VOLUMN LXII.
WMBER 20
^ 1 The Franklin Times iss-sr
The County, T& StateT The Union ?
LOUI8BURG, N. CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JUL* 8, 10S1
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Complete Roimd
__ The World Flight
LAND AT ROOSEVELT AIRPOBT
NEW YORK. JfINK DAYS
AFTER TAKE OFF
Urcctnl by Ten Thousand Enthusi
ast* ? Fly Approximately 10,474
Miles ? Post and Gatty On Top of
World In Ryes of People I?g of
long Flight.
Roosevelt Field, N. Y., July 1. ? The
Hashing white monoplane Winnie
Mae, carrying Wiley Post and Har
old Gatty, came in from the west at
sunset tonight, ending the fastest trip
ever made around the world.
The ship circled Roosevelt Field,
'torn which it started its long and
hazardous journey last week, as the
last blaze of sunlight faded from the
j?ky, and landed at 7:47:10 p. m. (E.
S. T.).
Then, suddenly, it was dark, and
there was booming of flashlights and
a tumult of shouting as 10,000 per*
tons welcomed them home amid a
joyous confusion unequalled for a
hero of the air since Col. Charles A.
Lindbergh came back from Paris.
But foremost in the frantic mob ?
even before Colonel Lindbergh, who
waltee on 4he fttiapww ~ a tearful. -
tmiling woman who pushed her way
in the door of the plane. She was
the wife of a tired, almost exhausted
"t'lot, who half stumbled from the
iloor.
Th?_j9)lowing is a log of the long
r.nd interesting flight:
Tuesday, Jane 28.
Left Roosevelt Field, N. Y., 3:56
*? m -
Arrived Harbor Orace, N. F., 10:48
. a. m. (1.182 miles) .
I?4ft Harbor Grace, 2:2$ p. m. '
Wednesday, Jim fcL
ArHved Chester, England, 6:46 a.
m. (2,195 miles).
Left Chester 8:05 a. m.
Arrived Hanover, Germany, 11:45
a. m. (634 miles).
Left Hanover, 1:15 p. m.
Arrived Berlin 2:80 p. m. (151
?,'les). ? * ? ?
'? ? ?Anrsday, lone 85.
Left Berlin 1:38 a. m.
Arrived Moscow, Russia, 10:30 a.
m. (9SI miles).
Left Moscow, 10 p. m.
Friday, June M,
Arrived Novoslbrek, Siberia, 8:32
a. m. (1,579 miles).
Arrived Irkutsk, Siberia, 11:55 p.
m. (1,065 miles).
Saturday, Jane 87.
Left Irkutsk, 2:10 a. m.
Arriyed Blagoveshchensk, Siberia,
7 a. m. (1,009 miles).
Left Blagoveshchensk, 9:30 p. m.
sen aay, jane
Arrived klilffbarovsk, Siberia, 1:30
a. m. (3?! -Elites).
Msjsday, Jane 89.
Left Khabarovsk, 4 a. m.
Arrived 3oJomon, Alaska, 8:45 p.
to. (2,500 miles).
Left Solomon, 11:30 p. m.
Tuesday, June 90.
Arrived Fairbanks, Alaska, 2:25 a.
m. (520 milecK
Left Fairbanks, Alaska, 8:24 a. m.
Arrived Edmonton, Alta., 6:35 p.
m. (1,460 miles).
Total miles flown, 18,840.
Elapsed time (to Edmonton) 7 days,
14 hours, 39 minutes.
Flying time, 3 days, 18 hours, 19
i.inutes.
? Wedaestay, Jtfly 1.
Left Edmonton, 6:39 a. m.
Elapsed time (to take-off from
Edmonton) eight days, one hour, t
rtinutes.
Arrived Cleveland, 4:15 p. m. (1,
600 miles).
Total miles flown, 15,080.
Elapsed time, 8 days, ll hour*,' 48
minutes.
Arrived Roosevelt!' Field 7:47:80 p.
m. (394 miles).
