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I ^CURATE, TERSE ? <"? v I TIMtn ^ Wt/MEX^XI MlimWTi 0NTY COURT L Jfrman Case Proves IMwing Card In Record- I I ers Court Monday /FIXED $25 AND COSTS! Larder's court hud the bearing I Ue higher tribunal on Monday I L^g as many white and colored I Ufiis assembled at the justice I Lnsary to hear the case against I Us Jerman. powerful negro of Lrenton who fled to the W. H. / Ueron home when officers sought I farrest him Saturday afternoon I [ a charge of creating a distur- I Le in Ramsey's cafe; to listen / Jth? evidence in a case charging [Littleton negro with fornication L adultery: and to gather the I -1 - 11 J uticulars of a fignt ?inm www* . i i,e[ueen two white men at a I Rising hole near the Virginia- I uolina linejermaii was charged with having I iisby in his possession. He had J en found guilty earlier in the j uming by -Mayor Frank Gibbs on I charge of creating a public dis- I rbance. Evidence were brought I :t before Mayor Gibbs to show I L he had been dringing at the [ toe of the disorder and had liquor I According to evidence in court! Irinan and Ramsey had been hav- I to words when Jerman drew a I tie of whiskey over his head and I teatened to strike the proptietor. f fasey hit him over the head with I Icoca-cola botle. Jerman testified I & court that he and the cafe owner I re arguing over payment for I tme home-brew that he had bought J lorn Ramsey, and that he also I lught the whiskey from Ramsey, ten asked why he ran to thel Imeron home, the negro replied I t the blow that he had received J fcr his head from Ramsey had I |ocked his sence out and he did I ; know where ne was going, ludge Taylor found Jerman guilty transporting whiskey and fined i $25 and costs and gavs him a te months road sentence which I suspended on the condition t the fined and costs were paid, is still in jail. Allowing the case a warrant was m out against Dick Ramsey iging him with selling whiskey. > cafe proprietor was tried bei Mayor Gibbs, but evidence * insufficient to find him guilty the charge. "wo bills of indictment were m up against Robert Arrington, tleton negro; one chargeing him ' h fornication and adultery, and ; other charging him with havwhiskey in his possession. Liz- ' Roberts was the woman who : ued in the charges which grew of an escapade on the night July 4th. The negro was found guilty on the first count and ; s fined $10 and costs and given three months suspended road < tenoe on the whiskey charge, he fight at the swimming hole r the Virginia-Carolina line be- 1 en two young white men nesult*ith N. G. Hudgins receiving a ft eye. having his glasses broken, 1 1 with George King being ar- 1 ined in court to face a charge js&ult. The affray, according to race, was the outcome of unHimentary remarks that passed *een the two men after King accused Hudgins' younger et of stealing his pistol, which usation had been denied by the ??er Mr. Hudgins. Testimony , % Taylor to find King not ^ ?* the assf.ult charge. us Banzet represented Robert ??on in court; Overby and 1 represented King; James Jer. " w'thout counsel; Cromwell iin0repr Sented th,s State. QuesacitvWltnesses to attack the 0l their testimony, objecira]C?era&? of the same gfotand tehw Was' a great extent, ich i,? r t'le lengthy session Iasted all the morning. lSes Alphabet In I iNaming 16 Children fWMAN, Ga., July 15.?For I nomenclature Mr. and Mrs. I f Ginn, who live near here, l Ponded the alphabetic sys-1 Especially {or a family with 161 dative ages, they find, are! tailed to mind and all ele-l P ai error is practically ellmi-i ^In giving a complete enum-l Pa11 children are named as fol-1 r Btodie, Corbin, Dorcas, El-1 r ^azzan, Gregor, Hassie, 1th-1 ?'Jessie, Kester, Lisbon, Man-1 Kpon, Ornice, Paschal, and^ L tl the children have chil-. W01 their own, \ SI Alfred Williams Escapes Injury When His Car Overturns Alfred Williams, young son of Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Williams of Warrenton, escaped injury on Saturday night when the Studebaker he was driving turned over twice and landed in an upright position in a pea patch about half way between Warrenton and Norlina. i The accident occurred, it was said, when Mr. Williams attempted to avoid crashing into a buggy which was traveling in the center of the road while the man at the reins slept. The car was badly damaged. Man Badly Shocked And Horse Killed By Stroke of Lightning Mason Williams, negro tenant on the Roy Daniel farm three miles south-west of Warrenton, was hurl ed twenty teet and KnocKed unconacience, it was said, by a shock from lightning which killed his horse as he was plowing Wednesday afternoon when a storm occurred. Williams regained conscience shortly afterwards and is recovering from the shock. Rains Badly Needed All Sections County Rain is badly needed in all sections of Warren according to reports that have come to this office from farmers of all sections of the county. Although the situation is not as acute as last year when the crpps