Grits and Gravel (By T. MOSES JONES.) XI,o service at the Methodist Church a little cut of the usual Sunday , 'ht. The usual would have 'been a j'A, sermon by our pastor, Rev. Q. Dowd, but instead, a number of ,-, u ' forty-odd members of the Ep worth League who attended the Youth Rally at Durham Tuesday ■ gave an Echo of that meeting ... Durham. Our young folks are not jtaal to get up in church and talk. Cam- H- A. Hart has been able to nnul ‘n to his home near Hester. Last 7- : la.i.v afternoon he was taken sick while attending the funeral services \v. J- Currin at Hester and was taken to the home of his daughter, \ ilr , Aillie Frazier, in Oxford. yi, George W. McDonald of p LlC h' Mount is nursing her aunt, •ID-;.'Lena Gooch of Route 1. Both [)( urge and his smile were up from IL.vlty Mount for the week-end. "i h. Baker has felt disinclined for a day or so, but is up again. A fine Jersey calf arrived at his home recently °n George Washington’s birthday, and also one at the home 0 f h. son, the .next day, Allan. So naturally the calves were named George and Martha. Miss Leona Hinton has returned to Durham after visiting at the home of jlr. and Mrs. Robert Hinton and Mrs. B. E. Parham. Sidney Usry of Lexington and Miss Boopeep Usi'y of Chase City, Va., were recent visitors here. Mr. and Mrs. John Gooch of Hes ter have 'returned from Goldsboro where they visited Mr. and Mrs. Rich ard Hare. Mrs. L. E. Breedlove and children, Helen. Ruth, and Jimmie, spent the week-end. (literally, Friday afternoon, Saturday, and Sunday) at‘the home ‘’Perfect Sound Theatre” STEVENSON TODAY 'Gladys Swarthoutl John Bolesj " l x i* Dark” • —AIso— “DIVIDEND” Tonight $125.00 Consolation Prize $5.00 No Passes—No Half Tickets Matinee 26c—Night 36c THURSDAY FRIDAY I US® ' Hot p oin t CIRCULAIRE Cooling Steps Up Freezing HpWMWPj Speed 20%! Cuts Current f Cost Lower Than Ever mm *~fLr ■ ■ roj -wi ■■ jpf c ItlH Now—2o% faster freezing at new low cost—with Circu- HI laire Cooling, sensational I feature of the beautiful new jPL-'Lf l • Hotpoint Refrigerator. Look II at Hotpoint. Thrill to its BTgM) J sparkling beauty-enjoy its matchless economy. See Hot- OTHER HOTPOINT ADVANTAGES I Lifetime, Ail-Steel Cabinets... Five Zones E, I g of C01d... Flexible Interior... Quieter Oper- P ation ... 5 Years Performance Protection. now $ in DOWN ONLY BALANCE MONTHLY POP-ICE TRAYS Ice cubes—2 ora price and term, in above span) w a> ful—instantly 1 Ice in a trice always. (Insert your ow y electric refrigerators WOOIATD'S Phone 82 and Count The Minutes j of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. G. I Watkins on Raleigh Road (Hender son). Oxford also has a Raleigh Road, upon which us Joneses live. Don’t see Miss Eunice Watkins I much these days. She spent the win | ter over here at Oxford a year ago. ■ Have not seen Mr. Watkins since he fell last September and broke his leg. But hear that he is able to get around some now. Some years ago when he was mar | ried to Miss Oveda Watkins, Lonnie I Breedlove brought his ibride to our I home where they lived for awhile. Now, as the proprietor of the Ideal | Bruit Store, he may rightly be called I .he Fruit King of Granville County. Accidentally (or incidentally) he vol untarily became one of our first sub scribers to the Henderson Daily Dis patch, since your Old Mose acquired a jelb with said paper last Friday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Bullock and children of Creedmoor visited Mr. and Mrs. Walter Gooch of Hester Sunday. !Frank V/attsi r.f and Creighton Seat of Mountain Creek made music with the fiddle, bow, and guitar last Saturday night at the home of Fred Blackwell on Route 4. And as Fred lives at the home of his daddy, it was really at Mr. Bobs in stead of Fred’s. They enjoyed sing ing old-time songs. I can imagine it was just about like it was one night last fall when I was there and we ate a corn-shucking supper, and then packed the parlor with folks, and played and sang. Beat a ride over to Henderson early Monday morning with one of the Saunders men and a Mr. White. On the corner in