Total miles , fldwn approximated)
ljj 474 ' ^ ' J I ' ?"?* ?v i. '
Elapsed tlmfe, 8 days, 15 hours, 51
minutes. ,'". f*-. "V- ?
?Flying time, 4'days, 10 hours; 8
minutps. ...
MASK-HE SUING
The following announcement ha*
create* much interest throughout
Ii'orth Carolina:
"Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Herring
announce the marriage of their daugh
ter, Margaret Irene, to Mr. Homer H.
B. Mask on -Friday, June the twenty
sixth, nineteen hundred and thirty
one, Greensboro."
Enclosed was a card that read as
fellows: "At Home, Mayflower Apart
ments, Jersey City, New Jersey."
Mr. Mask will be rapembered in
Franklin County for hn interest and
activity in the organisation and op
eiation of the North Carolina Cotton
Cooperative Marketing Association,
ahd is now connected with the Chil
ean Nitrate of Soda Company In lta
educational bureau, located "at "lfcw
York. ? -
' Not all people who come oat flat
footed for something or other have
ffellm arches. .
Widow of_Ex-President
Mr*. Woodrow Wilton hat gone to
Poland to dedicate a monument to her.
late hatband./ - ?
Heads Co-?j>s
Raleigh, July 1. ? U. Benton Bla
lock, vice president and general man
ager o (the North Carolina Cotton
Growers Cooperative Association, Mi
last week elected president of the
American Cotton Coojlerattve Asso
ciation. ? : ? ? i
The American Cotton Cooperativo,
a central association composed of IX
state cooperatives, last year handled
over 2^)00,000 bales cf cotton with a
total value of more than <100.000,000.
An experienced cotton executive,
Mr. Blalock has been general manager
of the North Carolina association
since it waa organised nine years
ago. Under his management the as
sociation has grown until it is regard
ed as one of the youth's most success
ful cooperatives. Last year the North
Carolina association handled over
177,000 bales of cotton and was second
enly to one state cooperative in the
percentage of the total crop handled
cooperatively.
A firm believer in diversification,
Mr. Blalock, in addition to cotton,
raises ' Hve-Btock, peaches, snd hay
i nd pain crops on his farms. All his
Ttfe he has been interested In bank
ing, farming and merchandising and
for a number of years was a cotton
buyer and shipper. Also at one time
he was president of the Hardware
Dealers' Asociation of the Carolina*.
Mr. Blalock was bom in Stanly
county and educated at Trinity Col
lege, now Duke Universtly.
UNTRAINED WHITE AND NEGRO
v STATE WORKERS GET BIG CUT
Salaries . of all State employes in
tbe building and ground and custo
dial service will be cut 20 per cent,
effective July 1, Henry Burke, assist
ant director of the budget, announced
Monday.
The rut will 'effect from 47 to 50
employes whose salaries range from
$12 to $30 per week. Most of these
EC employes untrained whites and
negroes, who go to work early and
uult their Jobs late.
All other State employes whose sal
aries are not fixed by the constitu
tion or statute will receive a 10 per
ctnt cut.
The Legislature contemplated a 14
per cent cut In all salary appropria
tions and made provision for the re
duction in the appropriations bill.
When the Legislature met. Governor
O. Max Gardner recommended a 10
per cent cut for all employes whose
snlaiies were $50 or more per month.
A recent memorandum from the
budget bureau presented figures
showing that if the various State de
partments and Institutions would
spend only 80 per Cent of their ap
propriations, an anticipated deficit of
about $3,400,000 tor the next bien
nium could be eliminated. The mem
orandum, however, contained no ref
erence to the effect that the SO per
cent alash would be applied.
IBANKLINTON YOUTH IN
USB FOB APPOINTBEJTT
George T. Wkltaker Passes Aaaofolis
>. Tests; Enlisted In U. 8. Navy
Here
Raleigh, June $8.? George Thomas
Whitaker, of Franklinton, has suc
cessfully passed his examination* for '
entrance to the United States Nival
Academy at Annapolis, Md? accord
ing to word received by the recruiting
station here.