were paralyzed by the drought, the fields are thirsting for rain, and growth is being retarded. There have been several rains of late but most of these have been mild in nature and have not been general. For example, Warrenton welcomed a gentle rain that lasted for a few minutes on Tuesday, but the space which these drops covered did not extend as far as Warren Plains, it was said. And so it has been ibt several weeks. Oyster Good Any Month, Says Expert WASHINGTON, July 14.?The be lief that oysters should be eaten during: the "R" months only is a widespread popular fallacy according to J. M. Lemon, associate technologist in the Commerce Department's Bureau of Fisheries, who has just completed a study of the market for fresh oysters in fourteen cities of the United States. As a possible reason advanced for the growth of the popular fallacy that oysters are not good in the summer, Mr. Lemon pointed out that 80 or 100 years ago, methods of transportation and handling were not advanced to the modern level, and that, as a consequence, oysters were more liable to spoliation. It was mainly on economic matter. Dealers did not want to keep on hand products that would deteriorate. 79-Year-Old "Boys" To Run A Foot Race YORK, S. C? July 14?A couple of 79-year-old York county "boys" will run a foot race here the first Monday in August. They are Bobert M. ("Uncle Bob") Whitesides, of Hickory Grove "official" county auctioneer, and William A. ("Uncle Billy") reweu, of Rock Hill, a member of the board of registration. Said "Uncle Bot" recently when the two chanced to meet: "I can outrun any 79-year-old man in the country." "Uncle Billy," who takes pride in his own ability and fleetness of foot, fired back: "You just can't. I can outrun you any old day in the year." Arrangements for the foot race to be a 50 to 100 yard event, followed. TRAVEL FROM NEW YORK IN LESS THAN 13 HOURS "I believe we set a mark for others to shoot at when we came from White Plains, 20 miles beyond New York, to Warrenton in 13 hours," commented J. Boyd Massenburg, Warrenton tobacconist yesterday. Mr. Massenburg and his son, Walter Boyd Massenburg, returned from White Plains, New York, on Sunday. They left Warrenton on last Thursday with Mrs. J. B. Massenburg Quo n white and spent anu mm. ?. _ a few days visiting Mr. Willie White in that city. Mrs. Massenburg and Mrs. White remained for a visit of several weeks. hp M; WARRENTON, COl I lUcky -By CB 1 A "W VALlEEANDBOGAftl While sWimminq in a \ A.Doqardus.saW Rud' the .room With a saxS qot into the . pool Boq * in conversation - foun offered to teach him. -A LUQh REC.UA PAT, grp. ?i9So Negro Boy Charged With Assault On Little Negro Girl James Davis, 16 or 18 years old negro boy, is being held in the Warren county jail without bond to face charges in Superior court of criminally assaulting Teola Yancey, 9year-old negro girl. According to evidence brought out before Magistrate W. O. Ellington Monday afternoon, the negro girl and her 7-year-old brother had gone to the spring Sunday afternoon after -water when she was attacked, thrown down and assaulted by the young negro boy. Screams from the girl and from her little brother brought her parents to the scene and the negro boy fled into the woods. Davis was arrested at his home Sunday night about 12 o'clock by W. J. Pinnell, sheriff of Warren county, and placed in jail here. Both neeroes live in Sandy Creek township, about twelve miles from Warrenton. Twins Enjoy Fooling Friends and Police NORWALK, Conn., July 15.?The pretty Binney twins, who look so much alike they are always having fun confusing their friends, policemen and everyboby else, are in another jam today. They are eighteen and full of pep. You never can tell which is Ida and which is Anna. Last January Ida went to Harlem prison for two days rather than pay a $25 fine. She wanted the experience for a book she is going to write. But it was Anna who had-been arrested. Anna lost her drivers' license, and the switching of names was discovered yesterday by a girl reported when Anna got in trouble again for speeding in Darien. Anna gave the name of Ida because she had no license. But this time Ida is not going to jail. It is too hot at this time of the year. In this swapping of names Ida usually comes out second best. Anna got a job as waitress recently, and when Ida took her place one night Ida was fired, so she didn't get much material for her book. Hoover's Camp Was Isolated By Storm LURAY, Va., July 14.?For two hours late Saturday afternoon, the three highest executives now in the United States were entirely shut off from communication with the outside world. The executives were President' Hoover, Vice President Curtis and Acting Secretary Castle of the state department, ranking officers of the ranking departments in the absence from the country of Secretary Stimsoa While resting at the presidential lodge in the mountains near here, a brilliant electric storm disrupted I all wire service, including the Presi i.inM dent's special telephone connecuuu | with the White House. ? 