THE COUNTY ? THE STATE - THE UNION CIRCULATION COUNTS AND IS THE VALUE ADVERTISING. OF Newspaper advertising gives more .circulati9n (or the mouey, than anything else. VOLUMN LXVDI SUBSCRIPTION $1.80 a Year LOUISBURG, N. CAROLINA FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1937 (EftMt PAGES) JONES GETS 7 TO 10 YEARS / FOR SECRET ASSAULT WITH INTENT TO KILL Mrs. Hugh W. Perry, Frank lin's First Lady Juror ? Hon. N. A. Sinclair Pre siding, Solicitor W. Y. Bickett Prosecuting Stat es Interests ? Many Cases Disposed Of ? Kenneth Taylor On Trial For Mur der ? Moore Murder Case Today ? Grand Jury Still In Session The regular October term of Franklin Superior Court for the trial of criminal cases convened in Louisburg Monday morning with His Honor Judge N. A. Sin clair, presiding and Solicitor W. Y. Bickett representing bhe State. Following the opening of Court the following new members of the grand jury were selected: J. T. Barham, W. R. Dean, W. N. Mullen, B. F. Wilder, C. C. Bow den, W. S. Gay, T. M. Huff, H. F Mitchell, W. C. Collins, who to gether with the old members: E R. Place, Wm. H. Cyrus, G. G. Phelps, J. O. Sledge, L. R. Boone, A. G. Holmes, M. C. Murphy and J. T. Wright, heard His Honor in a most interesting and compre hensive charge wherein he ex plained the powers of the grand jury and its duties, calling espec ial attention to the different law violations, and to the inspections tiiey should make of all County offices, prisoi^ camps, jail, county home, schools and school buses. His charge was more business like than eloquent coming straight to the point in plain language so that no 'misunderstanding could be entertained. At the conclusion of the charge W. R. Dean was -named foreman of t>he grand jury and G. C. Parrish was named ita officer. Franklin County citizens were introduced to quite a new feature! in the routine of Court Wedties daywhen a lady was called and approved as a juror. To Mrs. Hugh W. Perry goes the honor of having served as Franklin Coun ty's first lady juror and served in two cases, Willis Austin for as sault with deadly weapon and Joe Williams for manufacturing whis key and possession of Whiskey and distilling outfit, both of whom were found guilty, the former getting a sentence of 2 years on the roads and the latter 6 months on roads. The docket was then called and cases taken up for trial and dis position as follows: John Chappell, contempt, ac tion dismissed for lack of juris dicton of Mayor's Court,- Frank lininn John Chappell, operating auto mobile intoxicated, action dismis sed for lack of jurisdiction of Mayor of Franklinton. John Chappell, indictment for operating automobile intoxicated, action quashed. I Haywood Lee Johnson, seduc tion, nolle pros with leave. Tom Pearce, assault with dead ly weapon, defendant showed good behavior and was discharged. Ronel Perry, assault! with dead ly weagon with intent to kill, con tinued. Lilar Joyner, assault with dead ly weapon with intent to kill guilty of assault with deadly wea pon, flned $25 and costs. ^ Johnnie Wynne, peace bond, time having expired, defendant! discharged. Lee Tant plead guilty to violat ing prohibition law, fined $10 and costs. Dennie McCowan, assault with deadly weapon, plead guilty, giv en 6 months on roads, to be sus pended upon payment of costs. Frank Macon hunting withouU license, defendant being dead, case ordered off locket. Mann Johnson plead guilty of unlawful possession of whiskey, flned $25 and costs. John Day plead guilty to false pretense, given 12 months on roads. Willie Austin,' alias Willis Al ston, was found guilty of as sault with deadly weapon and was given 2 years on roads. Joe Williams manufacturing whiskey, possession of whiskey and a distilling outfit", found guil ty, six months on roads. LeRoy Dlckerson, larceny' of automobile, pleads guilty, 2 years ' on roads. Henry Smith, plead guilty to unlawful possession of whiskey, 96 days on roads. Henry Smith plead guilty to ? operating autombile intoxicated, . 90 days on roads. Horace Jones, secret* assault ?with deadly weapon with intent to kill, guilty, 7 to 10 years in State's prison. Horace Jones, larceny, guilty, 2 years in State prison. Irvin (Bud) Gilliam operating automobile Intoxicated, guilty, 30 ? - ? . /? GOING FINE REFERS TO TOBACCO PRICES \ On Louisbirfg Market Which Is Given Credit of "Going Over The Top"| By Grower ... j "It's going fine" said A _ware.