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| nCCUR-ATE> TERSE I TIMELY I | 0VME XXXI if oSsI MOT SOLD laments of Taxes Increased M ii Grace 1'eriod Expired g- On Wednesday I E,0LL IS HE-ELECTED I I jv Board of County Commis-1 id regular session on Montordered that land upon which Eg taxes have not been paid be Mafias for sale. Nine townships ML ordered to be advertised in E ffarren Record and three inl M?i/orlm Headlight. Advertise-1 Ej'of land for taxes was post- J 2d until August by the commis. I Ken it their May meeting. Little I EJejr had been paid into the/ E5rs office from that time until/ E ffeek when numbers of rax-1 Eers came up and paid theirl E|splus the penalty to avoid their| Eds being advertised. I Mpnperiy owners whose propertyI advertised will have to pay j tcr axes plus a 4 per cent penalty I E Jure 1 and 10 per cent per an-1 Ka thereafter until paid plus $i I Miitrtistog cxts. The Warren Rec-I E is this week publishing sales I I lor Warren ion, jucijuiis, iw?w, Lity Creek. Shocco, Roanoke, l^rk" Fishing Creek and Sixpound Lraships. The Norlina Headlight fe publishing sales for Hawtree, Kitbush and Smith Creek town['if. T. Powell, for several years Lenntendent of the county home, Lis unanimously re-elected to that Ration for the next two years, bis salary is to remain the same, there were no other candidates for She position, and no opposition to dr. Powell expressed. The board order"! that Dr. Ray mmng be paid the sum of $7.50 i medical service rendered Mary Mitt. Goodlow Hedgepeth was iced on the outside pauper list d to receive $4 monthly. lie Board ordered that Mrs. Roy lie paid $6 per month instead ft J. S. Davis was authorized to) tract a short road not included tie county system. fiere appearing a judgment i est L. M.. Johnston, docketed] KTh 4,1931, it is upon motion by smissioner Skinner, seconded by ^Emissioner Fleming ordered that johnstcn be relieved of per 2: property valuation in the sum lite commissioners by vote of Hte to two refused to make a Hee cent levy for retaining agri rral teachers in the county. ncient Baptismal I Robes Used Again CANTON. 0? An ancient set of tismal rcbes. which were laid y in an old chest centuries ago hi feudal lords ruled the inehnd from their great stone ties near the end of the medie period, were used here recently ^ ^the baptismal services of little ss Elizabeth Brahm. -' years the robes lay forgotten secret compartment of the ^ftst which continued to be a part ^Vbe furnishings at one of the sent castles. Then the chest Be ^ken away in 1918 and sold la native of Baderhorn, near *chest, with its remarkable ar-b the robes, was given to Mi Mrs. Paul Brahm of Can^ *ken they left Germany for vn.ted States three years ago. *ns presented with the Hf that the first born of the ^ Mear the old robes at the h Convicts I Work For State Aug. 6.?There were! t-fncts under the supervision ^ '^te Highway Commission] ^ phson Supervisor Sam a'b Thursday. ^ ;Legislature authorized ^^^snway Commission to work prisoners sentenced to 60 days or more. August the first month of of county prisoners by total 1143 were white, ^^ >ere negroes, and 23 were The convicts were workcounty roads which were by the State July 1 unten road law. -? ^K-toN'TH LEGIONNAIRE jM^GTON, Aug. 5.?Presir shook hands today "bhionth man to join the Region, He was Tell W. SI Escape architect and en J5 Pittsburgh, who became Millionth member June 8. B 11 how numbers 1,026,258. . I JapFindsComet with F Masaji Nagata, an obscure Ja ese grower of garden truck, of Bi ley, Lai.. 9tartled world astronoi by finding a new heavenly body I a two-inch telescope he built him The comet will probably be na I after him. U". .'.MM'.'