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accurate, terse timely volumn xxxiii Sperm COURT OPENS MONDAY Judtre R. Hunt Parker To Preside Hor first Ijme In Warren County TWO CASES OF INTEREST September term of War' ? nntv Superior court ren * ? will convc.no hove Monday f morninfr at 9:30 o'clock with judge R. Hunt Parker presiding This will be the first Warren court presided over by Judge Parker. Solicitor W. H. S. Burgrw.vn will prose-1 cute. Principal interest in the! criminal docket centers a-I round the trials of Jesse I Stevenson. Carol Knight. J.I 0. Parrish and Slim Stewart,! white men charged with rob-l bery and conspiracy to robl as a result of the hold-up ofl I Mrs. Ella Ellis ne.ar the Box! I Mill on Wednesday night ofl I last week, and in the case ofl I Romey Moore, white man,! I charged with secret assault! I with intent to kill. Moore is! I charged with attacking Reg-I ictar nf Deeds Joseph Po-| iiou ? V* ? well on the night of July 4th and later on the same night assaulting Ed Baldwin and Peter Williams, Warrenton negroes. Ethel Davis, negro woman of the Littleton section, charged with fatally shooting Helen Vincent, negro, on the 19th day of July, will be tried lor murder. Jesse Young is to face the court on a charge of having carnal knowledge of a girl over 12 and Under 16 years of age. This - case (Continued on page 6) 12,414,000 Bale Forecast Is Made By Government WASHINGTON, Sept. 8?A 12,414,000 bale crop of cotton today was predicted for this year by the government reporting board the forecast being an increase of 100,000 bales over that of August 8. Government experts said the .staple east of the Mississippi had Ifletniomed but this had been more |tban offset by western improve1 The board predicted the yield per acre lor the entire cotton growing section would be 197.8 lint I pounds as compared to the fore Mcast ol 198.4 i>ounds on August 8. I H The individual yield per acre lor I this year is about .08 per cent I Hhigher than the ten years average! and is the highest since 1914 with! line exception ot the yield in 1931.1 The prediction that the United! HStates would have virtually a nor- I ^ ^ai crop ol cotton was made alter | ^ estimates that the farm reduction I ^ campaign had resulted in removal! ?1 10.396.000 acres from cultivation,! H9'T000 more than was anticipated I l'-n the Aug. report. I The crop reporting board said! ^Woii weevil activity and unfavorable J ^fceather conditions had resulted in I ^Bfeclme ol prospects August 1 in all 1 ^ lates east ol the Mississippi river J Mississippi and Tennessee. I Discusses I New School Law |^^,Supt; J- Edward Allen discussed I e ^ministration of schools und-l 'he "Pw set-up at the first gen- I Sou ;:achers mpptinR ?f year' "P1Q at JoTin Graham! at Warrenton on Thursday 1 (^ uornin?. Every white teacher ot I |^Bne Warren county school system I present except J. Eddie Derrick 1 Warrenton. He was absent duel the lateness oi his appointment I member ot the taculty. 1 I following the teachers meeting! Warren County Unit of the I j^^Pwth Carolina Education Associa-1 j^W?n *as held when Miss Emily 1 ot Macon was elected chair-1 A w. Parker ot Littleton I named vice-chairman, and! Mariam Boyd of Warrenton! re-elected secretary-treasurer. 1 ot the association will be! upon call ot the chairman. 1 T L Broclie ?was a guest of r and Mrs. H. P. Jones this week. 01 WAR* Four White Men Bound In Connection With Ella Ellis On U Four white men have been bt given a hearing and bound M over to Superior Court un- a] del' bonds of $500 each on u charges of robbing and G conspiring to rob Mrs. J. M. m Ellis, north Warrenton atorp v.. w in keeper who was held up on Wednesday night of last week by masked bandits and * stripped of $112 as she was a, closing her store about !) o'clock. A fifth man is ra under bond of $25 as state ^ witness. ct The four men taken into custody ce by Sheriff Pinnell of Warrenton h< and Sherm Hamlet of Henderson tii are Slim Stewart and Jesse Stevenson of Warren county and Carol ce Knight and Joe Parrish of Vance a, county. Robert Edwards, who has w also been implicated in the plot jr to rob the store-keeper, is the a, state's witness. ri Stewart, Knight