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I ACCURATE, terse B TIMELY ^rflll/mit xxx ??? MAKE1 kl(l mi ls here! Company Entered on BTuesday. Allen's Service I B Station On Wednesday I b" onwkrs at wise[' Hftobbers have been active in the I Hpjtr for the past several days. |Eking two rich hauls at Warren-j; K 0n Tuesday and Wednesday Kghts and being foiled in an at-1 Kpt at Wise last Friday night. I iXluering through a rear window, fiMbers on Tuesday night hauled ' K y from the cash Company here I Hoes, pants, suits and topcoats to estimated value of $800. No clues I ^E. c. Hilli&rd. manager, was in H store on Tuesday night until I Kut 11 o'clock. When he returned I ^ irork on Wednesday morning he I ^ covered the loss. Shutters on a ' jjm mdow had been prized open!1 EE a window jimmied. Following I Kb robbery the shutters were clos ^Min order that the entry mightl ^Bape the notice of Night Officer ^Bvel! on his rounds. |f ^Breaking the lock on the front!' Bjc and gas pump locks, robbers I ->-? niahr robbed Allen'sji |i^ weonesuaj "*o-Krice Station on the edge of townl; the extent of about $200 in gro-1 lies, cigars, gas, tubes and other! L r. Weston, who operates al Ition a few hundred yards from ( en's station, noticed a car pull-1, I away from that station shortly! er 1 o'clock Wednesday nightJ; L riding by noticed that the gas I Is was lying across the path. He I be to Warrenton and picked up J] tk Hight. The two returned to | e service station and found that t door had been forced open. I, ank Allen, owner, was called and md that the robbers had made! ransiderable haul. I, loticing a light in White's Fill-!, Station at Wise late last Fri- I ' night, Mr. White, the owner,! :t ii his home, secured a shot-j, In ant with a companion slipped I close to the station. As three j b ran from the station he fired, I kt of the shots landing in the I |e of the building. The men 11 opped their booty, jumped intol< old Ford and raced for the Vir-h na line with the service station j ner in close pursuit. Mr. White s outdistanced. It is not belived ;t any of the shots from his gun ' io Hold Quarterly Conference Sunday [he second quarterly conference the Warren circuit will be held the Areola Methodist church on today morning, the Rev. S. E. . tight, announced yesterday. The Rev. L. B. Jones, presiding kr, of Weldon will speak at the oming service which begins at 11 tlock. Dinner will be served on k grounds, and quarterly confer- : p* '111 be held immediately fol- > Nl, according to the Rev. Mr. ^to Show Opens At Henderson Monday [Henderson's Auto Show, Mer Exposition and Circus will ^Bm on Monday night with even ^B&ter attractions than last seas' according to announcement ^Bbe yesterday by David Castello, ^B^'-ary. The exposition will he ^Bjbght to a close on Friday night V* a big dance. Music will he B-jsbed by the Carolina BuccaMWies Capture Near Warrenton ^B^PUties J. c. Davis and Claude J?** captured a large steam bear the old Egerton place ^B^' * miles from Warrenton oni Friday and destroyed about I Bailors oi beer. ^B^ still was not in operation at! Deputy Davis said yes-! V1 but evidence was that it! opetated that morning. I |M OPEN LAUNDRY HERE 1 ^Bbb^ & Gardner, for several! r Orators of a dry cleaning! ^B^1 bere, this week announced! ( * ^7 have installed a modern! Ihis is Warrenton's first go Registrars And Judges of Election Named Saturday Registrars and judges of election for the June primary were appointed at a meeting of the Waritn county board of elections held at Warrenton on Saturday morning. The board approved the voting precincts and voting places that were used in the 1928 election. C. F. Moseley is chairman of the board and Jesse Gardner is secretary. The other member is W. J. Bishop of Norlina. Miss Amma D. Graham, Mrs. W. B. Fleming and Mrs. Nathan Palmer appeared before the board for information concerning the primary and general election and expressed the hope that the board would do all it could to assure a fair election. The following registrars and judges of election