-| l houseman in answer to a question* 1 as to how tobacco was selling oil: i the Louisburg Market and thei statement was backed up by a | grower in saying "the LOUIS j BURG Market has gone clean' ov I er the top." This naturally sounds good' to ; all, especially to the many grow ers who have tobadco to sell and it> is much better when they visit j I the market and find both state-, ments true. Louisburg warehouses have been enjoying good sales as to quantity all through the week, and exceptionally high prices as I compared with other markets. The LOUISBURG market- is lyell equipped to handle a large quantity of tobacco at advantag-l eous prices and give that personal ? attention that counts so much in the end and is inviting all grow ersv including bot'h1 home folks and visitors to sell with the mar-! ket that is vitally interested in your future. Get your next lot ' ready and come to LOUISBURG . i ST. PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH The general subject for this1 Sunday, 22nd Sunday after Trin-j ity, is spiritual evalution and the collect for the day is from the Sacramentary of Gregory. The, j idea contained in the collect is ,j that through the church men are developed into personalities which can be used by the cosmic mind. There will be the Celebration of the Holy Communion at 8:00 o'clock in. the morning and Church School will come at 10:00 o'clock. The subject to be discussed in the Adult Bible Class will be "The Garden of Eden and the Lost Con tinents of Atlantas and Mu." This' will be the first time that the Science of Archeology lias a good, bit to say about Hie Bible storyj ot creation. Morning Prayer atid sermon at' 11:00 o'clock and the sermon sub-| ject will be "Prayer and Auto suggestion". The Young People's Service League will meet in the Rectory at 7:15 p. m. with an interesting program. At 7:45 p. m. Evening Prayer and talk on the general subject of Immortality. The . question for discussion this Sunday will be "Immortality." Thursday, October 28th is St'. Simon and St. Jude's Day. There 1 will be a celebration of the Holy Communion and address at 9:00 a. m. Choir practice this Friday even 1 ing at 7 : 30. :l STUDY CiHOUP OF P. T. A. The initial meeting of the study-group of P. T. A. was held ' at the home of Mrs. R. F. Yar-j borough Friday afternoon, Oct'." 15th. Miss Katharine Rogers, Direc-1' tor of Vocational Education,, in Franklin County, was elected ' Leader of the Study-Group. Plans were formulated for an 1 interesting study of "The Child in Home and School," with six programs to cover the subject, in' i semi-monthly meetings, to be1 held in the Home Economics room of Mills School. The study course presents Pax-| ent-Teacher education programs ; ? of inestimable value toward making home and the school in teresting to adults and children, . | The information and aid gar-' nered in the study will be spread over the whole P. T. A. in one of its monthly meetings. Present members of the study ? ! group are Miss Katharine Rogers Mesdames Frank Rose. Weldon D | Egerton, R. G. Bailey, Rober < Smithwick, Marion Grainger, A1 ice Uzzell, Hugh H. Perry, Earl Murphy, R. F. Yarborough. Others are urged to Join. * 1 days on roads, fined $25 and costs. v and to surrender license and not; ! drive a par for 6 months. ' Johnnie' Leonard, who was coin I vlcted at a former term of coui't, was sentenced to 3 months on ! roads, to be held in jail under su pervision of the County Health officer until his health becomes i sufficient recovered to begin road sentence. : The case of. Kenneth Taylor for ! the murder of Margaret Alston, was taken up yesterday morning. The grand jury was still in ses sion when we went to press, and will probably nob finish Its worki until today. This is a one week's term and will probably hold the full week as other murder rases are expect | ed to be tried. The case of Otis , Moore for the murder of Wilson^ ] Sykes has -been set for today. t In Asia ? WAR In Europe wt^^mmsaaBBa Here are the world's two canker sores, scenes of "undeclared" warfare and possible starting points for in Earth-encircling conflict. At left Is mapped latest Slno-Japanese battle lines In North China and around Shanghai, including details of other Important centers. At right Is Spain after a year of "civil" war in which practically every major European natkm has a hand. A cross-flre of diplomatic Incidents on both sides of the world finds even the United States, forced to abandon a 20-year-old policy of isolation, aligned with the League of Nations in condemning "outlaws" and urging "quarantine" of aggressors. 