and Parrish T were given a preliminary hearing Cotton Reduction ( Checks Are Being Received Here Checks began arriving here Saturday for farmers of Warren county who par- ** ticipated in the governments dl plan to reduce cotton acre- w age by destroying a portion 01 of this year's crop. tc Another batch of the checks came b< in on Wednesday, and it is expected pi by those in charge of the reduc- c tion campaign in Warren county a] that from now on the money will $5 continue to arrive here fairly reg- os ularly until all of those who plowed Lx up their cotton have been paid. ei The checks received here on Sat- w urday amounted to $1,200. Wednesday's mail brought checks aggre- fj, gating $1,782. a Benjamin F. Fleming of Norlina fC was the first man to receive a to check and George Pullen, tenant w on the farm of R. L. Capps, was the second. ^ Two Men Face Judge Taylor In County Court N Violation of the automobile laws y( and larceny were the charges that a brought two white defendants be- n( fore Judge W. W. Taylor for trial in Recorder's court on Monday. J( Another case, in which Norwood ci Munn is charged with possessing w and transporting, was docketed for trial this week but was postponed " until October 2. E. C. Spence was lined $10 and ^ costs for operating an automobile ti without proper lights and license. a] John Schuster was found guilty ai of stealing feed from the Warren- jr ton .Box and Lumber Co. and was a, sentenced to the roads for six rj months. le There will be no Recorder's court a here until Monday, October 2, due n to the fact that Superior court tt convenes next Monday. Unemployment Shows Decline WASHINGTON, Sept. 14.?Unem- u ployment in four North Carolina f( cities, as measured by money spent U; for relief aid and the number of tt families aided, fell off sharply In a] August as compared with July. y Figures compiled by the Federal Emergency Relief Administration ai for Asheville, Charlotte, Greens- h boro and Winston-Salenv show a tl decrease of 18 per cent in the S( ormni. and a decrease in the d I 1I1U11VJ uj^.??v ?? ? number of people aided in each city except Winston-Salem. ci While Winston-Salem aided 1,533 h families and persons, an increase of n seven per cent over the 1,438 aided w 'in July, the city spent only $22,- si 054, a decrease of 4.9 per cent over t( the $25,183 spent in July. w Charlotte showed the highest per- b Icentage decrease in the amount of ci .money spent in August of any of b the 102 representative cities listed si in the administration's compilation. The amount expended for relief g; there amounted to only $24,876 as H compared with $38,415 in July, a ti decrease of 35.2 per cent. The num- b ber of families aided dropped 17 ft per cent, a relatively high mark, F (Continued on Page 8) M Iff Mi LENTON, COUNTY OF WA Over To Court Robbery of Mr*, ist Wednesday Night ;fore Magistrate W. C. Fagg and [agistrate Ed Petar, sitting to;ther on the case on Saturday iternoon. Knight and Parrish, irough their attorneys, Gholson & holson of Henderson, entered a is guiltplea of not guilty. Stewart aintained that he was innocent as ; testified in behalf of the state. Stevenson was arraigned before le Magistrate's court on Monday hen Edwards gave his evidence to le state but he waived hearing id threw no light on the robbery. The men were arrested on warints issued by Sheriff Pinnell 'ter he had tracked automobile res from Mrs. Ellis' store to Main and back to Norlina where the ir got on the hardsurface and after 2 had picked up some informaon at Henderson. Sheriff Pinnell said that when he ime back here from Henderson id told Slim Stewart that he anted him Slim made the followig statement: "I am not guilty id I want to see that you get the ght ones. I was in Henderson on uesday night with Robert Edwards, (Continued on page 2) Dfficers Search For Two Men Who Held Up Motorist Officers are still looking for clues lat might lead to the identity of le two men who held up and robjd Tom Lovell of $410 on Thursay night of last week when he as repairing an automobile tire i the highway near Norlina. Following the holdup Lovell drove i Henderson and reported the robjry. He said that while fixing a