I t. TO CHERAW 1 SANFORD Wants TH'e“jBl| Cation At Chefaw*W Aby Town On FederalHighwajrNo. -1. " Plan For The TOp. _ SANFORD, NORTH CA! SEPTEMBER 10, it?1 111 ■ THE 1931 FAIR Let’s Get Busy Now And Have The Biggest Agrjcultural Fair Ever^Ploiis Now For Your Exhibits. ... “T* • ..'■ FIVE CENTS Published WEEKLY. .VOLUME 46, Number 4. —n-?.t V~ ' " TWO KILLED WHEN AUTOIST SNOOZES g FROM LONfe DRIVE - Philadelphian Held Here Under < • $5,000 Bond Charged With Involuntary Manslaughter. COMPAION- ALSO IS HELD Lee County Young Men Were On Way To Work At Saw* . ■„ mill When Kilted. ' Richard Hutchinson, of Bristol, Pa., is held in' the tee County jail 'under heavy bond on a charge of involun tary manslaughter in connection with the deaths of two youths who died early Monday morning after ' being struck by a car driven by Hutchin son. Hutchinson’s companion and owner of the car, Eugene Beck,- is in jail under bond'of $600, being held at a material witness. Hutchinson’s bond was placed at $5,000... - v The horrible accident in which the' two young mpn, Carl- McLenny and < Robert Holt, both in theirearly twen teis, test their lives, occurred on Fed eral HigtAnty No. 1 near Deep River N Consolidated School, eight miles north of here, about 6:30 o’clock Monday morning. McLenny Snd Holt, who were employed at a saw mill in the neighborhood, were on their- way to work. —. A coroner's jury, impaneled short ly after the accident, after holding an inquest ruled, “that they came to their deaths as a result of being run down on the highway ‘ by an automobile - which was driven in a careless way bv Richard HuiphiftaAn w Witnesses to the - accident, among whom ,was Don M. Covert, former Lee deputy, stated at the coroner’s hear ing that the car was being driven at a high rate of speed aiiid did not stop after the accident. Covert, who was plucking figs'from his vineyard, near the scene' of the accident, gave at his opinion that the car was traveling about 50 miles an hour. Hutchinson, .in testifying at the hearing, said he,had fallen asleep and was not' cognisant of the accident un til he awoke and found the radiator ,pf. the car had been smashed. Call ing to jteck, who* was . asleep in the rear seat, they decided to -turn the car around and retrace their course. - --Beck said he and Hutchinson were on their way from St. Augustine, Fla. to Philadelphia aijd that they had left thS former place .Sunday at noon. He said no stop for sleep, had been made i. since leaving St. Augustine and that ——1 **■" 1 ~5inC~1~aTii'f~Trgr from driving.." He stated he was on - the rear seat asleep When the fatal impact, took place and knew nothing of it until Hutchinson called to him that they had Btruck something. The first . he jknew of striking the two young men, he. related, was When they returned to the place where the accident took place. Holt, according to those who were, first to arrive at the scene, was drugi along the highway for several yards „ before being shoved' from the con crete by the car. McLenny, who was ’ instantly killed, was side-swiped and thrown into a ditch. Holt succumbed shortly after arriving at the Lee County Hospital.. -Funeral services were held over ' McLeraiy’s "remains at Flat Springs , church at p. m. Tuesday and for Holt at Zion church-at 4 p. m. Tues day. . Robert Holt was a son of Mrs. Mary Holt of Sanford Route 6. The .coroner’s" jury was composed of the following! J.-R. Rives,, J. H Wicker, C. C. Bowers, L. L. Riddle, A. J. Wicker and D. E. Walls. GAVIN NAMED TO 1* : JUNIOR OFFICE Local Attorney Appointed Chief Supreme Judge State Coon- j cil Jr. O. U. A. M. , I Edwin L. Gavin, prominent Sanford attorney and Federal District Attor ney. has been named Chief Supreme Judge of the State Council Jr. O. U. 