ACCURATE, TERSE
I' TIMELY
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iffo'mits'l
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(,rant Reductions to Num. I
ber of Taxpayers Here I
Thjs Week j
one valuation raised
Meeting as a Board of
J Equalization and Review
the Board of county com-1
I missioners on Monday and j
Tuesday heard complaints I
"-^svDayers over valuations
^Vaml granted reductions in a
number of cases.
In addition to its work of
I revaluation the commission
ers went over a report of M. I
p. Bunvell showing details
I of the operation of the Carrj
farm owned jointly by Mr.1
J Bunvell and the county. Net I
profits for the year were!
555.53. and Mr. Bunvell I
^ tendered his check for $27.-1
77. which was accepted byl
the board as the county's!
share of the profits. J
The board ordered that $200 ad- I
ditional valuation be added to the I
tot of W. H. Draffin of Smith!
Creek township for house built |
S thereon. j
J. J. Crinkley of Warrenton J
H township was given a reduction of [
$150 in the valuation of his Elgin I
V lar/u on account of ho use destroy- I
ed by fire. John S Davis received |
II a reduction to $16 per acre on nis
I property in Fork township; not
I voting. Commissioner J. L. Skinner
A house and land, property of
Mrs. E. B. Browning of River
township, was reduced from $6420
to $5000. The Mattie D. Hunter
place in Fishing Creek township,
consisting of 233 acres, was given a
credit of $600 on account of removal
of timber. J. T. Walker home
place in Warrenton township received
a reduction of $350 in valuation.
F. D. Wilson of Warrenton township
received a reduction to $1500
on 135 acres of land. A. B. Odom's
tract of land in Sixpound township
was reduced to $624 on account
of removal of timber. J. L.'
Riggan of Judgins township received
a reduction to $12 per acre on
his property consisting of 124 acres.
Geo. Sinn, Warrenton township,
was given a reduction to $1150 on
ithe Crowder place consisting of 46
acres. |
McKinlev Wilkins, colored, was j
given an additional credit of $100
i valuation on his property. A. B. |
Wilson and J. M. Coleman received .
a reduction to $3500 valuation on
the Boyd place consisting of 437
acres. J. E. Howard, colored, River
township, was given a credit of
$600 on account of building being
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Warren Boy Is j
Camp Foreman
fort bragg, June 22.?Edwin
J. Overby of Warren is foreman of |
the first section of Company 430 (
Civilian Conservation Corps, composed
of boys from Johnston, Warten
and Northampton counties,
which left on Monday night for a
reforestation camp at Windsor.
The company is under command
01 1st Lt. Hasbrook, 4th Field Artillery.
He is assisted by LieutenI
anfre i T ? ,
\. i. Asner and W. S. Shealor.
norale and discipline of the
is excellent after two weeks ^
lospitalization, vaccinations, i
some food, comfortable and |
ary living conditions. There j
been no desertions and n?
nces without leave. |
ie average educational prepa- j
in of the group is eighth grade, j
re is only one boy who is un- I
lo read and write. The roster 1
ts a galaxy of talent, including j
lty carpenters, twenty truck 1
efs, ten electricians, three I
nbers, eight mechanics, and "75 I
ners, one pharmacist, five cooks I
two bakers. Ed. Leake is list-1
as an experienced forester. The I
irmaeist has been given the first I
work for the Company,
lordon Haithcock of Warrenton,!
en Peoples of Warrenton, Edwin I
White of Norlina, Charlie Ear- I
of Jackson are a few of the 1
wball stars listed on the roster. I
^ company had two complete I
'seball outfits issued it before I
a'-'ing for camp. The company I
Mare Officer arranges frequent
|M&ous and devotional services for
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Coolidge-Woodring '
WBttSBMBttgRi <Y>wttSiMlili>iMMiMiAlilililttBBMjl^Ptf*<i
Miss Helen Coolidge, of Fitchmirg,
Mass., daughter of U. S. Senatoi
Marcus A. and Mrs. Coolidge, is t<
become the bride of Assistant Secrc
tary of War, Harry A. Woodring o!
Kansas and former governor c-f that ,
9tate
Larceny And False
Pretense Cases Are
Heard By Taylor
Larceny and obtaining1 lodging
under false pretense were the
charges which brought defendants
before Judge. W. W. Taylor in Recorder's
court this week.