incture two men drove up in a hevrolet car with Virginia license id took $410 in currency and ! in change from him. With an ith thrown in, the robbers told ovell that he could keep hte $2 in lange to have his tire as said. Lovell told the Vance county 01cers that he had been operating: concession at a beach near Nor>lk and was on his way to Raleigh i visit his brother, T. C. Lovell, hen he was robbeu. Hhappell Resigns As Principal Of Norlina School S. G. Chappell, principal of the orlina school for the past several ;ars, last week resigned to accept position with the Meadow school, jar Benson, Johnson county. Mr. Chappell is succeeded by jhn H. Cowles, for 14 years prinpal of the Lexington City Schools, tr. Cowles last year was out of >e teaching profession doing post aduate work. Other changes in the faculties of barren schools since the publicaon of the teacher list last week re Misses Ann Simms of Raleigh ad Frances Morton of Greenville i place ol Misses Mary i_iiu Dmw ad Alta Rudisill, and Edd'e Derek as science teacher and athtic director at Warrenton; Edwin . Gunn and Kate Woodburn at orlina, and Agnes Garrls at Little>n. Vathan Hardy Hurt In Car-Bus Crash Nathan Hardy in a Rocky [ount hospital receiving treatment >r injuries he sustained on Satrday night about 11 o'clock when le car on which he was traveling ad a school bus collided near the Warrenton golf course. The extent of Hardy's injuries re not known, but it was said that is shoulder was cut, and it is lought that possibly he suffered )me broken ribs which may have unctured his lung. According to a report of the acident given here, Hardy was on is way home, riding on the runing board 01 Willis Neal's car hich was being driven by Neal's >n, when they met one school bus wing another into Warrenton. It as stated that the back school us swung into the path of Neal's ar and that Hardy was caught etween the two vehicles when they truck. Following the accident Hardy was iven first aid treatment by Dr. C. [. Peete. Later that night he was iken to a hospital in Rocky Mount y Ldmunu White, owner of the irm on which Hardy resides. W. i. Baskervill accompanied Mr. Vhite and Hardy to the hospital. t .ir < 1' TO lRREN, N. C., FRIDAY, SEP WARRENSSO OPEN THURSDAY Allen Says Opening Mosi Satisfactory; 636 Enroll, ed at John Graham LESSONS ARE ASSIGNEE Eight white schools em braced in the Warren coun ty school system openec their doors to more thai 2,000 children of the countj on Thursday morning in ai opening described by Super intendent of Schools J. Ed ward Allen as most satisfac tory. The ninth school of th( system, Littleton, began it; work on Monday and re cessed for the general tea chers meeting held here or Wednesday. Enrollment at Ndjrllna was par ticularly good, according to Mr Allen, who said that an increase ii all schools was expected to be no ticed as soon as the rush cottoi picking season was: over. He helc that this, coupled With the mid week opening held down enrollmen somewhat in a number of thi schools, as has been the case fo: years. Witn an enrollment slightly be low that of opening day last year the John Graham High Schoo began its work here yesterday when lessons were assigned to thi 636 pupils present. No formal exer cises were held yesterday. Instead they were postponed until thi morning. J. B. Miller, principal, said tha the o36 pupils enrolled this yea represented 122 less than the tota emollment for last year, but tha he expected enrollment to rise a the season advanced to approxi mately 800. He stressed the impor tance of all pupils entering schoo as early as possible, as tnis not onl; ateures better work., but' hWfcs thi average daily attendance recor< upon which the state allots teacher: for next year. One hundred and ninety-two o the pupils enrolled here are in thi hieh school and 444 are in thi elementary grades. The first gradi with 79 leads in number of pupils There are 66 in the second grade 73 in the third; 74 in the fourth 46 in the fifth; 63 in the sixth, anc 43 in the seventh grade. *ifty-tw< pupils are enrolled in the eightl grade; oi in the ninth"; 38 in thi tenth, and 41 in the eleventh grade Roosevelt Steps Into Drive For Better Pricei WASHINGTON, Sept. 