accurate, terse
timely
ml mWi
h aw sites
Mpresentative of Highway
ML mission To Inspect
m sites Within Few Days
I\T?R WITH SAM SCOTT
Wro tracts of land in Warren I
Wn- have been offered the State I
Wny commission as sites for thel
Won of a prison camp, W. H. I
l...ffhs. member of the board I
county commissioners, saia yea
Ly Mr. Burroughs said that he I
S j conversation over the phone I
K Sam Scotr, supervisor of pri- I
camps, several days ago and]
S Scott said that he or a re- I
sentativfs would be in Warren I
iin two weeks to look over these I
pt county home property was I
mired the commission last Thurs-1
when John Clay Powell, chair-1
M cf the board of county commis-1
frs and Dr. G. H. Macon J
Sored to Raleigh and held a con-1
Mn a with Mr Scott and Charles I
M, attorney for the highway I
onmmis. I
tig lor me tuumj -w.?-?
r. Powell offered the State
y the county home proto
purchase as much land
be required for the prison
was said.
att, according to informtlnued
on page 8)
sentatives Of
h Races Study
Canning Methods
ientatives of both raoes
ry township in Warren
me to Warranton on Tues.
rn from Mrs. Hazel Wheedemonstration
agent of
unty, the proper manner
o preserve foods.
?eler, assisted by Mrs. W.
and Mrs. Van Dortch,
ifax county, demonstratwhite
ladies of Warren
oing and to members of
race In the afternoon.
in the demonsti-atlon
snt by members of both!
they listened to Mrs. I
Ieier, saw ner metnoa 01 canand
asked questions.
? demonstration, which was
ed in Boyd's warehouse, was
>r the auspices of the Warren
ity chapter of the Red Cross.
Red Cross is making an effort
leach the women over Warren
they may preserve the surplus
d their gardens until the hard
I days of winter when hunger
b at many doors. Representas
from each township were
ight here by invitation with the
i of teaching them the art of
ting in order that they may go
k to their homes and instruct
l*omen of their neighborhood,
[is felt that Mrs. Wheeler's deptration
will have a far reachleffect
over the county,
pe stove with which Mrs.
pier worked and the electricity
r furnished free by the CaroI
Power & Light Company.
[anted To Smoke;
|Robs Servirp Station!
B*e lor the right brand of tobac
?ay not have been strong
B&h to cause a smoking addict
Bollov the R. J. Reynold's slogan
*alk a mile for a Camel, but
I Shaving hunger for a smoke
probably responsible for a thief
lnt0 Allen Service Station
B^'arrenton on Tuesday night
V* he fastideously chose his
Be robber gained entrance into
service station by neatly clipB
'he wire over a rear window.
....
up oi the place the next 1
% by Mr. Allen revealed that 1
intruder had taken Camel I
Wes, Lord Baltimore cigars
a lew crackers. Money in the
draw was not disturbed. There
a number of other brands of
j-t'^s and cigars which were
^ftole to the robber but he dis-1
^ted in his selection and left |
*ber brands on the counter. 1
Xaa reported that Edward's 1
Station on the northern!
W-IVarrenton was broken Into!
^me night and thoroughly!
but due to the fact that I
f-blce station was closed at!
^Bbnte, this report could not be 1
FROM I
1
Katherine Bell, Katherine.
Elizabeth Taylor and!
V1 palmer Moore returned!
on Wednesday where!
been attending a young!
H?s Sunday school conference J
days
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Miss Moseley Is
Winner In Ladies
Golf Tournament
Playing with a five-stroke handicap,
Miss Katherine Moseley netted
406 points on 72 holes to be declared
the winner in the Woman's
handicap golf tournament that
ended on the local course cn last
Friday afternoon after four days of'
play. Only members of the Warrenton
club participated.
Miss Laura Boyd, playing with
no handicap, came in second with
a total of 413 strokes for the 72
holes. Mrs. A. Jones, with 4 strokes
handicap, and Mrs. L. B. Beddoe,
with three strokes handicap, tied
for third position with a total of
421 each. Straws were drawn to decide
honors and Mrs. Jones received
third prize while Mrs. Beddoe
was given fourth. Mrs. R. B.