were appointed: River?Frank Rainey, Registrar; Cromwell Daniel and J. L. Johnson, Judges. Sixpound ? Claude Haithcock, Registrar; C. F. Burrows and John Adcock Jr., Judges. Hawtree?John W, King, Registrar; G. Ed Stegall and J. Henry Thompson, Judges. Smith Creek?A. G. Hayes, Registrar; T. R. Williams and E. L. Paschall, Judges. Nutbush?Floyd Fleming, Registrar; John A. Wilson and R. D. Paschall, Judges. Sandy Creek?S. E. Allen, Registrar; Ed Turner and Ruffln Pendergrass, Judges. Shocco?Van Davis, Registrar; P. F. Limer and Jas. W. Burroughs, Judges. Fishing Creek?D. L. Robertson, Registrar; Jim Cheek and Willie Robertson, Judges. Judkins?John P. Leach, Registrar; W. R. Strickland and Mrs. F>-ank Allen, Judges. xv in TVoxric Rpirist.rnr A' Via fl r 3. P. Clark and E. P. Alston, Judges. Roanoke?Sidney Jones, Registrar; L. W. Kidd and J. W. Reid, Judges. Norlina?Robert Newman, Registrar; Walter Hunley and J. F. White, Judges. Registration books will be opened at the various polling places at ) o'clock on Saturday, May 3, and will be open every Saturday until sunset through Saturday, May 24. Says Carolina May Change Prison System The Ohio prison catastrophe which resulted in the burning to death of more than 300 convicts Monday night, probably will hasten modernization of the North Carolina prison system, it was intimated by Governor Gardner yesterday, who stated that a similar tragedy could very easily have happened in Central Prison here. Terming the 61-year-old structure a "fire trap," the Governor said he * * a -r iu. shuddered wnen ne neara 01 uie Ohio tragedy and thought that it might have happened in the old and over-crowded North Carolina prison. The suggestion that the present Central Prison structure be scrapped for a modern plant is not entirely new, it having been mentioned frequently in connection with the increasing difficulty of the prison to operate without a deficit, but the human hazard in the old building was not brought to the foreground until suggested forcibly by the Ohio blaze. "North Carolina has made less progress in penology in recent years than anything else," the Governor said, comparing the State Prison system to the State's school and road systems. The old Central Prison was constructed in 1869 to house 350 prisoners. Today it is crowded to double capacity, and ai .hough its walls are of brick a large amount of pine wood was used in the construction and there is no sprinkler protection against fire. The most dangerous part of the prison from the standpoint of fire is considered to be the hospital, located on the third floor in the east wing with only one method of exit? o nrnnrfon ofaimHRPI Ml TT WVtVJL* WVV4... ?? A sub-committee from the general prison investigation committee recently made a tour of inspection of the Federal Prison in Atlanta and the Alabama State Prison in Montgomery, one of the most modern Southern prisons, and is expected to visit other prisons hefore reporting its findings. At the time it was decided not to purchase a new prison farm the possibility of building a new Central Prison was discussed hp Ufo WARRENTON, COUNTY ( THINGS THAT N By GENE B r / I AH OKe. / who / MC> COM?\-AiHH / HAKE* HS COS! I ARE NEVER D?L 1 (M f OR WARD*1 V CHECKS F.oR ^ \ doe! II - r Negro Clubbed To Death At His Home J At Wise On Friday Mystery shrouds the death of Jim Pitts, negro, who was fatally club- 3 bed in his home at Wise late last 1 Friday night. Search by officers f has failed to reveal any clues as to t the identity of his assassian. I Fitts had been employed for a * number of years as a man of all work at Wise and carried the mail * from the depot to ihe postohice. f I When he failed to appear Satur- < day morning a mesenger was seuu ? for him. He was found lying in his I home with his head badly crushed. * Rumors that he was a miser and J had a large sum of money hidden is believed to have been responsible t for the murder. Local people be- 1 lieve the rumor to have been with- 1 cut foundation. 