14?Pres ident Roosevelt today imparted t< his national recovery drive thi vigorous pressure of his own de termination to provide quickly mor jobs and better prices. Ample credit for business and ag riculture by seeking immediate! the reopening of banks now closei or restricted was a major objectivi of the Chief Executive as he lookei especially toward sluggish farn prices. Somewhat impatiently he looke< forward to an agreement betweei soft coal operators and miners 01 the long-disputed NRA code for thii basic industry. Eagerly, too, the President await ed receipt of an agreement betweei the NRA labor and industrial ad visory boards which is intended ti moderate, if not finally settle, con flicts over the collective bargainini provisions of the recovery law. With today's return to the capita of Hugh S. Johnson, industrial ad | ministrator, Mr. Roosevelt was ex pecting to proffer such force as hi 'administrators deem necessary fo (Continued on Page 8) . I Congressman Kerr Speaks At Weldoi Congressman John H. Kerr wa principal speaker at a banquet givei by the Weldon Baptist Sunda school in the American Legion Hu at Weldon on last Friday nighl Judge Kerr chose as his subjeel "Indifference." About 85 were pres ent. Judge and Mrs. John J. Parker o Charlotte were guests in the horn of Mr. and Mrs. Palmer Scoggin oi Friday. Their daughter, Miss Saral Parker, accompanied them her and remained for a visit with Mia Katherine Scoggin. Smi: TEMBER 15, 1933 Subscr j White Wires Governor r Ginners And Grow< Are Opposed to J t Farmers and ginners of this section are greatly opposed to declaring a four> weeks ginning holiday, Edmund White, Warren county ginner, and director of * the North Carolina Cotton Ginners Association, wired 1 Governor J. C. B. Ehring1 haus on Wednesday. 1 Mr. White pointed out in his wire that many farmers did not have proper housing facilities and that green cotton packed green for this length of time would heat to such extent as to ruin seed and damage lint. He 1 suggested a better plan would be to prohibit sale of " cotton for four weeks in the ! event that a cotton holiday was deemed to be necessary. 1 Mr. White's action was taken 1 following a four-state cotton growt e Changes Made In Faculty of John Graham School ? 1 Last minute resignations on Saturday were responsible for the ine elusion of three new teachers in the - John Graham High school faculty I, on Monday. s Bob Bright, teacher of Vocational Agriculture in the local school for t the past three years, resigned to r accept a position of county agent. 1 His successor is to be named by the t state. Until that time Mr. Bright s will conduct classes. Misses Mary Lib Black of Shelby . nnri Altn R.nHiRill of Hickorv on 1 Saturday wired the school board for y releases, as they had obtained b schools in their home towns. 1 The Board of Trustees on Mons day selected Miss Frances Morton of Greenville and Miss Anne Sirnms f of Raleigh to fill the vacancies. At g the same time J. Eddie Derrick of e Waccamaw was named member of g the faculty and athletic coach, i. Miss Morton was graduated from ; East Carolina Teachers College in ; 1933. She has had two terms prac1 tice teaching in public school music d and grammar grade work. She will i teach the fourth grade, e Miss Simms obtained her degree from Wake Forest College in 1932 and since that time has taken postgraduate work at the University of North Carolina in Music, Education and Art. She will also teach the fourth grade. Mr. Derrick obtained his A. B. degree from Newberry College at Newberry, S. C? in 1929 where he ? vMrtwiUA* /vf thn fnnfho 11 footn g Wius a mcuiuci kjl ui.<_ uvu.... In 1929-31 he was science teacher and athletics director in Hallsboro high school. Last year he held a similar position in the Bladenboro high school. V Miss Helen Thompson and Mrs. 3 Beaufort Scull are making their e homes during the school year with 1 Miss Edna Allen; Miss Ann Simms 1 with Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Boyd; Misses Mary Randolph, Rose Kimi ball and Claire Williams with Mr. i and Mrs. Wallace Cawthorne; Miss * Rosa Hamilton with Miss Amma s Graham; Misses Annie Laurie Herring, Elizabeth Morton, Frances Morton and Frances Person with i Prof, and Mrs. J. B. Miller; Mr. - Derrick with Dr. and Mrs. G. H. 3 Macon. ?