THE COUNTY THE STATE THE UNION VOLUMN LXXI SUBSCRIPTION *1.50 a YEAK riMEj WATCH THE LABEL ON YOUR PAPER Renew Your Subscription Before Expiration Date To Avoid MiMNing An bane. LOUISBURG, N. CAROLINA PJUDAY, AK.I ST it, ItMO ( EIQHT PAGES) ft-' NUMBER FLOODS Boanoke River Doing Big Damage ? Highest On Be cord The following account was tak en from Wednesday's News-Ob aerver: The all-consuming flood crest of the ravaging Roanoke River bore down upon the town of Wil ltamston last night as Governor Clyde R. Hoey marshalled State and Federal relief agencies to care for homeless and needy in stricken areas up the stream. John Scholl, assistant Raleigh meteorologist, warned residents in tihe lowlands near Williamston that the muddy Roanoke waters would rise eveu higher than he had previously predicted. Scholl said a crest of 21 feet, 11 feet above flood level, would reach there by tomorrow morning. Highest on Record The waters at Williamston will go to the highest level in Weather Bureau history, Scholl said. Prev ious high mark is 14,7 feet, re* corded on January 27, 1930. Evacuation at Williamston had already begun. Coast Guardsmen have been plying the lowest areas, under water already, and have carried dozens of families to high er ground. Maj. John T. Armstrong, com mander of the State Highway Pa trol, announced last night that the Roanoike's waters had smash ed through a sandbag barricade hastily Mirown up Monday across a fil on U. S. 17 at Williamston. He said the highway was under six feet of water at lip. m. last night. Windsor Section Hit From 5,000 to 10.000 acres, planted mostly in peanut's, cotton and corn, were under' water in Bertie County as the onrushing river sent approximately 200 fam ilies fleeing to safety. The flood crest, dashing south eastward from Roanoke Rapids, broke through a causeway of U. S. Highway 17 and flicked about' huge pieces of concrete. The wat er was 15 feet above swamp level, the highest in history. The cause way connects Windsor and Wil liamston. Mo drownings Were re ported In this county. Residents of Plymouth, down the river, were making ready to get their share of the worst flood in northeastern North Carolina. Plymouth proper, however, is not on the river and to be flooded, water would have to rise tihrough the marshy lands below it. The floods in this section fol lowed a series of "flash floods" in the northwestern North Carolina in which 22 lives were lost. Deaths in both sections now stand at 27. Relief Speeded Meanwhile, Governor Hoey speeded the work of relief and re habilitation. Representatives of State and Federal organizations concerned with the program met) yesterday In his office and discuss ed plans for immediate action. Weldon. Aug. 18. ? The raging Roanoke River ripped through Roanoke Rapids and Weldon Sat urday night in t'he worst flood on record there, leaving at least two drowned, hundreds homeless, sev eral missing and many Industries paralyzed. Roanoke Rapids bore the brunt of the onrushing tide; counting upwards to $1,000,000 in property damage to river-side mills. The power plant collapsed and the town called on Virginia Electric and Carolina Power and Lighb (or current. Driftwood piled high against the NC 47 bridge, threatening to ram out spans already covered by water. The auxiliary water supply was swamped and the rising river threatened to overflow the main source Of water. ? Police reported the entire Town of Weldon covered by water, from a depth of seven inches at the po lice station to seven feet) on US 301 leading south. The only high way outlet was across the threat ened Roanoke bridge on US 301 to Oarysburg and thence into Northampton Counter. The American Red Cross in Washington. D. C., prepared to aid 600 Weldon families affected by the flood. ' Captain Charles D. Farmer and Highway Patrolmen kept constant vigil on all roada and asserted they would be closed If floodwat ers continued to threaten. Roan oke Rapids' only exit now Is tihe southern highway to Henderson and Weldon, the latter fork cov ered by a shallow depth. Julian Allsbrook, Roanoke Ra pids attorney, said that the town was suffering its hardest flood in years, with water destroying thousands of dollars worth of property, lowland crops, cattle and homes. Manchester Board and Paper Cofhpany. Halifax Paper Corpora tion and Roanoke Mills (No. 1) Company were being swamped, anj the textile mill was awash al (Contioued on Page I) QUEEN TOBACCO VI 2 * Martha Scott, co-starred with Cary Grant in "TW Howards of Virginia", Colonial . Wilbaautmrg - filmed pie tare, will nip aa qaeetref the Sixth Annual Natioaal Tobacco Festival at South Boston, Va, September 5th and (th. Mias Scott will go to Sooth Boston the day 'after the Richmond premiere of t.?r new pic ture and will be acclaimed