'A. M... Mr. Gavin was recently noti fied of the appointment hy Sam F. Vance, of. Kemersville, State secre tary. His appointment wit( decided I . upon at the meeting of the new State , board pf officers. , Mr, Gavin, who was widely men - turned for supreme councillor at the recent State convention of the Jr. O. U. A. M., held in Charlotte, has been active in the work of the Junior Or 1 der for a number of years. He has , ( held several "high offices in the Order and he is regarded as eminently fitted ., to occupy the high honor which his 1 fellow Juniors, have chosen for him. CONTRIBUTE TO LEE HOSPITAL The following organizations ahd in dividuals have donated funds for the furnishing of private hospital rooms. One room will be furnished by-the Moose Order, another by the Junior Order, another by W. B. Hartness, another by G. T. Chandler, another by J. R. Ingram,, another by J. H. Kennedy. Mrs. Evander Mclver, who former ly furnished a room at the Central Carolina Hospital in memory of her husband, has taken steps to have a room here furnished with the fur nishings donated, to the other hospi tal, and any additional furnishings necessary to make its furnishing- com plete. • We are deeply grateful, to these people for these gifts, and will thank ! you to giye these donations nice com ment in your next issue. MRS. B. W. PETTY DEAD . Mrs. B. W. Petty died Wednesday afternoon at her home near Sanford after an illness lasting for several • months. The funeral was held this s afternoon at Cool Springs. A more 1 extended notice about Mrs. Petty’i -deft*- Pill-TOwor -ih fftiS gxprdst * next 'week. ;; SANFORD TO BE REPRESENTED BY BRILLIANT MOTORCADE AT CHERAW HARRINGTON SELLS V FIRST COTTON HERE I . The first bale of cotton add in Sanford this year was mar keted Monday by Raymond Harrington- The purchaser was P. P. Kelly. .. The tale of cottony grown oh Mr. Har I rington’s farm. about three ' miles from "here, was ginned at the Matthews and Kelly gin. There were , 1,390 pounds of seed cotton, and when gin ned it tilted the scales at 5201 Mr. Harrington was paid « 3-4 cents for his cotton, a half a cent over the market .price, this because the fiber mea sured _ above the average. EXERGUES HELD • LOCAL SCHOOLS Stout, Andrews, Brinn and Haw kins Address School Stu At Exercises. Informal public exercises were held at East and West Sanford schools on Friday morning, addresses by leading citizens being a feature of the pro gram. Menders of the school board and of civic* organizations were pre The exercises at East Sanford school were planned by the principal, Miss Louise -Futrell, and opened with the singing of “America.” George R., Wheeler, superintendent of f the world has her half must Ik of destroying 'oduction and in natural laws is ngerous thinks Babson. With. 6O0jIK)O,(XM) people in China in need of cotton and wheat, with 200,000,000 ifi India clamoring for these and otber&roducts, 150,000, 1)00 in Russia ang! us to trade with us, with hundred* f millions in Eu rope and Asia desf irately in need of our goods, overpriiluclion is shown by Babson to be a.: lyth and delusion. And yet businessfconditions by the Babson Chart is n« r registered at ,50 per cent below turf tal or 11 per cent below what it'was : lis time last year. A.' C. Harris gai e a brief account of his movements ince he was bom in Kentucky some ; ears ago. He has lived in Texas, Geo gia and a number Df other states bes ies Kentucky and Mrtrtli r'ornlin a Aid North State best O. P. Makepe: counting on i gi S. C., on Sept. 1' lay that will marl Highway No. 1 Sanford. Itfs exj pletion of this gi will greatly inct through, this rgectic »f President >Stroi it Greensboro pb in school, vice-pr<. aard presided ovtrj all. said they were day at Cheraw, , that ‘being the he completion of id! leads through :ted that the corn natural highway ;e tourist travel In the absence who was away ig his daughters dent A. U. Hub- ’ [the meeting. UNIQUE] CONTEST Prizes Are On Dismay In Win dow Of United Bank & Trust Company. In keeping with its policy of pre lentang new and interesting features 'or its readers the Sanford Express is rffering with this issue a new and inique contest and features entitled ‘Why I Trade With Tbese -Business jhrms,” details of which will be found m another page of thia week's issue. Every reader of The Express is invit sd to take part in this contest and lompete for the valuable prizes that ire being offered in connection with ihe feature. These prizes and other ietails are on display in the window rf ty? Bank * Trust Company >f this city where- they-may