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I tfCtfRAT?' TERSE I I ' TIMELY XXXI BmmE (taaiLTw Mfgissioners Vote to ReKjnd Former Action And ' Make 3 Cent Levy gilTIOS IS PRESENTED M&mding their former action 2, the Beard of County K&issioners on last Friday Kj to make a three-cent levy restrain agricultural teachers in -hnnis and two negro flute ? of Warren county, after a KftD bearing the names of hunK of taxpayers asking for this Kg had been presented the Hj by G. B. Gregory cf WarHjje vote of the commissioners Hjttlen at a sirort session fola barbecue dinner at the Kjiij home where more than ^ citizens were guests of SuperHpdent W. T. Powell. J. EdKd Allen superntendent of Hools, questioned as to cost told H board members that a threeH; levy would guarantee this Hi being retained, and said that Hit did not prove its value the Ht year, the board tvculd not be Hted to make further appropriaH: for the work. Homtmssioner Skinner voted to H^der and make the levy. W'lomintr Iissioner juu" * *- o ed the moton. CommissionH. Burroughs, stating that itition would indicate that .xpayers wanted the levy, ed his vote, and thus asWarten that it would have onal agricultural taught in %h schools. Commissioner R. >ps did not vote against the hut would not vote for the ! to make it unanimous, in Powell was not called g in joint session with the ' educaton on the first in August the board remake a levy to carry on : after they had been told intendent Allen that the uld only bear five-eights st of the work. Vcting for were Commissioners SkinFleming, against Com 115 OlUTUUgUS illiu Vttiipo. in Powell broke the tie by .gainst the levy, weight, it is felt, was lent Ktiticm from the taxpayers tement that the county was er of losing $1900 Roseniprcpriation, as the donanegro education was conupon vocational work irried on in the Warrenton thcol tain Denounces Centralizing Policy mcing the policy of centgovernment as set up in okings Report, R. T. Founeutenant Governor, and anl candidate for Governor of Carolina, spoke briefly to 100 citizens gathered at the home last Friday to enjoy a k as guest of W. T. Powell, ountain said that it was the hities and towns of North 3 that made the state what V and he was opposed to denying Bse people a voce in the governV' by giving all power to a few dais at the state capital. He was oduced by W. R. Vaughan of teson former representative, as who represents the masses. B^t speeches were also made by jWssman John H. Kerr. W. A. Bf of Henderson. J. M. Peace of Jjwson. John Skinner, secretary Measurer of the State Associaof County Commissioners, fee IV. w. Taylor, Superinten ' of Schools J. Edward Allen fOr. G. H. Macon. B^ure Showed Man Was Able to Work FRANCISCO, Aug. 11.? P- Anderson has all his life ^FTCd himself a mariner. He 'berefore, astounded when he ^ himself as a motion picture ^ although involuntarily. ^Ftson was pressing a $25,000 suit against a steamship his former employers, in court here, contending. IB * o ? ? *as unable to do any work, midst of the trial, defense ran off a motion picture of the jury. Two hundred ftlm flashed on the screen Anderson building a house. films were taken by private ft5, as mariners, who won Anderson's friendPersuaded him to help "with a little carpenter Discussion of Hound Occupies Time In Recorder's Court A hound dog named Beulah was discussed for more than an hour ui rtccuiuers court, on Jvaonaay morning as Congressman John H. Kerr sought to exhonerate Collins Fitts and Grover Taylor white men, and Pike Sledge, negro, of a charge of larceny and entering, while Gilmer Overby attempted to find the trio guilty of going to the home of Thomas Carter, negro, breaking into the house and taking the canine. The prosecuting witness told the court that he had had the dog since October when she followed him home. Nobody was at home, the evidence went, and the female animal was locked in the house, with a stick over the window. Rosa Carter said that she was some distance from her home but that she saw one of the three accused go in the window and take the dog. She was unable to say which one of the men went into the house, but she pointed out Mr. Taylor as being one of the white men she saw go to the home. Thomas Carter said that he was not at home but that he saw the car with the men coming from the direction of the house and recognized Sledge, the negro. Messrs. Fitts and Taylor did not ( testify until after Judge Kerr had asked for the case to be dismissed and the State moved to change the warrant to forcible trespass and continue. Mr. Fitts then told the court that he and Mr. Taylor owned TV\o onimol ho coirl 1 ^ II1C UUg JVUlMJa AUW Wi41i41W A | AAV WMAV*, had been missing since last fall. ( After describing the dog to Sledge, J Mr. Pitts said, the negro told him 1 that some of his kin had the hound. 