The Franklinton youth enlisted in
tbe Nary through the Raleigh recruit
ing station on March 38, 19S0 as ap
prentice seaman. He ranked number
13 from a total of 116 taking the ex
aminations. i
A total of 100 enllstid.men of i
Navy are appointed to the Naval
Academy each year by the President
after rigid mental and physical ex- ,
amlnationa. The ' appointments are
keenly competed (or.
In addition to posseting -the neo
tisaary academic knowledge, the appU- 1
cant must pass a rigid physical e?- ?
rmlnation. be under 30 years of a|? i
at date of appointment and have serf- <
ed at least nine months at sea on a t
Navy ship la full commission. I
College To Be
Co-Educational
Sufficient Enrollment At Promt To
, Assure Successful Year At
Loalttburg College
At a meeting of the Board of Trua
lees of Louisburg College, June 30,
1931, after going over the auditor's
report for the . year 1930-31 and after
t earing the report of President WH
M)i, the following statement was au
thorized:
It has been definitely decided, wltu
the approval of the Bishop and his
Cabinet that the College will be op
erated as a co-educatlonal Institution,
and already a considerable number
ol boys have matriculated. Either
the smallest dormitory on the cam
pus will be turned over to bora or
n building near the campus, which
Is available, will be procured In wWch
to house the boys. In either avent
these boys will all be in. charge of
one of the men of the Faculty who
<*111 live in the boy's dormitory. They
v. ill take their meals in the College
dining hall and will be admitted to
r 11 classes.
The School of Music will be con
ducted by the Southern Conservatory
of Musio which will move to Louis
burg and become a part of the Fac
ulty of Louisburg College.
The -Board feels that the number
of students already matriculated and
in .prospect justifies Its feeling as
E.'fed that the College can operate
lor-the scholastic year 1(31-1032 with
out a deficit notwithstanding the Itet
that its educational standards will
lie strictly adhered to and susteKBl.
There has been an exceedingly en
couraging Interest manifested by
friends of the College throughout the
State and while the Board is not un
mindful of the difficulties facing
Louisburg College, It faces the situa
tion unafraid and accepts the chal
lenge of the times to keep alive the
torch Tii'thls ancient citadel of Chris
tian Education.
Louisburg College calls upon Its
elumnae, the educational forces or
the State in general, and Methodism
it. particular to help la Its detera^ln
tion to serve. ,
To Observe July 4th
The local postofflce announces that
holiday hours will be observed by the
postofflce and all carrier service sus
pended on Saturday July 4th. The
office will be' open from 8:30 to 9:30
Saturday morning and will not be
open at any other time.
The First National Bank will be
closed on Saturday July 4th to ob
serve the holiday. '
The stores In Louisburg generally
will observe the Fourth of July by
closing on Monday, July 6th, Instead
of Saturday, July 4th,
These announcements should be
Uprne in mind by the people having
business with any of the principals
and govern themselves accordingly.
First Cotton Bloom
Hugh Brown, colored, of South
Main Street LouiBburg, brought to
the TIMES office the first cotton
bloom from the 1931 crop on Wednes
day morning. It was a white bloom,
but fully mature. Hugh has a cot
ton crop at the back of his residence.
Mrs. Docia Holden, ot Younjsville,
Route 2, sent in the second bloom on
Wednesday. It also was a white blootn.
A white bloom was sent in yester
day morning from Green wtggtn's
farm near flat Rock church. This
was the third bloom for this season.
Ace Club Dance
Local society is interested to learn
that, the Ace Club will give its first
dance Friday night, July 10, 19S1,
in Allen's hall.
pne of the best orchestras in this
section has beeft engaged to play for
this dance.
The hall is being renovated and
decorated for the occasion.
Every one is looking' forward to
the dance and one of the largest
crowds ever to attend a dance in
Louisburg is expected. -
HENBEBSON BUSINESS SCHOOL
OPENS SEPTEMBER 8TH
Henderson, N. C., June 25. ? The
fall term of Henderson Business
School, of Headerson, N. C., begins
Tuesday, September 8th. This school
gives a full and. thorough training t?
business subjects and is highly re
commended and Indorsed by the peo
(le of' Henderson. Entering their
third yepr in September, with a cap
rble faculty and (n new quarters, we'
predict a successful year for tfeem.