. v-v v. \ ' H N i < > * ' " ' NOT GUILTY IS GREEN VERDICT Negro Trapped By "Stool Pigeon" Is Freed By Jury In Recorder's Court A "stool pigeon", alleged to have been drinking, trapped William Henry Green, negro known to the streets of Warrenton for years as "Tip Green," according to evidence given in Recorder's court on Monday morning by Special Prohibition Enforcement Officer Edward Davis. I After the evidence in the case had been presented a jury decreed that Green was not guilty of gelling, transporting or having whiskey in his possession. Green was arrested on Saturday night, July 25, by Prohibition Enforcement Officer Edward Davis and one of his deputies, Cary Wilson. John Cary Davis, who has been active in the crusade against whiskey, had no part in the capture. The arrest took place near the negro church on Main street in south Warrenton, and about a quart of whiskey in a half-gallon jar and a pint bottle, a relic of the old Warrenton dispensary, were offered in court as evidence. Officer Davis, the first to take the stand, testified that reports had j come to him of liquor being sold on the streets of Warrenton. He said that he made an agreement with Herbert Clark, white boy, whereby Clark was to buy whiskey and allow them to make arrests. For the purpose of making the purchase, he said, Clark had been given 50 cents. Continuing his testimony, Officer Davis said that he saw Clark and Green together and that Clark brought him some whiskey in the pint bottle which he bought from Gieen. The enforcement officer told * - * ?- * the court tnai n.s poureu iuu> wmokey out and sent Clark out to make another purchase. He and Cary Wilson, his deputy, the testimony went, secreted themselves in the bushes near the church, from which point they had !a good view, it being a moonlight | night, and he saw Clark and Green I apporaching, the latter having a bundle under his arm. The men were standing near him, the witness told, when arrangement for the purchase took place and the time came for paying for the whiskey. Realizing that Clark had already spent the 50 cents he had given him and that he was without funds, Officer Davis said that he and his deputy ran out and grabbed Green. There was about a quart of liquor in the jar which Green held,' the officer testified, and said a 50 cents piece was found on Green which bore the same date as the halfdollar he had given Clark earlier in the evening for the purpose of buying booze. When examined by Gilmer Over - j- ii. ? by, counsel for the deienaanu, uie special prohibition enforcement officer said that he did not know where Clark was, but heard that he had left the county for fear of being arrested for the part he played I in bringing about Green's arrest. He said that he knew that Clark had been drinking, but, apparently, he was all right at the time that he assisted him. Two dollars and fifty cents was to be paid Clark for each arrest he brought about, the enforcement officer said. In reply to a question asked by the attorney, the witness said that he did not ask the cooperation of the other ofI ficers in the county and the town | police force in breaking up the sale I " ?,! -1?? pfroofc of. WflT j 01 Wilis itey uix i/ixc o?v?~ , (Continued on Page 8) Iff w WARRENTON, COUNTY , .. --v v ::v:;::::>:;:;:;:;::^ TOBACCO SALES ARE VERY SMALL Growers Apparently Holding Back Crop On S. Carolina And Border Markets RALEIGH, Aug. 6. ? Tobacco sales were extremely light on the border belt markets yesterday. They were considerably smaller than they were on opening day Tuesday and they were uncommonly small then for the first day of the season. Growers apparently are holding back the crop in the hope that later better prices will be available. Then too, they are busy getting tobacco ready for the market, the season being late and much of the curing remaining to be done. Prices were low as on Tuesday, nnrf oronprnllv lower than on that j?caoc bijvug^i. w Forty-One Fairs Slated For State RALEIGH, Aug. 6.?Forty-one fairs have been scheduled in North Carolina for the coining fall, according to a list compiled by T. B. Smith, manager of State Fair, j The compilation was made at the request of W. H. Richardson, publications editor of the State Departiment of Agriculture, who said numerous requests for dates of fairs to be held in the State this yiear had been received. day. Whiteville reported an average of $7.52 per hundred pounds; its average Tuesday was $9.34. Lumber-ton's average yesterday was $7.04 against $7.85 on the preceding day. Mount Tabor had an average yesterday of $9.25 against $9.64 Tuesday. Chadbourn's average yesterday