Region Tobacco VI by over 150,000 people expected to attend Tobacco's official annual celebration. Hon. Jhe room where each parent wants hiin to be and put the children with ail I their special friends and make an even dis tribution to the teachers. Lists) of student's are prepared on an ' alphabetical basis and will be assigned to the various teachers. This seems to he the fairest anil most democratic way to handle! this problem. No changes will be I made in these listtf. High School StiAdunts will be charged a rental fee of $-.40 for > the use of their books for tbej entire year. Thi* jjfee must he paid before any nooks can be! issued. Partial fees are not ac-l cepted. Masai books in the Elementary School are furnished by the State! without charge There is a small fee for the use of Supplementary i Headers in each of the grades. I First and Second grade pupils1 pay fifty cents: Third. Fourth and Fifth grade pupils pay sixty cents: Sixth and Seventh grade pupils pay seventy cents each. High School pupils should pay t'helr fees the first day of school.! and Elementary students pay theirs during the first week. We are looking forward to the best school year that we have had, and we are asking for the full cooperation of both parent*) and students in order that our aims may be realized. TO MOVE ? ADD MAItKUT Mr. E. G. Joyner. local Maua ger for Pender's Grocery Store, Informed the TIMES that his Company has leased the store room next to City Barber Shop and will move therein about t>he first of September. In the new location they intend putting in an up-to-date modern Market and handle all the popular fresh and cured meats. This building has recently been remodeled and modernized and Will be made more attractive by Pender's. ?. T. I,KC>.V1K1> KM>S lilt- hi WITH PISTOL DISCHARGE S. T. Lonard. prominent farm er of the Wood community, ended bis life about 8 o'clock Sunday morning by shooting himself in the forehead with a .32 calibre pistol. The tragedy occurred at his home. Coroner R. A. Robbitt Investi gated and said it was a clear case of suicide. He said that a daugh ter heard Mr. Leonard say "Good bye" just before a shot sounded. Mr. Leonard had been in ill health. He was S5 year* of age and besides his wife is survived by eight sons. Vernon, Russell, Cooper, Plummer, Alfred and Dan Leonard, of Wood; Jewel Leonard, of Louisiana, and Oar land Leonard, of Loulsburg; and three daughters, Rachel, of Wood, MI'S. T. H. McDonald and Miss Bettle Leonard, of Burlington. Mr. Leonard was very popular amotg a large number of friends and enjoyed the confidence and respect of his community. He had served his School district as a member of the Gold Sand School District Committee. The funeral was held from the home at 11 o'clock Wednesday morning conducted by the Rev. .John Edwards and Interment was made In My family cemetery. Quite a large number attended the last rites and the floral tri bute was very pretty. Tbt^bqraated family has tnfci deepest ayw>sthy ?( a large ?am ber of frIMW t ^ Tobacco Prices Top 1939 Figure Average of $4 Higher Than Last Year Indicated As Border Belt Ope art T~ ? Tobacco gales opened at an av erage of from $18 to $20 a hun dred on the seven North Carolina markets of the Border Belt Tues day, wifch farmers offering up wards of 2,500,000 pounds. Uelay in tabulation of ware house tickets prevented the an nouncement of official figures for the opening. But observers every where asserted prices would range approximately $4 higher than the $15.49 average for Mie belt last year. Prices also topped the Georgia opening of approximately $18 per h uudred. Sales Blocked Growers offered a large bulk of lightweight tobacco which block ed most markets. Grades ranged from common to fair and good first< and second primings, mostly sand lugs. Fair and good grade primings drew the strongest bidding as up wards of. $500,000 was paid out; on the seven Tar Heel markets. Fair Bluff reported quality of tobacco offered as fair and farm ers well pleased. Sales there were blocked. At Fairmont, officials asserted 1 it' was the most satisfactory open ing day sales in history. Not a tag was turned, they said, and no complaints Were heard from gro wers. Sales were not blocked. Itest In Years Sales supervisors were jubilant and observers generally agreed .