1 Coroner Hunter Pinnell impanel- g lt d a jury Saturday composed of ^ M. I. Ball, J. V. King, G. E. Steg- 1 all, C. G. Harris, T. H. White and 1 Boyd King. The report of this body was that "said Jim Fitts came to J his death by severe club blows on head from the hands of an unknown person or persons." i Women's Legs Cause 1 Of The Long Skirts ! i NEW YORK, April 17.?Women's ] ?? ^ * IAM/V legs are responsioie ior uic wng skirts they're trailing around to- i day, in the opinion of Baron de j Meyer, international style expert i and widely known fashion writer. j "Women have advanced a great many reasons for those long skirts, ? but the real reason lies in their i own legs," said Baron de Meyer, who > has just returned to America after j a visit to the leading dressmaking , salons of Paris. i "When the courturies saw what horrible sights were revealed in r bony knees and that ugly line at t the top of the calf they knew 1 something had to be done. There \ was only one thing to do?pull the 1 skirts down?and they did is as fast t as they could. That's the real story 1 of the long skirt." s American women, said the Baron, ( are wearing their clothes these days with as much dash and distinction s as any woman in the world. t Is the new silhouette tending to- ( ward the hobble skirt? t "No," he said, "women, with the ] active life they lead today, wouldn't i tolerate it, and the dressmakers aren't foolish enough to try to foist j .... - it on tnem. Baron de Meyer describes the well j dressed woman as one who spends ] hours assembling her costumes and i then tosses them on in a way to y achieve an effect so careless that < it looks as though she hadn't spent ? any time on her clothes at all. j OPEN BOWLING ALLEY ] M. C. McGuire, Pett Boyd and ] G. V. Boyd of Warrenton and Wil- ] liam Boyd of Henderson yesterday j opened a bowling alley at Henderson. The establishment is known as I the Vance County Bowling Academy I and will be in chtrge of a Hender- i I Son man. ' t irmi )F WARREN, N. C., FRID EVER HAPPEN YRNES ( HAS \ r to \ fOKXERS ATOR^f J Uf ? ^ \ \ V\K "^g/ft(UES Warrenton Wins First Golf Game In Tournament Playing the first game for the 'ear in the four-town tournament, Varrenton golfers on Tuesday deeated Louisburg players here by he score of 24 to 12. Henderson )layed Roanoke Rapids at the later city on the same afternoon. Individual scores were as followng, listing the Louisburg players irst in order: a Cox 88# M, C. Mc3uire 83; William Neal 89, Tom Jurton 82; H. H. Johnson 90, W. 4. Boyd 87; B. N. Williamson Jr. 16, Edmund White 89; J. E. Malone rr. 90, A Jones 88; W. W. Wheeles Tr. 94, G. V. Boyd 9U; w. u. isgeror. 99, E. E. Gillam 100; E. H. Maone 97, J B. Boyce 94; J. B. King 00, G. B. Gregory 94; R. W. Ashey 95, V. P. W&rd 89; Clyde Bur;esc 93, W. C. Bobbitt 95; W. E. Vhite Jr. 105, L. O. Robertson 102; 5. F. Griffin 94, J. W. Garrett 92; 5. P. Purnell 99, Roy Davis 101. Lindbergh Inaugurates New Airplane Route NEW YORK, April 22.?Still blazng new air trails, Col. Charles A. jndbergh Sunday will inaugurate he new cross-Caribbean air service >f Pan-American Airways by making a dawn-to-dust flight from lavanna to Cristobal, Canal Zone. He will be carrying regular air nail from this country to South America, mail which will leave New fork City Friday night for delivery n Buenos Aaires a week later. 11 ~M1 f/\ V>im xne man wm uc utmuw Saturday afternoon in Miami, where le will be waiting with a PanVmerican plane, for which company he is technical adviser and he vill make the hop to Havana that light. Taking off from Havana the next norning, he will head straight across ;he Caribbean for Cape Gracias a Dios, Honduras, 600 miles southvest. Picking up the headlands there le will continue along the coast to he field at Puerto Cabezas, where ie will refuel. Then he will hop icross water 600 miles further to Cristobal, Canal Zone. There the mail will be put aboard i Pan-American Grace Airway plane md speed on its way down the east ;oast of South America and across ;he Andes to Buenos Aires. Colonel Lindbergh will fly the mail only as ,:ar as