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-1 ^curate, terse iM TIMELY m0lljme XXXIV ms idt i mm n>A boil 'Brhee New Candidates Out Bfor Commissioners; One f0r Board Ecucation I MppEN for recorder i By political pot Stirring and! Bjuieriiig /or severa.' days, fairly I to a boil this \:eck with sev- I B: well known figures of the ^Kestr jumping into the race for I ' tire candidates have announced I '9 .^:ves during tin; week. Three I i^K"place on the Board of County I BLnissioners; one for Recorder! Eone for the Bcarcl of Educa-1 ' ^tjoseph P. Pippen. Littleton law- j jjmounced that lie would be a I ^Ejidate for Judge of Recorder's I ^Er:. Rumors here early in ther Kei that Judge W. W. Taylor was J BL to step down in favor of the!' lawyer pro ed to be only I Bers for Judge Taylor announc-j (^ yesterday that he would seek re- J I ^Bscuire W- T- Carter of Vaughan I. Bmuncfd yesterday that h? would!. ^Bjthis one time berth as a mem- j Br of the Board of Education. j' ^ Former Sheriff R. E. Davis threw J* surprise into political circles by ' Be announcement i hat he would ' ^B a candidate for the Board' of 1 ^Bmmissioners. He was one of ^Be few well known men in the j ^Bnnty whom rumor of candidacy not even touched. Mr. Davis 1 Haste distinction of offering the ' ^Mnost usual card of candidacy ! ^Bus far presented, ti that he states ' ^Jhat he coes not expect to be ' 1 IKected. ] Rumors that Clicrles Fleming of Ldy Creek and J. T. Myrick of [jughan. as reported in this paper < 1st week, would be candidates for . pnnty Commissioners proved to . Lv? plenty foundation for both of > hese gentlemen tmnounced thLs jetk that they would be candi- ] US llready the list o:' candidates has ] wn to be one of the largest'in ; serai years and with more than a ( eek.left in which to file, it may j e that before that time an all- j ?record for Warren county may , i established, and that which j reused to be a rather listless j snary may turn into a hot one | : account of the number of candies seeking to bring the voters to j andidates Have s Until May 5th To ; File For Office i Candidates for county offices j ire until csatnpfin,. - ... ^.uvuiUUj Ui XICAO VVCCI^t I | 5, to file notice of candidacy I the county board of election, I ] ^Brarding to the primary election! Bffidar of 1934. It I On May 5 registration books will!] opened in the various precincts 11 H> the county and remain open ev-11 Saturday through May 19th for 11 registration of voters. |l % 9 is the last day for certifi- J? jtonof candidates for State Sen- |< May 22 is the last day for a state-1| ^P&tof expenditures to be filed by 11 ^ Ddidates and campaign commit-1 j?- All candidates for State and! ^Pfoict office must file with the! "Wary of State and all county] Mdates with the Clerk of Court. I May 25?Challenge Day. r ^ 2?Primary election held. | ^-Meeting of county elec-1' B? boards to tabulate votes. 22?Second statements of]' jatftures to be filed. |. ^30^second primary held ifI ^?Meeting of county board | ^ ^lecttons to tabulate votes, sec-1' \>N P. T. A. HOLDS I il MEETING OF YEAR | ?, April 26.?The Parent-11 Association held its final! ? the year on Tuesday af-| in the school auditorium, i ting was well attended. In 1' nee of the president, Mrs.l istis, Mr. Paul W. Cooper. 11 blowing officers were elect-! the coming year*. President,! obert Newsom; Vice-Presl- I to. L. H. Justis; Secretary. I 'icy Fortescue; Treasurer,! concluding chapters of I &cter Training," the book! ^ hy the association for the I tew months, were discussed by | ^ P. Farmer. Mrs. J. W. \ ' Treasurer, made her report : 3 WARRENTON, C Engagement Predicted LONDON . . . Well informed sources here predict that the engagement of Sweden's Princess Ingrid (above), to Crown Prince Frederick of Denmark, will soon be announced. Allen Makes An Apology For Error In His Testimony Conflicting testimony between Harry Kenyon of Macon and Litleton and Superintendent of Schools J. Edward Allen in the trial of State vs. Gundy in last week's Recorder's court led to a confession of error by Mr. Allen and a public apology to Mr. Kenyon. Mr. Allen's statement was in the form of a letter to Judge W. W. raylor explaining his mistake and asking that the correction be made a party of the court record in justice to Mr. Kenyon. A copy of the letter, sent by registered mail to this office by Mr. Kenyon with a request that it be published, follows: "Warrenton, N. C. "April 16, 1934 'To the Hon. W. W. Taylor, 'Judge Presiding, (VTr? -X'-X ri/Mivvi-iT 13A/t/Vt*slA?