1 The three of them, according to ? testimony, went to Carter's home. Mr. Fitts said that Mr. Taylor came v from around the house with the dog ] and that they put her in the car and drove away. He said that they ? left word that if their visit had not ? been satisfactory, where they would be found. On the way from the ? Carter home, Mr. Fitts testified, ? they stopped by Jesse Shearin's place, where they had previously ? stopped and told Mr. Shearin of their mission, and showed him the dog. Mr. Taylor testified that he was at the side of the house calling, the t dog when she jumped out of the . house through the window. He said that the absence of a window light ^ enabled the dog to answer to his j call, He denied raising or breaking ? the window. He walked around the t house holding the dog by the collar r to where Mr. Fitts was standing, he t said, and they carried the dog on home with them. After Mr. Taylor's testimony and the testimony of Mr. Fitts, the State agreed to throw the case out of cour. Non-support, liquor and larceny s composed the other three cases tried ] before Judge Taylor. 1 William Hendriclcs, was iouna j guilty of non-support and ordered to pay the Clerk $1.00 each Saturday until the second Monday in February, 1932, when he is to report in person for further orders of the court. Aus Mangum was sentenced to 65 days on the roads when he was found guilty in connection with whiskey. William Alston, charged with larceny, entered a plea of guilty and was ordered to pay for shirt and costs. Judgment was suspended. Officer of Sheriff Is Moved Across Hall The office of the Warren county sheriff was this week moved across the hall of the court house to the room formerly occupied by Miss Lucy Leach, county welfare officer, and the office which has for years been occupied by the sheriff will in the future be used by the board of ' education. A door has been cut be- ' tween the new home of the sheriff ; and the auditor's office, which, it is thought, will prove a convenience to those transacting business with these two county officials. Duke Football Team Will Miss Many Stars i ( DURAHM, Aug. 11?While the scythe of graduation this spring 1 did not cut into Duke's football | ranks heavily from the standpoint of quantity, the quality of Blue Devis who will not report this fall , is another matter. i Three of the men lost by graduation were all-state choices in their j positions?Rosky, the signal calling i end, Murray, the star halfback, and Davis, the 1930 captain and interference linesman. M; WARRENTON, COUNTY rrrz . ? Happy Warrior" Grei Former Governor A1 Smith; withe Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt at a law any-talk-about friction between the tw Cash Crops Show Decrease In State; More Food and Feed Food and feed crops have been ncreased and cotton and tobacco lecreased in North Carolina this rear, according to statistics recenty released by the United States Department ofl Agriculture which ihow: An increase in the North Carolina vheat acreage from 343,000 acres in .930 to 412,000 this year. An increase in corn from 2,530,000 teres in 1930 to 2,631,000 this sea;on. An increase in oats from 286,000 teres last year to 303,000. this seaion. A barley increase from 43,000 to >2,000. An increase in rye from 89,000 to ,11,000. An increase in hay from 874,000 0 990,000. A soybean increase from 328,000 o 394,000, and an increase in cow jeas from 88,000 to 145,000 acres. At the same time North Carolina, vith an 8 per cent decrease, led he South in reduction of cotton tcreage. The tobacco acreage, the eport said, was decreased