Johnnie Paschall, negro, was
found guilty of stealing a pair of ]
overalls, valued at 25c, and was ]
sentenced to jail, assigned to work
the roads, for 60 days. The jail
sentence was suspended provided
he pay the costs of the action.
Carey Lewis, Rocky Mount negro,
was convicted on a charge of obtaining
lodging under false pretense
and was sentenced to jail, assigned
to the roads, for two months.
Dooly Drumgold and Sallie Bett
Drumgold, negroes, were before 1
Judge Taylor on a larceny count. !
The woman was found not guilty 1
and the man was given a two
months sentence.
Jesse Williams, charged with
manufacturing whiskey, asked for a
jury and had his trial postponed
until June 26.
Mrs. Addie Sturgess
A 4- ivAI#]
L/1CS rtl 1T11UU1CUU1 g
Mrs. Charles R. Sturgess of Middleburg,
formerly Miss Addie Mae
Odom of Areola, was buried, in the
Middleburg cemetery Tuesday afternoon
following funeral services
conducted at her residence at 4.
o'clock by Rev. J. H. Miller, pastor,
of the Middleburg Methodist
Church.
Mrs. Sturgess died at her home
about 5 o'clock Monday morning.
She had been in declining health
since last summer and had been
confined to her bed for about four
weeks prior to her death. She was
54 years old.
In addition to her husband, Mrs.
Sturgess is survived by the following
three children: Miss Ethel Stur -1
gess and William Edson Sturgess, I
both of Middleburg, and Charles
Ransom Sturgess Jr. of Fort Bragg;
also by two brothers, Howard Allen
Odom of Norlina and J. D. Odom
of Areola; and one sister. Mrs.'
John O. Riley of Norfolk, Va. I,
Bowers Says Letters i'
Being Mailed Out
? i;
"Dlun nmircn mpn '
JTVCU, VV llllC auu A>iuu
who are eligible to the Citizens
Military Camps which will be held (
in this Corps Area sometime after
July 1 are being mailed letters from1
headquarters to determine if they!
can attend camp in July, Claude j
T. Bowers, county chairman, stated
this week in requesting that these
men be notified to be on the look- j
cut for tne letters. County Chair- (
man Bowers said that headquarters '
are also communicating with the j;
same class of applicants who qual- :
ified this year as alternates with
the view of filling any vacancies
that might occur.
The camps will be for the usual
period of 30 days so far as is known
at this time, Mr. Bowers said. The '
exact date of the opening cf the
camps will be announced later.
Officers Nab Two
Men And Still
Two men were arrested and a 40- gallon
copper outfit seized as the
result of a raid made by Sheriff
W. J. Pinnell and deputies Friday
in Shocco township near the old
Milbry place. From eight to ten i
gallons of liquor were found. Jesse
Williams, colored, was arrested at
the stlil after a short chase, and
Charlie Wortham, seen at the still,
was arrested Monday. The two
men are held here in Jail, to bes
tried Monday in Recorder's court.]
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RENTON, COUNTY OF W>
Citizens Of Wise
To Appear Before
School Commission
Citizens of Wise will appear beore
the State school commission
;his morning at 10:30 o'clock in an
iffort to have a high school located
it Wise, it was learned yesterday
it the office of the superintendent
>f schools.
Superintendent Allen said yesterlay
that he did not believe that
he commission would attempt to
irrange the districts in the county
intil after the Wise school question
vas settled, as in the event such
ichool is located there, it would be
lecessary to make other changes in
.he county.
"It sems that the State school
commission," Mr. Allen said, "is
vorking on the policy of making a
school district around each of the
accredited white high schools, in:luding
all schools from whose territory
and children go to the accredited
high school; and they have
jeen calling- on us for additional information
along this line. If they
allow the Wise high school, that
Mould change the number of districts
and they are waiting to settle
all these matters at that time."
"It does not seem to be likely
that we can appoint committeemen
before the first Monday in July
but of course we can't tell definitely
now," Mr. Allen added.
23 Hoboes Sent
To Prison Camp By
Norlina Mayor
Twenty-three hoboes, picked up
at'Norlina Monday night and early
Tuesday morning by railroad detectives
and other officials, were
sent to the Warren County Prison
Camp on Tuesday to begin 30-day
road sentences.