7J-5 . *11 armt JNTY OF WARREN, N. C., : BREAKS I I. Miller f J < DUSGOT SOAKED! M.C.A., pool Henry y Vailee come into iphone. Vhen fcudy ardus enqaqed him id he cocilcj not piay'Y SWIM FOR RUDY ttfurnto-Divers Search Roanoke For Body Of Negro Woman STEEL BRIDGE CAFE, July 12. ?Many people gathered here on Sunday as divers plunged beneath the muddy waters of the Roanoke in search of the body of Elizabeth Bass, young negro of Raleigh who was thrown into tbe river and drowned last night when the car in which she was riding collided with a truck on the narrow bridge here. . The girl, about 18 years old, her mother, Lillie Bass, Jonathan Austin, driver of the car, and another negro man were driving from Raleigh to Baltimore when the ac cident occurred. Virginia authorities arrested Austin, who had sustained a fractured arm, after the accident. The mother was taken back to Raleigh, her condition hysterical, but apparently suffering no badily injuries other than bruises. Reports reaching Wfirrenton were that on Monday the body of the dead woman was removed from the river twenty miles below the scene of the accident, however, this information could not be verified. Girl Scouts Return After Spending A Week In Camp Impressed by the joys of camp life, twelve girl scouts of the Warren ton junior troop returned on Tuesday to their homes hsrer_aftey a week spent at Camp Gibsonville, near Greensboro. Thjey were accompanied by the Misses Olivia Burwell and Lucy Boyd, councilors. Handicraft, nature study, hikes, cooking, swimming, and stories around camp-fires kept the girls busy in a happy manner, it was said. Members of the troup on the trip were Edna and Irene Fleming, Gene Williams, Louise Milby, Katherine Williams, Mary Macon, Laura Ellis, Mariam Boyd, Helen Holt, Nancy Gillam, Elizabeth Boyce, and Flora Davis Wood. Carson W. Moore Buried On Saturday The remains of Carson W. Moore I of Palmer Springs were buried with Masonic honors at the Tabernacle j Methodist church near Townsville on Saturday. Mr. Moore died at his home Friday followering a lingering illness. He was about 58 years of age. PERSONAL MENTION Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Abbott and daughter of Elberon were visitors at Warrenton on Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. C. E> Rodwell are visitors at Raleigh today. The Misses Katherine Arlington and Bobbie Jones were visitors in I Raleigh yesterday. ' Mr. Bill Palmer spent Thursday and part of today in Durham. Miss Mary Palmer has returned to Macon after spending soma time her in the home of Mrs. Tasker Polk. id jeuriiJu FRIDAY,JULY 17, 1931 TAXPAYERS SAVE? RESULT STATE AID New Road and School Legislation to Reduce Property h Tax Over $12,000,000 J FIGURES ARE RELEASED \ RALEIGH, July 15.?A net reduc- * tion of $12,167,849 from the 1930 1 property tax levies for the six f months school term and county v roads will be realized by North r Carolina taxpayers as a result of c the school and road legislation of 1 the 1931 General Assembly. T Figures compiled and just released by the State Tax Commis- * sion indicate that a saving of near. s ly twelve and a quarter million dollars from the actual 1930 levies will accrue to the owners of prop- ? erty from the passage of the ad- * ministration road law under which the state takes over the entire 1 maintenance of county roads, and e the MacLean school law under ? which the state takes over the en- 8 tire maintenance of the six months s school term and reduces the levies 8 on property for school support to 15 cents. The net reduction from the 1930 j. levy for the six months term is $9,- j 652,491' and for roads $2,515,358. t The average reduction in rate for schools is 32 cents and for roads 9 ^ cents. j The actual levy for county and r township road maintenance in 1930 was $5,252,113, none of which is to i levied in 1931. The counties will c have to assume additional respon- <j sibilities this year, however, in the c amount of $2,736,755 for the pay- c ment of county road debt service 1: which last year was paid out of state aid appropriated to the coun-1 . costs) lor roaas ana scnouis require , a levy of $1.39. j Other counties that will receive small reductions as a result of the road and school laws are Macon 6 , cents, Brunswick 7 cents, Ashe 8 . (Continued on Page 8) ties. This leaves a net reduction from the 1930 actual levy of two and one half millions. While the twelve and one-quarter million dollar decrease from the actual levy in 1930 is the biggest total reduction in property taxes t ever effectuated at one time in the f history of North Carolina?a re- I duction of rhore than twenty per ] cent of the total taxes levied on ( property, county, municipal, and district, for all purposes?the re- 3 duction itself would be $600,000 c bigger if every county had levied f in 1930, as much as it actually spent ? for road maintenance that year. t A number of counties have been < spending a great deal more for