19 KILLED IN AIRPLANE CRASH) Salt Lake City. ? Exhausted workmen started Tuesday the task of carrying from a mountain wilderness the bodies of the 19 1 victims of the nation's most dead ly airplane tragedy. The bodies, strewn about the wreckage of t'he once-magnificent j airliner that struck a ridge 80 miles east "of here late Sunday, were found by a searching crew headed by Pilot Ralph Johnson of the United Air Lines. His fellow pilot. Bob Bergesen, located the wreckage from the air Monday. Included aiiiong the four wom en and 15 men killed were an ex pectant mother, a not-ed patholo gist, and two newsreel men mak ing a picture of "the safety of transcontinental flying." Front Part Burned "The front part of the plane had been burned as t'hougli gaso line tanks had exploded when the ship struck," "aid Johnson. "Several of the bodies appar ently shot out through the nose of the ship, and some of them were buried in deep snow. The wreckage is in an almost inaccessible area, and it will be very difficult to bring the bodies and t'he mail and recoverable plane parts out. "Horses and mules will have to be used for part of the work, but it may be necessary to carry the stretchers by hand for part of the way where the going is too steep for animals." ? The bodies were t-o be -brought Jown to the Knight. Wyo., aii port, 2 6 miles north of the Uinta i Mountain crash scene, and then, it was indicated, would be taken in hearses to an Evanston. Wyo.. mortuary. . The great airliner, had been missing, since' 8:19 P- 111 ? S"n,y when it' was enroute from Chej snnt, Wyoming, to Salt Lake City. It was first sighted from the lir Monday morning the most d?t Icult sort of terrain it crash? it about the 10,000 foot, level. Johnson's searching party was lided towards dawn by an almost full moon, but the bitter cold made the going difficult. Johnsori< made no report as to the condition of t'he victims' bod Airline officials declined to spec ulate as to how long it would take to remove the bodies, but express ed hope that it would be done by nightfall. The searchers struggled over precipitous cliffs and through deep Blush up the trail-less Chalk Peak, seeking the wreckage of the huge airliner which crashed in a storm Sunday night. From the outset there had been virtually no hope that any of the occupants survived, and Tuesday s discovery established the tragedy as the worst in the history of American plane crashes. Airline officials refused to ha zard an opinion as to definite cause of the crash other than to say it was attributable "in some degree to adverse weat'her and flying conditions." The airliner, flown by veteran Pilot Earl D. Woodgerd of Den ver, made its last report to the Salt Lake City Airport at 8:19 P m. Sunday. Woodgerd said he was flying through broken clouds at 10,000 feet. Three minutes earlier, as the plane passed over Rode Springs, Wyoming, Woodgerd had radioed the United Air Lines office here:. "Slightly rough; all okay." A driving wind and rain storm was lashing* Aortheastern Utah. The airliner plunged intq it. United Air Lines Pilot Bob Ber gensen. who sighted the wrecked craft on a search flight, said it appeared t'hat Woodgerd had at tempted to return to Knight Em ergency field when he got into the center of the roaring storm. The westbound' plane was flying east when it ploughed into Mie moun tainside, he said. Manning the "Mainliner" with N Pilot Woodgerd were Co-Pilot | John Adams of Denver and Hos-j teas Leah Derr of Salt Lake City. Passengers were Louis Cleaver, | Portland, Ore.; MY. and Mrs. George Kerrerlai Cheyenne, Wyo.; | i Ralph McKeown, Glandale, Calif.; | 1 Charles D. Renough, Washington, I). C.; Mrs . Campbell Prltchett, | i Washington, D. C.; William Pis- ' chel; Salt' Lake City; D. A. Mc Millan. Murray, Utah; Mrs. J. Hammer, Cleveland; John Con boy, Cleveland; W. J. Hart, Sha ron. Pa.; Charles Jamison. Den-!' ver; C. L. Jensen, San Francisco. Dr. L. Gross, Cleveland; William f'ttt. New York City: and Jjiekr "Pergola, New York City. Greatest previous death toll in j United States airline history was1 at Godwin. Ark.; January 14.! 