There were nearly 40 men lifted
from the trains, but some of this
number were able to pay fines and
others were allowed to go their
way after giving plausible excuses
for riding the rails.
Mayor Albert Fleming who tried
the men said that the wholesale
capture was made in an effort to
curb the damage that the railroad
company is suffering from the free
riders who have been breaking into
the cars and destroying stock.
"Many of the hoboes who pass
through here," Mayor Fleming said,
"are out of work and are simply
riding up and down the tracks preying
upon the shipments of perishable
goods. They don't mind if they
are caught. As a matter of fact
some of those picked up Tuesday
morning begged for a 60-day sentence
when I sent them to the road
for 30 days."
The hoboes captured were both
white and colored and hailed from
far and near.
Mrs. Sue Egerton
Buried Saturday
LITTLETON, June 22.?Funeral
services for Mrs. Sue Twitty Egerton,
who died suddenly at the home
of her son, C. W Egerton, Thursday
afternoon at 5 o'clock, were
hoM SofnrHnv ofiprnoon at 2 o'clock
in the Methodist church. Rev. Rufus
Bradley, pastor of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, and Rev.
P. E. Bingham, pastor of the
Methodist Protestant Church, conducted
the services. Interment followed
at the old homeplace near
Warrenton.
Mrs. Egerton, who was 74 years
of age, suffered a heart attack.
She had been in ill health for the
past year. She is survived by the
following children Mrs. T. Frank
Cameron of Cameron, N. C., Miss
Regina Egerton of Chapel Hill,
Miss Anna Egerton of Greensboro,
H. P. Egerton of Camden, N. J.,
and C. W. Egerton of Littleton.
Pallbearers were Hunt Johnston,
Henry House, R. W. Thornton, John
House, J. P. Leach and W. L. Wiggins.
Executive Committee
Meets On Saturday
A meeting of the Executive Committee
of the Young People's Democratic
Club of Warren county will
VioiH Sa+.nrriav afternoon at 3
WV- AiVAXA N/MWU. MM,,
o'clock in the office of John H.
Kerr Jr., county chairman. The
purpose of the meeting is to elect
delegates to the state convention
to be held at Wrightsville Beach on
July 8th.
Mrs. T. V. Allen returned Monday
from Richmond, where she
spent the week end with her sister,
Mrs. Rollins.
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VRREN, N. C., FRIDAY, JUNE
BLALOCK URGES =
COOPERATION
Predicts Poor Prijces Unless
Reduction Plan Goes
Over Successfully
A LARGE CARRYOVER
RALEIGH, June 22.?Urging the
farmers to cooperate in the government's
acreage reduction plan,
U. Benton Blalock, president of the
American Cotton Cooperative Association,
today said that with a
13,000,000 bale carryover and good
prcspects for a crop on 40,000,000
acres this year only "an optomist
can look forward to anything like
a lair price ior couon inis iaii unless
our acreage reduction cam- 1
paign goes over as a big success." 0
Mr. Blalock termed the plan as k
"probably about the best that J
cculd be submitted under the authority
vested in the Secretary of ~
Agriculture through the Agricultu- 1
ral Adjustment Act," and summarized
the following as seven inducements
offered cotton farmers to cooperate
in the plan:
"It offers a very fair rental for
cotton lands according tc. produc- C(
tivity. y
"With options on cotton at six ^
cents per pound the cotton farmer
can immediately close out his options
for three tc. three and one- ^
half cents per pound profit.
"If he so desires he may hold his
options and if the production for the
season is curtailed two to three t
million bales and the price of cct- ,
ton is thereby increased, he not j('
only profits by the increase in price
j on his cotton held under options
but also on the balance of the crop
that he produces.
"The cetton farmer by disposing
of a portion of his crop now elimi- *
nates all crop hazards such as
droughts, floods, hail storms, boll .
weevil and other insect ravages. >
"He saves all further expense of
cultivation and the harvesting of
that portion abandoned."