road I maintenance than they have been f levying. For example, Buncombe 1 County spent $327,000 in the year c ending June 30, 1930; but in 1930 I Buncombe County levied a rate of 1 only five hundredths of one cent? < or $819?for roads. If Buncombe i County had raised its road main- < tenance funds from taxes it would l [have had to levy twenty cents. t In tae same year Craven County c spent $81,257, and levied a rate of t i three-tenths of one cent which pro- ] duced $807. It spent nearly $80,000 i i more than it levied, and would have i found it necessary to levy a rate of s thirty cents for roads if it had met i its road expenditures out of road < tax levies. I The same condition existed in j many other counties. Currituck j County, which spent $18,486 for the year ending June 30, 1930, did not 1 levy any tax for road maintenance | in 1930. . ( Tlie average state-wide reduction f for roads and schools combined is 41 cents. The twelve counties reI roivinor f-.hp Greatest reduction are 1 lead by Rutherford with an even $1.00, followed by Dare with 77 cents, Columbus 69 cents, Vance 68 cents, Nash 67 cents, Currituck 64 cents, Pitt 64 cents, Scotland 64 ] cents, Union 62 cents, Davidson 61 ; cents, Greene 60 cents, and Camden i 60 cents. ] The county receiving the lowest < reduction from the 1930 levy for i schools and roads is Clay which i could not receive a large reduction j from last year's rate, because it levied only $10,500 for roads and j schools combined. When it again ] assumes the payment of its road i debt service charges, for which it < received last year $10,000 of state ] aid, its tax rate will actually be increased 13 cents. This county levied only $3,377 for roads last year, but it actually spent twice this amount. The true net result of the operaion of the school and road law will, therefore, leave Clay coun- I j ty with approximately the same , rate in 1931 as in 1930. This county | incidentally has a high total coun- ( ty tax rate for the reason that its debt service needs (not operating \ rd Bvonii"1*' . Comv I tftte u iVlan Fleeing From Officers Hides In Dameron Home The W. H. Dameron home in , outh Warrenton was thrown into lewilderment on Saturday afterloon when James Jerman, hercuean negro of Warrenton, dashed j lp the back steps to the cooks leadquarters up stairs to closet limself from the city polic force i rom which he had made a break \ yhen an attempt was made to ar- ] est him on a charge of being dis- i irderly and creating a disturbance ( n the Ramsey cafe, negro restau- ] ant in Warrenton. ( Chief of Police M. M. Drake, who : lad shot over the negro's head in in attempt to make him halt when ( le started running, and Night j 'oliceman C. E. Lovell, who was as- i isting in the arrest, were close be- j lind the fugitive when he ran into i he Dameron home. A number of j teople who had gotten ear of the | xcitement gathered at the scene | is the two officers, with pistol ind blackjack drawn, climbed the tairs and brought the negro out. In , sullen attitude he was carried to he county bastile and the crowd lispersed. The chase began when Chief Drake, who had been summoned by Dick Ramsey, proprietor, went to he cafe to arrest Jerman. The legro ran with Chief Drake followng and Night Policman Lovell oining in the chase which |terninated at the Dameron home. Jerm&n was tried before Mayor ''rank Gibbs on Monday morning >n a charge of creating a public listurbance and was fine $15.00 and :osts. He was bound over to Reader's court to face charges of laving whiskey in his possession. 40 Million Dollars Set As Goal For Southern Baptists RALEIGH, July 14.?"Baptists of he South have set a goal of orty million dollars this year," said Dr. J. Powell Tucker, paster of the First Baptist church, to his congregation Sunday morning. Dr. Tucker had Just returned from Birmingham where he attended a J 'nnfproripo hpf.nrPAn a RilhmmmlttPf. 1 rom the executive committee of the < Southern Baptist Convention and ! he promotional committee of the :onvention. Dr. Tucker is a mem>er of the subcommittee frcm the I :xecutive committee. Other mem- I )ers of the subcommittee are Dr. r H. Dillard, of Birmingham, and Dr. W. J. McGlothlin, president of 1 I'urman University and also presi- < lent of the convention. The con- 1 erence was to discuss the functions < )f the promotional committee, a 1 lew committee. "Among other < hings," said Dr. Tucker, "that were < letermined upon was that the * xecutive committee could transfer 1 ".one of its functions to the pro- i notional committee since these i 'unctions are prescribed in the con- i ititution cf the convention and can- ' not be taken from the committee ;xcept by amending the constitution. However, there was no friction md the meeting resulted in clarifying the situation. "The promotional committee," said the minister, "has the power to fix joals and did fix $40,000,000 as the i joal for the current church year. Of he S40.000.000. $31,000,000 is for 10 (Continued on Page 8) Parents Fight Over Name