Boyd Jr. came in with a total score
of 428. She was playing without
handicap.
Mrs. W. H. Dameron, handicap 3,
came in with a net score of 429.
Mrs. M. C. McGuire. netted 432;
her handicap was 4. Miss Olivia
Burwell, given a handicap of 10,
netted 436. Mrs. L. C. Kinsey, with
no handicap, netted 448. Mrs. W.
M. Gardner, handicap 7, netted 449.
Mrs. W. D. Rodeers. handicaD 4.
netted 452. Miss Lucy Burwell, handicap
8, netted 460. Miss Edith Burwell
netted 471 strokes for the 72
(Continued on Page 8)
Large Attendance
Expected At Sunday
School Gathering
All indications point to a recordbreaking
attendance at the Annual
Warren County Sunday School
Convention, which is to be held on
Friday, June 26, with the Bethel
Methodist church, Areola N. C. The
open session will be held Friday
morning at 9:45.
According to announcements
made by the officers of the County
Sunday School Association, a
program has been prepared with
Sunday School Association, the
the idea, of having a convention for
the discussion of practical Sunday
school plans and problems, Che
plan being to have something in
the convention that will help workers
of all departments of the Simnot'
cohnnl '
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Among the speakers on the jjn>gram
will be Rev. Shuford Peeler,
Salisbury, general secretary of the
North Carolina Sunday Schdol Association,
and prominent Sunday
school" workers of the county. During
the convention these workers
will discuss phases of Sunday school
work.
As has been previously announced
a pennant will be presented to the
Sunday school having in the convention
the largest average attendance
of representatives fifteen years
of age and over, based on the number
of miles from that particular
church to the church with which
the convention is held. The contest
is open td all Sunday schools in the
county, except the Sunday school
with which the convention is held
ant others within one mile. The
pennant will be presented at the
close of the session cn Friday afternoon.
SJiArJflF Tearlf# Car:
mmm m, m . y
Recovers Battery
Tracks from the car In which
thieves rode led to the recovery
Sunday afternoon of a battery
stolen from the automobile of S.
N. Hawks of near Norlina on Saturday
night or early Sunday morning.
|
The battery was missed by Mr.
Hawks Sunday morning when he
went to his garage. Imprints in the
road left by automobile tires gave
Mr. Hawks a clue which he followed
to the home of Curtis Pinkney,
negro.
Sheriff W. J. Pinnell was notified
about noon Sunday and he with Mr.
Hawks went to the Pinkney home
where the battery was located in
an old Studebaker. When questioned
by the Warren county sheriff,
Ed Pinkney, son of Curtis Pinkney,
told the officer that he didn't know
anything about the theft of the
battery, but that he went to the J
scene of the robbery with Joe Bark, |
also negro. Bark said ?that he did
not take the battery, but that he
went to Mr. T"iwks house with Ed
Pinkney. Both negroes were arrested,
as was John Pinkney, brother of
Ed, believed to have been connected
with the larceny, and given a hear
ing before Magistrate J. C. Haray
who bound all three of the negroes
over to Recorder's court under $50
bond each. Ball was furnished by
Billy Mayfield, for whom the negroes
work.
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WARRENTON, COUI
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One eveninq
Charles Schwab,
a stable boy, sanq J
as he worked. His I
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ears of Andrew T
Carneaie Who v
souqht dn acquain- i
tance and started
5chWab on his
career as one of the
area test fiqures in
the steel business
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Warrenton Citizens
Beneficaries Under
Mrs. Wallace's Will
Gordon W. Potindexter of Warrenton
will receive approximately
$21,000 in the division of the estate
of the late Mrs. Victoria B.
Sevens Wallace, according to a ruling
of the Virginia Supreme Court
of Appeals last Friday. Mr. Poindexter's
legacy represents cne-fourteenth
of the estate.