"He 'cashes in' on a part of his
crop at a time when the average
cotton farmer hcSs n<tthlng to sell I
: and no money in bank or pocket. \
i "The producer is allowed to plant t
the abandoned acres in late corn, t
ferage crops, or any other kind of t
crop for home consumption and r
the Southern farmer rarely ever
has an overproduction of food or c
feed crops." c
Mr. Blalock who has spent ccn- r
siderable time in Washington re- c
cently conferring with those in t
charge of the cotton acreage reduc- s
tion division, has contended fcom
the beginning that to be successful 1
any acreage reduction plan would '
have to cffer greater advantages to
the producers who cooperate than
to those who do not cooperate.
Answering the question "What ?
are the reasons for the adoption ' ]
of this very drastic method for ?
j cotton acreage reduction?" Mr. j
IBlalock saia: (l
,1 "We are suifering from a heavy
overproduction of cottcn and arej c
going into the new year with the j
largest carryover of American cotton
ever known, approximately 13,000,000
bales, or almost a year's
supply. To get this annual carry- c
ever down to a normal basis of four j.
or five million bales through a '
policy of 'letting nature take its
course' would mean that within
three or four years under the work- n
jings of the unhampered law of
I supply and demand this goal might *
be reached, but it would mean our r
continuing the production of cotton 1
under unprofitable price levels in (~
the meantime."
I
Horse And Stable i
Destroyed By Fire *
A horse, barn, stable, packhouse, v
crib and feed were lost in a fire at 1
the home of Eugene Reavis on Mrs. J
I Stephen Bowens place in Sandy ^
j Creek township Tuesday. A mule 1
was rescued from the flames.
It is thought that the fire was "
caused by a child playing around 1
the barn with matches. v
. Parker To Preside }
Over Vance Court
HENDERSON, June 22,-Judge
R. Hunt Parker of Roanoke Rapids J
- -- . ~-r s
1 will preside over the civil term ui, Superior
court here next weeR. a
J Judge Prank Daniel, who is pre- ^
siding over criminal term of court, d
and the Roanoke Rapids jurist af- r
I fected an exchange for the civil t
term. 1
j
Mrs. Raymond Wynn and chil- v
dren of Marion, S. C., are guests p
in the home of Dr. and Mrs. G. H. t
Macon. o
i&pnv
? Lift to Lib
23, 1933 Subs
Rheba or Aimee?
Rumor at Los Angeles, has it that
theba Splivalo, above, "The Angel
f Broadway" will succeed Aimee
>?mple MePherson-Hutton as head
if the famed Angelus Temple there,
"he latter is now on a world tour
vlad Dog Bites
Five Children In
Sixpound Section
A daughter of Claude Haithock
and four children of John
'oung are being treated for madog
bites they suffered Thursday
nd Friday of last week.
The animal, the property of Mr.
rcung, was shot last Friday afterrnoon
by Mr. Haithcock when it
ame to his home in Six Pound
jwnship and attacked his daugher.
The head of the canine was
aken to Raleigh where the State
iboratory reported rabies.
Investigation revealed that the
og had bitten four cf Mr. Young's
hildren before it came to Mr.
laithcock's residence. All five of the
ictims beg-an taking the Pasteur
reatment last Saturday afternoon.
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JUAIV/? ?W j w
Is Not Candidate
For Assembly Place
John L. Skinner, member of the
Joard of County <?ommlgs!offers
irtll not be a candidate either for
he House of Representatives or for
he State Senate in the next elecion,
according to announcement
nade here Monday.
Mr. Skinner had been mentionid
frequently as a prospective canlidate
for this position since the
ecent announcements of Tom
barter and Bob Paschall started
he political minded to speculating
tlong these lines.
Bright Honored
At Stag Suppei
Bob Bright, teacher of vocational
igriculture in the John Graham
High schcol, was honor guest at a
;tag supper at Hotel Warren on
Friday night of last week. Fortyhree
were present.
Mr. Bright will marry Miss Belle
Shearin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs,
r. V. Shearin tonignt.
J. Edward Allen, superintendent
if Warren schools, acted as master
?f ceremonies. Bachelors and maried
guests, as well as the guest of
icnor, were joked and congratuated,
warned and admonished, as
he toastmaster called upon various
aembers of the party for remarks.
Those present were Bob Bright,
1. G. Allen, Joe Taylor, Bill Boyce,
)ick Boyd, Ervin Adams, C. A.
