!
accurate, terse
timely
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mTAxWn
REMAINS AT $1
Approved Uudget Calls For
Total Exponditiire Of
I Nearly $27,000.00 I
\ AlVATIOS* ARE LOWER
I u'mrcnton tax rate, for
I the fiscal years ending JuneI
I SO, 1934, will be $1 on the
I $100 valuation. Poll tax willl
00 was de-/
I remain at ?
I fideil at a special meeting
|oi the Heard of Town Com-J
I missioncrs here on Monday I
I night when that body for-J
I mally adopted the tentative)
I budget approved at the reg-J
I ular July meeting. I
I The approved budget calls)
I for a total expenditure of)
I ?26.522.57. Of this amount,)
I $16,347.57 is for operating)
expenses; ?10,175.00 is for)
f bond purposes.
I Valuations were reduced here!
I one-fourth when the county com-)
I missioners adopted a horizontal re-1
I duction of 25 per cent instead oi l
I revaluation at their April meeting.!
I Fuel Allowance Is
I Cut 16 Per Cent I
By State Order)
W Warren county will be allowed 16)
I per cent less coal and wood than)
I was consumed last year, according I
I to a ruling from the state depart-)i
I ment of education. |.
I Superintendent of Schools J. Ed-)(
I ward .Alien yesterday interpreted))
this order to mean that the state).
I jouid provide fuel only for the)
0 heating ol schools lor school pur-) j
? - ?? fl '
I poses during uie six nuui& ui hk i
school day, holding that whatever i
is spent for fuel comes out of the
teachers pockets, and that it would i
not be fair to the teachers to cut >
their salaries to the bone and pile \
up large allotments for other (
things.
Local Contractors
Ask Commissioners
For Protection
W. A. Miles. B. C. Carpenter and
H. P. Reid. Warrenton contractors, 1
appeared before the Board of Town
Commissioners on Monday night
asking that out-of-town contractors
I be required to pay a privilege tax.
1 The contractors stated to the
I board that they thought they deI
served and were asking for the
Vsame protection as that given the
|hous^amS ant* ?^er business
I The commissioners took the matjter
under advisement.
I Rules New Set Up
Of Committeemen
h a new set up of committees will
I be necessary in a number of school
Itericts of Warren county following
la ruling of the attorney general reIctived
at the office of the superinItendent
of schools to the effect
that only three members could
serve on school committees, it was
learned yesterday.
I Mr. Allen said that on the face
Id the ruling it appeared tnat ac V.on
would have to be taken in this
regard. but asked that school com aittees
not hold up their business
Pending such action. He asked that
organization of schools proceed
l'thout delay.
Local School May
Have New Teachers
The Warrenton school will probhave
two new teachers this
fear, according to J. Edward Allen,
superintendent of Warren schools.
^hen said he believed that the
Kate allotment would permit the
number oi teachers in the
H '-n school and an additional ele ?entary
teacher.
Jn She event that this ic tmo
AkJ w* W^) |
Men said that efforts would 1
I " made to obtain a high school!
Bleacher who could also serve as 1
jHlwtball coach, and an elemental y I
^Bleacher who could give part of her 1
Blime to instruction in business and I
*?etarial courses. The high school t
Richer will replace Miss Katherine |
1 - The elementary teacher will ^
S, an addition to the number of |
-'--s who have formerly served ^
Pett Boyd was a visitor in
"^h on Sunday.
WAI
DAVIS CHARGES Tl
WHITEWASHED
Former Representative Asks
And Orderly Court Proced
Give the Defendants
"DID SOLICITOR HELP T<
Charging that the board
o f county commissioners
was given a whitewashing
by a Warren county grand
jury after he had preferred
his charges against that body
at the May term of court,
John S. Davis, Creek citizen
and former member of the
House of Representatives, in
an oDen letter to The War
ren Record this week, strongly
intimates without direct
charge that the jury was
"fixed."
His charge that the grand
jury whitewashed the commissioners
was in the form
of a direct statement. Intimations
take the form of
questions.
