III!
Part of Heavy Docket Tried
By Recorder, With
Many Cases
Two young- white men giving the
names of Charlie Edwards and Wil
liam Shaw, and their home as Brook
lyn, N. Y., were bound over to su
perior court under bonds of SSOO each
Monday by Recorder R. E. Clements
in county court when the pair came
before him on a charge of breaking
into the J. F. White store on the na"
tlonal highway at Gill’s Siding and
stealing cigarettes.
The alleged robbery occurred Sun
day about mid-morning, while s. F.
White, a *>on was asleep upstairs at
the store. Some on in the neighbor
hood noticed tiie boys loitering a
round the store, and when the robbery
was discovered a chase was started
and the two boys, walking southward
was overtaken and brought back here
and jailed by Sheriff J. E. Hamlett.
A nolle pros with leave was taken
"Highway Holiday”
makes every mile cost more
Good roads and better ears cut driving costs
from around ten cents a mile to less than fire.
But gas tax diversion is sending us back to high
cost of car operation. Lack of maintenance has
already done millions of dollars damage to our
roads—and our roads grow worse daily.
Justice to car owners demands that gas taxes
be used for roads only. Tell this to your legka
la tors!
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in the ease of Perry Davis colored
charged with breaking and entering
a store and larceny of goods. The
evidence, was insufficient.
T. M. Bobbitt white man, was charg
ed with non-support, and prayer for
judgment vi as continued .on condition
that he provide for the support of hi*,
family,
Dick Moseley, white man, was
charged with driving a car while un
der the influence, of liquor, but fur
ther judgment was suspended on pay
ment ot a fine of SSO and costs, on
condition that he does not drive a
car again in six months.
H. A. Odem, white, drew a suspend
ed judgment on payment of a fine ot
$1 and the costs when charged with
giving a. worthless check for $7.14
to Teiser's Department Store, it ap
pearing that the check had been made
good.
John K. Brown, white, was fined
$2.50 and costs for being drunk, fur
ther judgment being suspended
Stella Baker, white, and a man de
spite the feminine name, was sent
to the roads for 30 days for being
drunk.
J. A. Day. white man, was charged
witlid riving a earw hile under the
influence of liquor. The recorder rul
ed that, in view of the fact that the.
man was under 30 days* sentence in
police court on a charge of driving
while under the influence of liquor.
HENDERSON. YN. CJ DAILY DISPATCH* TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11 1934
j and had taken an appeal, he would
i let him oft in this case provided lie
paid a. SSO fine and costs and $10.14
damage to Roy Pegram's automobile,
and not drive a car again in North
Carolina in six months, and provided
further that he withdraw his appeal
in the mayor’s court and accept the.
30-day road sentence, which the de
fendant agreed to do.
No session of recorder’s court was
held today.
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jNew Body Lines and More
Power For The New
Plymouth
The 1935 Plymouth makes its de-
I but in Henderson at Motor Sales Co.,
j Declared to be the most beautiful
' car that Plymouth ever built, the new
! model is also the largest of all Plv
j mouths. Tt is thre inches wider than
' the 1934 deluxe car and measures 189
( inches from bumper to bumper, also
an increase of three inches. The floor
• is lower than that of former models
1 designed to allow more head room
| and riding comfort.
With an engine that produces 82
: horsepower, without change of bore
; or stroke Plymouth's latest creation
i is the most powerful yet placed on
the roads. Again the machine is
equipped with a safety-steel body,
floating power, hydraulic brakes and
the other distinctive characteristics
of earlier models.
In the 1935 Plymouth, front and
rear Springs carry approximately the
same weight and have the same fre
quency, causing all parts of the chas
sis to ride alike. The front end
bounce is controlled by double-acting
shock absorbers, and definite improve
ment has been made in back seat
riding.
Since free action of soft front
springs makes for sideway slipping of
an automobile, independent spring ac
tion of the 1935 Plymouth is taken
care of by a torsion bar called a swav
eliniinator.”
Popularity of Plymouth has con
tinued to increase during past years,
and today the car is represented by
were in 1929. The first million auto
biles have been sent from the. factory,
10 times a smany owners as there
and now, with the. new models out,
“On to the Second Million” is the
slogan of Plymouth’s manufacturers
and dealers.
Here’s Sample of
Court Sentence of
Just Century Ago
Speaking of court sentences aifd
their severity, the following will be
of interest, as it appeared in last
week's “The State,” written by T. O.
Rod well, of Warrenton:
For the benefit of those who may
think that some of our judges are at
timess rather hard-boiled I am quot
ing below a sentence passed upon
Thomas H. Christmas, a Warren
County citizen, at the April term
Warren County court. 1827. Hon.
Thomas Ruffin acted as judge.
“And the said Thomas H. Christ
mas being brought to the Bar in the
custody of the Sheriff of Warren
County; the Court doth adjudge and
award that the said Thomas H.
Christmas he imprisoned in the com
mon jail of Warren County without
bail or mainprize for twelve calendar
months, and that on the first tues
day after the fourth monday in May
next ensuing, he he taken by said
Sheriff to the Pillory 0 f the said
county and there be placed in the
said PilloTy for two hours and then
and there receive .thirty nine lashes
on his bare hack to be inflicted by
the said Sheriff, and that on the first
tuesday after the fourth monday of
August next ensuing, the said Thomas
H. Christmas he taken by the said
Sheriff to the said Pillory and have
both of his ears nailed thereto and
severed from his head, and the Court
doth further award that the said
Thomas H. Christmas stand commit
ted as aforesaid until he enter into
recognisance himself in the sum of
one thousand pounds and good and
sureties in the like sum for his good
behavior for the term of 3 years then
next ensuing, his release from said
imprisonment, the said recognisances
to be taken before the Hon. John Hall
or any other Judge of the Supreme
Court or of the Superior Court and
that said Christmas stand committed
until the costs of this prosecution are
paid.”