from r79,000 acres last year to 722,000 his year. Asks $50,000 From Mrs. Norman Gholson HENDERSON, Aug. 11.?A suit tsking damages of $50,000 from Mrs. Ncrman Gholson and Mrs. C. M. Evans was filed today with Col. 1 r-r - ? nlovlr Sll- ' rieiiry rcn^ uicxxv u* *u**w perior Ccfurt, by attorneys representing Miss Grace Ross, for whom suit is brought by her sister, Miss Cva Ross Phillips, as a result of injuries received in an automobile ac:ident on the Raleigh hignway, a Tew miles south of Kittreli last June 4. The suit is believed to be ;he largest ever filed in Vance :ounty. The bill sets fourth that Miss floss was struck by an automobile lelonging to Mrs. Evans and driven jy Mrs. Gholson, while Miss Ross 1 tvas standing on the shoulder of ;he paved highway near her parked :ar, which had been stopped to re- , pair a puncture. The claim is made that the Evans car was being drivm "carelessly, negligently, recklessly, wrongfully and unlawfully'" while going at a "high, reckless and ' unlawful rate of speed," and that the driver lost control of the car, which swerved to the left of the lighway, striking Mrs. Phillips then joing off the pavement, where it struck Miss Ross, severely and permanently injuring her. It is alleged fhat the automobile was brought to a stop after moving 200 feet from vhere it struck the two women. It is claimed that Miss Ross' mind has been impared as the result of the injuries, that she has been partially paralyzed, and has been unable to speak since the accident, and that she will be a helpless Grippe for life with no chance of recovery. ATTEND CONVENTION Commissioners John C. Powell, John H. Fleming, and John L. Skin, tier departed on Monday for Asheville to attend the three-day session of the Association of County Commissioners, of which body Mr. Skinner is secretary-treasurer. They are expected to return to Warrenton today. J.- . . ^y.-rrr-; OF WARREN, N. C., FRIDA st^^^His Successor >ut the brown derby, was snapped with n party. The picture does not justifj o. ( Mayor Gibbs Wires Board To Destroy Its Own Cotton "Destroy your own cotton" was wired James C. Stcne, chairman of the farm relief board, by Frank H. Gibbs in a telegram sponsored by J. R. Paschall of Wise yesterday morning when the head of the farm board advised producers in fourteen cotton growing States to destroy every third row of their cottcn crop. Mr. Stone's idea of plowing up a third of the crop is being looked j upon with ridicule, according to ( the consensus of opinions express- j here yesterday morning, While , discussing the action of the farm j board yesterday Mr. ^"Paschall said j that he had already wireci Mr. Srone "Finance this crop and not make any next year" and regretted ( that he failed to add, "Destroy , your own cctton; it's too wet here to plow." Mr. Paschall, who was in the i court house with several other citi- , zens talking about the advice of the farm board, said that he j wanted to send Mr. Stone another < telegram and when he made the 1 proposition to Mr. Gibbs to pay for the message if he would send it, the Warrenton mayor wrote out the following telegram which was sent to headquarters at Washing- t ton, D. C.: < "Destroy all cotton held by the government and cooperatives. Announce to trade that the govern- i ment will continue to buy and destroy cotton until it goes to a reas- i onable price. Pursue the same policy with respecpt to wheat and tobacco and the resulting benefits to government revenue through an ; improvement in business would '< yield a handsome return on the i investment." J (Signed) FRANK H. GIBBS. . ( '."'