"I saw Mr. Skinner accompanying
the judge towards
his dinner Monday.
Firearms Figure
In All Three Cases
In County Court
Firearms figured in all three of
the cases that brought three negro
men before Judge W. W. Taylor for
trial in Recorder's court on Monday
morning. There were no white defendants
tried this week, the case
against J. W. Carroll, charged witn
possessing whiskey, being postponed
until July ox when a jury will
decide the issue.
James Taylor plead guilty to carrying.
a concealed weapon and was
sentenced to jail, assigned to work
the roads of the State, for a period
of four months.
Whipping out a gun from beneath
his overalls and firing at a dog
that growled at him cost Major
Alston tour months of his freedom.
Friends of the canine swore out a
warrant charging Alston with carrying
a concealed weapon, and the
Judge, after listening to the evidence,
sentenced the negro to four
months on the roads.
Rufus Moss was charged with assaulting
Lena Ross with a, shotgun,
but evidence revealed that the defendant
did not have a gun in his
possession at the time he made the
threats to the woman and Judge
Taylor held that he was net guilty
of the charge.
Pippen And Fishel
In Charge Of Home
Owners Loans
Joseph P. Pippen of Littleton has
been appointed attorney, and Harry
Fishel of Vaughan appraiser, to
serve the Home Owner's Loan corporation
in this county, it was
learned yesterday.
Mr. Pippen's duties will be to
examine titles and other similar
work in connection with loans that
are to be granted by the corporation.
Mr. Vaughan will value the
property on which money is granted.
Stabler To Head
Elberon School
J. C. Stabler, who has been principal
of the Drewry school for the
past two years, has accepted an appointment
as principal of the AftonElberon
school, succeeding Paul
Cooper, who has accepted a position
as head of the Littleton
school, it was learned yesterday at
the offiae of the superintendent of
schools.
J. W. King has been re-elected
principal of the Macon school. Harry
Fishel and Miss Myrtice Harris i
have been re-elected teachers atl
"\7aiinrVton
V HUgilUili
Farmers May Ask
That Cotton Be Sold
Farmers having cotton stored as
collateral against their loans for
1931 and 1932 may make request in
writing to the government to sell
such cotton, J. C. Howard, Field
Supervisor announced yesterday.
Mr. Howard said if the farmers
wish to do so, they may submit such
request to him and he would attend
to it for them.
tjeMi
tRENTON, COUNTY OF WA
IAT GRAND JURY
COMMISSIONERS
"Was Operation of Wise
ure Reversed In Order To
a Whitewashing?"
5 PUT IT ON?" HE ASKS
I saw Mr. Skinner going with
the solicitor toward his dinner
Tuesday," Mr. Davis
writes.
He explains his going before
the Grand Jury and
asks, "Was the operation of
wise and orderly court procedure
reversed in order to
give the defendants a whitewashing?
Did the Solicitor
help,to put it on? Was the
jury or a part of them a
party to it or were they
overawed? If so, wasn't it
by the power of the court
or a few of their own number?"
After a series of articles in the
Warren Record charging that the
Board of County Commissioners
were violating the law in the payment
of $20 to Julius Banzet, county
attorney, as fees for bringing tax
(Continued on Page 4)
^ ,ill I ?
94 Persons File
Income Tax Reports
In Warren County
Ninety-four persons in Warren
county filed individual income tax
returns for the calendar year of
1931 on which payments were made
last year, reports the Federal Treasury
Department. Forty-four of the
people filing returns from this county
were from Warrenton, 29 from
Littleton, and the remaining 21
from other sections of Warren.
Taxes paid by 24,822 persons in
North Carolina last year amounted
to $2,363,679 for 1931 while payments
for 1930 were $2,954,558.
Charlotte led the cities in the number
of persons paying income taxes,
with 3,128 and Mecklenburg county
where 3,403 persons paid, led the
counties.
The 202 individuals in Halifax
county who paid income taxes in
1931 included 43 in Enfield, 90 in
Roanoke Rapids, 10 in Rosemary,
60 in Weldon, and 35 in Scotland
Neck, according to statistics from
the Internal Revenue Bureau.