Elizibeth Gordon Taylor, William
Woodruff Taylor, Leonora Taylor
and Catherine Woodruff Taylor,
children of Dr. W. W. Taylor of
Warrenton, and great-great neices
and nephew of Mrs. Wallace, will
each receive one-fourteenth share
of the estate of nearly half-million
dollars.
May Michael Murchison, wife cf
Dr. David Murchson, prominent
physician of Wilmington, and her
brother, George Carmichael of New
York, were losers by the court de.
cision in a bitterly contested legal
fight over the distribution of the
major portion of the legacy. Mrs.
Wallace provided that three-fourth
cf the estate should be divided'
among the heirs of Judge Wallace
of whom there were 25 surviving.
Mrs. Murchison and her brother
contended that the estate should be
distributed per stirpes. The other
heirs insisted that it should be di*
" " ?J 4-U~ /l^e.
viciea per capita, wmumg mC ucvw- |
icn in the circuit court of Spottsylvania
county which is now affirmed
by the appellate court. Under this
decision, Mrs. Murchison and Mr.
Carmichael will divide $21,450 between
them. Had the estate been
distributed ped stripes, that is, the
children of any one descendant collectively
taking the share which
their parents would have taken if
living, they would have got approximately
$60,000 together.
Robert W. Strange, Richmond
lawyer, formerly of Wilmington,
represented Mrs. Murchison and
her brother in the litigation. .
Mrs. Wallace belonged to an old
and prominent Philadelphia family
and died December 14, 1927, several
months after the death otf her husband.
She directed in her will that
t.vio Ho cHwn a handsome funeral I
WV o- * ~~ M ?
and that a granite monument costing
$10,000 be erected over her
grave.
Sheriff Says Da vises
Not His Deputies
"Neither John Cary Davis nor
Edward Davis are employed as my
deputies," Sheriff W. J. Pinnell told
The Warren Record yesterday in
an effort to remove from the minds
of some people over Warren the
opinion that Edward Davis was
holding two county positions.
Sheriff Pinnell said that the Davis
brothers had been named seme time
ago to assist him in upholding the
law, but that since Edward Davis
- 1-111 Vl? the
was imniea m a uxn paoo^u ?-?
recent session of the Legislature as
Prohibition Enforcement Officer for
Warren county that he was serving
in that capacity and not as one of
his lieutenants, and that he was
being assisted by his brother, John
Cary Davis.
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019?0 ftgc. US. PAT. OFFDr.
Taylor Takes
Part of Kingfish In
Local Talent Play
With Dr. W. W. Taylor, Judge of
Warren County Recorder's Court,
in the role of Kingfish, supported
by Henry Anderson in the role of a
girl, and Mrs. Prank Allen as a
negro mammy, the three-act comedy,
"Kingfish," bids fair to draw
large crowds to the local school
auditorium on next Thursday and
Friday nights.
The play is being directed by
Mrs. Ruby Crockette Newsome of
the North State Producing Company,
Rocky Mount. Proceeds will
be used for the benefit of the Girl
Scouts.
Bill Taylor, son of Dr. W. W. I
Tavlor. will plav the part of Jerry,
husband of Bonnie, acted by Miss
Lucy Baskerville. Alfred Ellington
will take the part of Charlie Beasley,
a real Mason. Sap Allen plays
the part of Bill Mason, would-besuitor.
Mrs. Jack Scott will depict
the part of Mrs. Gladstone, wife of
the Kingfish. Miss Alice Burwell
and Miss Annie Mae Rodgers will
be in the cast as Rose and Charlotte,
daughters of t'igxKingfish.
Night Howlers ancj||||prus girls
will furnish song and|^fnce and in
addition there will be'joetween-theacts
features.
A special feature of the twonights
entertainments will be the
"Sleepytown Special," in which 100
children between the ages of 5 and
7 in night costumes will take part.