Mr. and Mrs. E. O. Everritt are the
nwnera of the school and have had
much experience.'
J. Le* Harmon of Moncure, Chat
ham County, reports his yield of
wheat ' doubled peWacte where lime-< ?
"tone and tweet clover was used as
compared with the wheat grown on
the land not receiving this previous i
reatment. 1
A ? \ \ \ ' 1
Paroles For
__ 300 Convicts
Fxecotive Counsel Tajletr Bead; To
Sin Papers For Convict*
Tyre C. Taylor, executive counsel,
Bald Monday that he expected to sign
parole or commntatton papers for
Home 300 county convicts serving sen
tences of less than 60 days either Mon
day afternoon or Tuesday.
The exact number of short term
prisoners to benefit by reason of the
r.*w State highway law, which pro
vides that prisoners serving sentences
of over 60 days shall be used by the
Highway Commission In road work,
l? not yet known.
Mr. Taylor said thai th? Hit or
prisoners to receive clemency was
being prepared today and probably
would be ready this afternoon.
Mrs. G. S. Baker
Passes Away
The remains of Mrs. Geo. 3. Baker,
who died at the home of her pon. In
Goldsboro on Tues4ay, were broaght
to Louisburg on Wednesday morn
ing and Interred In the family plot
fct Oaklawn Cemetery after the fun
eral service was held at the Louis
Surg Methodist church at 12 o'clAcX.
conducted by Revs. A. D. Wilcox,
pastor and M. V. McRae. pastor of
the Methodist church of Goldsboro.
Mrs. Baker was about 90 years of
cge and leaves two sons, Messrs. E.
?iJ. Baker, of Raleigh, and Geo. S.
Baker, of Goldsboro.
Mrs. Baker was a former resident
of Louisburg, having lived for many
j eara at Baker Heights and la well
ahd tenderly remembered by Louis
burg's older cltlxens. She was a
woman of much ability. aplendUKM-"
flnement and tender sympathies,
which combined to make a beauti
ful home and christian life.
Her many friends in Louisburg
extend the tenderest sympathy to the
bereaved sons and relatives.
The pallbearers were E. W. Fur
curson. A. C. Hall, 8. J. Parham. S.
"B. Berkler, J. A. Hodges, Cavy How
ard, T. W. Hicks, M. S. Davis, F. N.
JEfcerton, Jr., A. W. Person.
War Finally Ends
For Oscar Grady
Coppedge
Vetera o Sacrnmbs To Gas He
^Breathed While In Fraaee
With 190th Infantry
The war ended for Oscar Grady
Coppedge yesterday. After years ot
fighting the results of the gas he
breathed Irhile a member of the 120th
Infantry In France, he died at his
lome In the Vance Apartments at
5: 55 yesterday afternoon.
The arrangements for the funeral
of the young veteran will be made
today.
Mr. Coppedge is survived by his
father, John A. Coppedge; two broth
els, James W. and Ben Coppedge, and
a sister, Mrs. O. J. Daniel, At Phila
delphia. He was unusually popular
and the courageous though unsuc-:
cessful fight he waged against his
war Injury won him much admiration.
? News-Observer.
Mr. Coppedye was a former Frank
iln County boy and has many rela
tives and friends In this County whom
the TIMES Joins in extending sym
pathy to the bereaved family.
Delightful Chick
en Supper
. The memhers of the Loylsburg Fire
Department entertained the town of
ficials and a number of friends at
,lhelr annual chicken supper which
was held In the big engine room ?t
the Loulsburg Power Plant on Tues
day evening at 7 o'clock. The call
to supper was sounded promptly and
about- forty marched forth and lined
up around large tables laden with
the choicest ot tried spring chicken
with hot rolls, pickle and lemosukde.
Bach person present helped himself
to his fullest desire and all the while
big pans piled' high with friend chick*
en were being passed up and down
t)ie table and lemonade was being
?UPti?d tnto the cups: More than onjs
complained of his inability to encom
pass all his desires called tor. but
individual limitations soon demand
ed a stop and all were united in ex
tending the most sincere thanks for
having been remain be red at this de
lightful occasion.