The ten counties making the largest
number of returns in the State
follow in the order named: Mecklenburg,
Guilford, Forsyth, Buncombe,
Wake, Durham, New Hanover,
Edgecombe, ({lowan and Gaston.
I ^ ? ? ? A. C n a .. a A- n u. w
DdllZCl kJCti ciai y
Bar Association Of
Third District
Julius Banzet was named secretary
of the bar association of the
Third Judicial District St a meeting
held at Halifax yesterday morning.
The meeting was called by
Judge R. Hunt Parker for the purpose
of organizing the bar. There
were about 60 attorneys present,
it was estimated.
Other appointments made yesterday
were: David Colin Bonds, president;
J. H. Bridgers of Henderson,
vice-president; George Green of
Weldon, councillor.
Those from Warrenton attending
the meeting were Judge W. W.
Taylor, Frank H. Gibbs, Frank
Banzet, John Kerr Jr., and Julius
Banzet. Littleton was represented
by Joseph P. Pippen, Mayor John
Taylor, John Picot and Solicitor
Cromwell Daniel.
Littleton Delegation
Ask Bridge Location
LITTLETON, July 27?a delegation
composed of J. R. Wollett, G.
T. Vick, W. R. Wiggins, J. P. Pippen,
C. E. Foster, J. R. Glasgow
and P. A. Johnston went before the
State Highway-Public Works Commission
in Raleigh Monday to ask
that, if a new bridge is to be built
over the Roanoke River between
the Steel Bridge and the Roanoke
Rapids Bridge, that this bridge be
built at Eaton's Ferry. In addition
to this they requested that a hard
surfaced road be built between Littleton
and Rocky Mount by way
of Airlie and Ringwood. It is greatly
hoped that these requests will
be granted as they will prove very .
advantageous to Littleton.
irrnt
lRREN, N. C., FRIDAY, JU
BOARD HEARS
ROAD DISPUTE
Littleton and Warrenton Citizens
Differ Over Location
Proposed Road
CHAIRMAN BREAKS TIE
A deadlock between Warrenton
and Littleton delegations
over the location of a
proposed highway f r o ir
Warrenton to Lawrenceville
Va., was broken here or
Saturday morning at a special
meeting of the Boarc
of County Commissioners
when Chairman John Claj
Powell voted not to endorse
the petition of the Littletor
delegation.
The meeting on Mondaj
came as the aftermath of a
meeting on Wednesday oi
last week when the Boarc
voted unanimously to endorse
the petition of the
Littleton citizens, but repealits
motion after a delegatior
of Warrenton citizens appeared
and told the board
that they wanted a hearing
upon the matter. It was
stated at that meeting thai
Warrenton citizens wanted
the road connecting the twe
towns built over the shortesl
and most feasible route, and
asked that this be left to the
discretion of the highwaj
commission.
The Littleton delegation in theii
petition asked that the road leave
Route 48 at a point near Vaughar
and crosss the Roanoke river at
Eaton's Perry.
The Warrenton delegation at the
meeting on SattfMay, offerei
through its spokesman, Mayor F
H. Gibbs, a compromise resolution
asking that the road leave Route
48 at any point between Macon and
Vaughan that the highway engineers
might determine to be the
most feasible. Joe Pippen, speaking
for the Littleton delegation, said
they were unwilling to accept the
compromise measure and requested
the commissioners to determine
the matter.
Commissioners Wall and Skinnei
voted in favor of the Littleton section.
Commissioners Burroughs and
Capps voted "no". In breaking the
tie in favor of Warrenton, Chairman
Powell explained that the
meeting at which the Littleton resolution
was offered was called foi
(Continued on Page 4)
Midwife Classes To
Be Conducted In
County Next Weel
Midwife classes have been arranged
for various sections of Warren
county next week by the State
Board of Health and the Countj
Board of Health, Miss Hobbs, State
Nurse, announced yesterday. Mis;
Hobbs stated that any one who is
practicing midwifery in this countj
is required to attend one of the
classes.