be seen it any time. ‘ The only requirements are that en trants select one or more of the more progressive business firms represent id on this page and tell, in a letter if not more than 100 words, their -easons for trading with these par ticular firms. Entrants may write ibout as many firms as they desire jut one separate letter - must be on sach firm. Readers Will find many sound and practical reasons for ex pressing their aptitudes for trading with their favoi.te stores. All com Sanitations must be addressed care the Express and must be in The Ex press office not later than Wednesday, September 16th. Wtenaris will be an nounced m the next week’s issue of rhe Express when this feature ' will appear again. - . MRS. J. R. SLOAN DIES NEAR HERE The unexpected death of Mrs. J R. Sloan, of Sanford Route 2, was a ?reat shock to her many friends and loved ones. Hr?-Sloan had not been well for some time, but Was taken critically only a fdw days before the end came, Monday, August 31st . The funeral wag fieTd at Poplar Springs Methodist church, Tuesday / *t 8:30 o’clock con Septemher ducted by her pastor, “Rev! Ivey T Poole, and interment was at the :hurch comet. i y. The pal, bearers were her nepnewa, Messrs. Lewis and Bill Brown, .li nmie Kelly, Edwin Campbell, Ha''ey Brown, and Will Atkins. Til, Hdwer bearers were her nieces. Mrs. Sloa the late Wi Brown, of v aa the daughter of and Susan McNeill najn^tt countv. She fnas ™a,rr" '1 ,”.;Mr. Sloan December 12, 1892, no . ddren were bom to 1 - - ""o sisters, Mrs. J. J. r25d ®°ute 2. Mrs. J. R. J™>’-Me brothers are A. Brown, of Sanford Rt. this union Campbell, S Kelly, of Sa A. and D. a Five, Mrs. Sin.. )f Poplar S ' "'** * faithful member : "ng*--Methodist’ church. 3he was . ' voted wife and love’v leighbor. ' ‘hough she had no chil iren she ar.l Mr, Sloan adopted two rnd were rca parents to them. She will be greatly missed in her. home, thurch and community. A large nura *»r of frien :: and relatives -from ad loining con.'ties came to pay their ast tribute at lore and.respect at her ’uneral. Mr Everett Mitchell and ’amily, of DurhamT Mr. and Mrs. E. «. Patterson, of Ranvaeur; and Mr. relpha Sloan, of Aberdeen, he funeral. attended NOOSE OF CAROLINAS SETTLE ON , SANFORD FOR 1932 CONVENTION Between six and seven hundred de egates of the Loyal Order of Moose from the two Carolinas and a part )f Virginia, by far the largest )ody of people ever yet to assemble n Sanford for a convention, will be ?iven an opportunity to enjoy the lospitality for which this city is re lown when they come here on Labor Oav 1932 for their annual convention, rhis foell-eamed ljonor which came o Sanford immediately after the elec ion of her native son, A. H. Mclver* o the presidency of the order, at the innual meet in Greensboro, was not landed the Lee capital upon a silver ilatter but came only after a heated ivalry with Hickory, a contender fof he honor. A. H. Mclver, an outstanding citi zen of this city and for many years KliHtinguished in the councils of doose work, was elected president of ;he Carolina Mocse Association at a lanquet which brought the organiza tion^ sixth annual two-day meeting ;o a close Monday night at ther.O Henry Hotel. Among other offi cers elected was W. N. Tulluck, of Sanford, »who will serve as secretary. Approximately 250 delegates attend ed the banquet. A dance followed. New rfficials of the Order, elected for next year are: A. H. Mclver, San ford, president; Ben Hill Brown, Ma yor of .Spartanburg, vice-president; i W. N. Tulluck, Sanford, secretary; 1 and O. W. Duke, of Greensboro, mar-1 shall. j 'The chief feature on the program during the day was a business session held “at Guilford Battleground Mon day morning, starting at 11 o’clock. 