|fc ACCURATE, TERSE
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VOLUME XXXIV
raKST
COUNTY COURT
I Man Operates Car Under
Influence of Drugs; Is
Fined $50 And Costs
MUST TAKE CARE BABY
Three cases composed the criml- ,
nal docket, which was nresented bv
Solicitor Joseph P. Pippen before
Judge W. W. Taylor in Recorder's
court on Monday morning.
, Fred Dick, white man charged
with operating an automobile while
under the influence of some drug,
was found guilty and fined $50 and
costs.
Charlie Silver, negro charged
with assault, was found guilty and
sentenced to jail, assigned to work
the roads under the supervision of
the State Highway and Public
Works Commission, for a period of
six months. The jail sentence was
suspended on the condition that he
pay a $10 fine and court costs.
In the case of the State against
Badger Hedgpeth, negro charged
with astardy, the court found that
he was the father of the child and
that he had not paid the mother
of the infant anything for medical
attention. It was ordered that he
should pay the mother of the child
$5.00 and that he should pay to the
clerk of court 50c each week for the
support of the baby.
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1^ ^oiiege otuaents
^To Hold Services
At Baptist Church
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* There will be both morning and ]
evening services at the Warrenton i
Baptist church on Sunday, the Rev. <
R. E. Brickhouse, pastor, announced I
this week. I
At 11 o'clock in the morning 1
(there will be services by the pastor, 1
and at 7:30 in the evening a pro- ;
gram will be rendered by college 1
students. The aim, purposes and 1
I need of Christian Education will be 1
set forth, and good music will be I
part of the program, the minister
said. W. H. Wesson Jr. will act as I
chairman and John Drake Jr. as
secretary.
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COLERIDERS ENTERTAIN .
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Colerider entertained
in their home on Wed- :
nesday night of last week from 9:30 i
until 12 o'clock with a dance for
their children, Misses Sara and Virginia
Colerider and Mr. Sam Colerider
Jr. The three rooms used for
dancing were beautifully decorated
with Christmas accessories, and a
large Christmas tree was illuminated
in the living room. Delicious
fruit punch and cakes wefe served
during the evening.
Those present were Misses Nancy
Gillam, Mary Delia Davis, Peggy
Mustian, Margaret Blalock, Sara
Palmer Moore, Mary Macon, Katherine
Williams, Ethel May King,
1^ Hattie Drake, Finetta Gardner, Ger 'iido
nrcmor Ruhv Onnnell. Jean
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nette Cohen; Messrs. T. R. Frazier,
L. C. Brothers, Bill Ward, Belford
Wagner, Jack Rowan, Jack Kidd,
Walter Kidd, David Rodwell, Paul
Bell, Charles Lee Terrell, Jeff Palmer,
Gid Macon, Sidney Kline and
Duke Miles. Jtfisses McGowan and
Zelma ParkeK were among the
chaperons.
P. T. A. MEETS
The regular meeting of the Parent-Teacher
Association was held
in the auditorium of John Graham
high school on Tuesday afternoon of
last week at 3:45 p. m. The second
grade, under the direction of Miss
Mary Randolph, presented a play.
After the business had been trans- :
acted, Mr. William T. Polk gave a
very interesting and instructive talk :
on "Libraries." Supt. J. E. Allen
gave an interesting talk on "Schools
of Tomorrow."
CHRISTMAS SERVICE
A Christmas service will be cdn- i
ducted at the Macon Baptist church i
on Wednesday evening at 7:30 i
o'clock, the Rev. R. E. Brickhouse
announced vesterdav. At this time 1
the Rev. Mr. Brickhouse will speak i
on "The Spirit of Christmas."
CHRISTMAS CANDLES i
Glow, candles, glow! ]
Like the new fallen snow
I All sorrow and woe
Doth come?and?go? j
Gleam, candles, gleam! 1
Like a bright moonbeam 1
You make life seem i
k Like a golden dream. i
A.