The purpose of these classes, the
state nurse said, is to instruct midwives
what to do and what not tc
do in order to do better and safe:
work for the mothers and babies
that they attend. A model bag containing
all the little articles neces(Continued
on Page 8)
William B. Overby
Dies Wednesday
Funeral services for William Bailey
Overby were conducted from his
home at Macon Thursday afternoor
at 4 o'clock by the Rev. Mr. Willis
pastor of Gardner Baptist church
assisted by the Rev. G. F. Roach
/if TXT-!ca Tnhprmpnl
-Dflpi/lSl/ lllllildlCi Ui TV 1UV ? ?>.
took place in the Macon cemetery
Mr. Overby died at his home or
Wednesday night about 12:30 o'cloci
following an illness Of severa
weeks. He was taken sick early ir
July and his health continued t<
decline until his death.
Mr. Overby was 56 years of age
and was perhaps one of the oldesl
mail carriers in the county froir
the standpoint of service. He hac
been delivering mail on a rura
route leading out of Macon for the
past 30 years.
Surviving him are four sons
Marvin, Gilmer, Eugene, and William
Bailey Overby.
Smi
ILY 28, 1933 Subi
RAILROAD WINS L
REFUND; TO
1 Profits, Turned Over to Go
Re-capture Clause of Fed
Rarlr Inf a Tvd qoiivu r\f I
* * V?OUl J t/? ?.
TOWN MAY USE MONE'Y
i
I
Winning in its long fight
to recover profits turned
" over to the Federal GovexnL
ment under the Re-capture
1 clause of the Federal Rail>
road Act for a period of ten
1 years, the Warrenton Rail
" Road Company is expected
^ to turn over to the town of
3 Warrenton today the sum of
$19,800, representing a 40
5 per cent dividend on the
1 amount of stock held by
the town. Dividend checks
will also be mailed out to
1 individual stockholders.
%
This dividend, it is underl
stood, comes in the form of
' a bonus to the stockholders,
' representing earning over a
" period of years, and has no
1 relation to regular dividends
" earned during the current
1 year.
f Under the Re-capture clause
,
t Company B, Honor
Laden. Returns To
) 1
t Warrenton Sunday
^ Having won the major portion of
camp honors, members of Company
r B rolled happily into Warrenton
Sunday morning around 7 o'clock
after spending two weeks in training
at Camp Glenn, Morehead
City. The troops started home at
8:15 Saturday after spending the
' day in preparation for the homeward
trek.
? ../Pour out of the five trophies competed
for by the entire companies
were won by Warren county's military
unit of defense, and in the
| one contest that the local boys
failed to win they came off with
| second place.
J Honors won by B Company were:
! Sanitation Cup, Davis Cup, Automatic
Rifle Trophy, Athletic
' Trophy.
, Sgt. Hugh E. Weldon in charge
of Company Mess, assisted by Pvts
. Willie J. King and Romeo M. Wil,
Hams, with Baker Plummer as cook,
[ are due the major portion of credit
, for winning the McCougan Trophy,
. a sanitation award, with a daily
. average of 97.64 per cent. This
. trophy was awarded for the highest
. daily average on the Kitchen Mess
Hall, Company Area and Company
Quarters. This "Sanitation Cup,"
"'hir-vi was won for the second year
in succession, is now a permament
possession of the company.
Due to weather conditions only
^ one company from each batallion,
was ordered to fire the "Combat
Problem". Company B, due to her
record, was chosen from the First
5 Battalion. Again Company B showed
r her mettle and came away with
! first place, winning the Davis Cup.
(Continued on Page 8)
. Batts Transferred
To Rocky Mount
Ben Batts, manager of the A. &
' P. store here for nearly three years,
was on Monday transferred to
' Rocky Mount where he was placed
in charge of one of the A. & P.
' stores operating in that city. He
was replaced here by a Mr. Brantley
who was in charge of the store
that Mr. Batts has been transferred
r ta
Mr. Batts came to Warrenton in
. September 1930 as manager of the
, local A. & P. concern. While here
' jhe made many friends who have
' tnis WeeK expresseu icgjcto m
? learning of his departure.