1 A. L. Brooks, prominent Greensboro 'Attorney, delivered 'an address. _ | Opportunities for service by mem bers of fraternal orders in the pre sent economic crisis, with millions out of employment and suffering throughout the nation, was pointed out by Mr. Brooks. A barbecue and dinner at Guilford Battleground followed the business session. , i COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PARING I EXPENSES WHEREVER POSSIBLE! COURT DEVOID OF WHISKEY CASES Fudge McPherson Presides Over Unusual Session Of Recorder’s Court. i Hardly since the “memory of man unneth not to the contrary” has here been held a session of Lee Re order’s Court in which there was a otal absence of cases of prohibition aw violations. Such a session, per laps the first one held since the est ibfishment of this court, however, was leld Tuesday and the noteworthy event iid not escape of comment from Judge McPherson who presided. To the un prejudiced observer it was, at least, an unprecedented departure from the usual routine of the “Hoover, Hootch and Hoplessness” era. But the Court had its run of other cases/ the seriousness of w;Jjich no conper* than those charged with larcefcj^^vife* beating and petty misdemeanors made up for the absence of the accustom ed presence of violators of the prohi bition statute. ] Ed Williams, a colored youth from Cameron, Moore County, was sen-; tenced to the county home for five; months after conviction upon the charges of theft and fornication and adultery. Williams, who was accused of the larceny of a shotgun, resisted ever, of the fornication and adultery this charge, admitting his guilt, how-1 charge. . | Charged with assaut, or in every day parlance the crime of “wife-, beating,” on a ^warrant sworn by his> “better half,” Minter McLean was: arraigned before the Court. Recon ciliation between the two appeared on the surface, however, before the trial proceeded at length, Mrs. Minter’s testimony being of an evasive nature. 1 Other witnesses Were put on the-stand ! but evidently had caught the spirit, of the conciliation and refused to state facts though severely prodded by Solicitor Hoyle. Judge McPherson, was evidently willing to straighten1 out the marital difficulties and allow- | ed Minter thirty days in which to pav the costs. I Wade Campbell, charged with fail-' ure to support his wife and child, was given a continuance and his case is slated for trial September 15th. i Capias was issued for J. C. Holland for failure to list taxes. I Judgment was nisi and capias or dered in the cases of A. C. Douglas > and C. A. Cameron vi’ho were called and failed. The defendants, charged with giving worthless checks, have been slated for trial for some time but for various reasons their cases' have been continued. OFFICERS HAUL IN LARGE STILL Sheriff Rives and Deputy J. M.' Thoma Capture Large | Copper Still. A large copper still the capacity of which measured 85 gallons and which had but recently been in opera tion was captured Tuesday in the Little River section by Sheriff Ar thur Rives and Deputy .Sheriff J. M. Thomas. No one was at the still at the time the officers approached, nor was any beer or whiskey found. A large quan tity of slop, however, was about in barrels. The officers said one run had been made. TALK OF HIGHWAY CHANGE There is talk of some changes be ing made in the location of State Highway No. 74 between Sanford ting out the elbow’ w^ich brings the and Carthage. There is talk of cut road through. Sanford by running a I direct line from some point this side ‘ of Carthage through the Pocket sec tion connecting *with No. 50 in the neighborhood of Carroll’s filling sta tion. It is reported that surveys have j: been made Toy road engineers with that object1 in view.' J IVfr. and Mrs. J. W. Gilliam an nounce the birth of a soh, William Dunn, August 28th. r The Halcyon bridge club will meet* at the hcfrnfe of Mft. 0.‘ P. Makepeace Tuesday afternoon at 3 o’clock. Notice. i l BOARD WITHDRAWS i FUNDS ALLOTTED FOR SUPERVISOR Sanford School District Fails To Release Pro Ratal Per t TaCX of $672. PARE $2,180 OFF BUDGET An allowance of $2,180, in cluding- the salary of the county supervisor, supplies and travel, an appropriation included in the county budget upon the condition that the trustees of the S inford Graded School District release from the pro rata per cap.ta tax such district is entitled to re-1 ceive, -the sum of $672 to be ap- i plied against the salary o^the sioners voted unanimcu dy to amend the budget. I The action of the conv..ri.;s!oners was brought about by the ..re of the trustees of the .Sanfo