was $7.50 against $7.10 the day before. Reports from South Carolina state that sales and prices both eased yesterday as compared with the figures for Tuesday. Science Winning In Its Fight With Infantile Paralysis WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.?Infantile paralysis, that ogre whose head comes cropping out each summer, is losing ground in its struggle with science. The public health service, whose laboratory expert, Dr. W. H. Frost, first found out through monkey studies the disease apparently could be checked by spinal injection of convalescent serum, today took an optimistic view of its future control. ? Dr. J. P. Leake, author of several studies on the subject, declared that its deadliness already had somewhat receded. He says further possibilities in serum studies such as those now in progress in New York, where Governor Roosevelt, once a victim of the disease, gave his own immunized blood for prevention measures. Dr. Leake advanced as a future possibility, not yet sufficiently tested, the prevention of child paralysis by improving sick bed care and the administration of adult serums. "The paralysis is the thing to be dreaded, and the paralysis is not the disease, it is the scar of the disease?like smallpox scars," said Dr. Leake. "The disease itself is a fever, far more prevalent than people realize?in many cases occurring unrecognized. "It almost seems a good proportion of the adult population in congested districts have had the dianniicrh to hp immunized." ' "?* , . ..jr- !S*r " i. !A r'* i^jf:- ' ?>";? i'-V" .- -' ' *~"'"'?G -'?*- ' :#*... armt r ? OF WARREN, N. C? FRIDA BIBS FOR STREET WORK ORDERED Chairman and Engineer Sub mit Plans At iteguiar Meeting of Board -?? PRAISE HOTEL WARREN Streets of Warrenton will be given a coating of gravel and tar within the next few weeks if plans submitted by W. H. Boyd, town engineer, and E. E. Gillam, chairman of the street committee, to the board of town commissioners in regular session on Monday night are carried out. The board after hearing the recommendation of Messrs. Boyd and Gillam and a discussion of ways and means of financing the work, ordered Commissioner Gillam to advertise bids for this work. This will be done, Mr. Gillam said yesterday, as soon as necessary specifications can be drawn up. Under the plan submitted the town may do much of the work instead of placing it under contract, especially if a low figure for this work is not offered. In that event the town will buy materials under I competitive bids and cover the streets under the direction of its own engineer. The work is. expected to cost slightly more than $3,000 and the board expressed the belief that no bond issue would be necessary. H. W. Rodwell, who was elected at the last meeting to succeed C. F. Moseley, who resigned to accept the position of town clerk, was present. Commissioner Boyd Massenburg was absent. He is on the Georgia tobacco market. , Commissioner H. A. Mo$eley reported that the business at Hotel Warren was showing steady improvement under the management of J. Haywood Duke, and that while he did not have definite figures with him, he knew that receipts to the town under the new managements had materially increased, and particularly so during the past few weeks. The board adjourned to meet upon call of Mayor Frank H- Gibbs 1 wnen matters pertupnng to w? pew control act and the -budget will be ; considered. 1 I Bruening Opens Germany's Banks BERLIN, Aug. 5. ? Germany's B&nks, closed for more than three weeks as an emergency measure to stabilize the country's finances, reopened today for public business in an atmosphere of perfect calm. Preparations made for possible runs by depositors proved superfluous and nowhere did withdrawals exceed the estimated voliimp Hoarded money freely flow eel into banks here and the same conditions prevailed in the provinces. ( Chancellor Heinrich Bruening < leaves tonight for Rome with his foreign minister to visit Premier , Mussolini as well as Pope Pius XI. j Following in the wake of the j English. French and German vis- j its, the Rome conference will be i one of a remarkable series of meetings among the leading