For Bambino < BELLEVILLE, N. J., Julyll.? > Peter Peddlina was in jail today, I stubbonly insisting that his two 1 weeks' eld sen should go through ! i/e tagged Frank. The mother showed Recorder George Fitzsim110ns bruises she said were inflicted jy Peddlina because she held out for the name Albert. The recorder declined to act as arbiter when Mrs. Peddlina haled her husband in court last night, and jailed Peddlina in default of $500 bail on a technical non-suppcrt charge. Lightning Strips White House Tree WASHINGTON, July 15.?Lightling today struck within 150 yards >f the White House, destroying a jig hickory tree in the northeast jorner of the grounds. The bolt struck near the top of ihe tree and came down, tearing >ut large pieces of wood and throwing them 30 and 40 feet away. Where tree surgeons had filled in i cavity on one of the limbs the concrete was torn out and flung some distance. No one was injured. X * MOST OF THE NEWS ALL THE TIME NUMBER 29 175 TEACHERS It) WORK IN WARREN Twelve Fewer Teachers In White Schools According To Ruling By State BOARD MEETS MONDAY The 175 teachers announced for ITrnwMAM /innntir Htf vy a.I ICIl tUUill/JT Uii vy tuiitouwj mj ;he State board of equalization will mean twelve fewer teachers in the white high and elementary schools if the county, according to information released yesterday at the Dffice of the superintendent of schools. In addition to the 175 teachers apportioned to run the State six months school in the county, there will be a new teacher of agriculture serving the Macon and Norlina schools together, and a teacher of agriculture at Littleton for the first iime, as well as the agricultural seacher at Warrenton. Superintendent Allen, who was in italeigh on Wednesday seeking information as to the operation of ;he six months term by the State, said yesterday that detailed instructions would be certified to the Board of Education the latter part af the week, and would be made public on Monday when that body meets at the court house at Warrenton at 10 o'clock. School comTiiMoamon anri nther interested citizens are invited to be present. Following the public session where school details will be discussed, the soard will <meet in executive session at 12 o'clock to open bids for the construction of the new Drewry school. The 175 teachers apportioned Warren are divided into four classes, iccording to Superintendent Allen. There will be 21 white high school ieachers and 46 elementary white teachers; thirteen teachers will be employed in the colored high schools, and 95 teachers will be emoloyed in the colored elementary schools. The State as a whole will use a total of 21,894 teachers, 305 less than were employed last year, according to the Board of Equalization. A statement issued by Leroy Martin, secretary to the board, said that it was found that actual elimination in the State would be 52 high schools and 413 elementary schools. Explaining the action of the board, Secretary Martin said "Tne State "Board of Equalization, in its work of allotment of teachers to the several schools of the State, kept in mind the fact that the re :ent school legislation apparently intended that all economies consistent with efficiency should he effectuated. With this in view; a very earnest effort was made on the part af the board to make a complete study of the school organizations at present existence in the various :ounties. The organization statements obtained from all counties, showing the number of rooms in the school buildings, the enrollment and attendance for the past two years, together with showing the location of these schools, a copy of the recent road maps proved very valuable in this work. In addition, very nearly every county in the State was visited, and the county school officials therein consulted by the district board member. "It was apparent from this study that many economies could be made in a number of the counties through working out a better organization. It was found that there were 152 schools doing high school work in the State with less than 50 high school pupils attending daily. In practically ail 01 tnese tnree teacn;rs weivs employed, and in many instances four, to carry on this high (Continued on Page 8) Thursday Hottest Day, Skillman Says Yesterday was the hottest day that citizens of this town and county have experienced this summer, according to E. A. Skillman, official weather forecaster for this vicinity. Mr. Skillman has been serving in the capacity as weather man for Warren county for several months. Each day he reads the thermometer and cast an eye upward in order that he may wire the atmospherical conditions here to the Curtis Airnort at Raleieh. Yesterday after noon he notified the office of The Warren Record that the mercury had climbed higher than any day since he had been reading the thermometer for the benefit of aviators who carve their way through the fleecy clouds that at times hover over Warren. His reading showed that the temperature was 101. A : , . .9 ' ...