Henderson, Jack Collins who used to barber over to Oxford hollered, “Hello, T. Moses! I saw your junk in the paper Saturday night.” And it was not until then that I really knew imy first column had ap peared in black and white in your paper. There I saw Miss Annie Louis' Aver ett, of the Carolina Power and Light Company and she wanted to know tvhat I was doing so far away from home. Then I saw a face of which I could not recall the name. So he had to tell fie it was Gentry Weaver who used to five out at Cousin Ed Hunt’s near Salem. Lloyd Dorsey passed with several hundred yards of plant bed cover un der his arm, so I say, “I see you’ve got your sheets, but I don’t see any pillow cases.” Robert Satterwhite, the Kandy King, passed, but stopped to speak. His salesmen sold me Baby Ruths, and Mr. Goodbars, and chewing gum, and so forth about five years ago when I ran a 2x4 fruit emporium. Richard Faucette also spoke to me. Said he lived out on Raleigh Road about three miles. Richard and Tommie, three brothers, lived down near Dexter when I was a boy. In the window where it says, “Ray W. Goodrich, Photography,” is a hand painted photograph of Miss Sallie Norwood, who now teaches at Farm ville, N. C. It is truly a lovely pic ture. Her brother, Leo, The Sales man, comes over our way real often on his job. Her little fat brother, John, works for the ice cream com pany. I don’t blame him though, for if I were fleshy I would want a job close to the cooling effects of ice cream. But as skinny and boney as I am, I really should have a jolb with the Water Company, and hot water, at that, so I could keep warm. A lovelier girl than their sister, Miss Lutie, I have never seen. Miss Lutie died while in our grade at high school here at Oxford some years ago. Mrs. J. Y. Paris will remember her. Upon leaving town for home, I was overtaken by E. L. Raynor who works over here for the Owen Motor Com pany. Mr. Raynor married one of the Mangum Twins, I asked him why he didn’t move to Oxford and Allie Hart move to Henderson, then each would live where they worked,. We met Joe Flicks with his Amoco truck ful of gas. At‘the edge of town Mr. Maynor stopped to pick up another “air” pas senger, whom he knew. Soon I told Mr. Raynor I had just started to work for the Henderson paper. The young man said, “So you are T. Moses Jones.” He was Fred Farris of the Tanner Roofing Company. On a job at A. D. Capeharte’s home in Oxford, Mr. Farris lacked a bit of material and went back after it. Their cars were all busy at the time, and it was, not yet bus time, so he, like myself, bummed a ride. And as we all in s.afety reached the Granville zones, it was not the last of your T. MOSES JONES. Alcohol Agent Slain By Two Men ' *Vi (Continued from Page one.i Mills, N. C., where they began the. pursuit of an auto they suspected of hauling illegal liquor. They overtook the car just after crossing the Vir ginia line, Estes related, and the fugitive machine was brought to a stop. Two men were in the car, the officer said, and as he and Jackson approach ed to investigate, five shots were fired. The car was driven away as Jack son, shot through the head, fell mor tally wounded. BURY SLAIN, TAX AGENT AT PLYMOUTH TODAY Plymouth, March 9 1 .—(AP)—W. J. Jackson, Jr., 45-year-old revenue of ficer slain near Norfolk late last night was a native of Plymouth and son of the former Sheriff W. J. Jackson, late of Washington county. An undertaker planned to bring the body here today for burial. Mrs. Jackson was notified of her husband’s death early this morning Besides a widow, there are the fol lowing relatives, a daughter, Lorraine, 15, a sister, Mrs. N. B. Cox, two broth ers, Elmer and Charlie, all of Ply mouth. 