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LOUISBURQ, If. CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 10341
(TEN PAOES)
NUMBER SO
EXCITING RACE EXPECTED
-> AS FIRST PERIOD DRAWS TO
CLOSE ON SATURDAY FEB. 8th
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Next Week Is Critical One For Candidates In Subscrip
tion Campaign. Collection of Promises and Extensions
Will Be Big Factor. Credits Take Big Drop After
Saturday, February 8th.
ENTRANTS IN SUBSCRIPTION CAMPAIGN
, ^Credits
Miss May Brown, Franklinton 330,300
Mrs. J. S. Collie, Louisburg, Rt. 4 23,000
Miss Cleiner Grace Floyd, Louisburg, lit. 1 330,900
Mrs. Peter Foster, Louisburg, Rt. 3. 334,800
Miss Lynne Hall, Louisburg, 334,000
Miss Magdaline Jones, Franklinton, Rt. 2,. . 140,000
Mrs. R. E. McDuffie, Kittrell, Rt. 1 336,900
Mr. R. H. Poytkress, Louisburg 340*000
Mrs. C. H. Stallings, Spring Hope, Rt. 2.. 155, 600
Miss Lucy Timberlake, Louisburg, Rt. 1.. 340,900
Mrs. Bertha Wilson, Louisburg, Rt. 3 332,600
Miss Lucy Timberlake heads the list this week
with several right on her heels. To hold the lead
in a race as close as this means hard work and plenty
of courage. All those who have promised their
subscription or renewal to some candidate, should
give it next week if they want to help their favorite
win, as credits are at their highest now.
Real Interest is being shown by
both candidates and subscribers
In Th^u Franklin Times circula
tion building campaign, and a
really exciting and interesting
race for leadership at the end of
the first period, Feb. 8th. is ex
pected. After the close of the
period the credits take a drop.
A number of people who sub
scribed for only one year during
the early part of the campaign
have asked how they may help
)) their favorite candidates to the
" full limit.
In cases where a one-year sub
scription had already been given,
and it is desired to extend it for
another year a second payment
will count for 15,000 credits.
Or, should it be desired to in
crease a one-year subscription to
five years (the limit in thu
schedule) such an order would
count 90,000 credits.
The "second payment" plan will
unquestionably play an important
part in deciding of the win.
ners.
For example, twenty extensions
from one to five years would give
1,800,000 regular credits and it
the same time would constitute
eight complete clubs on which
800,000 extra votes would.be is
sued ? or a grand total of 2,600,
000.
Here's your opportunity, candi
dates, to swell your vote totals by
leaps and bounds.
Period Closes Feb. 8th
Every candidate should realize
the Importance of the coming
week ending Feb. 8th., and gath
er up all their promised subscrip
tions and extensions of those al
ready given.
After Saturday. Feb. 8 th, and
for the next ten days the; "second
period" schedule of credits will
be In effect, which means a ma
terial reduction In the voting;
power of all subscriptions, while
the "third" and last period of;
the contest will see the scale ofi
credits almost cut In half.
Long term subscriptions count |
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might be the deciding factor in,
the race. The crucial test is now'
at hand. If you ever intend dohig
anything BIG in this race, do it |
NOW! Instead of being a trailer.!
get up among the leaders and stay \
there!
Intense though suppressed ex
citement prevails among the var
ious candidates as each realizes
he or she is within reach of a
prize worth hundreds of dollars,
a small fortune, indeed, all to be
won or lost during the next few
days, for this is exactly what lt|
means, depending almost entirely
upon subscriptions turned in be
fore midnight, Feb. 8th, and each
)has entered the final lap of the
"finttperiod" with the grim deter
mination of being a victor, or
know the reason why.
It has been very evident during
the past few days that each can
didate and immediate supporters
and friends are determined to
take home the grand capital prize,
of f600 in cash. The second prize
is $200, the third ?100..
We are certain that this papor
Is well liked? a real newspaper? |
and we are sure also that it will
continue to become bigger and
tetter with each iesue. It Is well
worth the price jrou pay for It.
So, by taking the paper from
your favorite candidate you are
getting Value received and. yon
will also be helping him or her
? in this big race.