? Highsmith To Meet
With School Heads
i
: Dr. J. Henry Highsmith, Director
1 of Instructional Service, will be
i at Warrenton on Monday, July 31,
> for the purpose of Holding meetings
of principals of White and
i colored schools at 10 o'clock, act
cording to announcement made
i yesterday by Supt. J. Edward Allen.
I White principals will meet at
1 the John Graham school house;
i colored principals at the John R.
Hawkins school. It is expected that
: Dr. Highsmith will be accompanied
by three or four other experts, Mr.
Allen said.
rfr
St*to I jhi ;
scription Price, $1.50 a 'tW^$
ONG FIGHT FOR I
PAY TOWN $19,800 1
vernment For Years Under
eral Railroad Act, Turned
ocal Town-Owned Road ^
r FOR DEBT PURPOSES
F
passed in 1922, railroads were required
to pay a percentage of their
excess earnings to the Federal
Government, to be used in helping *
to pay the expenses of less success- t
ful roads. The larger railroads re- t
..... . ....
sistecl tne payment 01 tms tax ^
through court action. A number of
the smaller roads paid. The War- r
renton Rail Road Company was one 8
of these. ?
At the last session of Congress
the re-capture clause was repealed.
The Warrenton Rail Road Company s
sought to recover the sum it had \
been paying in over the 10 year j
period. After several trips to Washington
and conferences with officials
and legal advisers, the gov- 'V
ernment decided with officials of c
the local company and ordered a j
refund.
The sentiment of the Board of c
Town Commissioners, as expressed 1
at a meeting on Monday night, i
when it was stated that the town
would receive this money, was that
it should not be used for current 1
expenses, but invested in government
or town bonds, if purchasable, f
in order to retire the town's indebtedness.
s
?
Tarwater Named t
Member Governing
Board Of Town ?
r
John G. Tarwater, tobac- f:
co buyer and business man, F
was elected a member of the *
Board of Town Commission- f.
ers at a special meeting of e
that body held in the may- ?
or's office on Monday night. ?
Mr. Tarwater succeeds W.
Pryor Rodwell, who resign- *
ed at the regular July meet- *
ing. I
Mayor Gibbs appointed W. C. h
Bobbitt chairman of the street a
committee. This position had been s
held by Mr. Rodwell. | fi
Mrs. Stella Harris Cl
Dies At Daughter's J
Home Saturday c
n
The remains of Mrs. Stella W. 8
Harris, widow of the late Anthony o
D. Harris, were laid to rent in t:
Fairview cemetery Sunday afternoon
following funeral services con- *
ducted at the Baptist church at 5 t
o'clock by the Rev. R. E. Brick- t
house, pastor. 8
Mrs. Harris died suddenly at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. Walter
Gardner, Saturday morning at 9:40 *
o'clock. Although her health had
not been good for some time, she
rtAwfiv?A/4 frt bor Knd onH
waa nuu ti/iimicu axv^X ki\s*.4 MMW
her death came as a surprise to
relatives and friends. She was in
her 72nd year. - z<
Mrs. Harris was born October 7, cl
1862, the daughter of Fannie Wat- a
kins and John Daniel Shearin of C
this county. On May 17, 1881, she d
was married to John H. Blalock of o1
Brunswick county, Va., and to this u
union were born two children?E. pi
W. Blalock and A. U. Blalock, who
reside at Warrenton. On October 5, 0(
1892, she was married to Anthony N
Harris who died at his home in g<
Warrenton several years ago. There vi
were three children by her second c<
marriage. Two of them, Mrs. Walter 2f
Gardner and A. D. Harris Jr., sur- P<
vive. Her oldest son by her second P*
marriage, John Harris, died while
in service to his country in 1918. re
' Mrs. Harris was active in church N
work, having been a member of the D
Baptist church for 40 years. In addition
she" was a member of the P<
Daughters of the Confederacy, and J<
was a Gold Star Mother. ai
I Pallbearers were W. H. Burroughs, ^
H. A. Moseley, C. R. Rod well, J. tf
|E. Rooker Jr., Tom Gardner, Wil- cl
liam Burroughs, John Bell and Ed- ^
ward Allen.