63 Men Set Aside Before Completion Os Full Jury List (Continued from T*age One.) liamsboro township. Both were from the regular jury list serving at this term of court. The State then set aside the next two men by accepting two of its peremptory challenges, and the court excused the fifth man because he had formed an opinion. The sixth ma\ called was A. L. Vandyke, Kittrell township farmer, who became the third man to be accepted. A. C. Simms, Henderson furniture salesman,* was next called and said he was opposed to capital punishment which automatically let him off, and J. D. Mustin, next called, was seated as acceptable to both sides. He reside? on Rowland street in Henaerson, an I formerly was employed here by th< State Highway prison department and before that was a farmer. A. D. Adcock, automobile mechanic of Henderson, became the fifth juror, followed consecutively by the nex' two men called, who became the sixth and seventh jurors. They were C. H. Sneed, Williamsboro farmer, and M T. Chandler, lifelong farmer of Dab ney township. He was the last man taken from the regular term jury. The seventh man called in the spe cial venire was W. E. Neathery, Mid dleburg farmer, who was the eight! man to be accepted by both sides. Twenty-two men were called befo-. • the ninth man was agreed upon, seat ed and sworn. He was H. E. Elling ton, janitor at the Henderson post o p fice. Six more men were called am G. W. Norwood, Dabney merchant wa seated as the tenth juror, and the las one to be accepted before the luncl hour. When the case was called two ne i attorneys appeared at the defens' table. They were J. C. Kittrell, fathe' of T. S. Kittrell, who with A. A. Bun. had been appointed by the court L defend Fairbanks, and J. M. Peace who has often appeared with M: Bunn in criminal trials. Mr. Peaci did all of the questioning for the de sense of prospective jurors when th.' menagerie of birds, monkeys and dog c the Goods had in their traveling Ton Thumb circus because all of this ha been sent back to Texas in the truck trailer in which they traveled aboi'J ever the country giving their exhib :ion in schools and elsewhere. Ths> lad come to Henderson for a perfor mance before Henderson high schoc students on Monday morning afte he tragedy the night before. It is expected, however, that pic ures of the birds may he exhibited and fingerprints will be produced, i< ic thought, by the State in its effor 4 build up a case against Fairbanks A A. Bunn, of defense counsel, saiJ Fairbanks would be their only witnes so far as he knew. He had told hi client that he wa§ the whole show ir his own behalf, and it was up to him The attorney intimated there mighJ be a new angle to the case that ha? not as yet been mentioned in publk prints, and if this turn should develop was considered likely to fdfnish on? of the interesting, if not sensational aspects. Fairbanks confessed to officers tin day after the slaying that he killed HENDEfiSOJjr. (M.C.) DAILY DISPATCH WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1938 SIR Good in an attack with the axe whe i Good had turned upon him after the two had an argument over Good’s al leged treatment of a cockatoo, per forming bird in his menagerie. Since that time Fairbanks has been in ja:i without bond, most of the time out of Henderson, and part of the time in Granville .county jail at Oxford and later in the Nash county jail at Nash ville. He waived examination at a pre liminary hearing before Recorder R. E. Clements in county cou.t on Ft'- Mayor in Transit Tempest —FT"*'- JlSiWwlllSfc. • HIP V •/ r' lip mnnnnnnimiuMinnn Wmßk ' ' \ JE ■'MM?. ■ • 1~~ "llfnnilfll “ ;V r Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia, of New York, fought it out tooth and nail with members of the Transit Commission at Albany, N. Y., when he demanded that the body be abolished and control over New York City’s transit problems be vested in the city’s Board of Estimate. He is shown in a huddle with Senator Esquirol (left) and Assemblyman Robert Crews (center) during the hearing. (Central Press) M Chesterfield tobaccos .. Rr Here’s the reason so many smokers Kke Chesterfields ... Thousands of casks of mild ripe Chesterfield tobacco are kept in stor xrx" \ age all the time—every pound of it aged 2 years or more to give Chest- J \ erfield smokers more pleasure. \ / wfe _c» gA The mild ripe tobaccos—home-grown V J and aromatic Turkish—and the pure \ y \ cigarette paper used in Chesterfields are the best ingredients