^ucker, Dr. W. D. Rodgers Jr., Dr.
}. H. Macon, Claude Bowers, S. O.
Tunn, Dr. P. P. Hunter, Pett Boyd,
lignall Jcnes, Howard Jones, Gra1am
Boyd, Gordon Poindexter, W.
[". Polk, Frank Gibbs, Tom Gillam,
it T. Read, Judge T. O. Rodwell,
ohn Mitchell, John Henderson, Edyard
Allen, A. C. Blalock, George
hazier, Pryor Allen, Dr. Rufus
ones, Ben Batts, C. C. Britten,
Valter Kidd, E. E. Gillam, Claude
laithcock, Rodwell Gardner, Jimaie
Mayfield, M. T. Pridgen, Early
ihearin, Paul Bell, Jerman Walker,
Jdward Tarwater, W. R. Basker111,
Haywcod Duke.
iA/ise Girls Form
Canning Club
WISE, June 19.?The ladies and
unior girls of Wise met at the
chool building today at 4 o'clock
.nd organized a canning club. Mrs.
V. M. Rochelle was elected presilent
and Mrs. Evans Coleman secetary-treasurer.
Mrs. W. F. Musian
gave a very interesting talk,
"he next meeting will be held on
une 26 at 4 o'clock. Every housewife
and junior girl is urged to be
resent for this meeting. Mrs. Musian
will also be present on this
ccasion.
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cription Price, $1.50 a Year
Crop Reduci
Under Waj
Way The Wallace *
Cotton Plan Works
In Case John Doe i
WASHINGTON, June 20?Here
is how the Wallace cotton plan (
would work out in the case of John ,
Doe who has a 10-acre patch over J
the hill:
John has been getting an aver- .
age of 200 pounds of lint cotton to i
the acre for some years and his
crop looks good for that amount
again this year.
Next week when the campaign for
reducing acreage gets under way,
John will attend a meeting called
by his county agricultural agent or
cnmn either renresentative of the
Department of Agriculture.
At the meeting he will find that
he may get cash for plowing up
part of his crop if enough other
farmers do the same thing to justify
going ahead with the plan.
He may offer to plow up one acre
three acres or four acres. Because
j John has been getting more than
i an average crop out of his field he
will be entitled to more rent.
Three acres would be about the
amount that Secretary Wallace
' would like him to take1 out of production
for that sized farm.
| Upon acceptance of his offer by
I Wallace, a contract would be pre'
sented to him and he would find
jthat, since his production was between
175 and 224 pounds to the
acre, he would be entitled to $14
cash rent for each of the acres he
I plowed under or a total of $42.
Or, he might choose instead to
take $10 an acre, a total of $30 for
the three acres, and an option on
600 pounds of lint cotton to which
his acreage and reduction would entitle
him.
> This 600"pounds would be equal
to the amount of cotton which his
! three acres would be expected to
He couia get the /opttmi
without paying out any money. Titr
would simply be credited with 600
. pounds of cotton at six cents a
, pound.
He would be entitled to any sum
over six cents a pound that cotton
was sold for at any time he decided
it ought to be sold. There will be
some regulations later telling him
just how to go about that.
Anyway, he would receive the
cotton at six cents and it is selling
in the markets today for from
eight to nine cents. The cotton may
be 1200 miles away but it is John's
for the time he holds the option.
In either case, before John gets
; the money, a representative will be
. i around to see that he has plowed
1 up the three acres,
i i He may plant something else on
1that Dart of his patch so long as it
I .
I is eaten on the farm?or he may
, | let it lie idle.
| He will not be permitted to spend
| the money he took in to put a lot
of extra fertilizer on the rest of
I his patch, but must go right on
.with his ordinary plans for the
other seven acres, picking it and
j selling it as he desires.
Miss Hilliard Is
Contest Winner i
j Speaking on "Rural North Caro- '
1 lina's Greatest Need," Miss Martha
Hilliard of Norlina was chosen in the
essay contest held in the court
house here last Saturday to represent
Warren county in the district
| contest which is being sponsored by
. the North Carolina Cotton Coop'erative
Association,
j Miss Bertha King, representing
, the John Graham High School, was
I the only opponent Miss Hilliard had |
I in the county contest. Judges were
Mrs. Calvin Weaver, Miss Gayie
Tarwater and Jesse Gardner.