Critobal. Just when Colonel Lindbergh, who s in New York, will leave for Vliami has not been announced, but t was thought he would fly down Friday in his own low-winged nonoplane in which last Sunday, with Mrs. Lindbergh, he set a new ;ross-continent record of 14 hours, 23 minutes and 27 seconds. The plane is at Roosevelt Field, serviced and ready for flight. Whether Mrs. Lindbergh will accompany him on lis flight, as she has on all his long flights since their marriage, was not mown today. In the plane with Lindbergh on the long ocean hop, if Mrs. LindDergh does not go, will be a co-pilot, i radio operator and probably an official of Pan-America, AY, APRIL 25, 1930 V NOCHANGE IN POLITICAL FIELD Indications Are That Second Primary Will Be Necessary; All Are Opposed INTEREST IS INCREASING There has been no change in the line-up of candidates for political office this week, but the campaign is waxing warmber as the primary draws nearer. Every elective officer in the county has opposition and in most cases there are three or more candidates seeking the same office. Every indication now is that a second primary will be necessary, with four citizens seeking the job of Sheriff, five that of Recorder's court, and three men running for the House of Representatives. The race for sheriff is furnishing the hottest topic of conversation all over the county. The Bailey campaign received added impetus in Warren last week with the appointment of E. H. Russell of Macon as campaign manager for Warren. Pictures of Mr. Bailey have appeared in many local stores and several citizens have been seen wearing Bailey buttons. Friends of Senator Simmons have not been inactive and Simmons buttons and literature have also reached the county. There is no Warren manager for the Simmons campaign but Mrs. Charlotte Story Perkinson, a former Warren woman, now living at Raleigh, has been made assistant State campaign manager. Farm Wages Reach New Low Figure WASHINGTON, April 23.?Farm wages on April 1, this year, reached the lowest fgure since 1923, according to the Bureau of Agricultural Economics of the Department of Agriculture. Wages per month with board ranged from $23.30 in the South Atlantic States to $53.99 in the Far Western States. Monthly wages v/ithout board ranged from $33.88 in the South Atlantic States to $77.27 in the Far Western States. Daily wages with board $1.30 in S. Atlantic States; $2.55 in North Atlantic States; without board $1.57 in South Atlantic States; $3.38 in North Atlantic States. "The situation," says the Bureau,, "is a reflection of the larger supply cf farm labor due to the small volume of industrial employment at the present time." The supply of farm labor, stated by the Bureau, was 13 per cent more than the demand in the North Atlantic States and 21 per cent greater than the demand in the Far Western States. PERSONAL MENTIONS Mr. Sam Satterwhite of Manson was a visitor here Wednesday. Mrs. W. A. Connell and Miss Lucy Webb spent the week end in Sampson County and visited the Azalia Gardens in Wilmington. Mrs. A. D. Patterson of Boston was the week end guest of Mr. and Mrs. L.C. Kinsey Mrs. Nat Weldon of Warren Plains was in town Tuesday. Dr. and Mrs. Sam Bobbitt and daughter Betty Anne of Raleigh and Miss Annie Bobbitt spent Easter holidays with Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Allen of Axtelle. Messrs J. M. Gardner and Rodwell Gardner and Mesdames H. A. Moseley and T. B. Gardner spent Tuesday in Raleigh. Prof. A. D. Early of Vaughan was in town on Wednesday Mrs. Norman Gholson of Norlina was a visitor in town on Thursday. Misses Elizabeth Thome and Clara Fleming Pope were in town on Wednesday. Mrs. Tom Taylor, Mr. Edward Taylor of Oxford, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Taylor and daughter Douglas of Durham were visitors here on Monday. Mr. T. E. Overby and sisters, rsorfnrHA and Dell Overby. lyjLlOOtO viv* vmaww ??? _ . of Creek were visitors in the home cf their aunt, Mrs. J. Willey Harris, on Sunday afternoon. RECITAL AT NORLINA The music pupils af