;* :3' E ROBESONIAN PnhH.hed j-- aaj Thursday Afternoon By THE EOBESO^LAN, INC. J. A. SHARPE PreMdent SUBSCEIPnON BATES: Sin .. . - - \g„ Kt^rH by ^ On. Te.r .-.^ 8in Month. .-. Thtna Month..* Entered aa second class mat! matte! at th. poetotBce at Lnmberton. W. OMce Watt Fifth Stre^ Telephone No- 2d. MONDASf, JAN. 24, 1927. i ! VRH L MARKINGS TG At TO!STS. Two grade-crossing tragedies in Rf,beset! county !ast week, one of them fatal to one prominent citizen of the touuty. another prominent cittzen be sermualy i&juTed in the tdher. i ario h^ Warding warning to nmtor ts that eternal vigilance is the note < f safety in driving across a railroad $ !T?M^. \enher one of these tragedies couid vo attributed to recklessness. Mr. W. 1 Johnson, the victim of the fatal tragedy, was sixty-seven years old a i a conservative and successfui bus otess man. Mr. Geo. i.. Thompson, who e raped from a fearful wreck with ):i life, over fifty-five years oid and also is—happiiy the present tense can be used in his case—a conserva five and successful business man. One couid not associate the taking of fool chances with either, yet each of them drove on to a railroad track in the path of an oncoming train. In Mr Johnson's case there was nothing to! obstruct a clear view of the track, ex- I cept that he had curtains of his car j up. which ordinariiy is supposed to , make one doubly cautious. He proba biy was absorbed in thought and did not reaiize what he was doing. In Mr. Thompson's case, standing box cars shut off the view and he did not realize that strain was coming untii he was on the track. It is a rough crossing and his car choked down. He thought he b^M time enough to start his car and dMve off. These distressing tragedies ought to he warning enough to automobile drivers that drjying an automobile de. ntands constant attention and alert ness to surroundings, that one should never drive across a railroad track wit hout being absolutely sure that the way is dear, and that if one does not come to a dead stop before crossing a track one at least should slow up and change gears and avoid the dan ger of the motor choking down. Of course every driver of a motor car knbws, or should know, to use these simple precautions, but every driver is prone to think that such ac cidents as those that startled folks hereabouts last week will never hap pen to him The fact, however, that men who ordinarily were careful and cautious by habit were victims right here in Robeson county in the space of less than a week ought to bring heme the danger with such force as to save others. 0 '**-**<* tt IMPROVED NEWS SERV!CE With this issue THE ROBESON IAN is beginning a service that here tofore has been given only to daily newspapers and that wii! give its readers the best service obtainable by newspapers published less often than daily. The International News Service is a great newsgathering agency that ranks with the Associated Press. By special arrangement THE ROBESON IAN has secured contract with this agency whereby it will receive mail and telegraphic service that will put it in the rank of dai'ies in giving its readers up-to-the-minute service. .News from the General Assembly at Raleigh and all other news of an im portant nature will be covered, and as THE ROBESON!AN covers its home field tlyirpughly its readers can rest assured that they are getting in their home paper all the news of im portance of their county, State and nation. This service is put on at consider able additional expense and is in iine with the policy of THE ROBESON IAN of keeping a jump ahead of the demand and giving its readers the best that can be obtained. Dr. Norris, the spectacular Texas fundamentalist who parts his name ir the middle, seeatts always to have beer prepared for.Dgubk-. He has admittec that he drew,, a gun on a man whe attacked hin^We years ago, aDo tha< he was indicie$ three times tn 19IS and 1913 on ^efjury and arson charg es. They have ^proved that Chipps, th< man Norris killed, was a man full o Quarrel and fight, breathing ou threatenings and slaughter when it his cups, an^that he stayed ?utl a: a goat much of the time; and tin ae- tt-opmy paat^haa been no shrinkin) violet in hi* time. With Chipps dead, if they can pat Norrla oat of the way in priaon for a spe!!, ear notion ia that the air would be parer and sweeter down Forth Worth way. It seems charlish to do it, but when a person signs yoa down on the pub iic highways the safest thing to do is to step on the gas and keep going A kind-hearted Deigado man who I picked up a youthfui waiking dele gate on the New Bern road the other lay soon found himself looking down the business e"d of a gun and was forced to give up his car and what money he had on his person. Morc ; o'er, he was bound hand and foot and left in the woods to meditate upon what had overtaken him in yielding to the kind implnse to give a weary l traveler a lift. It is time for Lumbertan to pass be yond the shingle stage. A recent dis the idea that the town needed the best fire-fighting equipment that could be ! bought, and it was bought forthwith. That same fire hastened removal of a dangerous fire-breeder in the busi ness