.l 17 a rrnn ' ' I n L'UI JJUl CXI Ljagtn iv Be Presented Here i i "Corporal Eagen," a rookie come dy, will be presented in the auditorium of the John Graham high i school on November 5th and 6th : under the auspices of the American I Legion Auxiliary, according to announcement made this week. : Arrangements for staging this : play at Warrenton were made sev- < eral weeks ago when a committee representing the Legion Auxiliary ' and headed by Mrs. A. C. Blalock, : president, met with J. B. Nesbitt, representative of the Universal Pro- 1 ducing Co., of Fairfield, Iowa. The production is something entirely new and different in the i manner in clean, patriotic community entertainment, it was stated. I Red Cross Appeals For More Fruit Jars Many fruit jars were left on Saturday at the office of the local Red Cross following an appeal for these 1 containers for growers of produce unable to buy containers to preserve surplus fruits and vegetables. The office over the Citizens Bank at Warrenton will again be open on Saturday and citizens having surplus jars are asked to leave them with the person in charge. An official of the local chapter of the Red Cross asked that citizens unable to obtain containers dry as much of this surplus as pos- : sible. 4 Y, AUGUST 14, 1931 ASK FARMERS T! DESTROY COTTOI Farm Board Wants Growei To Plow Under Every Third Row WOULD HOLD SURPLU WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.?T1 Farm Board today called up< Southern planters to destroy on third of their crop now under cu tivation, promising in return to ho stabilization surplus stocks from tl market for one year. Telegrams were dispatched to tl Governors of 14 cotton producu stales, urging them to enlist the c operaton of every available agenc including farmers and bankers, this dramatic V>P to increase U low price of cotton. They were signed by Chairmt Stci;e, who conferred today with d rectors of the Cotton Stabilizaok Corporation and the American C< operative Association. Stone said the Governors promised to plow ui der every third row of cotton nc growing the cotton cooperate would be asked to withhold the 2 000,000 bales it owns from lra< channels. What It Means "TViic rvrnorrom lio Qooorfod A 1AMI {/iWglUlll) AiV UUkJVl VVM} fully carried out by Southern farn crs as well as by ourselves, w: mean a reduction of total supply I at least 4,000,000 bales and witl holding from this year's maiket ?,000,000 bales more." The action followed by a few da; i government crop forecast in whic the 1931 cotton harvest was est mated at 15,584,000 bales, more tha I,500,000 above last year. Cotto prices on every exchange imm< diately dropped. A few hours before the tel( grams were sent it was announce Alexander Legge, former chairma of the Farm Board, had been elec ed a director at large of the stal ilization operations with the board 5500,000,000 revolving fund were ii itiated under his chairmanship ar be has been in close touch with a details. The proposal to plow und< every third row of cotton was a< ranced yesterday by Governor Bi bo, of Mississippi. Stone, in his telegrams to tl Governors of Alabamai Arizon Arkansas. California, Florida, Geo: gia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Ne Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahom South Carolina, Tennessee ar Texas estimated the probable ca: ry-over a year from now und< present conditions would be aboi II,000,000 bales. "This condition," se said. "o< curs in spite of the 10 per cent ri iuction in acreage last spring. : has already resulted in drastic prii declines in cotton prices which, allowed to continue, may bring d rect disaster to cottcn producir states and indirect disasted to tl natio;|. c1 nouncement made yesterday, xne ic sale will be held in the church grove ill at Macon and the proceeds will be i- for the benefit of the church, it was stated. ... in view 01 me exisui situation, the Board suggests th you immediately mobilize eve: igency, including farmers, banker merchants, /land owners and a agricultural educational forces, i induce immediate plowing under every third row of cotton now grov ing, Without question, at presei prices, there will be considerab abandonment late in the seaso: :ut this will not improve prices du ing heavy marketing. The proble to be solved is to secure abandoi bient in an organized and order fashion which will give farmers better return for the remainder. "The board recognizes," Stoi added, "that this suggestion cal fcr drastic remedy for serioi emergency, but commends to yc the thought that a major operatic of this kind rather than attemp at lesser measures is now needed The program would be put in effect September 1, and be con pleted September 15. The Goveri crs were urged to respond immi diately, stating their attitude ( the proposal. The suggestion was regarded he as