| Cotton Growers To it Meet On Monday Warren county cotton growers s will meet in the Imperial Theatre r here Monday afternoon, September 18, at 2:30 o'clock for a discussion of the cotton situation with M. * ? ?B T>/\l?i/?V? 1 CI. Mann, ui xwicign , OCUlbVUi J I treasurer of the North Carolina I Cotton Growers Cooperative Association, as the principal speaker, s Free motion pictures will be n given beginning promptly at 2:30. y The price outlook, Agricultural t Adjustment Act and its effect on the cotton farmer, the condition of the crop in State and nation? - these and other timely topics will be discussed by Mr. Mann. "The increase in the price of f things that the farmer has to buy e means that present day prices of a cotton will not leave him as much i money as he had last year on sixe cent cotton," said Mr. Mann in a s letter which has been mailed to all (Continued on page 6) rii iption Price, $1.50^?. V=^g?5B8w Ei. ^vo mat 3rs Of This Section Vny Ginning Holiday ers conference in Columbia, S. C. on Tuesday who# a cotton holidaj was suggested until a plan to raise the price of the staple could be worked out. Among other suggestions was that ginners be not permitted to operate for a periexl ol four weeks. The more than 2,000 farmer from North and South Carolina Alabama and Georgia attendini the meeting unanimously approve! a program calling for. 1. Immediate currency expan sions under provisions of the agri cultural adjustment act. 2. Abandonment of the cottoi processing: tax. 3. Declaration by the govern ment of a minimum price of 1 cents a pound for cotton and of $2 a ton for cotton seed. 4. A cotton marketing holida: until the proposed minimum pric is obtained. 5. A plan for reduction of cot ton production under which th secretary of agriculture woul license the production of only 9 000,000 bales next season. Governors of cotton-producin (Continued on page 6) Bright Expected To Be Appointed Ageni On First Monda] t-? l -r? 1 i 1 1 1 _ _ . | tsoD tfrignt, wno nas Dee serving as emergency count; ' agent since the governmen began its cotton crop reduc tion plan here in June, is ex pected to be appointed ful county agent at the Octobe meeting of the Board o the Board of County Com missioners. Mr. Bright, who has been teacti er of Vocational Agriculture i the John Graham High school f( the past three years, resigned tf latter part of the week. He wi however, continue to hold class< in the local school until the stat appoints his successor. The Board of County Commis sioners refused to appropriate $90 for this purpose at their regula September meeting and it wa understood that the Federal Gov ernment would appoint a civil ser vice man as emergency agent t take care of the Cotton and Tc bacco reduction campaigns. The latter part of the wee! however, B. T. Ferguson, of tb State Extension Service, interviewe Commissioners Capps, Wall an Powell and after pointing out th? the Federal Government had mad I a ratner large appropriation i J funds to be spent in counties wit regular agents and stressing tr need for such work at the preser time, obtained the consent of thes commissioners to have Mr. Brigl: appointed. This was learned yeste: day from an authoritative source. Harrison Predicts Inflation Measun WASHINGTON, Sept. 14.?Chair man Harrison of the Senate Financ Committee predicted to newspaper men today that the administratis would take some action to rais commodity prices, "pretty quick whether you call it inflation o not." Harrison, in reporting the reac tions to his conferences with Pres ident Roosevelt, director of th Budget Douglas and Governors Eu gene Black of the Federal Reserv Board, did not specify what forr the action would take but indicate' strongly it might be a devaluatioi of the dollar. "If something is not done t raise commodity prices," he sale "Congress when it reconvenes, i going to compel and not leave th proposition discretionary." He referred to the inflatioi amendment of the farm bill auth orizing the President to inflate thi currency, but not making it man datory upon him. i Howard Changes Office Locatioi J. C. Howard, Government fieli agent, has moved his office to th building occupied by the Farmer.' Mutual Exchange, next door t Carolina Power & Light Co. offlc on Main Street. Miss Jane Parker left Wednesde for Mereditn College, Raleigf where she will be a member of th senior class. 