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COLD WAVE
Another cold wave visited this
nection Sunday night following a
snow measuring around three
' inches. Monday night the official
government thermometer register
ed 2 degrees above zero, and on,
jftiesday night 7 above. This
presents about the coldest weath.
er with the exception of one
uight about two years ago, when
I it dropped to 1 above, since the
winter of 1917-18 when the
mercury dropped to 10 degrees
lielow. The Sun came out nicely
Tuesday, but had little effect on
the temperature. Wednesday
brought cloudiness and snow.
TEN N. C. BANKS
END LIQUIDATION
Gurney P. Hood, State bank
commissioner, reported the com
pletion of liquidation of ten clos
ed banks, Tuesday.
The institutions, amounts paid
i common creditors and what per
1 centage of their money they re
presented, follow:
Among the list is noticed the
following:
i Bank of Youngsville, $46,361.
52, 84.5 per cent; Farmers and
Merchants Bank of Louisburg,
[ $142,122.31. 44.6 per cent.
Figures on dividends Included
cash payments, offsets and com
promises.
FIRE AT HICKS' STORE
The fire Wednesday afternoon
was at A. L. Hicks store on east
Nash Street, where a defective
stove flue caused the woodwork
to catch. The fire department was
promptly on the scene and got
control of the situation with
chemicals. The damage was small,
mostly caused from the flow of
chemicals in putting out the
blaze.
HIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT
Mr. and Mrs. Alwyn Cooper an
nounce the birth of a daughter,
Jessie Ma?. on Tuesday, January
28. Mrs. Cooper was formerly
Miss Margaret Lillian Marks.
Program At The
Louisburg Theatre
The following is tne program
at the Louisburg Theatre begin
ning Saturday, Feb. 1st:
Saturday ? Double Feature ?
Bob Steele In "Alias John Law,"
and Ralph Bellamy In "Danger,
ous Intrigue."
Sunday ? Myrna Loy and Spen
cer Tracy in "WhipsaW."
Monday? Winifred Shaw, Phil
Regan and Lyle Talbot In "Broad
way Hoatesa."
Tnesday ? Richard Arlen and
C&llla Parker In "Three Live
I Qhoats."
Wednesday ? Bank Night ?
Bette Davis and Franchot Tone
in "Dangerous."
Thursday-Friday ? Margaaret
Sullafan, Walter Connolly and
North Carolina's own Randolph
I Scott In "So Redi The Rose."
Last Showing Today ? Fredric
March.. Herbert Marshall and
Merle Oberon In "The Dark
Angel."
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HE HELPS THEM
K - - i I, ? -
CONG. HAROLD 1>. COOhBY
Fuiioughed AAA employes in
Washington are probably lauding
our own Fourth District Con
gressman, Harold D. Cooley, to
the very skies today. Congress
man Cooley. generous and big.
hearted, has announced he will
request President Roosevelt to is
sue an executive order providing
for the use of the 1,500 AAA em
ployes fuiioughed as result of the
Supreme Court decision -as tem
porary employes of the Veterans'
^Administration in the preparation
of the baby bond bonuses for war
veterans. It wan reported Secre
tary Wallace assured Mr. Cooley
the furloughed employes would
he given preference in any future
government employment. So also
was Mr. Cooley assured by Secre
i tary Wallace that farmers will re
ceive their checks within 90 days
after the Congress passes the bill
already approved by the House for
payment of benefits on 1935 jtnd
! prior contracts under the AAA
that was kicked out of the win
dow.
LOCAL CHARITIES APPEAL
FOR FOOD FOR NEEDY
. ? i
After a meeting Tuesday of the
Council of Social Service Agencies
which in Louisburg amounts to
"Associated Charities", It was de
cided to ask the people of the
town to donate food for the needy
through their respective churches,
on Sunday afternoon. February
2nd
The members present were con
cerned over the situation in Lou
isburg Township. The charity
fund derived from Sunday movies
while doing tremendous good,
was declared inadequate' to take
care of the number of deserving
calls upon it. Since the withdraw,
lng of Federal work projects there
have been quite a few families
who for one good reason or an
other, have not adjusted them
selves, and hence need help. The
movie fund was attempted to help
school children, and to give direct
relief of food and fuel to the
most needy and deserving cases
in town. Some of the families
helped have needed only tempor
ary assistance, between Jobs,' but
there are still several families
that need "regular help," and It
is these that the funds are In
adequate to help.