Silas O. Nunn, with ideas as to
antics of models while displaying
styles, will have several local business
men to help him put on a
fashion show. J. C. Burwell will
(Continued on Page 8)
Many Expected To
Attend Charity Ball
At Armory Tonight
Many dancing couples are expected
to congregate here tonight
for the Black and White Ball which
is being staged in the armory between
the hours of 10 and 2 o'clock
by the Black Cat Club, charity or
ganization. Music will be furnished
by Thurston's orchestra of Rocky
Mount and the proceeds from the
dance will be turned over to Miss
Lucy I. Leach for welfare work in
the county.
The affair tonight will be . the
second big dance that has been put
on here under the auspices of the
Black Cats. The first dance .took
place at Hotel Warren when more
than 75 couples participated and
left over a hundred dollars which
found its way to the homes of unfortunates
over the county.
The armory is being used rather
than the hotel, it was said, on account
of the fact that more couples
are expected tonight than on the
previous occasion and more floor
space will be required.
The following ladies and gentlemen
have been asked to chaperone
the dance tonight: Mrs. Katherine
P. Arrington, Mrs. A. A. Williams,
Mr. and Mrs. M. C. McGuire, Mr.
and Mrs. W. H. Dameron, Mr. and i
Mrs. J. P. Scoggin, and Miss Lucy
Leach. i
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RIDAY, JUNE 26, 1931
filVFS SFT [IP"..
ROADS SYSTEM
State to Take Over County
Roads July 1; No More
Road Tax Levies
JEFFRESS IS IN CHARGE
RALEIGH, June 23,-State highway
commission engineers, chief of
them, Leslie R. Ames, today gave
the "set up" for districts in the
state system, which will make July
1 as big a day in North Carolina
as July 4 in the nation.
For July 1, 1931, makes the time
when the last cent of road tax will
be levied and all trace of the old
system will be gone. It has passed
In the 10 years just closed from the
old "warning in" system under
which every citizen of the state
living on a public road and under
18 minimum had to work the public
roads four days in each year. This
form of involuntary servitude has
gone and nobody after July 1, 1931,
will be required to pay any road
tax in North Carolina.
Chairman E. B. Jeffress, late
member of the general assembly
from Guilford, will direct the taking
over and Mr. Ames will engineer
the approximate 50,000 miles of
county roads. Mr. Ames today announced
his districts, 25 of them,
into which the state will be divided
for working purposes. They are in
no sense related to the old system.
Under the new plan there are more
miles to each of the five districts
than were in the old state system
at any time of its development.
The absorption of the complete
county mileage is no more revolutionary
than the taking over of all
county convict camps. Next week
Chairman Jeffress must set a table
for 4,000 prisoners who will proceed
to eat 12,000 meals for him. These
are in addition to the 2,700 prisoners
whom George Ross Pou, of the
state's prison, has on his hands.
mi i_ a au: u _ ~
mere tire uig uiiiigs iiuppeiuug
next week. But July 1 is a real declaration
of independence. There
will be no more road tax. No tax
paid by the public has been contributed
with less resistance. But
it had become burdensome for all
that. The road tax has had an
(Continued on Page 3)
Local Merchants
To Observe July 6
As A Holiday
Warrenton will observe the fourth
of July holiday two days later cn
the 6th. according to agreement entered
into between the local merchants.
Reasons for delayed celebration
is that the Fourth comes
on Saturday and its observance cm
that day would inconvenience those
who trade here.
No set program for Monday, July
6, has been worked out, and it is
believed that individual merchants
and there employees will seek such
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their individual taste. There wiil be
swimming, golf, fishing, and week
end trips to nearby beaches and
towns.
Stores which have agreed to close
on Monday, July Q, are Rose's 5
& 10, M System, W. H. ftiggan,
Sanitary Barber Shop, A & P Tea
Co., Rodwell Brothers, Hight Grocery
Co., Burroughs Grocery Co.,
Warrenton Department Store, The
Spot Store, R. R. Rodwell, Cash
Company Inc., Allen, Son & Co., P.
Freidenberg, Service Shoe Repair
Shop, M. Perman, W. R. Lancaster,
Rhem's, Inc., N. P. Marks & Co.,
W. A. Miles Hardware Co.. Allen &
Kaplon, Home Furniture & Supply
Co., D. P. Store, T. B. Smart, M.