Bum, candles, burn!
|^^rhile at home, hearts yearn
Wf Wanders must return?
V So burn, candles, burn.
?Alice Vaiden.
Dec. 1934. :
^ New York.
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WARRENT(
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THIS WEEK
In Washington
?,
Washington, Dec. 24.?Looking
ahead to the New Year is the principal
pastime in Washington just
now. Everybody is asking: "What
comes next?"
The new Congress is beginning to
shape up. The efforts of VicePresident
Garner to make Sam
Rayburn Speaker have failed. The
President preferred Rayburn to Joe
Byrns of Tennessee, but didn't say
so loud enough, so Joe gets it. The
big fight will be a three-cornered
one. between Representative James
M. Mead of Buffalo, N. Y., William
B. Bankhead of Jasper, Ala., and
John W. McCormack of Dorchester,
Mass., for* the floor leadership.
Senator Wright Patman of Texas,
the big bonus man, has been counting
noses ad reports enough votes
for the immediate cashing of the
adjusted compensation certificaTSs
to pass the bonus appropriation
over a Presidential veto. Administration
has thrown up its hands,
and is trying to work out some
method of distinguishing veterans
who are "in actual need'' from
those who don't need the money
but Would like to have it. The hope
is to get Congress to accept some
bonus scheme which will only cost
the taxpayers about five hundred
million dollars, instead of the two
thousand million the full payment
would come to.
Those War Profits
"Smart politics" is what the folk
an Capitol Hill call the President's
proposal to submit a law prohibiting
profits from war. It is pointed
but that the Senators who have
been getting the most credit out of
;he ''exposures" of war-time profits
made by the Senate investigating
committee are both Republicans,
Nye of North Dakota and Vandenberg
of Michigan. This is a Democratic
Administration, so why
should Republicans be allowed to
-rat n mow TirifVi anvfViina?
gV/V ?*nwj n*w** v?.
What the President has done is
to haul out the blue-prints of a plan
which has been kicking around
Washington since the Wilson Administration,
providing that in time
of war everything, not only soldiers,
must be subject to draft?capital,
facto i-ies, farms, mines and all of
the nation's activities. Martial law,
in effect, for the entire populace if
we ever get into another scrap.
Bernard M. Baruch, head of the
War Industry Board in the Great
War, originated the plan. Presidents
Wilson, Harding and Coolidge
warmly indorsed it and President
Hoover actually had the bills drawn
ready to offer to Congress just
about the time his Congress ran out
on him. How much farther the
present plan will go nobody knows
yet. The biggest profits made by
American industry in the last war
were made from selling supplies to
the Allies before we got into it.
The President has brought General
Hugh Johnson back into the
picture, as the man to put over the
new anti-war-profits scheme. Washington
will be more picturesque
with the General back here.
National Housecleaning
Coming to the front is a gigantic
project, based on the report or tne
National Resources Board, for
spending upward of 100 billion dollars
over a period of years in such
things as straightening and cleaning
up rivers, eliminating soil 6roSio,
developing every possible
horsepower of all the nation's waterways,
taking over all so-called
"marginal" and submarginal agricultural
land, conserving mineral
resources and in general giving the
whole United States a thorough
housecleaning.
Just how far the Administration
will get behind the idea, in urging
it ui>on Congres, is still uncertain,
but Harold Ickes, Secretary of the
Interior, is chairman of the group
that advocates it, Frances Perkins,
Secretary of Labor, gleefully predicts
that it "will give everybody a
job for 25 years," and the Secretaries
of War, Agriculture and Commerce
join in the recommendations.
Another important subject which
will call for Congressional attention
is the proposed extension of the
Federal Government's powers in the
war on crime. Something like a
Federal training school for detectives
and a national Scotland Yard
are being talked about. The purpose
is to eliminate not only ordinary
forms of crime but to clean
up the drug-traffic situation, which
Is becoming serious all over the nation.