Therefore, the people are being
asked to place groceries, canned
stuff, or food of any description
on their front porches Sunday af
ternoon at two o'clock, to he col
lected by the Scouts and distribut
ed by the charity officers. Every
one who places food on the porch
is asked to notify some member
of his church (appointed by the
pastor of each church), so that
no porch will be overlooked. The
pastors will turn over lists from
.their churches to the Scouts. The
ministers are being requested to
announce this food drive Sunday
morning.
It may be that some organiza
tion in town would like to take a
family fop a week or month, just
during the coldest months of win.
ter, and If so, such a group may
communicate with Rev. Frank
Pulley, or telephone 448-1 Such
help would be deeply appreciated.
Use of peat moss on tobacco j
plant beds is receiving a careful I
test this season In all parts of thei
State. It is felt that the moss will)
aid In the control of blue mold.
Those authors who write for!
sophisticates can usually be found i
In department-store bookshops
autographing books for unsoph
lstlcates.
Wife and Son of the Doomed Hauptmatin
TRENTON, N. J . . . Mra. Bruno Hauptmann (abott), was ao over-,
joyed when she learned that her husband Bruno had reeeired a 30-day
reprlere from death,1 for the slaying of the Lindbergh baby, that she
agaeed to pose for thia picture with her ton Manfred. i
Billiards
Championship
James Caras of Wilmington,
Del., 25-year old youngster, who
r holds the world's pocket billiards
I championship, will appear at
Mullen's Billiard Room on Wed
nesday, Feb. 6th at 9:15 p. m.
Was born in Scranton, Pa., in
1910. The youthful Greek cue
wizard, called the "Greek Demon"
in most quarters, began playing
billiards as a child- in his father's
billiard room. Developed Into
;.youthful prodigy in Wilmington
Y. M C. A. Later coached by
Pasquale ' Natalie of Chicago,
Italian pocket billiards ace. When
only sixteen, he sprang into
prominence by defeating the fa
mous Ralph Greenleaf. In 1931!,
the flashy eastern youngster fin
ished as runner.up to Greenleaf
in the world championship tour
nament. his first participation in
the annual title round-robin
event. In his second tournament
for the most coveted of all pocket
billiard crowns, Caras finished In
a fourway tie for second place in
the regular schedule with An
drew Poni. George Kelly and Wil
lie Moaconl; landing In fourth
place in the playoffs. In the last,
world event, held last December
in New York, Caras lived up to
the expectations of hundreds of
billiard fans and walked off with
the championship; defeating Kr
win Rudolph, former titleliolder
twice in two days to achieve top
honors. First he won from
"Kudy" iu the last game Sf~the
regular schedule by a 125 to 21
score to. tie for the lead and the
next night again smothered the
j Cleveland veteran under another
topheavy score. 125 to 53. to be
come the youngest pocket J?ll
' liards champion since Greenleaf
won his first crown in 1919 at
I the age of nineteen. Caras is
known as one of the sport's best
and most daring shot-makers. He
Is still coming. Improving each
day.
District Deputy to
Visit Louisburg
Louisburg Council Jr. Order
bus announced that at its meet,
j ing on Monday night. February
10th*. District Deputy,. J. L. White
and former Deputy Chas. F.
jTankersly. Jr.. of Henderson will
| visit this Council and talk to the
j members. All are urged to be
present and all visiting Junior's
are invited.
Recorder's Court
Although the weather was
colder than it had been but once
I in eighteen years Franklin Re
corders Court held its regular
session on Tuesday. The docket
was a bty- prosecuted by Mr. HiH
Yarbqrough in the absente of
prosecuting attorney Chas P.
I Green. Cases were disposed of as
! follows:
! Charlie Car was found not
guilty of assault but guilty of
drunk and disorderly and given
' 30 days on roads to be suspended
upon payment of costs.
Jack Williams plead guilty to
j unlawful possession of whiskey
and given 4 months on roads.
Jack Williams was adjudged
guilty of drunk and disorderly:
and resisting officer, given 4
months on roads.
Arthur Zelgler was found gull.:
ty of receiving stolen property
and given 2 months on roads.
Buck Chavis was fotVnd not1
guilty of housebreaking and lar-i
ceny. ?
Arthur Harris was found gull- J
ty of larceny and receiving and)
given 6 months on roads.