states- i men of Europe which began on ( June 4 with the journey of Ger- \ man officials to London. Herr < Bruening hopes to conplete the 1 good work by having Premier , Laval and foreign miniiter Briand < in Berlin late this month and persuade Mussolini and Foreign Min- i ister Grandi to repay tie German J visit. The opening of the Rtich's banks after an enforced holi&y of more than three weeks was believed to \ have given the chancelor new en- { couragement in his task of ] bringing financial orcfer out of s chaos. c ?? i Many Tar Heels < Work In Canada I t WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.?Approx- ] iniately 1,800 North Carolinians c are helping Canada mice and har- t vest tobacco. In orcjr that the Tar Heels could go an. work there \ the ban on immigrant' was loosen- j c ed a little. Six hunred Caroliu- y ians were due in !anada this i ! week. They will teah natives to ; flue-cure. Negotiations were tarted some I time ago to have th Department of Immigration at Ottwa allow an c agreement to partiall; lift the ban i against agricultural vjrkers. p Had the Southerner not gone to s the assistance of the Canadian to- I bacco farmers they would have p been in some distress I ; Norfolk county, whre the North s Carolinians are at wck has 20,000 ( acres of flue-cured toacco. t Hknn Y, AUGUST 7, 1931 t Citizens i Retain Jurors Are Drawn For September Term Of Superior Court Jurors have been drawn fori September term of Warren County Superior court as follows: First week:?M. P. Nicholson, John Welch, N. M. Thornton, W. H. Alston, Arthur Gray, J. T. Champion, E. G. King, A. J. Ellington, L. E. Stainback, R. D. Fleming, H. C. Montgomery, J. W. King, H. H. Johnston, E. R. Clary, Jack King, E. H. Russell, H. W. Haithcock, T. P. Collins, Armstead Carter, R. E. Davis, W. Kearney Thompson, L. M. j Paschall, F. E. Robertson, J. F. Hun. I ter, D. R. Mustian, William Boyce, William Edmonds, W. G. Alston, S. J. Satterwhite, A. P. Holtzman, James R. Young, Paul B. Bell, H. M. Fuller, J. H. Newsom, Edward P.star. Second week:?J. E. Moseley, J. E. Reid, G. W. Hester, John W. King, R. A. Tharrington, J. E. Frazier, J. F. Smithwick, R. L. Godzey, H. Glenn Weldon, M. P. Burwell Jr., W. J. Shearin, F. J. Robertson, C. W. Cole, W. H. Hawks, H. P. Read, C. L. Moseley, W. B. Reid, E. C. Overby. Edison Not Yet Out of Danger WEST ORANGE, N. J., Aug. 6 ? Thos. A. Edison is held to life only by frayed strands of health, Dr. Hubert S. Howe told reporters yesterday. He said that although the 84year old inventor had showed marked and rapid improvement he was not yet "out of immediate danger." "His condition is like the fraying out of an elevator rope," Dr. Howe said. "The elevator functions until the last strand breaks. The outside looks all right. All that is left for the engineer to do i<5 t.n nrriPff rho Inst, fpvj strongs""" The physician said Edison has a chance of "coming out of this and living for some time." In the earlier stages of his illness, Dr. Howe said, the inventor had been unwilling to take any medicine until he had read all about it and studied its chemical reactions. But he has been so sick, the doctor added, that he was willing now to take the medicine first and read of its effects afterward. Fruit Jars Wanted By Local Chapter Of Red Cross Old fruit jars, half-gallon or quart size, are wanter by the local chapter of the American Red Cross. Seed furnished citizens in the drought area in the spring have resulted in good gardens in many instances, but the owners are unible to finance canning of their produce. The local chapter yesterday asksd that citizens having a surplus quantity of these jars to bring them to the Red Cross rooms above the Citizens Bank. Warrenton, on Saturday. August 8, or on Saturday, August 15. A rcpresenative will be )n hand to receive them. Lightning Stuns Two Children On Tuesday Lightning leaping frcm a pine ,ree where it had struck to a post it a poultry yard fence where G. 3. Hull Jr. and Alfred Hull were landing temporarily stunned the hildren, struck an out-building vhere considerable damage was ione and then followed electric vires into the Hull home where it