*Vi fnuvf W ctn eii V/uuni/jr ivciuiuu o vuiu %>9 'and Others Interested: "I did not hear any testimony in the case of State vs. Gundy on the charge of reckless driving of a school bus this morning, except my own. But I have come to the positive conclusion that in my testimony In that case, my mind played tricks on me for some unexplained reason, and that my testimony was in this case incorrect anc* should re corrected and reversed. I regret she occurrence. "Mr. Harry Kenyon testified, I relieve, that he called me by phone tor the name of the driver of truck number 113. I had the vivid and ndelible impression, for some reason that I cannot explain, that it ivas a different number. Miss Edna Allen, office bookkeeper, tells me that the name of the driver that I called for when Mr. Kenyon called me, and that she gave me ivas that of Gundy, who operates - 110 LNU. HO UUS. "In view of these facts, I am convinced that the number used by Mr. Kenyon was 113, and that I ;estified wrongly and that as stated above, my mind must have played tricks on me. I wish to make public apology to Mr. Kenyon, and to others entitled to same, and to request that the records of the court ae made to carry this statement of correction. I would be the last person to be a party to an injustice. "Very sincerely, "J. EDWARD ALLEN, "Superintendent." Copeland Gundy, negro bus driver, was on Monday, April 16, found guilty on a charge, preferred by Harry Kenyon and W. T. Person, of driving on the wrong side of the road and was taxed with the court costs. N. C. FARMERS PAID FOR REDUCING COTTON, WHEAT Washington, April 23. ? North Carolina farmers have been paid 52,861,937.35 in benefit payments for reducing their cotton and wheat crops under the Farm Administra* " ? ? ?-* A?14nn4-*vtAnf nro Lion 5 agliuiuitureu auj uoviiicuv w gram. In announcing these figures Comptroller John B. Payne did not Include the hundreds of checks to tobacco farmers co-operating in the voluntary reduction plan, as his report covered expenditures only from the AAA' organization through March 31. Wheat payments totalling $36,400.15 were only a drop in the bucket in North Carolina as $2,825,537.20 of the total was paid to county cotton farmers. Cleveland county with payments totaling $174,779.76, received the largest share of any county. Payments by counties included: Vance, $18,176.47; Warren, $63,156,32; Franklin, $41,014.89; Granville, $5,767.34, all for cotton. bp % OUNTY OF WARREN, N. C. ANALYSIS OF BROK SHOWS FINANCL WARREN IN E By BIGNAI Ranking 55th in size, 50th in population and 63rd in assessed valuation, Warren county stands among the foremost counties of the state in its financial rating, according to the analysis of a financial schedule as of January 1, 1934, prepared by Lewis and Hall, brokers, of Greensboro, and reaching the office of The Warren Record this week. "The information in this circular while not guaranteed has been obtained from sources which we consider reliable," the brokers state. According to information obtained from this bulletin, Warren county has an area of 425 squat e miles and a population of 23,364. The assessed valuation of the county in 1933 was $8,725,548. Ninety per cent of the 1932 taxes had been collected by January 1 of this year. Only eight counties among the 100 counties of the state exceeded this record. Up until January lf 1934, 58 per cent of the 1933 taxes had been collected by the sheriff. Only i four counties in the state had ex- < ceeded this record. i Warren is listed among the only 40 counties of the state which have ; defaulted neither on principal nor : interest during the depression. Because of the difference in debt .... I Contacted Dillinger a| I i j I i I < WARSAW, Ind.... Jed Pettinget j (above),-veteran Warsaw policeman who was overpowered by bandit John Dillinger and a