MASONIC NOTICE
. There will not be a meeting of
t^ouisbQrg Lodge No. 413 A. F. end A.
X. Tuesday night July 7.
'? v II ? vjj
People who elect a man to congress
and then stake sport ot bin put the
laugh on themselves.
Queen of^JTower Ball
Kate Jan et, of Asheville, N. Ci,
was the Queen at the Rhododendron
Festival bald k that city this year.
State Can
Accept Gift
The Slate cannot tax bottlers in
excess of. levy imposed by the ratified
1931 revenue bill but may accept any
WBount the bottlers wish to donate as
a gi/t, Attorney- General Dennis G.
fcrummitt ruled Monday afternoon.
Through fBrollment error, the re
cent Legislature failed to double last
year's levy against bottlers, the bot
tlera having agreed to the proposition.
The loss to the State for the two-year
period was estimated at $100,000.
The ruling was made upon request
of Commissioner of Revenue Allen J
Maxwell after the North Carolina
Bottlers' Association submitted an
offer in writing to pay double the
figure in the - ratified bill if legal
means could be found to collect Ttr
The offer asked that the State levy
twice the amount the bill imposed. It
i-dded that In event the tax could not
b? ieviei as the attorney-general
ruled, the Association would use its
influence. tft move tattlers to pay the
Intended tax as a contribution.
Recorder's Court
Quite a big docket was before Judge
i, B. Malone In Franklin Recorders'
Court Monday, practically all of whlcb
were disposed of. The docket was as
follows:
Buck Perry, charged with aiding
and abetting is prostitution, capias
and continued. -> ? c- ? ?
Richard Harris was sent to Superi
or Coort; to answer te a charge lar
ceny, after probable cause had been
found.
William Henry Daniel was fotfnd
fullty of larceny and was given 90
days on roads to be suspended upon
payment of costs.
Grady Smith was found not guilty
of larceny.
Turner Mann plead guilty to lar
ceny and was given 90 days in jail
to be suspended on payment of costs.
Charlie H. Roberts was found guil
ty and fined $50 and costs. Appeal.
IsUth Mayhoe was found guilty of
carrying concealed weapons, and
fined $50 and Costs. Appeal.
Rotpert W. May, was found guilty
of unlawful possession of whiskey,
prayer for Judgment continued two
weeks.
A Jury was demanded by the de
fendant in the case of John Perry,
for slander, and continuance for two
VMM
W. E. Bartholomew was found not
guilty of operating automobile intoxi
cated aad reckless, driving.
Fted.Cooper was found not guilty of
trespass.
Clyde Husketh was found guilty of
violating prohibition law, and was
i fined $10 and costs. Appeal.
Jokn Winston pisad guilty to op
erating automobile intoxicated, pray
er for judgment continued fbr two
? Weeks "* * ** ?
Walter Strickland plead guilty of
assault with deadly Weapon, and was J
offered discharged upon payment of
m* Chavts p}e*4 guilty to assault
with dee4ly weapon and was given 30
days in jail; commissioners to hire
out.
; Walter Tharrington was found guil
resting Officer and was dis
charged uY>on payment of costs.
Walter Tharrtogton was found
ruflty of violating prohibition law,
and ordered discharged upon pay
ment of costs.
Lee Morris Perry was remanded to
Justice of Peace to answer a charge
ol gambling.
Burta Alston was found not guil
ty of violating prohibition law.
SOT Ol'R F. X. EGERTOX
Mr- F, N. Egerton. of Loirisburg,
states that he is not the one appoint
ed engineer In the first district under
Division B. in the State Highway
Commission's division of roads. Mr.
Egerton states that it must be F. M.
Edgerton, and that he Was not even '
an applicant for tlM place.
FOR FIRST CLASS JOB PRINTING
FHONB NO. ?M
Alleged Theft Ring
Found By Officers
*. A. I.. Agent Charge* Fonr Men
With Stealing Cigarettes
Henderson, June 24.? f?t0o?ivery of
tine of the most far rsacMag theft
rings uncovered in this part of the
Btate was reported today oy W. B.