mocked the electric meter out and ,hrew it ten feet over Mrs. Hull's tfad, according to Mr. Hull's ac:ount of the storm on Tuesday af;ernoon. ? - - * ** Mr. Hull said tnat trie cimaicu rere knocked down and were In a laze for a few moments, but iv. crious damage was done to them. .Tie entire front of the out-building isi wrecked, he said IUYERS LEAVE FOR MARKETS The following Warrenton tobaconists are buying on the markets ti South Carolina, Georgia and Torth Carolina: Pete Reavis, Johnonville, S. C.; John Tarwater, Fair lluff, N. C.; Weldon Hall and Yank Newell, Tabor, N. C.; A. V. jawson, Tabor, N. C.; Boyd Masenburg, Whitman, Ga.; M. C. Mc5uire, Loris, S. C. Mr. McGuire was iccompanied by his wife. , -w. ' iii. ' ' - rti ? 5 -v. ' - ^ " mixtion JJI Agriculti Commissioners By Three to Three Cent Levy to Mai In Schools of OUTSTANDING WORK OF A petition bearing the n county taxpayers will be pr commissioners today asking action of Monday and levy carry on agricultural work ii As soon as the action of t the levy on Monday became were drawn up with an atta outstanding work performei H. Bright, teacher of vocat Shearin to Maintain ^Warren's Meet Ut School Trucks Contracts for maintenance of Warren county's fleet of school trucks was on Monday awarded to E. W. Shearin of Littleton at a sum of $1567.50 by the Board of Education in regular session at Warrenton dn Monday. Mr. Shearin named his brother as his assistant. Seven bids were made in response to call advertised by the board several days ago. The bid oi Mr. Shearin's was the lowest offered. Roy Davis' bid of $3087.50 was the highest made. Other bidders were: W. W. O'Neil Elberon, $2384 E. A. Puller and H. M. Fuller, Warrentdn, $2185; John Threewitts, Vaughan. $2,000; A P. Pridgen, Warrenton, $1758.50; J. H. Gardner, Macon, $1780. The repair snop for the trucks will be maintained for the present in the R. E. Williams storage building at Warrenton. Contracts for coal was awarded to A. T. Massey Coal Co. of Richmond, Va. This coal will be furnished the school system at a per ton cost of $1,05. $1.10 and $1.40. Freight will be approximately $3 a ton. Contracts ft-o hauling to schools was awarded to Charlie Harris of Macon and J. D. DickerI iiUIi UJ. W iXL L CJUL LVIi. The board accepted the resignation ctf J. L. Aycock as member of the school committee of Afton-Elberon. Reason or resignation was not given. The board expressed its regret that Mr. Aycock found it necessary to resign. Allie Hayes was authorized to sell the piano of the old Oine school, no longer in operation. Meeting with the board of county commissioners in the afternoon the board of education asked that a three cent rate be levied in order to maintain agricultural work in the county. The commissioners by three to two vote reflised to do this. Insurance Men Hold District Meeting [ Representatives ctf the Pilot Life Insurance Co. came to Warren ton to be with Claude Haithcock, local L rUcTHnf mppt.inff 1UI WICli uiovitw m?w ??0 which was held at Hotel Warren on Tuesday night with a banquet in the Kiwanis dining room. Two officials, eight agents and three visitors were present for the meeting which began at 6:30 and came to a close about 9 o'clock after impromptu talks had been made by each person present. The meeting was presided over by H. L. Rawlings of Durham, branch manager. "This depression which we are experiencing has one fine feature, and that is that it has taught us the necessity for preparedness," T. D. Blair of Greensboro, agency manager told the representatives of the company after he had been called on by Mr. Rawlings for a talk which would stimulate the agents in carrying over a million dollar drive by September. The agency manager said that business men of today and individuals have been brought to the realization that they must look ahead and create a surpus fund which could be relied upon in such a crisis as the depression has brought about. "This depression has revealed that even the best business men can lose their fortune during the abnoilhal period of today, and the only guarantee that any man has of leaving an estate, unless he dies on a bull market, is insurance." Mr. E?air