1936, when a transport' plunged into a swamp, tilling 17 persons. When t'he "Mainliner" crashed the storm had swept it 15 miles j off the regular air lane between Cheyenne and Salt Lake City. | Saturday Football The football lineup for this Saturday for Nortth Carolina teams are as follows: The main attraction for local fans will be staged at Chapel Hill [ when Carolina takes on the strong Tulane eleven. This promises to be a thriller. State College takes on Wakej -Forest ati Wake Forest Saturday night. This game also should be' close as these two teams always' put jip a good scrap. Duke and Davidson play away! from home. Diike journeys up to Hamilton, X. Y. to play Col-| gate, the team that Tulane de feated last Saturday by a 7-0 > score. Davidson plays Centra College in Kentucky. Louishurg College plays Blue field at Bluefield, W. Va. ? V i * READ IT OR NOT Did you take this year's vaca tion in a car? If so, you paid the tax collector an average of ten cents an hour for the gasoline you used, says 'the American Pt trolium Institute. Important Announcement the VRANKLIN-TIMES again feels the necessity of calling the attention of those in charge of amusements for the benefit of our Churches and Schools and other civic activities that while it is glad to render any service and assistance in the form of i publishing advance notices .of these activities when such ?c> tivitles are sponsored and pro duced by local effort and talent and all the proceeds go to the school or church or local civic organization, it cannot extend t his free service for entertain ments given by persons or or ganizations who give only a percentage to the local organi zation sponsoring It, and retain ing the larger share for itself. Such announcements are adver- I tisements and are charged for, and while we are willing to | contribute this amount to the public and civic organizations we do not feel called upon lo make such contribution to pri vate individuals or companies. This announcement is made necessary because of so many i requests being made for such advertising, which in fairness to ourselves and our advertis ers we cannot supply except for pay. Clifford Smith Gets Year Term Mttle Washington Man Also Kill ed IjCilO on WI\\ Forgery Counts Wilson. Oct. 18. ? Clifford E Smith, Washington, N. C., man, ?hargod with tjie forgery of 51 VVPA checks at New Bern, was sentenced to a year and a day and ordered to pay a $10 fine on each count by Judge I. M. Meekins, of Elizabeth City, in federal court here today. Smith plead guilty of the char ges in Fayettevil.le Federal Court recently when he was indicted in 51 counts by a grand Jury there. The Judge deferred sentence until this term: The "Washington man was ar rested by W. D/Cawley, of the U. S. Secret Service earlier this year on the forgery charges. The total amount of the checks forged amounted to around $2,000. ? ? The 51 sentences imposed by Judge Meekins here were ordered to run concurrently. H. T. Moon Dead Mr. H. T. Moon died at a hos pital in Rocky Mount early Sat urday morning from pneumonia. He was 50 years of age and be sides his wife leaves tjwo children, Morris and Lula Mae, besides a brother, Mr. Jesse Moon. The' funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at Prospect Methodist Church, conducted by Rev. M. W. Warren and Rev. E. H. Davis, and interment was made in the cemetery adjoining the chui'ch. Full Junior Order honors were paid the deceased in the beautiful and impressive ser vice. The pallbearers were as follows: Active ? N. D.i Medlilt, Garland Moseley, J. E. Nelms, Willis May, Ed Stovall, Willie Wartz. Honorory ? All Juniors present. Quite a large number attended the last rites and the floral tri bute was very pretty. T. A. Hollings worth Dead Mr. Thomas A. Hollingsworth died at his home near Red Bud church at 2 o'clock a. m. Thurs day morning from a heart attack in the 79th year of his age. Be sides his wife he leaves six child ren, Mrs. Henry Andrews, T. M. Hollingsworth, L. C. Hollings worth, S. O. Hollingsworth, W R. Hollingsworth, and W. G. Hoi lingsworth. and one brother, Mr D. T. Hollingsworth, of Bunn. The deceased was well known in Franklin County, having beer one of its most active citizens and planters and a member of one ol the county's most prominent