companion in the 1 early hoars. They escaped with four 1 bullet-proof vests and two pistols i after the surprise raid. Diplomas To Be 1 Presented To 67 J At Negro School Diplomas will be presented to 67 graduates of the John R. Hawkins ; negro high school tonight, it was ; learned yesterday at the office of the Superintendent of Schools. Superintendent Allen said this was the largest number of students ever to graduate in any year from a Warren county school. Pinal exercises will also be held tonight at the Warren County Training School, negro school located at Wise. Colored schools are closing several days earlier than the white ones this year. District Meeting Woman's Auxiliary Held Here Today A district meeting of the Woman's Auxiliary will be held in Emmanuel Episcopal church today. Chapters to be represented here are Oxford, Henderson, Littleton, Ridgeway, Townsville, Louisburg, Franklinton, and Warrenton. Lunch will be served the guests in the Parish House. Littleton Nine Wins Over A. Springs Littleton, April 26.?Littleton High School baseball team continued its winning streak by defeating the Aurelian Springs High team Thursday, April 19, by a 4-1 score. Acree of Littleton allowed three hits. Palmer, Littleton catcher, got three hits out of three times at fnr t.ftt.fot.nn' Acree Dai/. XJiXl/tCX and Palmer; for Aurelian Springs: Crawley and Crawley. SPECIAL SERVICES A special program will be given at the Littleton Baptist Church on Sunday evening, April 29, at 7:45 o'clock. An address, "Faith of our Fathers and Mothers," by Mr. W. F. Williams will be heard and there will be special music by a large choir. Silver offering will be taken for the benefit of the church debt. Everybody is cordially invited to come and bring a friend. 'if/' ? . armt , FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1934 :ers' figures al affairs of ixcellent shape A. JONES ^sterns in the counties, it is impossible to make an accurate comparison of Warrenton's tax rate and its standing as to bonded indebtedness. The table submitted by the Greensboro brokers shows that the bonded indebtedness of the county is only $71,000, and only two counties in the state owe less money, but such a conclusion is not fair, because of the fact that roads and school bonds are not included in the county-wide debt of Warren county, and are included in a number of other counties. The same ii true of the tax rate. The 66 cent* listed for Warren county is way beInur tho Qimrooro fnr* flip miinf.lpc n1 the state, but again must be taken into consideration, road and school taxes. The average rate, according to the table, in 1933 was $1.10. For the purpose of contrast, Buncombe county has a bonded debt oi $21,501,400, a rate of 94 cents, and has defaulted in principal $1,100,000, and in interest $1,238,206; Craven county with a bonded debt of $3,053,600, has defaulted in principal $174,000 and in interest $213,826, her rate is $1.60. Clay county has the distinction of having the highest tax rate in the state $2.23, (Continued on Page 5) Carried Concealed Weapon; Sent To Roads Six Months Found guilty on a charge of carrying a concealed weapon, Prof us Bullock, negro of near Ridgeway, vas sentenced to six months in fail, assigned to work the roads for ;he Highway and Public Works Commission, when tried in Recorder's court on Monday morning before Judge W. W. Taylor. Bullock was pointed out by Rob;rt Boyd, negro, as the man who irew a gun on him and made ;hreats which caused him to leave m the run as he walked down the public roatf VrttfT'a companion. Sam Jones. Jones' testimony was in effect the same as Boyd's. Bullock denied the charge. He said that he did not see Boyd on the day the alledged crime took place, and that no bad feeling existed between himself and the prosecuting witness. When questioned by Solicitor Daniels as to his past life, Bullock admitted that he had been in trouble on various charges. Officers said that his reputation was bad. A case against George Eaton Williams, Ernest Cheek, Jack Evans, Haywood Evans, charging affray in which a deadly weapon was used, was continued until next week when a jury will decide the innocense or guilt of the