-'ales were the most orderly and the most satisfactory in years. Farmers turned few lags? a ges ture of price rejection ? on any floors, and some markets report ed no sales lags were turned. Farmers expressed greater op timism than at< any time since the European war threw the market into a tailspiu early last season by forcing Imperial 'lobacco Com pany buyers from the floors. Im perial purchased 35 per cent of I he crop for (Iritish export and bid on t'he best grades. Imperial buyers appeared on the market Tuesday bidding this lime for the Commodity Credit Corporation, Federal agency pur chasing tobacco for storage and price stabilization. Price average equivalent to last year were guar anteed by adoption of three-year control in a manner similar to the $4(1.000.001) purchased last year Willi an option to British export. ? News-Observer. GOLD SAM) SCHOOL (To the Franklin Times) The Gold Sand High School and I he Wood elementary school will open for regular work on Thurs- j day. September 5. With the ex ception of Miss Frances Wilson,, the home economics teacher, re placing Miss Margaret Turner who resigned la?t< spring, the teaching stall is the same as that of last year. Miss Wilson com pleted the requirements for grad uation at the East Carolina Teach- j era College last spring. She comes to Gold Sand well recommendel. The teachers for this year fol low: Gold Sand ? elementary: Mrs. Eva U. Person. Louisburg; Miss Arzell Hodge. .Kenly; Miss Lois May, Red Oal^c Mrs. Fannie Gupton Davis, Louisburg; Mrs. Mattle E. Williams. Louisburg; Mrs. Louise M. Bledsoe. Louis burg; Miss Ruth Parrish, Louis burg. and Mrs. Margaret R. Gup ton. Louisburg. The high school; \ Mr. D. J. Dark, Louisburg; Mr. C. | S. Wooten, Greenville; Mr. E. M. I Alexander, Chester, 3. C.; Miss Llllle Harper. Louisburg; Miss Mary Bynum Dark. Louisburg; Miss Frances Wilson, Henderson, and W. O. Reed, principal. Louis burg. The Wood teachers (elementary grades only) are: Mrs. Maggie Duke Neal, principal. Louisburg; Miss Mary Dickorson. Louisburg, and Mrs. Adelaide Duke Fuller, Louisburg. Except for minor changes, Mie buses will travel the same routes that they followed last year. All parties concerned have attempted to secure competent) drivers for the buses. Every pupil is urged to make plans to enter school the first day. 113th F. A. Complimented The following was taken from a report) "at the front" In Satur day's daily paper: The 113 th Field Artillery, which completed a 352-mile march after dark last night, caught up on some sleep today in these beautiful pine highlands and ready for combat after midnight tonight). Military men here mar veled at the forced march with heavy equipment, saying the test of Colonel Godfrey Cbeohlre's reglmeat has probably never bean dupllcated.^The unit arrived with all 107 truck* and howitzers and with only on* track disabled, which waa towed in. RENEW TQTO SUBSCRIPTION! Kepi: Busy Colonel Edgar H. Bain (above) of Goldsboro, is a busy man these days. He is commander of Goldsboro's American Legion post, commanding officer of the 321st infantry of the 81st division, treasurer of the N. C. Legion News, and state director of the Brewers and North Carolina ' Beer Distributors committee. In the latter office, he supervises the beer Industry's "clean up or close up" campaign in North Carolina which I has resulted in the elimination of ' many undesirable brer nutlets. TROTSKY DEAD Mexico City, Aug. 21. ? Leon] Trotsky died tonight after whis pering an accusation that his pick axe assailant "most likely" was aj member of the OGPU, Soviet Se-| cret police. I A savage attack by a confidant felled t'Ue 60-year-old guiding ge-i ; 11 1 ns of the Russian revolution ln! his home late yesterday. An emer-i ; geney operation and administra tion of oxygen were futile. He1 died at 7:25 p. m. (central stand ard lime) before brain surgeons from the United States could teach him by chartered plane. The attacker was identified by police as Jacques Mortan Vanden drelsched. 36-year-old native of Iran. Bodyguards beat hltn off from the assault, but not until he I hud driven t>he axe Into the exiled l revolutionist's skull. Scene of the attack was Trot-) sky's fortress-like residence in the nearby village of Coyoacan. where : a machine-gun attack on Trotsky1 failed last May. BATTERY "B" RETURN-. ING '.V Battery "R" along with the re mainder of 113th Field Artillery left Alexandria. La.. Tuesday and is en route home. It spent Tues day night at Vicksburg, Miss., and Wednesday night at Demo- < polls. Ala., and Thursday night at-j Columbus. Ala., with tonight sche duled for Thomasville. Ga., and Saturday night at Cheraw, S. C.,, arriving home sometime Sunday, j A warm welcome awaits the j, boys. | RECEIVES CHECKS , Mr. C. T. Hudson informed the; TIMES Wednesday that farmers , In Franklin County were recelv-l ing dividend checks amounting to 1 1.000 upon the fertilizer theyi bought cooperatively- this year, i Farmers Cooperative Exchange was the local agenti. LOUISBURG BAPTIST | CHURCH Bev. Clarence Bass, ministerial student and member ot Loulsburg BapMst Church preached at the eleyan o'clock service on "The Supreme Message of God." God hat a message for every Individ ual.,, He calls the unsaved to sal