Pointed out that their compeny had done 12 per cent more business during July 1931 than during the same month last year, and said that he was expecting this (Continued on Page 8) MOST OF THE NEWS ALL THE TIME NUMBER 32 oard To iral Work > Two Vote Refuse to Make intain Agricultural Work Warren County BRIGHT IS POINTED OUT ames of hundreds of Warren ssented to the board of county that they reconsider their a 3-cent tax rate in order to 1 the schools of the county. ;he board in refusing to mpke known to the public, petitions ched sheet giving softie of the i during the past year by R. ional agriculture in- the John ""Graham high school, Warrenton. Farmers were interviewed and furnished stater ments approving this work. Canvassers carried: these petitions over the town of Warrenton, to Norlina, Macon, and Littleton. E. Hunter Pinnell, prominent farmers, has been circulating the petition over nAiirifv U! n All on hoc Vion. VHV WIU1VJ Ui *????* died the petition at Warren ton. He has been assisted by Howard Jones Jr., John Henderson, G. B. Gregory, cashier of the Bank of Warren, and R. B. Boyd Jr., local tobacconist, and large landowner. The Board of Trustees of the John Graham High School, in which Mr. Bright has taught for the past ' year, endorsed agricultural work in a special called meeting on Tuesday night. Teachers Here Agricultural courese were included in the curriculum! of Warrenton, Norlina, Littleton and Macon schools this year. Teachers had arrived in the county and begun making preliminary plans for the coming year. It was believed that the cost of this instruction would be borne by the State until a few days ago when State Superintendent A. T. Allen announced that due to lack of funds the county would have to bear three-eights of the salary or . these teachers and their traveling expenses. This would necessitate a? three-cent levy upon the $100 valuation. Meeting in joint session with the board of county commissioners on Monday afternoon, the board of education requested that the levy be made. The commissioners were two for the levy and two against the levy. Chairman John Clay Powell broke the tie by voting against the measure. For were commissioners Skinner and Fleming; against Capps, Burroughs and Chairman Powell. Pinnell's Statement "The assistance that R. H. Bright has rendered me and other farmers has been of great aid in our work I feel that he is the most valuable man in the county, and in doing away with his service, the commissioners will be doing an irreparable damage to our citizens," wrote E. Hunter Pinnell, large farmer of near Warrenton, in a statement attached to the petition. Francis Limer, prominent farmer of Afton-Elberon, whote in a letter accompanying the petition: "I would like to see vocational agricultural work retained in Warren county. Mr. R. H. Bright has freely given his assistance and I have found his advice sound and of real benefit. As an illustration, he aided me in buying materials and prepared the formula by which I mixed my fertilizer. I found this the best I have ever used." Sketch of Work The petition also bore attached a sheet recounting part of the work performed by Mr, Bright during the year he has been in Warren county. It was pointed out therein that Mr. Bright had terraced 1500 acres of land for Warren farmers, and that according to government estimates this affected a saving of $6,000 yearly. He aided farmers in purchasing co-operatively 300 tons of fertilizer at a saving of $900. It pointed out that the teacher is now supervising the cultivation of 100 acres of tobacco, 300 acres of cotton, 200 acres of corn; that he gave invaluable aid in obtaining funds under the Federal Seed Loan Act. During the past school year he craim Incfnintinn in ?*rri culture to 37 boys and 20 adult farmers. Members of his class sprayed and primed 3,000 fruit trees for citizens of the county, and culled chickens I for a number of farmers. He aided in the shipment of two cars of poultry from the county, and aided farmers in bringing beef cattle into Warren county. I In addition, it was utated, that Mr. Bright has been contact man in county for Federal projects.