Joe Teasley plead guilty to lar-1
ceny, and given 4 months on,
roads.
John May Mafigum was found
not guilty of larceny.
John Arrlngton abandonment,!
Judgment prayed, prayer for
judgment continued upon pay
ment into Court *5 each month.
Charlie Fowler, larceny, not
guilty.
iThe following cases were con-'
tlnyed:
Carl Everett Perry, reckless,
drlvltog.
J. T. Alford. assault.
J. T\ Alford, assault.
Beamon Stalllngs. adw.
Robert Carlyle, adw.
Foster Martin, adw.
J. D. Stalllngs. H. E. Stalllngs.
?dw. _
Russell Jacobs, temporary lar
ceny, reckless driving.
Bennle Harris, non-support.
Louisburg College
Broadcast
'? ,Loulsburg College will put on
Its first broadcast of this year
over W P T F from 10:00 to
10:15 P. M., Friday, January 31.
1 The program will consist of
two solos by Miss Emily Bottl
more, teacher of voice, and two
solos by Ward Wilcox. Miss Drusa
Wllker, accompanist.
It I* hoped that this broadcast
will be followed by a series of
Friday night programs for the
next several weeks.
First Air Lines "Czar" ~~|
CHICAGO . . . ( 'o|, Edgar H >
Rorrell (above), former army avi? !
lor, la the new and the firnt "Otar"
if commercial aviation. He wn?
ileeted by the reeentlv organic
1 Mr Transport A?a'n. Hta joh it to
i toordinate the commercial lines.
"DANGEROUS"
With Ilette Davis .\l Louishurg
TlioaJrt' Wcdiu'Mbiy, February
5th.
Bette Davis comes to Louisburg
theatre Wednesday in her latest
Warner Bros, production, "Dan
gerous." with Franchot Tone play
ing opposite her and Margaret
Lindsay her rival.
The Screen play by Laird Doyle
is said to be sheer drama pf dyna
mic intensity and tremendous
emotions. Bette has the role of a
famous actress, who after rising
to the top of the ladder of suc
cess. tumbles to the gutter thr
ough her own egotism and selfish
ness. although she calls it a Jinx,
dragging down those who loved"
her. /
It iB after her fall that /rt>ne,
in the role of a young architect,
setB about sobering her up and
trying to reestablish her as tho
brilliant star she had been.
But Bette loves lightly and too
well. She already has a discarded
i husband she has ruined, of whom
| the architect knows nothing. The
1 situation leads to a veritable
scandal which ends in dynamic
and tumultuous scenes and an a
mazing climax.
Miss Davis is not presented in
a pretty light, but the part is
said to give her the -strongest
characterization which she has
had in films.
Others in the cast include Ali
1 son Skipworth. famous on both
stage and screen. John Eldredge.
Dick Koran. Walter Walker. Rich,
aid Carle, George Irving. Pierre
Watkin, Douglas Wood and Wil?
liam Davidson. Alfred E. Green
directed the production.
J. FRANK GUPTON
DEAD
J. Frank Gupton a substantial
planter near Ml. Gllead church
died in a hospital at Rocky Mount
Tuesday night from uremia. He
was in his 60th year and is sur
vived by his wife and the follow,
inn children:
R. B., at Morrisville; R. R., at
home; Mrs. H. O. AyBCue, Vicks
boro; Mrs. W. L. Hilliard, Mor
rlsville; Mrs. M. F. Strickland,
Bunn, and Mavis, Ernestine, J.
F., Jr:, Wyatt and Annie Blanche
Gupton, all of near Louisburg.
In addition he leaves a brother,
E. W. Gupton, member of the
police force of Rocky Mount, and
a sister, Mrs. E. H. Hlght, of
near Louisburg.
The Rev. H. C. Hilliard of Sun
bury, and the Rev. John Harper
of Sandy Creek officiated in
graveside rites Wednesday at 3
p m. at the Wiggs burial grounds.
Mabel: If somebody left you a
million dollars, what would you
do?
Mr. Smartleigh: Hire six good
lawyers and try to get It.
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| Heiress CI
SAN FRANCISCO . . .
p?"P?! (above), hu brqogM
a $500,000 damage (nit against hei
mother, two doctors and a woman
psychiatrist, chrrgtog a ateriUxal
tici oporjtioA v.'M performed on
her without her knowledge, being
told it wa? limply fc be an appen
dectomy. A $10,000,000 trust fund
\s involved.