Mrs. N. H. Gholson will present a recital at the Norlina school auditorium tonight at 8:30 o'clock. The public is nivited to attend. DAUGHTER BORN Born to Mr. and Mrs. John Powell on April 24, a daughter, Christine Gillis. rb ?,e^0" -= * c^>i_ ? rtecord Straw Vote Shows Wets Have Lead In Digest Poll # . With a record straw vote that surpasses the Presidential straw vote of 1928, the Literary .Digest this week reveals that the wets are still maintaining their lead in the Prohibition poll, and that the damps have a slight lead over the drys. Out of a total of 3,705,742 ballots cast in the straw vote the wets have 1,507,314; the damps have 1,105,683, and the drys have 1,092,745 votes. Other .straw votes taken by various newspapers of the country substantiated the Digest figures. The questions voted upon are (1) Do you favor the continuance and strict enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment and Volstead Law? (2) Do you favor a modification of the Volstead Law to permit light wines and beers? (3) Do you favor a repeal of the Prohibition Amendment? Due to the accuracy of the Literary Digest poll in the last two presidential elections the poll has unusual interest. Charges and counter charges are being made by the wets and drys and newspapers all over the country are giving columns of editorial comment to its results. "The wets claim as a result that] the majority of the people are not in favor of prohibition. The drys say this is untrue, that the wets do not have a majority of the votes, that those favoring modification added to those who want strict enforcement will give the drys the majority. The wets also claim the damps. The facts are, if the poll is an indication, that practically twothirds of the citizens want a change of some kind in the Prohibition laws, whether or not a majority would want to see the law repealed is the chief point of the controversy. Citizens of Franklin Form Organization "The citizens of Franklin county are determined to nave ineir raxes reduced and hope that Warren will join with them in their program seeking relief," William Neal of Louisburg, president of The Franklin county tax relief association, said here yesterday. A county-wide organization was perfected at Louisburg on last Saturday and another meeting will be held tomorrow, according to Mr. Neal. More than 300 citizens attended the meeting last week and former Congressman Hallet Ward was principal speaker. The association has gone on record, Mr. Neal said, as favoring repeal of exemption on foreign bonds, increase of inheritance taxes incases of second cousins and beyond, and upon estates having a value of more than $500,000; increase of tax rate upon corporate and private income; tax on electric power; limited sales tax; a cr>o/*iai cnssinn nf the Legislature mwvmowx. ? ? _ w ana a cut of 25 per cent in valua-, tion of all homes and farm lands in the county. Must Appear In Court For Six Weeks Ed Smiley, negro of Warrenton, I must appear in Recorder's court at Warrenton each Monday morning for the next six weeks and prove by competent witness that he is employed in some honorable work, according to judgment handed down on Monday by Judge T. O. Rodwell. In addition he is required to pay the cost of an action in which he was found guilty of violating the Turlington Act. The only other case in Recorder's ccurt Monday was that of State against Norma Long, charged with reckless driving of an automobile. - ' *ij A jury said that he was nor guuiy. Macon Population 227, Census Shows Macon has a population of 227, according to Census figures for 1930, released this week from the district office at Rocky Mount by Hobart Brantley, supervisor. Ten years ago the population of the Warren town was 149. Figures for other towns in Warren county have not yet been released. GIVES EGG HUNT Master William King was host to a number of his young friends at an Easter egg hunt on Sunday afternoon. MOST OF THE NEWS ALL THE TIME NUMBER 17 FINAL EXERCISES" AT LOCAL SCHOOL Frank Graham To Deliver Commencement