section. Lumberton's fire-con- ] seriousness has been awakened and it! is proposed to banish all but fire-proof < rhingics on residences or other build- ; ings. It ought to be done. If proper provision is to be made ' for the inevitable growth of the town, Lumberton's commissioners arc going to have a lay out some alley ways where there now are none. If t eventually, why not now? Senator Broughton of Wake and Representative Falls are optimistic members of the General Assembly. They have offered an Australian bal lot bill. MOTHER OF MR. J. A. , BARKER PASSES Mrs. Frances A. Howeii Was Oldest Citizen of Whiteviiie—Had Lived Life of Service. Mrs France^ A. Howeii, mother of Mr. J. A. Barker of Lumberton and Whiteviiie's oldest citizen, died at her home there Thursday night in her 87 th year. Mrs Howeii was bom near Lum berton in 1840. !n 1856 she married I Mr. John W. Barker, who died during the civil war period !n iater years she married Mr. Miiis Howeii of Whiteviiie. Mrs. Howeii was an active and faithfui member of Whiteviiie Bap-1 i tist church, and her life was one of { ! service. i Deceased is survived by five chii-1 !dren: J. A. Barker, of Lumberton, ! Winfield Barker, of WaycrosS, Ga., i , Mrs. Lee Formy Duvai, of Whiteviiie, j Mrs D. J. Lewis, of Whiteviiie, and ! Pi. B. Howeii, of Chariotte. Besides! these she is survived by the follow- ] ing step-chiidren: Mrs. Luther McCor mick, of Maxton, Wiii Howeii, of Whiteviiie, and James Howe!!, of Wi)- j mington. The funera! was heid Friday after- i noon at 3:30 o'clock from the house. I Rev. L. T Newton, former pastor of ] j the Whiteviiie Baptist church conduct i ed the service, assisted by Rev. R. L. i Edwards of the Methodist Church,, Rev Mr. Roach of the Baptist church, and Rev. Mr McGeachey, of the Presbyterian church. INFANT SUCCUMBS TO WHOOPING COUGH. Month-Old Son of Mr. and Mrs. Gra ham Patton of St. Pauts Died Fri day (By Bessie G. Johnson) ! St. Paut, Jan. 34—Funeral services were held at the grave Saturday af ternoon at 3 o'clock for the infant son of Mr and Mrs. Graham Dalton of St. Pauls, who died Friday evening about ) 6 o'clock at the home of his parents, ' following an attack of whooping j cough, which developed several days ! previous. Deceased was 1 month and I 3 days old. The funeral services were conduct ed by Rev C. R. Hester and inter ment made in the family plot in the town cemetery in the presence of numerous relatives and friends of the family. Besides the parents, there are other children, several of whom have also been victims of the malady. f 1 MRS. COY BRITT Mrs. Coy Britt, 19, of Boardman I died at the Baker sanatorium Friday ! night at 7:30. Her body was taken to Columbus : county Saturday, where interment jwas made in Cherry Grove cemetery ! Saturday afternoon. LEO BASS ' Leo, 10-year-old son of Mr. Claude j Bass of Fairmont, died at the Baker (sanatorium at 5 o'clock Saturday . morning. The body was taken to ; Fairmont, where interment was made } j in the Baptist cemete^ Sunday. 1 Fire-Prevention Bill Proposed ) Raleigh, Jan. 21. (INS)—Joint com t mittees of the House and Senate on 1 insurance are planning to launch an- s . other fig! t to get a fire-prevention i , j bill through tht< 1927 General Assem j. tdy, it was learned today, t The committees have requested In ^ i suranee Commissioner Staey Wade and State Fire Engineer Sherwood ^ Brockwel) to outline a "reasonable n bill" and submit it to the committee ? next Wednesday. GET ONE FREE From The Robesonian wiA a year's Paid-in Advance Subscription. TOBACCO (O OP HECE!VERS WILL GET $3,000 EACH _ ) Raleigh, Jan. 22.—Federal Judge I ! M. Meekins tcday awarded allowance of $5,000 each to Receivers Janies H. Pou, H. S. Ward and M. L Corey, who are settling the affairs of the Tri State Tobacco Growers' Co-operative i association; $5,000 each to the law^ firms of W. B. Jones in Raleigh, Col- ' onel O'Neal Buford, of Lawrenceville, { and Attorney Stride, also of Virgin-) ia; $2,500 each to Messrs. Giidcwell, 1 of Reidsvillc; Person, of Raleigh, and ! Lowrcy, of Virginia. Receiving for the Central Ware housing corporation, Messrs. Powell 'and Coltrane. were given $2,500 each; ; Major W. T. Joyner, of Raleigh, Major George P. Butler, f Clinton, and A. jE. Tilley, of Mount Airy, were allow ed respectively $2,500, $1,250, and $1,000. Major Butler's law firm dur-; ing the o-operative days of prosper- ; ity, declined a fee of $100 because it {had done no service. The allowances j today came through attorneyships ! which had been published. With the exception of the receivers' j allowance. which Judge Meekins or dered of his own initiative, the amounts were granted as the resuit of recommendations made by the re ceivers. It will be generally agreed that the receivers are awarded very small sums. Their time has been pretty well taken up and they kavd been put to great inconvenience. No body will complain at what they have received. The Virginia attorneyships come from Judge L. D. Groner's jur isdiction and Judge Meekins makes the allowances on his recommenda tion.—From Greensboro Daily News. RE!) SPRINGS WILL HAVE GROUP ROTARY MEET JAN. 28 Red Springs, Jan. 22.