negro men, as was the case against Alfred Williams, negro charged with bastardy. Says Increase In Tobacco Returns Washington, April 28?The farm administration estimated today that the income of American tobacco farmers would reach approximately $214,000,000 during the 1933-34 marketing year, an increase by more than 100 per cent over the previous year. Included in the estimates were benefit payments totalling $28,000,000 made to producers operating under acreage reduction contracts, Market receipts for the season were expected to total $186,000,000 compared with $105,000,000 for the 1932-33 season. Prices for all types of tobacco averages about 25 per cent higher this season than last despite the fact this year's crop was about 200,000,000 pounds, 16 per cent, above world consumption while the crop in the 1932-33 season was approximately 200,000,000 pounds below. Higher returns to producers were made possible, officials said, because of the prompt action of s large percentage of tobacco growers in contracting to reduce this year's production and through marketing agreements made with domestic tobacco manufacturers. Growers of flue cured tobacco received the largest increase in income. The 1933 crop brought then $112,000,000. In addition they received $8,600,000 in rental, benefii and price equalization payments. Mrs. S. R. Berryhlll of Charlotte Mrs. Reece Berryhill and Mrs. Harry Comer of Chapel Hill were guest; of Mrs. W. A. Connell Sr. and Mrs Claude Bowers yesterday. form Subs* SCHOOL WORK IS BEING FINISHED Activity and Exhibit Day Exercises To Be Held ^ On May 5th ; SERMONS ON MAY 6TH : The work of the 1933-34 term of the schools of Warren county is rapidly drawing to a close and final ' exercises will begin in the white > ? ? H J J-1 1 ? ?1 scnoois 01 tne county uie latter ^ part of next week, it was learned 1 yesterday at the office of the sup1 erintendent of schools. The commencement programs as | announced by Superintendent Allen ' yesterday are as follows: , Warrenton May 5?School activity and ex1 hibit day, at which time 7th grade certificates will be presented. May 6?Commencement sermon by Dr. William Moseley Brown of | Washington, D. C., and Clarendon, ; Va., school auditorium at 8 o'clock. May 11?Graduating exercises at school auditorium, 8 o'clock. Norlina May 5?School activity and exhibit day. Presentation of 7th grade certificates of promotion. May 6?Commencement sermon by Dr. A. D. Wilcox, President of Louisburg College. May 11?Graduating exercises at 8 o'clock. Littleton May 5?School activity and exhibit day. Presentation of certificates of promotion. May 6?Commencement sermon by Dr. William Moseley Brown of Washington, D. C., and Clarendon, Va., 11 o'clock. May 10?Exercises .by grades. May 11?Graduating exercises. Macon May 6?Commencement sermon. May 11?Graduating exercises. School activity and exhibit day exercises were held at the Macon school on April 21. Afton-Elberon May 4?School activity and ex hibit day. May 6?Commencement sermon by Rev. O. I. Hinson of Warrenton, Providence church, 11 o'clock. May 10?Commencement exercises. Wise May 5?School activity and exhibit day. May 6?Commencement sermon by the Rev. B. N. de Foe-Wagner of ' Warrenton) Wise Baptist church, 11 o'clock. May 11?Commencement exercises, morning and evening. DreWry May 5?School activity and ex hibit day. May 11-14?Commencement exercises. May 13?Commencement sermon. Inez i May 10?Final exercises, 8 o'clock. Vanghan The Vaughan school will close several days later than other schools of the county and its commencement program will be an1 nounced later. Warren Office Not To Be Joined With Vance Office Contrary to former announcement, Warren county's Reemploy? ? ??" J- * ment Oince win nut uc wuauuuauvw with the Vance county office at present, it was learned this week from Miss Mamie Gardner, who is in charge of the bureau here. Miss Gardner said that she had been notified that the consolidation 1 would take place and that similar reports had appeared in the daily 1 press, but since that time she had receivd instructions from headquar! ters to keep the Warren county of1 fice functioning for a while longer. > According to Miss Gardner, the 1 plans for consolidating the Warren ' and Vance offices was postponed ' temporarily due to road work that is expected to get underway in this county at an early date. She said that it would be advisable for veti erans of the World War who are looking for work to come to her of? fice and see if their registrations - "yn im to dat?. ai?