the board's most important mo1 s;nce stabilization operations we: attempted in 1929. At that time 1 300,000 bales of coton were bougl at an average price of $85 a ba (Continued on page 8) Tree, Said to Be 1300 Years Old, Is Sawei NEW ORLEANS, La., Aug. 11, A giant cypress tree, said to be 13i years old has just been cut in tl Amite River marsh by the Lyc I,umber company of Grayville. The tree cntaining 16,175 ouai feet, was found to be sound. Tl diameter wos 92 inches. It w! make more than a carload of lun bef. irK 1 State to Spend lT I $2960 For Heating i Warren's Schols The State of North Carolina will spend $2960 for heating the schools of Warren county during the six months term, it was learned yesw terday at the office of the superintendent of schools. The total cost ae of fuel last year, including the in eight months schools, was $3,700. e- Where wood is used in place of il- coal, Superintendent Allen said, it Id is expected that the State would tie allow $16 a room instead of the $23 formerly allowed. !3 The appropriation for fuel is the ig only definite one certified to thej o- board of education, Superintendent ;y, Allen said. The total school budget in is expected to be certified from ie Raleigh on Friday, August 21, and will be presented ta the Warren n Board of Education on Monday, August 24, when that body will jn work out details for the 1931-32 0_ session. The State, according to Superin?_ tendent Allen, is expected to apiW propriate $8 per pupil for transt,e portation, based on average daily I T.oef noor nnnilo | _ AbbCXlUmxV/l/i UUOU J VMl Xvvv je were transported. Local school authorities have expressed the hope that five or six new trucks will be provided to replace shall trucks. Truck drivers, it is expected, will 1 be paid at the rate of $10 per 3y month for one daily trip, and $14 ~ per month where they make two 0 daily trips. The, State will not allow trucks to leave State mainjr tenance roads, or make side trips for children living less than a mile 1_ and a half from the piain road. 111 Repairs to building and insurn ance must be paid from fines and forfeitures and dcg tax and 80 per cent of the poll taxes collected. Based on last year's collection, this will not exceed $4,500. Last year in the county spent $3,000 for repairs and $3,000 for insurance. 1 Program Arranged ld For Tar River Ass'n ,ii *"* The following program has been 3r arranged for the Woman's Missionary Union of the Tar River association to be held at Cary's Chapel Baptist church on August 20th and ie 21st: a' Thursday Afternoon, 5 O'clock r" Hymn, Joy to the World; Devow tional, Mrs. D. B. Bartholomew; H * -i _i TVTieo Amnio "* iiuureajj U1 VVCltUlUC, AYJLiOO lc* Lee Puckett; Response, Mrs. W. R. r" Bowers; Roll call of Societies; Spe;r cial Music; Report of County Presidents: Franklin-Nash, Mrs. J. S. Howell; Warren-Halifax, Mrs. A. L. Nicholson; Vance, Mrs. W. W. Parker; Announcements; Adjournment. Thursday Evening, 8 O'clock :e Hymn; Announcements; Pageant, f America's Call to Service; Special Music; Sermon, Rev. Lucius Evans; *8> Hymn. le Friday Morning), 10:30 O'clock Hymn, Joy to the World; Devotional, Mrs. C. R. Rodwell; Report at of Officers; Missionary Study ry Chairman, Mrs. J. A. White; Pers> sonal Service, Miss Irene Gupton; l11 Secretary-Treasurer, Mrs. T. B. Weldon; Superintendent, Miss Lilof lie Harper; Special Music; Address, v~ Mrs. Edna R. Harris, Hymn; Address, Mrs. J. M. Whitted; Appointle ment of Committees; Recognition of Visitors; Adjournment. r" Friday Afternoon, 1:30 Oclock m Hymn; Devotional, Miss Irma Gupton; Report of Young People's ly Leaders: Y. W. A. and G. A., Miss a Eleanor Collie; R. A. and Sunbeam, Mrs. S. M. Gardner; Special Music; The Missionary Education of Our -Is Young People, Miss Mary Currin; is Mr. Hayward Becomes More Christ >u Like; Stewardship, Mrs. D. P. Har>n ris; Playlet, Love Provides; Conr T?j J? J . (lAmmlt. w JLdCIltiC rCIIUU) IVCpui U Ui vv/uiuuv~ I." tees; Awarding of Banners; Adto journment. l Tharrington's Name )n Used Through Error re Through mistake, the name of E. R. Tharrington was included in the re list of those failing to pay their ?" taxes in Fork township, Miss Gayle Tarwater of the Sheriff's office