fam ilies. He was a Mason and was a member of Red Bud Baptist church. The funeral services will be held from the home this (Friday) afternoon at 2 o'clock, conducted by Rev. John Edwards, and inter ment will be made in the family burying ground. The bereaved family has thf sympathy of the' entire commu nity. INJURED IN WRECK His many friends in Louisburg are extending sympathies to Mr J. W. Batchelor on account of in juries received Monday ' night when his car wrecked near Peach tree Church. The car g<jt from under controll and was badl> damaged in the crash. Mr. Batch elor received a scalp wound and many bruises. FIRE STIRS EXCITEMENT W. E. WHITE FURNI TURE CO. BUILDING Originates In Hallway Near Entrance Dr. Banks Den tal Office ? Passes Through Sky Light To Top? Ex tinguished With No Great Damage The fire alarm Tuesday after noon sent' in from the W. E. Furniture Co. building created the most excitement seen here in many months. On account of the illness of the truck driver the fire department was slightly delayed but soon were 011 t'he scene with chemicals and water and proceed ed to take control of the situa tion. It developed that the fire originated in some trash in the hallway to Dr. C. H. Hanks office, located in the front of the second , story to this building and direct ly under a skylight. It's location permitted the flame and smoke to go out the top through this out let without the usual damage. It was necessary however to use wa ter and chemicals and quite a bit of damage was done with these, j The total damage to the stock of furniture and the building of W. 1 E. White Furniture Co., has not been estimated but is covered by j insurance. The damage to Dr C. 11. Banks office and fixtures was estimated at about $500 with no insurance. Chinese Situation "The Chinese-Japanese situation to my knowledge, is only a mat ter of a short time before Chiha will go under," stated Mr. J. Ful I ler M alone at the Louisburg Ki wanis club on Tuesday evening. 1 Mr. Malone, who was introduced by Kiwanian Paul.Elam, has been lover in China for around 12 years i*jid is in position to kuow the ! situation well. "Shanghai is possibly the only city of its kind in the world," stated Mr. Malone. "It has all na tionalities running together, and is governed by a fourteen man council who' is elected by rental property. The council is composed jof five British, five Chinese, two | of the United States and two French. There ax<5 two policemen on every street ill' Shanghai and [during the time of peace a person is safer on the streets there than they are in Chicago or New York.'.' He also stated "that China is twice the sijze of the United States with four thousand miles of sea - coast' with ail ports blockaded by Japan. Also that Japan has Glov ed 6,000 soldiers into northern China cutting oft supplies from Russia?" except by air." ? . "It is surprising to me as Well as to anyone else Who knows the situation," stated Mr. Malone, "that China has been able to hold her ground as she has but it is also evident that if some outside country does not come to her aid that China is doomed in a very short while. It seems as though Japan is only committing rape on 'China, for in 1-932 she went over and took Manchuria and then i started to take Shanghai, but due 1 to the fact' that Great Britain had such a strong hold. Japan waited. Due to the fact that all the other countries have all they can man age at the present, it* seems as though Russia is the only one that will be able to help." i Mr. Malone also stated "that ] the reason for all this was t'hat j Japan wanted to be able to buy ; raw materials from China with j out an? competition." "The Chinese," he stated, "as I small business men are no doubt '{ the best in the world, bub as big , business they fail because ot the ! one word, squeeze. The Japan | ese are very pleasant and will go S out of their way to direct you, 'I while the Chinese are individual I ist and will not." "As I have said before," he '' added, "that unless some outside ! country comes to China's aid she j is surely doomed." I A general round-table discus sion was had on the advertising program of the Tobaoco markat which the Kiwanis.club is spon soring. , ! After the singing of one verse | of Star Spangled Banner the : meeting adjourned. , TRANSFERRED TO OREGON | Captain Donald Vann Holliday has been transferred to Portland, Oregon. He commanded a troop i train of one thousand C. C. C. (boys. He will be stationed there ;,for sometime." . j Mrs. Holliday and dan rhter, ?