: r f
Macon Nine Wins
Over Enfield Team
MACON, July 27.?Macon won b<
from Enfield Wednesday by the d
score of 7-0. Robertson for Macon V
allowed only two hits. B. Mayfield, ei
J. Mayfield and H. Loyd led at the t?
bat for the locals. The Smith- h:
Douglas team of Weldon will play
Macon here Saturday at 3:30 di
'o'clock. Ladies will be admitted free c<
but therU will be a small admission 11<
charge for men. ts
MOST OF THE NEWS
ALL THE TIME
NUMBER 31
'LOWS TURNING
UNDER COTTON
Selieved That 5,000 Acres
Will Be Out of Production
By Saturday Night
ARMERS ARE NOTIFIED
Plows have been going in
Varren county this week
urning under the soil coton
that was contracted to
ip rlpatrnvpH in flip ornvpm
v/ VIVWVl. VJ VV? AAA VA4V O w * "
aent's campaign to reduce
icreage, and it is believed
hat by Saturday night the
najor portion of the 5,000
teres pledged in this county
vill have been taken out of
>roduction.
The first plow-up permits
vere issued l\ere last Saturlay
and since that time those
n charge of the reduction
tampaign in this county
lave been kept on the go
notifying farmers over the
:ounty that they might renove
their crop.
The license to plow up sent the
armers to their fields at once and
,11 this week blooms have been
cattered here and there as plows
lave gone down the rows turning
he growing crop under.
Although Walter Burroughs Sr.
f the Afton-Elberon section was
he first farmer in this county to
eceive a permit, he was not the
irst man to destroy his cotton. Ed
'etar, coroner and fanner, said
esterday that he buried part of
lis crop two weeks ago. "I Just
elt sure that Secretary Wallace's
?lan was going through and I took
i chance, "he stated. A few others
n the county who had faith in the
dan did likewise.
The destroyed cotton Is being re
>iaced In many Instances by peas,
:orn and beans. Some farmers are
raiting a little later to use the
and for clover. The mower is beig
used on some fields rather than
plow in order that the cotton
talks might be saved for feed this
ill, it was said.
Following the plow will come
ash settlement checks and rentalenefit
checks aggregating $663,000
a addition to Federal options on
otton that if sold on the present
larket would bring Warren county
rowers an extra $79,740, or a total
f $142,640 from the reduction conract
sign-up.
Mr. Brignt said that he did not
lave any idea when the first of
he checks will be received here for
hose who are cooperating with the
overnment in the movement. "We
(Continued on Page 4)
Committee Asks
State To Take Over
Streets Of Town
A committee of Warrenton clti;ns,
headed by W. C. Bobbitt,
nairman of the street committee,
ppeared before the State Highway
ommission In Raleigh on Tueaay
and asked that the State take
/er and reconstruct 'streets here
sed by the highway system as a
art of its roads.
The Federal act donating $11,)0,000
for highway construction In
orth Carolina as a part of the
jvernment's relief program proded
lor the spending of 50 per
>nt of this sum on State roads;
i per cent on feeder roads and 25
;r cent on highways within cordate
limits.
Four routes pass through War;ntoni
58 to Rocky Mount, 48 to
orfolk, Federal 158 and 59 to
oulsburg.
The Warrenton delegation, combed
of Mr. Bobbitt, Representative
jhn A. Dowtin, Dr. G. H. Macon
id Jim Moore, was one of a num:r
appearing from all sections of
le state. The commission heard
aims and took all matters under
Ivisement.
Wham To Collect
State Taxes Here
Brooks Parham of Henderson has
Jen assigned here to collect taxes
ue the state. He will be at Hotel
barren Monday and Tuesday of
ich week, and those who have
ixes to pay may get In touch with
im there.
Mr. Parham was in town yesteray.
He said that his duties are to
jllect the sales tax, income tax,
cense tax?in fact every kind of
ix due the state.