- vw ?? -? Warren Council To Meet On Monday i There will be a meeting of the t Warren County Council in the auditorium of the John Graham High School on Monday afternoon, April , 30, at 4:15 o'clock, Mrs. H. Evans . Coleman of Wise announced yess terday. New officers will be elected , at this meeting for the school term of 1934-35, she said. i K rin cription Pri x,,>l*a Year I New NllA Unit Head WASHINGTON . . . Lieut.-CoL G. A. Lynch (above), U. S. Army, now detached, and described by Gen. Hugh 8. Johnson as "the most advanced thinker in the U. S. Army," Is the new member of the NBA administrative staff and understudy to Johnson. ( Tobacco Bill Is Being Held Up By 1 Sub-Committee Washington, April 25.?The Kerr crop control bill received another delay today when the Fulmer subcommittee of the House committee on agriculture decided to give further study to amendments before reporting the bill favorably. There is no question that the . sub-committee will report the bill ; favorably, but there is some question about the action of the full , committee and after the delay to- j day Representative John H. Kerr abandoned all hope of getting the J bill to the floor of the House next week. In the meantime, tobacco planting which has been going on J for some little time in Georgia and South Carolina, now has begun in , some portions of North Carolina. The Fulmer sub-committee to- < morrow will begin hearings on the , bill by Representative Flannagan of . Virginia, a member of the sub- j committee, to license and regulate tobacco warehouses. The bill, which confers drastic powers upon the Secretary of Agriculture, is opposed bitterly by" warehousemen in North ) Carolina and by Representative Lindsay C. Warren and other mem- i bers of the North Carolina delega- < tion in Congress. ] The sub-committee, which is ex- 1 pected to retain the 25 per cent tax i in the bill, which many farmers i have attacked as being too low, but upon which the department has insisted on the ground that a moderate tax would not be compulsory and would penalize the grower who failed to reduce only to the extent that he would benefit by higher prices through the reduction of others. j The particular amendment which is now being studied by experts is one providing that small farmers who were ineligible to sign the reduction contracts be given allotments. The committee today decided to make the percentage of total allotments to be handled in this manner either three or five per cent of the total allotments, but did did not decide between those two ] figures. 1 ? ? ?.it. Representative umsteaa 01 inoiui Carolina, who together with Re pre- ; sentative Burch of Virginia appeared for the bill before the committee went into executive session> asked that the percentage be made at least seven per cent. The committee acted favorably upon the Kerr amendment to permit farmers who did not sign agreements but who were qualified to do so to sign agreements after the passage of the bill, leaving the time limit within the discretion of the secretary of agriculture. The committee did not act on the amendment to protect growers in Connecticut who come into competition with imported tobacco. The department had previously announced that 95 per cent of the growers in the flue cured territory had signed agreements and today announced that 90 per cent of the burley growers have signed such agreements. The department today announced that checks totaling $2,626,522 have been sent as benefit payments to growers of flue cured tobacco, of which $1,029,430 went to North Carolina. These checks went to only 46,379 of the 105,000 growers who signed the agreements. Most ?Viova hcpri of the other agreuucuw n??vheld up to check the poundage reported, it having been found necessary in a great many cases to reduce the poundage reported. Mr. Clyde