| Betty, are with her. partus '.iere >.\tor a short while. They wiii join ? Captain Holliday in Oregon in i the near future. r in-- ,i < More than 1,200 Johnston Coun I ty farmers have signed up to ce gin strip-cropping this fall. TWO INSTANT LY KILLED IN HEAD ON COLLISION SATURDAY NIGHT Nine Negroes On One Car Two White Boys On Oth er?Crash On Fox Swamp Bridge On Halifax Road ? Both Cars Badly Dam aged Possibly one of the biggest au tomobile wrecks that has occurred iu this vicinity In a long while occurred Saturday night arpund 12 o'clock on the Halifax high way when two automobiles col lided on the Fox Swamp bridge > about two and a half miles from town, in which Jerry Ellis and Louis Durham, colored, were , kilted instantly and several in jured more or less seriously. An investigation by Coroner R. A. BobbiW, Sheriff J. P. Moore, Officers C. E. Pace, C. F. Cash and A. W. Perry, revealed the in formation that Jerry Ellis was driving a Ford model A automo bile with eight other boys as pas sengers, that he turned' off tho lights to t'he car to turn on the radio and was crossing the bridge going out of town as a Dodge Coupe "containing J. L. Cunning ham, and H. F. Dunn, two white men of Rich Square, came along. The driver of the Dodge not see ing the other car because of the lights being out attempted to cross the bridge, thereby causing the car with the negro boys, and it to crash on the bridge. The . dead boys were removed and pre pared for burial while the woun ded were taken to physicians for treatment-. One of the negroes, Ernest DUrham had his nose cut, ' off and it is said took it to the dootor in his hand The white boys received painful injuries, and were given treatment by local physicians. Coroner R. A. Bobbitt held an inquest at which fjicts substanti- . al to the above were brought out and the jury found a verdict "that Jerry Ellis, was the cause of the wreck by driving a_ car on the highway without lights." The jury wis composed of the follow ing: Kenneth Collier, C. F. Cash, V. B. Yiverette, Henry Beasley, Claude Collins, J. L. Purgurson. Both cars were badly damaged. Messrs. Cunningham and Dunn are both wjth the State Highway Maintenance force and have head quarters at Wake Forest. .The colored boys were from the Gold Sand community. Those in tile Ford besides those killed were Henry Williams. Lee Durham, I "Obie Wright. Haywood Williams, Percy Wright, Ernest Durham, McKinley Alston. WILLIE GRAY MURPHY Mr. Willie Gray Murphy, aged [87 years, son of Mr. Jimmie Gray Murphy. was found dead in a corn field near his florae \ near White Level, about seven o'clock Monday morning ?by Mr, Housij, a neighbor. C o r o 11 e r R. A. Bobbitt was called "to t'he scene and it was determined no foul play was in evidence and that the deceased suffered a heart attack from which he failed to recover. The. deceased had been with the State prison forces as, guard for a number of years and was popu lar among a large host of friends. The funeral was held from t'he home Tuesday afternoon and was conducted by Rev. F. G. Walker and interment was made in the family cemetery near the home. The pallbearers, were his nephews and cousins and were Linsey Gup ton, Spencer Gupton, Clarence Murphy, Wilson Murphy, Forrest Brewer, Howard Murphy. A large number -of friends and neighbors attended the services and the floral tribute was very ( pretty. We'd rather listen to the story of a public hanging than hear the details of an unsuccessful specu lation in real estate. Program At The Louisburg Theatre The following is the program at the Louisburg Theatre begin ning Saturday, October 23rd: Saturday ? Bob Steele iii "Doomed At Sundown". Last Chapter "Dick Tracy" and first chapter of new serial. Hoot Gib son in "The Painted Stallion." Sunday ? Claire Trevor and Sally Blane In "One -Mile From Heaven" with Bill Robinson. Monday-Tuesday ? Paul Muni in "Life of Bmlle Zola." Wednesday ? Jack Benny, Nan* cy Carroll and Gene Raymond In "Transatlantic Merry-do-Roand." Thursday-Fridajr ? The RITZ ; BROTHERS in "Life Begins 1* ; College," with Gloria Stuart, Joaa , Davis and Nat Pendleton,

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