Cotton, NRA and Interest
Administration officials are jubilant
over the overwhelming majjflriiy
of votes given by cotton
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DN, COUNTY OF WARREN
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Hail and Fan
IM
Miss Lucy Boyd, bride-elect, was
honored at a tea and kitchen shower
at the home of Mrs. John Ken
Jr. on Friday afternoon. Tea was
poured by Miss Tempe Boyd. Mrs
Clifford Hall of Louisburg and Miss
Katherine Scoggin assisted in serving.
Red candles and poinsettas
were table decorations. A clothes
basket filled with kitchen utensils
and carried by two pickaninnies
was presented the honoree. The
Kerr home was festive in Christmas
decorations. There were 30 guests
present.
Miss Lucy Boyd, who is to marrj
Mr. Robert Meade on December 29
was honored by Mrs. Jim Watsor
and Miss Betty Schmidt at a bridge
luncheon and handkerchief showei
on Saturday afternoon. At the conclusion
of a four course luncheon
cards were played at six tables. Miss
Boyd was presented a prize, and tor
score prize was awarded to Mrs
James Horner of Oxford. Each guesl
presented the bride-elect with a
handkerchief bearing a humorous
verse which was read by Mrs. W. A
Graham of Kinston. Christmas
decorations were used throughoul
the Watson home.
Those present were the Misses
Lucy Boyd, Olivia Burwell, Lucj
Baskervill, Katherine and Anr
Scoggin, Elizabeth and Leonon
Taylor, Fannie House Scoggin
jElizabeth Boyd, Catherine Moseiey
[Mary Frances Rodwell, Ella Fore
(Hinson, Tempe Boyd a"nd Bettj
Schmidt; Mesdames Frank Allen ol
Durham, Rawls of Rocky Mount
Barnett of Bradenton, Fla., Petei
Seaman, Roy Davis, John Kerr Jr.
Jim Horner, Alpheus Jones, J. E
Adams, J. G. Ellis, C. R. Rodwell
C. A. Tucker, W A. Graham, anc
C. E Rodwell.
Mrs. C. E. Rodwell entertained al
a card party at her home on Fridaj
night complimentary to Miss Lucj
Boyd. Christmas decorations wen
used throughout the home. Higt
score prize was awarded to Misi
Olivia Burwell, and the honoree
Miss Boyd, was presented a gift. A
fruit salad plate, carrying out 1;ht
Christmas colors of red and green
was served the following guests
Miss Lucy Boyd, honoree; Missei
Dorothy Walters, Lucy and Edit!
Burwell, Lucy Baskervill, Elizabett
Boyd, Lenora Taylor, Tempe Boyd
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'Marram rsoyu, wnvia dui wen, mu
Ford Hinson; Mesdames J. E
Adams, W. N. Boyd, W. A. Graham
W. R. Baskervill and Alpheus Jones
ENTERTAIN SCOUTS
Littleton, Dec. 24.?Dennis Rose
scoutmaster of the local Boy Scouts
entertained the scouts at a Christ'
mas tree on Friday night in th<
home of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Jchn
ston. Before the gifts were diS'
tributed, delicious ice cream anc
cake were served to the fifteei
scouts present.
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MOSTLY
PERSONAL
By BIGNALL JONES
. 1 11
i The hour of rising for the average
man of Warrenton at this seaL
son of the year is around 7:30
' o'clock, I would think. A great
. majority of the time my sleeping
. habits bring down the early rising
. average of other citizens, but some.
times it happens the other way and
, I watch the town wake.