GOV. ALLEN
DIES IN LA.
Raton Rouge, La.. Jan. 28. ?
White-haired Governor Oscar Kel
ly Allen ot Louisiana, leader of
the powerful political machine
that the late Senator Huey P.
Long built, died at the Executive
Mansion here ithis- morning at
10:40 a. m.
Governor Allen was 52 years
old.
Lieutenant Governor James A.
Noe, who was summoned at the
Instant of Allen's death, flew to
Baton Rouge from Monroe. Noe
automatically became Governor.
Dr. Clarence A. Lorlo, chief
physician, said death was brought
on by a hemorrhage of the throat,
but actual death was attributed
officially to a cerebral hemorr. -v,
bage.
The soft-spoken chief executive
In whom Long placed the power
ot controlling all his dictatorial
laws was first stricken early this
morning when a blood vessel burst
in his throat. Death followed sev
eral hours later.
Doctors expressed the belief
that the recent strenuous political
campaign In which Allen was
elected to fill out the unexpired
Senate term of Senator Long, con
tributed to the cause of hi6 death.
The Governor was on his way
to the State Capitol when he was
stricken. He fell to the floor un^
conscious A staff of physicians
was Immediately sftflHinoned and
an unsuccessful ejfnrt was made
to stem the flow/In his throat.
Governor AXen's death leaves
Louisiana without any Senator
i designate/fo fill Long's unexpir
L1J?5 that of Long, the death of
AlUm leaves the powerful Loui
siana political machine without
''any titular head. For Allen, upon
the death of Long, took over nom
| inal leadership of the machine.
His death leaves Judge Richard
' Leche as the titular leader of tho
party.
Blindness Survey
Mr. William Lewis representing
the North Carolina Commission
for the blind was in Louisburg
the post week arranging to make
. u survey of all children and adults
in the County who are blind or
suffering from defects of the eyes.
tHe arranged for cards to be dis
tributed through the different
! agencies in the County. The cards
are to be returned to Central col
lection points and later to be
gathered and listed. All persons
i receiving the cards are urged to
fill them out and return them at
once.
LOUISBURG CLUB
HONORS E. R. ALLEN
, E. It. Allen has been voted the
best Kiwanian in the Louisburg
i club for the year 1935. A sliver
cup has been presented to Mr.
Allen in recognition of his out
' standing activities in the interest
i of the Kiwanis club.
THOMAS J. RiCKS DEAD
December 30, 1935. the soul of
Thomas J. Ricks took its flight to
its Heavenly home.
Mr. Ricks was born in Frank
J tin County. July 12, 1875, and
he had spent the larger part of
his life in this County, and for
more than twenty years he had
been an invttlid; suffering as he
and God only knew. However
from Mr. Tom, as we knew%lm. v.
one would never know from oral
expressions just the depth of his
suffering; this was conveyed only
In his physical features.
Apparently Mr. Ricks was well
as usual until about three days
before his death. Having contract,
ed a cold he grew worse, and
while fighting bravely for life he
fell peacefully asleep, and awoke
in the presence of God.
Some forty years ago, while
quite a boy Mr. Ricks united with
Sandy Creek Baptist Church and
there he retained his membership
until his death.
Franklin County has produced
fewer sons, who were more high
ly esteemed than T. J. Ricks. Few
men had the mathematical ability
as he, and one could always find
in him a sympathetic encourag
ing friend.
We who mourn his going feel
some what as Walter Whitman
did of Abe Lincoln when he said
"A great Star has fallen, but the
light will never cease to shine."
Mr. Ricks leaves three sisters
and one brother, Mrs. C. W. Oup
ton, of Loulsburg, Rt. 2, Mrs. J.
D. Joyner, of Gupton, Mrs. Wil
liam Shearin, of Whitakers and
Mr. J. R. Ricks, of Louisburg.
Rt. 2.
Tuesday, Dec. 31 his funeral
was conducted at his old home by
the pastor Joe Roach, and his
body was laid to rest in the Sandy
Creek cemetery.
The entire community monrn
the lost of this, good man; Tet
we feel assured that' our los* has
been his Heavenly gain.
His True Friend.
Don't expect any speclaJ~4>riri
leges from Nature. W