a cigarette can have . They Satisfy. (chesterfield more pleasure Copyright 1938, vfL->. Liggett & Myers , Toba«co Co. day alter the slaying. Mrs. Good, who was critically wound ed in the attack, lay unconscious in Maria Parham hospital here for sev eral weeks, and was only recently discharged. She has been here all the while, and is to be a prosecution wit ness, though her memory has not re turned, sufficiently for her to relate incidents at the time of the fatal al tercation. Once testimony is begun, it is be lieved all evidence can be completed within the space of a working day of the court. Seven attorneys appearing in the case are eligible to speak, how ever, and the court’s charge must be given to the jury. It will likely be near the end of the week when the cas? is concluded. Capital Gossip BY HENRY AVERILL Dally Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir ' Walter Hotel. Raleigh, March 9. —During the pas + three weeks, twenty skilled and spe cially trained blind people have beer, placed on a Works Progress Admin istration project operating statewide, to tune pianos in the public building? of North Carolina, it is reported b;> the North Carolina State Employment Service. Commissioner of Agriculture W Kerr Scott has appealed to North Car olina’s congressmen to help him get “pork inspectors” appointed for the State, to help hog growers get fair prices for their products. Looks like he went to the right place—those congressmen know more about “pork,’’ particularly of the “bar rel’’ kind, than anybody else. A Sampson county farmer, E. A. Hobbs, is quoted as saying of a dis tant relative, Sam H. HoLbs, who h t.s been opposing crop control: “He wants to run for the. Senate (State) and he’s going to run on the Democratie ticket with Republicans back of him. That’s why he’s going all over the county and other counties talking on this bill.” Sounds fine, but the fact is that Sampson county doesn’t even have a voice jn nominating a Democratic candidate for the State Senate this year, having had Jeff Johnston here last session. Duplin and New Hanover get the seats this time, soats this time, so Sampson and Fender do not even participate in the primary voting. Speaking of the crop control strug gle, E. Y. Floyd, AAA executive offi cer at State College, has called atten tion to the fact that the cotton and obacco referenda are enirely separate affairs, although they are to be held PAGE THREE on the same day, March 12. He waYns cotton farmers not to depend on to bacco growers to put control “over.” Incidentally the Survey had expend ed $124,975.68 of its $225,000 budget through December 31, 1937. By far the greater portion of this expenditure covered personnel salaries; the only other sizeable item covered automotive transportation for field parties. The North Carolina State Depart ment of Vocational Rehabilitation re ports that it has rehabilitated and secured employment on a continuing and self-supporting basis a total of 312 persons. Already employed, but still being followed up are 105 cases while 142 cases have been rehabilitated but are waiting placement in employ ment. SANDHILL PEACHES WILL BLOOM SOON Pinehurst, March 9. —Spring in the Sandhills... and fruit trees, dormant during the winter months, put on their colorful spring costumes, burst in+o beautiful, fragrant iblossoms. One of the loveliest of all flower ing trees is the peach, with its soft pink blossoms, for which this section of the state is noted. Each year thous ands of nature lovers travel from far and wide to view hundreds of or chards of pink blossoms, row after row of evenly spaced, blooming trees. This year, with an early spring, the peaches are budding a few weeks ear lier than usual, and will be at their height this week and next week. They remain in bloom for a very short pe riod, and after next week, many of the blossoms will be gone. Another tree for which the Sand hills is famous is the dogwood, which will flower during the month of April. The STATE TODAY TOMORROW Donald Woods —Nan Grey—in “BLACK DOLL” Buck Jones Serial—News Admission 10c—25c