; After I am up, I wonder why I
j ever sleep in the mornings. This
morning it was about 7 o'clock when
I went out of doors, just getting
' good light, several minutes before
, the sun peeped out. The first
i sound in our neighborhood is Pete
: Seaman's trucks warming up as his
men start for the mills. My own
drivers come up and in a few min,
utes they too go out. Down the
> street a scattering of stores are
> opened; merchants are to be seen
. walking down the street, negro
i truck drivers, store helpers and
i yard boys are coming into town. A
> little later breakfast bells g.re heard
. ringing, tne last of the sleepy>
heads are crawling out of bed and
. onnthor business dav in the life of
the town has commenced.
i
T Few people hate to get up in the
t mornings more than I do. Yet I
t think it is no harder to get up at
one hour than it is at another?
provided a corresponding retiring
[ hour is observed. I believe that I
j have had as my rising hour each
I one between 12 midnight and 12
noon.
>
: Several years ago I worked a
, night shift on The Washington
. Herald for a short time. Then It
, was the only time I can remember
I that I did not mind getting up after
a reasonable amount of sleep.
The reason for this was because
; the earlier in the day I crawled out,
' the more time I would have: for play.
This is the beginning of a busy
: week as I fill space in my weekly
1 column as one of the first duties of
5 the day. Before night this abbre'
viated paper must be out. Tonight
1 I am to meet some old friends at a
! supper. I have to finish my Christ>
mas shopping. Tomorrow is Christ
| mas. The following day, weanes51
day, promises a busy morning pre1
paratory to a journey that after1
noon to Belhaven at which place
that night we have a wedding reljhearsal.
Thursday at noon we at'
tend the wedding of Duie Jones,
the first of the boys to marry.
Friday and Saturday means
winding up the business for the
year. I think I will feel like starting
all over again the first of the
year.
> Before this column appears again,
- a new year, with its promises and
- its hopes will have crossed the
i J threshhold of the ages. I take this
l opportunity to wish for each of you
a Prosperous and Happy Xew Year.
Umn
I 28, 1934 Subscript]
I
? by A B. Chapin
Young Negro Boy
Toying With Pistol
Accidentally Killed
Toying with a pistol cost Jesse B.
Alston, 17-year-old negro of Pork
township, his life on Sunday afternoon.
Alston, according to Coroner Jasper
Shearin, was looking down the
ho-ir-ol r>f fVio rooowm goo If tho
bullet was in line when the explosion
occurred. The ball took effect
in the eye and death was instantaneous.
Coroner Shearin said that he
made an investigation but it was
unnecessary to impanel a jury as it
was a clear case of accidental
death.
Littleton News
Miss Mary Johnston Turner of
Chattanooga, Tenn., and Mr Sam
Turner of Wake Forest College are
spending the holidays here with
their mother, Mrs. J. R. Ivey,
Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Darden and
Miss Charlotte Darden motored to
Richmond Friday.
Mrs. Mary Butts of Appamattox,
Va., spent the week end with Mr.
and Mrs. E. C. Bobbitt.
Little Miss Anne MacRae Perry
spent Christmas in Goldsboro with
her aunt, Mrs. Thomas O'Berry.
Miss Mary Spruill of Meredith
College is spending the holidays
with her aunt, Miss Hattie Spruill.
j Miss Claire Benthall is spending
ihe holidays at her home in Woodland.
Miss Pearl Fishel of Franklinton
is spending the holidays with her
sister, Mrs. P. A. Johnston.
Miss Betty Moore of Edenton is
the guest of Misses Carrie Helen
ana Jiuizaoein iviuure uuimg mc
holidays.
Horace Palmer Jr., who is attending
Georgia Military Academy,
is spending the holidays with his
parents, Dr. and Mrs. Horace Pal mer.
Miss Annie Tucker Moore of
Franklinton is spending the
Christmas holidays at her home
here.
Roger Moore of the University of
North Carolina arrived Thursday
to spend Christmas with Mr. and
Mrs. H. P. Robinson.
Harry Darden Jr., a student at
Fishburn Military School, is spending
the holidays with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Darden.
| Miss Lucy Fortescue left Saturjday
to spend the holidays at her
ihome in Scranton, N. C.
I Miss Virginia Tate of State College
arrived last week to spend
: Christmas with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. C. S. Tate.