G. Taylor, Effie Ellington, Citizens
Bank, M. R. Burroughs, Bank of
Warren, Harris & Gardner, R. O.
Snipes.
Joe Taylor To Be
Local Road Man
Joe Taylor of Durham has been
appointed one of the three road
supervisors of the fifth district embracing
Warren county and will
make his headquarters at Warrenton.
/
Mr. and Mrs. Taylor r.nd daughter
are expected to move to Warren
ton shortly after July 1 and will
make their home In the John Henderson
residence.
SPROUTING POTATO
An Irish potato about thumbsize
with a sprout that measured
45 and 1-2 inches was brought to
The Warren Record office yesterday
by C. C. Hunter. Mr. Hunter
said that the potato and the sprout
grew this way wniie ueiug oh wic
ground in the basement.
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Warrenton Tobacco
Market To Open On
September 22nd
The Warrenton Tobacco Market
will be opened on September 22,
according to announcement made
this week by the United States Tobacco
Association.
Local warehousemen are already
making plans for the largest sale
season in years and with three
warehouses in operation here, it is
predicted that there will be a substantial
increase in the amount of
tobacco handled during the approaching
season.
Negro Janitor Is
Given Suspended
Roads Sentence
Jim Smith, negro jaintor at the
John Graham high school for a
number of years, plead guilty in
Recorder's court Monday morning
to noKKPssinn and transnortine
whiskey and was fined $10.00 and
costs plus a fee to be paid to the
officer making the arrest and given
a six months suspended road sentence.
Smith was arrested last week by
Prohibition Enforcement Officer
Edward Davis, Deputy John Cary
Davis and Sheriff W. J. Pinnell
when he was seen with another
negro coming across a field from
the direction of a still which had
been destroyed by the officers. Both
negroes ran, it was said, as the officers
apporached, and one made
good his escape. Smith held a bag
containing a little over five gallons
of booze when he was brought under
arrest.
According to evidence presented
before Judge W. W. Taylor, both)
negroes began running after the of- j
(Continued on Page 8)
Severe Electrical
Storm At Warrenton
On Sunday Night
A stroke of lightning entering on
the power lines wrecked a switch
and about two hundred feet of conduit
at the Boyd-Gillam Mctor
Company during a severe electric
storm here cn Sunday night. The
I building was mien witn smose out
no fire resulted.
Lightning at about the same time
knicked out a unit in an electric
stove at the home of William Hunt
in the R. J. Jones residence located
about 200 yards from the BoydGillam
Motor Co.
J. R. Palmer at Merry Mount
suffered the loss of a stack of oats
set on fire by lightning. Mr. Palmer
had worked late into Saturday
night stacking his oats to save theml
from the rain, it is said. Stacks of
old oats nearby were uninjured, ac-,
ccrding to reports.
The storm of Sunday night was J
the chief topic of conversation here(
on Monday morning as citizens related
their reactions when thunderous
crashes followed almost instantaneously
the stroke of lightning.
Most of the talkers said they were
scared almost stiff. Others said they
felt none too comfortable and that
the women of the household were
badly frightened.
W. T. Polk To Wed
In Canada June 30
William T. Polk, his mother, Mrs.
Tasker Pclk. and his sister. Mrs.
John Mitchell departed yesterday
for Toronto, Canada, where Mr.
Polk and Miss Marion Gunn will
be married on June 30th. Mrs. Polk
and Mrs. Mitchell will go by train
to Canada. Mr. Polk will join John
Mitchell at Washington,, D. c.,
where he has been for several days
on his vacation, and go to Canada
by motor,
Mr. and Mrs. Polk are expected
to return to Warrenton about July j
10 and will make their home in the
Polk residence cai Main Street
MISS DAMERON AND MISS
WILKER BROADCAST TODAY
Miss Lillle Belle Dameron, accompanied
by Miss Drusa Wilker,
will give a recital over Station
WPTF, Raleigh, this afternoon at
4:15 o'clock. The program follows:
The Mermaid's Song (Haydon); In
the Time of Roses ^Reichardt);
Four Leaf Clover (Brcnell); Slave
S'Jng (Del Riego); Rocking Chair
Boat (Huerta; Lassie O' Mine
(Walt).