Sermon; Littleton Also Closes A LIST OF GRADUATES Final exercises will be held at the Warcenton and Littleton schools tonight and next week the last schools in the Warren county system will end their work for the year 1929-30. Dr. Frank Graham of the University of North Carolina will de liver the commencement sermon at tlie John Graham high school at Warrenton tonight at 8 o'clock, at which time graduating exercises will be held. The baccalaureate sermon was preached on Sunday night by Dr. J. Powell Tucker of Raleigh, and on Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock the music pupils of Miss Lillie Belle Dameron gave a musical recital. Members of the graduating class are Mabel Benson, Elizabeth Boyd, Bessie Capps, Mary Clark, Margaret Davis, Rebecca Davis, Pattie Frazier, Curtis Floyd, Annie Sue Howell, Martha King, Janet Limer, J ulia Limer, Nellie Gray Martin, Helen Reid, Edith Terrell, Ethel Throckmorton, Mary Wagner, Caroline Ward, Raymond Bowen, Hal Connell, William Dameron, Edward Duke, Edward Grant, John Hudg;ins, Pettis Rodwell, Hartwell Scarborough, John Scarborough, John Welch. Class day exercises were held at the Littleton school last night. Tonight at 8 o'clock the commencement addres will be delivered by E. J. Coletrane of Salisbury, president of the North Carolina Education Association. The baccalaureate sermon was delivered on Sunday by the Rev. J. K. Proctor of Oxford. A pageant was given by the first seven grades and seventh grade certificates were presented on Wednesday night. Members of the graduating class of the Littleton school are Deima M. Bobbitt, Helen Thorne Bragg, Mary Brown, Nora M. Browning, Margaret V. Daniel, Mary Frances Harvey, Virginia M. Jenkins, Elizabeth King, Louise Myrick, Mary Elizabeth Pitt, Ruby Phelps, Laura Rainey, Mary Louise Rogers, Selma Scofield, Thelma Scofield, Ida Belle Wilson, William Fishel, Charles Allen Jones, Spencer Miller, Wilbur Myrick, J. Edwin Shearin, Wilbur Shearin, Stith Walker. Dr. J. T. Gibbs of Warrenton delivered the commencement sermon for the Afton-Elberon school at the Sulphur Springs Baptist church on Sunday morning at II o'clock. On Monday evening the Declamation and Recitation contests were held. The final exercises were held last night when seventh grade exercises mom holrl anrl momhors nf t.hp 9th grade received certificates of promotion to the Warrenton high school. Prof. J. L. Memory of Wake Forest college delivered the commencement address. Dr. T. J. Gibbs will preach the baccalaureate sermon to the members of the Drewry school on Sunday morning, April 27, at 11 o'clock. Exercises of the primary and grammar grades will be held on Thursday, May 1, at 8 o'clock. On Friday, May 2, at 8 p. m., the high school play will be presented and tenth grade certificates will be presented. The members of the tenth grade will next year enter the Middleburg school to complete their high school course. Grammar grade exercises will be held in the Macon school tonight at 8 o'clock. On Smday, April 27, at 8 p. m., the Rev. B. N. ds FoeWagner, Episcopal minister of War. renton, will deliver the commencement sermon. Graduating exercises of the high school will be held on Monday evening, April 28, at 8 o'clock. Seventh grade exercises of the Vaughan school will be held tonight at 7:30 o'clock. On Sunday evening at 8 o'clock the Rev R. S. Fountain, Baptist minister of Weldon, will preach the commencement sermon. Prof. J. L. Memory of Wake Forest will deliver the commencement address on Monday, April 28, at 7:30 p. m. High school promotion exercises will follow. The commencement sermon for the Norlina school will be delivered on Sunday morning: at 11 o'clock by Professor R. B. White of Wake Forest. Class day exercises will be held on Monday, April 28, at 8 o'clock. The following night at 8 the commencement address will be delivered by Hon. W. H. S. Burgwyn of Woodland, and diplomas will be awarded. Wise school grammar grade exercises will be held tonight at 8 (Continued on page 8)
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