vation, and the saved to service. On Sunday, August 25th, Bev. P. -H- 8oolleld. Jr., of YoungsvUle Baptist Church will preach at the morning hour. Sunday School at 9:45 A. M. "Every 8. S. Should Grow." PROGRAM AT THE LOUISBURG THEATRE The following is the program ati the Loulsburg Theatre begin ning Saturday, August 24th: Saturday ? Double Feature >? Gene Autry In "Tumbling Tum bleweeds" and Jane Withers in i "The Girl From Avenue A" also , Adventures of Bed Byder. Sunday-Monday ? Bette Davis and Charles Boyer in, "All This And Heaven Too." Tuesday ? Sir Cedrlo Hardwick, Freddie Bartholomew and Joso phlne Hutchinson In "Tom Brown's School Days." Wednesday ? Chester Morris and Jane Wyatt in "The Girl From God's Country." Thursday-Friday ? Henry Fon da, Jackie Cooper, Gene Tierney a ait Snry Hull la "The Beturtt of I9rank James." EUROPEAN WAR NEWS Reports taken from daily pa pers : London. Thursday, Aug. 22.? Destruction of an entire row of workers' honjes by1 a huge Ger man aerial torpedo dropped oa a southeast town was reported ear ly today after a British radio warning that Adolf Hitler thus far has hurled "only a small trac tion" of his bombing strengtfe against the British Isles. The aerial torpedo, presumably the first to smash into British 'boll, was said to have been dropped from a low-swooping raider, gong ing a 20-foot-deep crater and rocking t'he entire town. Late last night rescue squads, dug in the wreckage for victims whose voices could be heard be neath debris. An 80-year-old wo man who had just been put to bed by her son escaped as her home was blown to pieces around her. In the area where the aerial torpedo struCk, iti was reported, there was "not one brick left oa top of another." A short time before, another Nazi dive-bomber had dropped two screaming shells on the out skirts of bhe same town without damage or casualties. Scattered Raids Air raiders were reported over scattered areas of southeast En gland last night and ealy today, after 24 hours of bad weather tihat limited Hitler's sky raiders to sporadic hit-and-run attacks. The air Ministry said that the Germans had "found mass attacks expensive" and had retiurned to the small force raids which they employed previous to the aerial offensive. A government spokesman said 10 German planes were shot down ov.er Britain Wednesday, but later authoritative estimates raised t'he figure to 13 planes. A number of persons were said to have been killed in the aerial torpedo blast. Witnesses told of seeing a Nazi bomber swoop down from low hanging clouds upon the town, its engines silent. "As it dived. I saw a huge black bomb shaped like a torpedo leave the plane." said one resi dent. "The explosion shook Wie en tire town and debris was hurled more than 100 feet into the air." The crater gouged by the so called torpedo was said to have been about 30 feet in diameter and nearly 20 feet deep. Irish Hen Raid German planes on Tuesday at tacked the collier Prestatyn Rose in the Irish Sea and. according to one member of the crew upon the vessel's arrival in Dublin, one of the Nazi attackers 'dropped three aerial torpedoes which missed." * LOUISBURG METHODIST, CHURCH The young people will hold their service at 7:1!? next Sunday evening. It will be an out-door service on the lawn at the home of Miss Jane Gray Perry. At the morning service ad 11:00 the sermon will be given by the pastor, Rev. J. G. Phillips. The history of the Methodist Church in Louisburg is being com piled. Rev. E. H. Davis has agreed to write this history. It will be greaMy appreciated If any persons who might have some helpful re collection or record, will speak to Brother Davis about it, or to the pastor. Will the people whose parents or grandparents were Methodists in Louisburg, hunt* through the old effects and- see It any news paper clippings, churah records, programs, or letters can be found having a bearing on the history of Methodism in Louisburg. , lotisbusg wins, n-a Louisburg pushed over 8 MM in the first Inning and rnnuxid. to .. an 11-2 triumph ore r Hroadwell here Wednesday. Louisburg out hit Bt-oadwell, 12-4. The game was seven Innings by agreement. Leaders in the Louisburg attack were Stone, Dickens, and Wiggins, each witih two for three. No Broadwell player connected tor more than one hit. Score: N.H.E. Broadwell. 000 110 0 ? 2 4 7 Louisburg. 820 010 X ? 11 12 4 Baker, Jones and Watkin?: Earp, Wiggins and Dickerson. Baseball Sunday Louisburg will play t?he Ral eigh Carpenters at the local park Sunday afternoon at 3:30. THANKS We wish to express our appre ciations for the many kindness?*' rendered as during the sickness and death of our beloved husband and father. Mrs. Quenten S. Leonard aad Children. Four bicyclists were killed id North Carolina from Xansary ttt July, 1940. I