-^-The next meeting of the Wiimington group of I Rotary ciubs, composed of ciubs in Red Springs, Wiimington, Laurinburg and Whiteviiie, wiii be held in Red Springs on the 28th of January next. I The program wiii be given in the ; dining room of Fiora Macdonaid coi ! iege foiiowing the usuai dinner. The I program wiii be carried out under the I direction of members of the ciub from t Wiimington. ; A few members from ciubs not in i ciuded in the group have been in t vited to attend the meeting, and ai j together, there wiii be perhaps 150 t Rotarians here for the occasion- The ! iast Rotary meeting heid here was ! heid at the coiiege and so popuiar is ! this for a meeting piace that a num j ber of requests from other towns have been sent here by Rotarians seeking to have the meetings heid here again. BRUNSWICK FARMERS OFFERED CONTRACT FOR CUCUMBERS j Southport, Jan. 2i—-(INS)—Cucum ' ber-growing is about to become one ! of Brunswick county's leading indus j tries. ; According to an announcement by } County Agent Dodson, a pickic con cern in New York has offered Bruns wick county farmers an attractive contract for the cucumbers. He said the New York concern of fered to pay them <15 cents per bushei and the price of crates for aii cucum bers delivered on contract to the raii road yards here. TEN BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEN K!LLBD BY TRAIN Cream of Institution's Athlette* Talent Wiped Out ia Croasiag Wreck. I Round Rock, Texas, Jan 22.—(AP) j —The cream of Baylor university s I athletic talent was wiped out here to- i day when a fast Internationa! Great Northern railroad train crashed into a motor bus and took the !ives of 10 and injured five, one of whom is not expected to !ive. Six of the party of 21 escaped injury Coach Ralph R. Wolf and his bas-, ketball players were scheduled to i meet the University of Texas Long- j horns tonight at Austin. They had completed all but 22 miles of their trip from Waco to the state capital} in the university's parlor bus. The driver apparently did not see thei train until it was practically upon) the bus crossing the tracks. The big j machine was turned, but too late, the , locomotive crashing into it amidships, dragging and tossing bodies of the ! dead down the tracks. Six of the students were killed out- j right, two died at Taylor, Texas and two in an ambulance enroute to Georgetown, 11 miles away. The dead: Jimmie S. Walker, of j Greenville; Ivey Foster, of Taylor; W. E. Murrary, of Gatesville; Sam : Dillow, of Fort Worth; J. Clyde Kel ley, of Waco; Merle H. Dudley, of Abilene, Bob Hailey, of Lott; Jack Castellow, of Ennis; Bob Hannah, Wiliiam Winchester. The injured: Ed Cooch, of Ennis; ' Fred A:ree, of Waco; Wesiey Brad- j shaw, of Waco; Joe Potter, of West, j driver; J. G. Berry, of Smithviile, START GOOD ROADS MOVEMENT FOR ROBESON! ' - ! Red Springs, Jan. 22.—In line with { its policy of rendering the most pos sible service to the community, the Rotary ciuh of Red Springs has started a movement to bring about! a better system of buiiding and main taining the roads of Robeson county. At the regular weekly meeting the subject for discussion was 'Roads." T. C. Rogers made plain the general condition of the roads, which showed them to be much worse in this than in other counties, especialiy South Carolina counties, and W A. Buiiock pointed out that one of the great causes for this condition was the habit of using up aii of the money derived from bond issues for buiiding purposes and ieaving nothing with which to maintain the roads. JUDGE BROCK CONVICTED OF $900 EMBEZZLEMENT Winston-Salem, Jan. 22.—Walter E. Brock, former Superior court judge, was found guilty of embez zlement by a jury in Superior court this afternoon. U pon motion of de fense counsel to set aside the virdict, Judge Wi F. Harding, presiding, con tinued the motion for argument to tl e next term of superior court in March. Mr. Brock is charged with em bezzling the sum of $900 from Mrs. Lizzie Campbell, the evidence being that he appeared for the prosecuting witness in two instances, winning judgments in the sum of $1,200, of which he was* to receive $300. RANDOLPH EX-SHERIFF FOUND SHORT $21,201 Asheboro, Jan. 22.—(API—J F. Cranford, ex-sheriff of Randolph county, is short in his accounts $21, 201.70. This is the shortage reported by the auditors today to the commis sioners meeting in called session. The ainount due by the ex-sheriff will be subject to some small credits, includ ing $1,500 paid in today by Cranford and some $1100 in bad checks The commissioners gave the ex-sheriff another week to meet his obligations to the county. Mr. Cranford was pres ent at the board meeting today and admitted the correctness of the audi tors' figures but expressed surprise at so large a shortage. WE WILL OFFER SOME Unusua! Bargains FOR Trade Days JAN. 27, 28 & 29. READ OUR AD IN THURSDAY'S ROBESONIAN IF YOU WANT TO SAVE ) NOTICE OF AHM4N!HfRATfON. j rb* undersigned executors of the last will i and testament of W. J. Johnson, deceaaea, j et Ropeeon t^unty. herein n.Aify a!! par i ton* h dding claims against the estate of i the ^aid W. J. Johnson, to present them, du^y t verified. on or before the 2*th