Jack M. Bragg, a student at the
University of North Carolina, is
spending the holidays witn nis
parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Bragg,
at Airlie.
i Miss Louise White left Saturday
for her home at Andrews, S. C.,
where she will spend the holidays.
Miss Lilah Nelson left Friday'
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ion Price, $1.50 a Year
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Today and
Tomorrow
By Frank Parker Stockbridge
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ECONOMY . . in North Carolina
The Governor of North Carolina '
talked in New York the other day
about economy in state government. (
He had a right to talk about that, j
for North Carolina has been tight- (
ening its belt and cutting its expen- (
ditures to meet its income. ]
There is not a state that couldn't
cut its running costs by one-third, ]
as North Carolina has done; not a ]
county that couldn't dispense with
many expenditures which benefit <
nobody but taxeaters. And there i
isn't a single political unit in the 1
United States that cculdn't balance 1
its budget without hardship on the I
taxpayers?if the politicians in control
really desired to serve the j
people instead of feeding on them, i
If we every have a revolution in
America it will be over the ques
tion of taxes, just as our Revolution
against British rule was.
TAXES on sale 1
One of the things North Carolina
did to balance its budget was to
enact a sales tax. New York City
has lately put a sales tax into effect.
Greatly to the surprise of politicians
who predicted uprisings, the
public takes to the ss.les tax like a
duck to water.
Politicians are governed more by
fear of what the voters may do to
them than by any other motive.
They are always afraid that people
who know they are being taxed will
vote them out of office.
It has been my observation that
nobody objects to fair taxes honestly
collected and honestly expended
for proper public purposes.
We object to paying taxes and getting
nothing for them.
What the politicians really fear
about the sales tax is that they
can't, incrcaw if. as fasf. as thpir rip
sire to waste money grows.
REPRESENTATION . . missing
I often have disagreed with Dr.
Nicholas Murray Butler, president
of Columbia University, but I find
myself in full agreement with him
when he challenges the ''superstition
that the people are truly and
fully represented by elected public
officials."
The direct primary, which was intended
to give free expression to the
popular will in the selection of candidates
for office, has had, he points
out, the opposite effect. It has
"permanently enthroned minority
rule, leaving public opinion to shift
for itself."
I also agree with Dr. Butler that
there is no excuse for letting immature
students undertake comparative
studies of despotism,
democracy, republicanism, communism,
nazism or fascism. Most
of the wrongheaded political and
social thinking today emanates
from young academicians who are
not dry behind the ears.
Christmas Tree
At Parish House
Sunday school members and members
of the Service League of Emmanuel
Episcopal Church were remembered
with gifts at the Christ
mas program which was rendered
in the Parish House on Sunday afternoon
from 5 to 6 o'clock. The
gifts were presented from a large
Christmas tree v/Tiich decorated
the room.
In addition to the Christmas tree
for members of the Service League
and the Sunday School, the program
included the following: Solo,
Mrs. Temple Faulkener; poem,
Mary Arden Tucker; Christmas
reading, Miss Elizabeth Wagner;
quartette, several selections of
Christmas Carols. The progTam
was well attended.
PERSONAL ME>TION
Mr. and Mrs. William Palmer of
Durham spent Christmas day here
with Mrs. N. M. Palmer.
Mr. and Mrs. Wharton Moore of
Durham and Mr. and Mrs. Edgar
Brantley of Greystone are guests
of Mrs. N. M. Palmer.
Mr. Charles Ray Rod well of New
York arrived Monday to spend
Christmas day with liis parents,
Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Rxlwell.
Mr. Joe Ellis of I'armville is
spending the holidays here.
Mr. Bob Fleming of !Jandy Creek
was a visitor here Monday.
Mr. Robert Baskervill of V. E. S.,
Lynchburg, is here for the holidays.
Mr. Rett Boyd was a visitor in
Faison on Friday night,.