1 I . . MOST OF THE NEWS Mil ALL THE TIME 5^| * |g| NUMBER 38 REDUCTION GOES i OVER IN WARREN ) Practically 100 Per Cent Sign-up Follows Mass ; Meeting Monday IS TERMED A SUCCESS [ Warren county tobacco 3 farmers have signed up near? ly 100 per cent in the acre' age reduction campaign 3 which went off with a bang . on Monday in each of the _ C7 -PI 11 A AllUA/^ f aV\0 AAA AAtltl u I iiuc-vuicu tuuattu vuuir ties of the state. Less than a a half dozen farmers have . refused to sign the contracts 5 it is understood. 5 County Agent Bob Bright, y erstwhile vocational agricule ture teacher in the John Graham High School, yese terday afternoon termed the d campaign a huge success. " He said that the farmers o? g Warren had responded magnificiently in the sign-up ~ drive. While all the contracts are not yet in, a check-up of those that t had been returned to the court v house here yesterday afternoon re^ vealed that 262 contracts covering 3119 acres have been signed. These II 3119 acres have an estimated yield y of 2,308,428 pounds of tobacco. t Although the active campaign came to a close on Wednesday, contracts will be available until to' night for those who wish to '1 enter into the agreement to curtail r their acreage In the drive to bring f about better prices for the weed. , While no definite word as to reopening the warehouses had been received from Washington up until l" late yesterday afternoon, it is ben lieved the eastern North Carolina >r and South Carolina markets will ie begin operating again on Monday, III and it is expected that local wan;s houses will be opened two week# e later. Although reports from over the state indicate that the campaign has been a tremendous suc0 cess, Governor Ehringhaus said on 'I* UfA/lnne/loir ho urnnM tiro if until hn vv cuncouaj lie nuuiu nmv uiivn ?iw s heard from Washington before declaring an end to the tobacco holiday which he called on September 0 2. iTobacco farmers and other interK ested citizens of both races filled the courthouse here on Monday d afternoon at 2 o'clock when Bob d Bright, new county agent, called lt the meeting to order, le W. N. Boyd of Boyd's warehouse >i was called upon by Mr. Bright. The h warehouseman told the farmers ie that the plan had his full endorseit ment and called to the attention of ie those present that low averages efit fected the warehousemen's profits - as well as the farmers. J. L. Skinner, county commissioner, endorsed the sign-up camDaien though he questioned phases I of the plan and wanted to know what was to become of the maa who grew only one barn of tobacco. Ed Turner, fanner of Sandy e Creek, said that the tobacco farm er had rather get a good price for i half a barn than present prices for e a full barn. ' Will Allen Connell Jr., who folr lowed Mr. Skinner, said he thought that the farmers should not botner ' too much about the form of the " contract, that the government drew e (Continued on pare 6) ? District Conference d Held At Littleton ^ a _____ LITTLETON, Sept. 14?An all 0 day Group Conference of District ' " * AUa PmnitlllA OvaaKuturtf *' NO. ?J Ul tuc uiaiiTiuc 4IVIWJW./ s was held In the Presbyterian e Church, Wednesday, 6ept. 13th. The meeting was called to order at 1 11:00 a. m. The welcoming address " was given by Mrs. W. H. Johnston. 2 president of the local Women's Auxiliary, which was responded to by Mrs. W. B. Tarry of Townsvllle. v The theme of the meeting was "Bearers of the Light", and many interesting and inspiring talks were * made thereon. i From 1:00 to 2:00 o'clock a social e hour was enjoyed and a delightful .. lunch served in the home of Rev. 0 and Mrs. C. Rees Jenkins. e The meeting adjourned at 3:30 o'clock. There were about fifty represen / tatives present from the Presbyteri, ian churches in Roanoke Rapids, e Henderson, Warren ton, Durham, | Townsvllle and Raleigh. ?
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