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n/uu iTi/iiyuii m/atiDAuu'
Hal Macon, formerly of Warrenton,
has been made claim adjuster
for the highway commission and
will have charge of this phase of
work in the counties, west of Raleigh,
according to recent announcement
from Raleigh.
'JIIW $PI1
MOST OF THE NEWS
ALL THE TIME
NUMBER 26
COTTON JUMPS
$3.50 A BALE
Proposal to Suspend Debt
Payment for Year Causes
Rise In Prices
EFFECT IS WORLD-WIDE
Cotton jumped nearly $3.50 a bale
on Monday following announcement
of President Hoover's proposal
that war debts and reparation
payments be suspended for one
year. Other commodities and stocks
followed suit on the New York Stock
exchange and cti leading stock
markets of the world. Great Britian,
Italy, Austria and Germany readily
gave informal approval of the pro.
posal.
France, with a new and vast
colonial empire, and with reparations,
has been doing very well, according
to Washington correspondents,
but of late months her statesmen
have felt the pull downward
from neighboring countries like
Austria, Poland, Italy and Spain,
that have been no more successful
than Germany in escaping financial
trouble.
France has transmitted her reply
to the American government
and it will be made public today.
Political leaders believe that
France will offer an unacceptable
proposal and held back on agree
meni to tne xioover piari lor a
short while, but eventually will
accept.
The propceal of President Hoover
has the backing of party leaders
and is expected to receive the support
cf Congress when it meets in
December. The announcement of
the proposal for debt suspension
has met with favorable comment all
over the country and many foreign
countries, and especially in Germany
which was faced with governmental
ccllapse due to her debt
load, which was considered unbearable.
Leaders feel that with a year
oi grace she can make an economic
recovery.
Commenting on the President's
proposal, the Washington correspondent
of the Greensboro Daily
News said on Tuesday:
There is the school of thought
that has maintained for scone time
that restoration of normal business
conditions was dependent, not so
much upon the removal of tariff
barriers, abandonment of the dole,
especially by England, and a curtailment
in armament expenditure,
but rather the desired end of putting
business on its feet must
come from some act calculated to
attract universal attention, and that
would inspire confidence.
pri1 m thio
nit; nuuvci [Jiuwiauiau^ni UI vimw
respect was so simple, and withal
so effective, that many are now
wcndering why President Hoover
allowed the agony to be prolonged;
why he din'nt take the obviously
needed step at least when apprised
that the Berlin reichsbank was hav(Continued
on page 5)
J. B. Miller Named
Principal Of John
Graham School
J. B. Miller of China Grove has
been elected principal cf the John
Graham High School fcr the schObl
year 1931-32, according to an announcement
made yesterday by V.
P. Ward, chairman of the board of
trustees. Mr. Miller for the past
three years has been principal of
the Macon school.
Several vacancies in the John
Graham faculty remain to be filled.
Mr. Miller attended school at
j Chowan College and the University
of North Carolina. He left the former
during his senior year in 1917
to enter the Army where he served
with the Air Forces. Following the
war he entered the University of
North Carolina and pursued a
course of study for A. B. and A. M.
degrees, completing them both in
1921 at which time he was given his
A. B. degree and the following year
received his Master's Degree. He
took post graduate wcrk at the University
during the session of 1922-23
in Educational Administration. Mr.
Miller is married but has no children.
He and Mrs. Miller expect to
move to Warrenton within the next
few days.
Commissioners To
Meet On Monday
The Board of county commissioners
of Warren county will meet in
called session on next Monday,
June 29, according to announcement
made vesterdav bv Joe Powell.
clerk to the board. The purpose of
the meeting is to discuss county
finances, and is expected to be of
short duration.