Tilghman of Raleigh was a business visitor here yester-J day. o --* : l'i MOST OF THE NEWS < J' THE TIME NUMBER 17 j I TO RULE ON LOAN TO PAY TEACHERS 1 Commissioners And Auditor Carry Loan Petition To Director Government ATTORNEY MUST RULE A ruling from the Attorney General will be necessary before he can aDnrove a loan for Warren county to pay teacher? of Littleton and Macon back salaries covering a three-year peri 3d, W. E. Easterling, Director of Lo<al Government, told Commissioner W. H. Burroughs and Auditor P. M. Stallings yesterday. He promised to see the Attorney General on Friday and to let the Warren County Commissioners know Mr. Brummitt's decision immediately. Provided that the Attorney General rules fav arably on the loan, then payment of these back salaries is only a question of days, as the commissioners have already made arrangements with the local bank to handle this loan provided it meets with the approval of the Local Government Commission. Should Mr. Brammitt rule adversely, then the resolution of the board taken at the regular meeting on the first Monday in April to borrow this money in anticipation of tax collections will come to nothing. Delegations of citizens from Macon and Littleton appeared before the Board of County Commissioners on April 2 requesting that steps be taken to pay teachers back salaries cue them. With the approval of ard at the request of ;he Board of Education the Commissioners passed a resolution that in attempt be made to borrow the money. Further action was delayed for several days, bat on Monday Commissioners John Clay Powell and William Burro oghs made arrangements for the handling of the note at the Citizeni Bank provided the State's approval could be obtained. Yesterday Mr. Stallings and Mr. Burroughs wont to Raleigh and talked the situation over with Mr. Easterling, who, according to Commissioner Burroughs, said that he would have to obtain the Attorney General's ruling before he could approve the note. The Director, of Local Government promised that he '. * would attend to the matter today and let the corimissioners know his decision withoi.t delay. Miss Leach Fails To Win Verdict In Mock Damage Suit Twelve men and women, good and true, decided at the mock breach of promise suit staged in the auditorium of the John Graham High School last night that Miss Lucy I. Leach should recover nothing from Dr. William Woodruff Taylor. Claiming that Dr. Taylor, a onetime ardent suitor, was trifling with her affections when he carried her to the Roanoke River and proposed marriage which he failed to go through with, Miss Leach instigated suit for five hundred thousand dollars compensatory damages and the further sum of one million dollars punative damages. The jury was with the case eleven minutes. The verdict brought forth no comment from the plaintiff. Miss Leach alleged in her complaint that the defendant, in order to win her young affections, lavished upon her his time and professed for her undying love and affection, evidencing sane by various and sundry gifts not, it is true, of great intrinsic worth, but emblematical of the love of youth calling to the love of youth; for instance, and among many other tokens of his tenderest love, he, on several occasions, gladdened her heart by gifts of ice cream, all-day suckers, lollypops, gum drops, and other kinds of cheap candy and, on some occasions, though the paintiff admits such occasions were rare, he even permitted her ix> chew his chewing gum for a short while. The defendar t admitted that part of the complairt was true but stated that the gifts given by him to the plaintiff occurred on several occasions when the defendant happened to be in Boyce Drug Co. and the plaintiff glowing with the inesistable charms of Mae West and Greta Garbo combined strolled up to the defendant in the company of i rin ounUpmcn. These DC V CI Ql Ui U5 Ol VA V . other gentlemen, through their I good taste an 3 lack of resistance, would offer the plaintiff all-day suckers, lolly-pops, gum-drops, Ice cream and ether pops. On these occasions the defendant would have (Continued an Page 8) i .ill! I. J
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