief was fatally
burned at his store and filling sta
tion at Mapleville. abogt five milts
east of Loulsburg, Saturday ntght
when he was delivering some gss to
s colored man and some of the fumee
of gas escaped about him and were
ignlWd fry the gas lantern he carried
with nini. He was badly burned on
one side, fill of his hair was burne4
from bis head and he received much
injury from inhaling the flames. He
was immediately carried to a hospital
In Rocky Mount for treatment where
he di'^d on Sunday night Mr. Wood
lief was slzty-ona years of. age and
leaves his wUe and two sons and one
daughter. The funeral services were
held at Mapleville Tuesday atternooi.
at four o'clock.
Ordered To
Training Camp
Over 950 young men from North and
South Carolina have received orders
to report at Fort Brags. N. C., on Fri
day, June 12th, (or one month's ser
vice with the 1931 Citizens Military
Training Camp. The canlp this year
*111 be commanded by Major Harvey
D. Higley, of the 17th Field Artillery,
Fort Bragg.
Major Higley, born in Iowa, is a
graduate <n the U. S. Military Acade
my at West Point. He was commis
sioned In 1908 and has served in the
Philippines and in Germany. During
the World War Major Higley was in
command of the Field Artillery Re
placement Depot at Camp Zachary
Taylor, Ky., where thousands of Field
Artillery officers and enlisted men
were trained for combat service. Ma
jor Higley is en the Army's Genera!
Staff Eligibility List and is a graduate
of the Field Artillery School, Ad
vanced Course, Fort Sill, Oklahoma,
of the Command and General Stall
School, at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas,
and of the Army War College, Wash
ington, D. C.
In connection with the opening of
the C. M. T. C., MftK* Higley stated
that this movement ts more popular
ths year than ever before, especially
in N6rth and Sooth Carolina. He said
that last year, 1930, there was a total
of 1442 application* received for
membership in die Fort Bragg C.'M.
T. C., while this yea? up to June 1st,
2, 091t applications tor the Fcrrt Bragg
Camp -had bean received.
Those from Rraoklln County order
ed to repdft Dodd and
Charles E. Weathers. of Bunn.
The followihg docfcet was disposed
of in Monday's Recorder's Court by
Judge J. E. Malone:
The case against Luke Williams for
u stilling was transferred to the Su
perior Court.
Cornelius Clifton was found guilty
of distilling and Judgment was sus
pended until October.
A nol pros was taken In the case
of distilling against Edward Clifton.
E. L. Htfdson plead guilty to oper
ating an mtomoblle Intoxicated, and
was given $0 days on roads to be
discharged upon payment of <60 fine
and costs, and not to operate car In
SO days.
W. W. Crews plead guilty to operat- 1
lng automobile intoxicated and reck
less driving and drew a line of $50 i
and costs and hot to drive a car In 1
90 days. ...
Sylvester Djipeton was fottnjl guilty
of assault with dpadty weapon and
was sentenoed to 4 months on roads.
Eunice Perry was found guilty of: 1
distilling, prayer for Judgment was
coifttnuM to October. I
E. L. Hudson drew a nol proa tor
carrying concealed weapons. ' 1 I
BIG FIRE
AT NORFOLK
? " -u
v.* -
Norfolk, Va? June 8. ? Firemen this
morning kept watch over em,lM?rs of
reran blocks In the business district
hure swept last night by a blaz* #Mch
tor six hours bafTled the combined
tire fighting forces of the Haaftom
Roads area'and did damage eatlmnH'i
in excess of 13,000,000.
Starting with an explosion of aa
oil barge at the Buxton Line piers,
the flames quickly spread through
the wholesale dislricC several times
jumping across Main Street and
American Peanut Corporation plant
was burned with a loss estimated by
officials at $1,000,000 and the Victoria
Hotel, a 200-room structure was burn
etii
Miss Carle Ambrose, telephone op
erator at the hotel, stuck to her
switchboard and gave the alarm to
cccupants all of whom escaped with
out injury.
Unveil Tablet To
Judge Henderson
Memory of Chief Justice of State
Supreme Court Is Honored
Henderson, June 10. ? A marker to
the memory ot Chief Justice Leonard
Henderson, of the State Supreme
Court, was unveiled here tms ansr
uoon. It was the gift of Old Butte
Chapter, Daughters ot the American
Revolution, of Henderson, and was
presented for that organization by
Mrs. Sydney P, Cooper, of this city,
~ c. A ? ^ . T 1 fc
Dioic iCftCni. mayor in vine n. wot"
tins accepted the marker on behalf
of th? city and the county.
Chief speakers at the exercises,
held In the courthouse, were Dr. Ar
chibald Henderson, University of
North Carolina, and Congressman
.'ohn H. Kerr. The marker was un
veiled by Mary Louisa Jackson Kim
ball, Anne Elizabeth Wortham and
Lucy Plummer Brewer. I
The first part of the exercises was
held in the court room, where wel
come addresses were made by Mrs.
John D. Cooper, Jr. Old Butte Chap
ter regent, and J. C. Klttrell for the
county and city. The remainder of
the program was had on the court
bouse sqaare, In front of the boul
oer bearing the marker. A large
number of State D. A. R. officers were
present, and many members from
other chapters from as far away as
Charlotte and New Bern.
German Officials
Look to United
States For Aid
S. S. Europe, June 9. ? Chancellor
Keinrich Bruenlng and Dr. Julius
Curttus, German foreign minister, are
leturning from the Chequers confer
ence with renewed conviction of the
Importance of the part American pub
lic opinion will play in any attempt
to reshuffle the reparations and war
debt problems.
They are looking forward to con
versations with Secretary of State
Henry L. Stimson and Secretary of
the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon, who
will be in Europe this summer, And.
they are fully aware that economic
problems have made both reparations
end war debts unpopular topics in
the United States.
The viewpoint of the heads of the
German state was obtained in conver
vitions in which they could not be
quoted directly, as Downing street has
placed its veto on public discussion
of their conference with Prima Minis
ter Ramsey MacDonald and kfthai
Henderson, British -foreign secretary.
The Germans hope a prostrate Ger
many, unable to purchase raw ma
terials from America, will help con
vince Americans there la v connec
tion between the economic crisis and
reparations. *S > 'f:-'
On one item their poliey Is adamant
? under no circumstances will the
Lruenlng government permit Ger
many to participate in any teaneuver
designed to bring Europe tato a
united front against America.
In any conversations between the
heads of the German government and
the visiting America cabinet mem
bers the point will be mad* that Ger
many and Britan both wish to work
r. 1th America as a friend In deciding
what course must be pursued. ?
DOSS BOTH ENTEBTAISS
Miss Dorothy Hoth delightfully en
tertained a large number of the local
younger set at a party honoring her
guest, Miss Florence Norwich of Hen
derson, on Wednesday evening at
flight o'clock.
The home was beautifully decorated
Ing was enjoyed by the guests. Mr.
Bill Morria tarnished splendid mbslc
For the
Ths
treshments of ice cream and rake.