Wilson, of this city, special agent of
the Seaboard Air Line railroad, who
announced thrt one men had bee* re
turned to state's prison with his pa
role revoked and three others are
lield In Granville county jail la Oi
ti rd In default of $1,000 bond each,
pending trial at the July term of
Granville county Superior court.
Mr. Wilson said other arrests were
imminent. The alleged thefts occurred
In Vance, Granville, Warren, Frank
lin, Halifax and Wake counties over
a period of six months from last De
cember to May of this year. Two or
more of them occurrcd in Henderson.
The specific theft with wWch the
c,uartet are charged occurred May 22,
when nine oases of cigarettes were
taken from the D. and N. train on
the Seaboard in the early part of the
n.ght. The value of the cigarettes
stolen is placsd at $685, at the rate
of $85 a case. One of the party got
on the train vhen it was stopped at
Tar River station and threw out the
cigarettes near the station at Clay,
a few mlleB south of Dlckerson. They
'nent back later In the night and pick
ed them up, Mr. Wilson said. It la
for this theft that the men are to
he tried in Granville July 27.
Mr. Wllsoa gave the names of the
r.'.en as Verncn W^iitaker, who was
r&roled from the penitentiary 18
months ago while serving a long term
for a similar offense and whose pa
role has been revoked as he was re
turned to complete hl? sentence L fur
?Vf&y McGb96) Robot* t TtvftrriRgton and
Artluir. Wright, all white men of
Franklin county:1
Mr. Wilson, said the ring's opera
tions are on a scale that will be start
ling In the extreme when the evidence
is brought out at the trial of the men
in Granville county next month.
Board of Edu
cation Holds
Special Meeting
The Board of Education met in
special session at the request of Mr.
F. P. Spruill our district represent
ative on the State Board of Equaliza
tion. The following members were
present: A. F. Johnson, Mrs. T. H.
I-ickens, W. A. Mullen, E. L. Green
and J. H. Joyner.
Mr. Spruill stated that the object
?>* the meeting was to go over with
the Board the re-organization of
jchools in Franklin County that the
State Board of Equalization was con
templating putting into effect for the
school year 1931-32. The Board stated
to Mr. Spruill that the contemplated
changes had been recommended by
the Board to the various school dis
tricts in Franklin County (or many
ytars, but it had always allowed the
communities to come to their own de
cision concerning any change, andi
carrying out this policy, the Board
would not recommend that any change
be made in any district unless a ma
jority of the people in that district >
."ould agree to the same, ftowever,
the Board realizes that according to
the 1931 school law that it has no
discretion in the matter and that full
authority was given to the State
Board of Equalization. The Board
assured Mr. Spruill that whatever re
organization of schools might be made
in the county would be a responsibil
ity of the State Board of Equalization,
but that the County Board of Educa
tion would cooperate with the State
Board of Equalization in every possi
ble way in trying to make the new
plan a success. After receiving all
toe information concerntag tfce pres
ent organization of sohoMs that he
asked for, Mr. Spruill MlMlA that the
Board would be uotffltoA lafcer con
cerning the action Utken by the Stats
Koard of Equalization.
I'lU'-i.
At The Louisburg
Theatre Next Week
The following Is the program at
th* Louisburg Theatre, beginning
Saturday, July 4 th:
Saturday, July 4th ? Gary Cooper
In Zane Grey's "Fighting Caravans"
alto comedy and serial "The Indian*
Are Coming."
Monday and Tuesday, July 8-7?
Jean Harlow In "Goldle" with Spen
cer Tracy and Warren Hymer.
Wednesday (Bargain Day) July
8th ? Dorothy MacKalU in "Once a
Sinner," also comedy and serial
"Heroes of The Flame*."
Thursday and Friday, July !M0
? Joaa Crawford la "Laughing Sin
ners,* with Clark Gable.
Saturday, July 11th? Eddie QaU
ihTliHj U M*yrtnTmo'iij ***