said le yesterday. Miss Tarwater said that Mr. Tharrington had paid his taxes some time ago and that she regretted the error very much. d MACON CHURCH TO HAVE SALE ON AUGUST 19TH ? MACON, Aug. 12.?Barbecue, )0 brunswick stew and pies will be sold le by the Woman's Auxiliary of the n Macon Methodist church on Wednesday, August 19, according to an I MOST OF THE NEWS ALL THE TIME ttcnm IN UMBLK JO CONVICTS REPAIR WARREN ROADS first Prisoners Used This Week In County Under State System CONSTRUCTION HELD JJP I State convicts were on Wednesday and Thursday repairing bridges and roads washed out by the heavy rains of the early week. Seventyfive prisoners were working in the neighborhood: of Ridgeway on Wednesday. Yesterday this number had been reduced to eight. These are the first convicts to be used in the county since the State took over the maintenance of the roads on July 1. Inability of local authorities to hurry the work of locating a camp site in this county has been responsible fo many [ U1 Llie I U&U& UC1 lig licgl^vwu. Joe Taylor, engineer in charge of Vance and Warren county, said this week that it was impossible to construct roads with the eight maintenance men under his direction in the county. The board of commissioners has requested the supervisor of prisoners to locate camp as quickly as possible. With a view of transportating pupils this year, J. Edward Allen, superintendent of schools, tills week added his request that something be done for Warren roads at the earliest possible moment. A representative of the State road forces was at Warrenton yesterday afternoon and promised that action on locating Warren's prison camp would be taken in the near future. Motorist Paid Less For Car Last Year WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.?The average American motorist paid $53.39 less for his automobile in 1930 than dur< lg the preceding year, according to figures announced by the American Motorists Association, based upon wholesale factory values of automobiles produced last year. The average passenger automo' bile cost $568.36 wholesale f.o.b. faci itwn n;hiif in the vear 1929 I/VA J AAA *WWW, (I.M.W ... v _ the figure was $621.75. The 1930 price was $103.06 less than the 1928 wholesale price of $671.42 and $183.49 less than the 1927 wholesale price cf $756.85 for the average passenger car. The total passenger car production in the United States last year vas 2,894,745 V3a:al">s valued .if $1,645,398,523 wholesale thus mi'-ing the average price per vehicle $568.36 This shows the effects of the year 1930 upon purchasers of automobiles when compared with the figures of 4,587,400 vehicles produced in 1929 evaluated at $2,852,255,618 wholesale. "The continued preference of the motorists for closed automobiles is reflected in the production figures of 1930," J. Borton Weeks president of the A. M. A. points out. "The figures show that 90.3 per cent of American made automibile's in 1930 comprised clcsed cars." The march to popularity of the closed car for American motorlsis is shown by the figures for the ftriod 1919-1930. In 1919 the percentage of closed cars was 10 3: in 1930, 90.3. Bananas Sell For 25c A Wagon Load BALTIMORE, Aug. 10.?Bananas were selling for 25 cents a wagon lctad at the piers in Baltimore today and one vessel that had arrived from Central America put out to sea with 3,000 bunches to be dumped in the ocean. Approximately 100,000 bunches have been entering the port a week for some time and the market is glutted. Rather than have the fruit rot in the holds of the steamers, the importing companies have been disposing of the cargoes to street peddlers and middlemen for little or nothing. So far this week 73,000 bunches have arrived and 27,000 more are on a boat scheduled to dock Thursday. Tenantry In Warren Shows A Decrease The number of tenant farmers in Warren county decreased 7.8 per cent during the ten-year period 1920-30, according to the bulletin, rrror-a ifioo tenant, farmers in blici ^ TTVilV *vww ? Warren county. Seventy-two counties of the State v showed an increase. Pamlico with a 58.8 decrease led the state. Warren ranked 28. Columbus with an increase of 95.5 per cent ranked 100 to land at the foot of the column.