Messrs. James Poindexter and
Tom Holt of the University of
North Carolina are here for the
holidays.
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MOST OF THE NEWS
ALL THE TIME
NUMBER 52
DIRIGIBLE LANDS
LOCAL AIRPORT
Blimp Comes Down To Refuel;
Hundreds of Citizens
View Craft
HERE MORE THAN HOUR
The first dirigible to utilize the
government's emergency landing
field near Warrenton nestled to the
ground Monday morning about 9
3'clock and remained aground for
little more than an hour.
Shortage of fuel was responsible
for the ship, which was enroute to
Florida, being brought to earth here.
While gasoline was being procurr;d
hundreds of people from Warrenton
and nearby who had seen ~
the dirigible floating overhead before
the landing was made drove to
;he airport to view the craft.
A ground crew, traveling in four
automobiles, accompanied the dirigible
to Warrenton and were on
hand at the airport to assist in
landing the lighter-than-air craft.
The ship was held on the ground by
wires until one of the ground crew
drove into Warrenton and brought
back gasoline.
Although the ship has a capacity
for four persons, she was carrying
only two when it appeared here. The
craft had traveled from Lawrencevllle,
Va., and was headed for
Raleigh and Florida when the
diminishing gasoline supply caused
the pilot to make a landing here.
The dirigible is privately owned
and the men were enroute to Florida
to do some advertising work,
it was explained.
Funeral Services
Mrs. Susie Duke
Held At Areola
Funeral services for Mrs. Susie
W. Duke were held from her home
at Areola Sunday afternoon at 1:30
o'clock, with the Rev. Mr. Foy of
Brinkleyville and the Rev. L. C.
Brothers of Warrenton officiating.
Mrs. Duke, who had been in decling
health for some time, died at
her home Saturday morning at 7
o'clock. She was 68 years old.
Pallbearers were Sam King, Jack
King, Walter Pleasants, Mack Duke,
and Lee King.
Mrs. Duke is survived by three
sons and one daughter: Thurman
Duke of Prescott, Ariz., Marvin
Duke of Glendale, Ariz., and Roy
Duke of Louisbufg, and Mrs. Willie
P. King of Areola. She also leaves
three sisters and one brother: Mrs.
Walter Duke of Areola, Mrs. Hattie
Pleasants of Louisburg, and Mrs.
Bettie Cook of Annapolis, Md., and
W. H. Tharrington of Areola.
Add Limestone To
Fertilizer Mixture
With thousands of acres of good
land being taken from cash crops
In North Carolina and extra acreages
of legumes, grasses and other
forage crops being planted, the
value of limestone to the soil becomes
increasingly evident.
This is the opinion of agricultural
extension workers at State College
and of good farmers throughout
the State who have found that
small amounts of limestone added
to their fertilizer mixtures will give
good results at a lowered cost for
the limestone needed. The material
has been found to be of value m
promoting better yields of cotton,
corn and other crops in addition to
legumes. For that reason, agricultural
workers suggest that farmers
request their fertilizer dealers
to have limestone added to the
mixtures now being prepared for
use next season.
This limestone could well replace
the inert filler, such as sand, now
being used by the fertilizer manufacturers.
There is a large amount
of filler used in low-analysis fertilizers,
especially, and where limestone
is used to replace this filler
there would be a tremendous Increase
in the productivity of the
average soils of the State. Experiments
by the United States Department
of Agriculture and by
state experiment stations have
shown that the use of dolomitic
limestone does not impair the value
of commercial fertilizers but does
tend to improve them.
' I 'U i r> rlftl nrM i 4.4 n ft! PA
xuia uuiuiiubiis iiiiicouunc aiois
adds magnesium to the soil in the
small amounts needed to overcome
a deficiency usually found in sandy
soils.
To be sure that limestone is used
as a filler instead of sand, farmers
should begin now to request
such action that the most value
from their fertilizer dollar will be
obtained next season, the extension
specialists say.