The central district is composed
of Wayne, Wilson, Wake, Chatham,
| Green, Lenoir, Warren, Johnston,
| Durham and Franklin counties,
I and the winner of this contest will
I compete in the State finals, grand
I prize of which will be the State
championship and a one-year colllege
scholarship.
I
j LOCAL GOLFERS WIN
| South Boston was defeated in a
'golf match played at the WarrenJton
golf course Wednesday afternoon.
The score was 21 1-2 to 31
j 1-2. Following the game, members
! of the Warrenton club entertained
the Virginia visitors at a barbecue.
Dr. and Mrs. T. J. Holt, Mr. Hugh
Holt, and Miss Helen Holt departed
i Monday morning for a ten-day trip
through the New England states.
A- *?A ? ?
MOST OF THE NEWS
ALL THE TIME
NUMBER 26
tion Plan
rIn Warren
Committees Meet At Court
House Here This Morning
at 10 o'Clock
MEETINGS NEXT WEEK
With a meeting of all
committees scheduled to be
held in the court house at
Warrenton this morning at
10 o'clock, the Government's
Cotton Crop reduction plan
is under way in Warren
countv. Meetings will he
held in all sections of the
county next week when the
plan will be explained and
farmers given an opportunity
to sign the reduction
agreement contracts.
Yesterday Bob Bright, vocational
teacher in charge
of the work in Warren, accompanied
by W. W. Haithcock,
Geo. Frazier, J. T.
Walker, Harry Williams, R.
A. King, J. V. Shearin and
A. W. Parker, vocational
teacher of Littleton, attended
a district meeting in
Rocky Mount where representatives
of the Department
of Agriculture discussed the
plans of procedure.
No public meetings will
be held until next week, due
to the fact that contracts
will not be available until
Monday, Mr. Bright said
yesterday. The schedule of
the meetings next week as
supplied by Mr. Bright follow:
Sandy Creek and Shocco Townships?Afton-Elberon
school house.
White, June 26, Monday night, 8:30;
colored, June 26, Monday night,
8:30.
River and Roanoke TownshipsTuesday,
June 27. White, 10:30
morning in Vaughan school house;
colored 4 o'clock afternoon In colored
church.
Smith Creek and Nutbush Townships?Wednesday,
June 28. Drewry
school. White, 10:30 morning; colored,
4:00 in the afternoon.
Fork Township?Thursday, June
29. Inez school house. White 10:30,
morning; colored, 4:00 afternoon.
Fishing Creek Township?Friday,
June 29. Areola school. White 10.30,
morning; colored, 4:00 afternoon.
Hawtree Township?Friday, June
30. Wise school house. White, 10:30
morning; colored, 4:00 afternoon.
Sixpound Township?Friday, June
30?Macon school house. White,
10:30 morning; colored, 4:00 afternoon.
Warrenton TJownshlp?Saturday,
July 1. White, 10:30 morning at
Court House; colored, 10:30 morning,
colored school.
Judkins Township ? Saturday,
July 1. White, 10:30 morning,
Vaughan school house; colored,
10:30 morning, colored church.
Committees named by Mr. Bright
for the several districts of the
county and certified to Dean I. O.
Schaub of State College follow:
County committee?E. H. Pinnell,
J. T. Walker, E. G. Allen.
Shocco-Sandy Creek?P. P. Limer,
S. E. Allen, Ed Turner,
Warrenton?M. T. Pridgen, G. R.
(Continued en Page 2)
Warren County
Given Good Rank
Only six counties in North Carolina
have fewer criminal cases per
capita than Warren county, according
to an article in the current
issue of the University of
North Carolina News Letter.
Warren county, according to the
News Letter ranks seventh in the
state with a record of one criminal
case to every 467.2 inhabitants.
Stanly county is first with one case
ho everv 6865 inhabitants. Haywood
county ranks at the bottom with
a criminal case for every 36.3 inhabitants.
Franklin county has a criminal
case for every 243.4 inhabitants;
Nash one to 100.5; Vance, one to
46.4; and Halifax one criminal case
to every 66.2 inhabitants.
CONGRESSMAN RETURNS
Congressman John H. Kerr returned
to his home here Sunday
night from Washington, D. C.