Clyde Abbott Tried Before
Mayor; Drunk Charges
Also Aired Out
Clyde Abbott, white man, had bond
fixed at $250 by Mayor Irvine B Wat
kins when the latter bound the de
fendant over to superior court in
police court Monday on charges of
forgery. He was alleged to have, sign
ed the name of J. B. Abbott to a
check for $8 at the Citizens Bank
and Trust Company.
It was one of the number of case?
tried by the mayor at the first ses
sion for the new week. There was no
session of his court today.
Ralph Henderson, colored, was fill
ed $5 and costs for being drunk. Lon
nie Baskerfield and George W. John
son, both also colored, were given
hearings on similar warrants and
drew the same judgments.
Ben Davis, colored, was fined s2.st>
and costs for being disorderly on the
streets and cursing.
Clyde Short, a white man, was fin
ed $1 and costs for exploding fire
works on a city street. He threw a
lighted cracker the other night at
George Aycock, a policeman, not
knowing he was an officer, where
upon the officer did his duty and
made an arrest.
Willie Bullock, white man, was
sent to the roads for 30 days for be
ing drunk.
J. A. Day, who last week was given
;30 days on the roads for driving a
car whileu nder the influence of li
quor, and gave notice of an appeal,
came in later and withdrew the ap
peal and accepted the road sentence.
Ann Cannon May
Not Get Huge Estate
(Continued from Page One.)
of no issue, the trust would go to
Smith Reynolds’ brothers and sisters.
IF CANNON CONTENTION IS
TOi STAND, SHE WINS MUCH
Winston-Salem, Dec. 11.—(API — If
the contention of Anne Cannon Rey
nolds Smith are upheld »y the court,
she and her daughter, Anne Cannon
Reynolds 11, will have their already
huge patrimony—the Cannon towel
fortunes —enhanced by the $25,000,000
.tobacco fortune of Smitn Reynolds.
This was disclosed by an examina
tion of this State’s intestate laws.
The opinion is predicated, however,
not only upon the court’s findings
that Libby Holman Reynolds was not
the legal wife of Smith Reynolds, hut I
also upon the invalidity of a will
made by Smith Reynolds August 21,
1931, and filed in New York.
In her petition filed in Forsyth
court, Mrs, Smith asked the court to
divide. , estate, but makes no sug
gestion' as to the tei’nSs of k division.
If she is established as the legal
widow, and it is niled that her bus*
band died intestate, Mrs. Smith would
receive one-third of the estate and
her child two-thirds. The wife is sup
ported by the estate one year before
debts are deducted. Real estate goes
to thee hild, subject to the widow’s
dowry, which allots her the income
of one-third of the real estate for her
life.
The intestate laws provide that if
there is more than one child, the es
tate is divided equally among the
children and the widow, the widow
getting a child’s part.
The application of this law could
not be made, of course, unless Libby
Holman and her child, Christopher
Smith Reynolds, are declared inelig
ible to share. This phase in itself
would involve a lengthy court battle.
Referendum For
Tobacco S tarts
(Continued from Page One.)
county will be kept open for at least
10 consecutive days.
The referendum will be on wheth
er the growers wish to continue the
Kerr-Smith act in 1935, with its pro
vision for controlling production hv
faxing the excess sales of growers
who have not signed adjustment con
,tracts.
If the act is continued, the Agricul
tural Adjustment Administration will
study the market and make allot
ments to non-contract signers in ac
i cordance the probable needs of
..the market. Sales in excess of the
, allotment by non-signers will be sub
: ject to tax.
The value of crop control is shown
'by comparing the 410,000,000 value of
the 1934 crop in North Carolina with
■the $33,607,000 received for a bigger
i,crop in 1932, when production was
.'not controlled Floyd Stated,
i Floyd pointde out that growers who
signed contracts will not be able to
production by themselves if
'"the Kerr-Smith act is revoked and
non-signers are permitted to increase
their output without restriction.
FORTUNE TELLERIS
WANTED IN TEXAS
Woman Who Has Disap
peared Here Hunted by
Officers from There
! An officer from the far away State
J of Texas was here Monday, it was
I learned today, inquiring as to the
j whereabouts of “Madam Virginia.”
fortune teller who spent some weeks
! H*re and only in the past few days
i departed mysteriously, allegedly tak
ing with her $420 from one woman
and various other amounts from oth
i ers. A warrant for her has been is
i sued, but nothing has been learned as
to her whereabouts.
, Officers here said today that the
woman was wanted in Texas for mak
. ing away with $2,040, an aggregate
. sum said to have been, obtained from
; two persons. It was also reported that
' she had slim-slammed a number of
people here .of amounts ranging up
to SSO or thereabouts, especially coi
i ored people, in addition to the $420
taken from a. Mrs. May.
Madam Virginia also bought a bill
' of furniture from tlie Henderson Fur
niture Company, made a down pay
| ment on. it and- then the first month-
I ly payment. Thereupon she came in
■ and bought a radio and soon after
wards absconded, taking the radio hut
! leaving the furniture, which v, r as later
I recovered.
It was said today that she had left
I her State of North Carolina license
; and that issued by Vance county for
j SIOO. indicating, officers think, that
she has left the State.
F irst Meeting In
New Grange Hall
j The members of Middleburg Grange
j are looking forward to' their meeting
i tomorrow evening at 7:30 o’clock In
the new community house that ha»
just been completed.
Work has been in progress for the
past year or more on the structure,
and this will he the first meeting
ever held in the structure.
Installation of officers will also add
to the grange session.
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