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nH "v. gW ACCURATE, TERSE lM TIMELY fxxxv i wmtI svotot ; Introduced To I Jer Represent- I On Boards RCE POLL TAX I ride the county into I ;r to obtain just I on the Board of ssioners and the I of Education, ana 10 pru ?".' persons who have -not paid K p0ii tax for the preceding H" from obtaining a motor ve ' ;;Cfnse. privilege license to do |Vl^ Of any kind or hunting or I w..,, ncense. John L. Skinner. I Brier member of the Board of IKucty Commissioners and secreIBirv of the state association, has Burn up two bills which he ex j.; t0 ask Warren's representa|K; ^ the General Assembly to (Bare enacted into law. Copies of IB^ Bill To Be Entitled An Act To I Bjovide Additional Penalties For j |H0npavment Of Poll Tax. I The General Assembly of North I Section 1. No motor vehicle li11ease, privilege license to do busi-1 I Hess of any kind or hunting or I I ^ sliir.r license shall be issued to j I H Persoa 'vho- being liable for I I Hie payment of poll tax for the I I ^weeding year, has not paid the j ^K~e It shall be the duty of any I ^Brser. liable for the payment of I Hll tax for such preceding year to I , his poll tax receipt as a I , ^B::::on prerequisite to securing j H of the licenses mentioned in I ^ Section 2. All laws and clauses of ^Kxs in conflict with the provisions i!::s act are 'hereby repealed. Section 3. This act shall be in full Krce and effect from and after its Htification. Ha Bill To Be Entitled An Act To ivide Tne County Of Warren Into fetricts For Representation Oil me County Board Of Commission[ grs And The County Board Of Ed cation. The General Assembly of North arolina do enact: Section 1. In the next primary ir nomination of the County Comlissioners of Warren County, and ienr.tally thereafter, each political any shall nominate its candidates s he-ein prescribed. The voters of ach district in the county, as hereafter defined, shall nominate one adidate for the Board of Comlissioners. In the general election ich candidates shall be voted on y the voters of the entire county. | District No. 1 shall consist of I ^ fcr/.on Township. ' District No. 2 shall consist of | Hork. Shocco and Sandy Creek Eshct No. 3 shall consist of Bfe Creek and Judkins Towni B H District No. 4 shall consist of B r Roanoke and Six Pound I District No. 5 shall consist of Bautree, Smith Creek and Nutbush kinships. I Section 2. The voters of each disi as defined in section 1 here| ' shall, in the next primary and Biennially thereafter, nominate one Bndidate for the Board of EducaB'.r. of Warren County. B Section 3. All laws and clauses of B*s in conflict with the provisBns of this act are hereby repealed. Section 4. This act shall be in Bil force and effect from and after Vs ratification. I ? H nH1TAKERS CALLED HOME Ipr. Joel Whitaker and daughter, B^5 Courtney Whitaker, who arBvcd here Tuesday to spend a few Bafs with Mrs. K. P. Arrington, tr- called to their home at IndiaBtyolis, ind., yesterday on account the illness of Mrs. Whitaker. Mr. William Prescott who is con-1 B^tcd with the State Highway De-i -dent has been transferred to [ or H "V lvir "escort, who left + on Sunday, has tlatjVes ^ SOme ^me here with Mr' a Will? Mrs' Branch Bobbitt of '' and m!?6, dlnner guests of lav s- J- B. Boyce on Friw$$rs. w p t , ' A rw u c- M- Overby, Wi ;\E- R- Overby, H. J. atto Boward Riggan of c? in pa, nded the farmers meeteiSh on Monday. wJ\c,'s To MEET l! the Co f the United Daughters %noon ,!!<?eracy ^11 meet this llfs J. p * '^ay) in the home of W%'t Co??in- meeting is I'cloft 10 get underway at 3:30 I 3 WARRENTON, C Follows Famous Dad | wwwBi. ^MES&9 ^OliK . . . Mary ^ogera (above), the young daughter of Will Sogers, stage, screen and radio star, jnade her stage debut here last week with her famous daddy coming on to cheer her on. Drye To Give Rabies Vaccination At Afton-Elberon C. H. Drye, teacher of agriculture in +V10 .Tnhn Ornhnm TTiffh Rr<*.<vVI announced this week that he would be at the Afton-Elberon school house on Tuesday, March 5, at 4 o'clock in the afternoon to vaccinate dogs against rabies and asked that all those who have dogs they wished vaccinated to have the animals there at that time. Mr. Drye is doing this work on his own initiative and without remuneraton for his services, however, there will be a charge of 50c for the serum which is injected into each canine. The agriculture teacher said that dog-owners in the Afton-Elberon section are uneasy about their pets due to the fact that recently several dogs thought to have been mad came through that community and fought with other dogs in the neighborhood. He said that it would be much easier for him to set a date and vaccinate all the dogs at one time than it would be for him to have to make numerous trips in various sections of the county as he has been called on to do within the past few weeks. Fiddlers Convention Proves Big Success The Old Fiddlers' Convention at t'he Norlina High School last Friday night, sponsored by the ParentTeacher Association, was decidedly the most successful one in years, J. H. Cowles, principal of the Norlina school, stated this week. "All available standing room in the auditorium was utilized. From the standpoints of attendance, number of contestants, and proceeds, the 1935 convention surpassed all previous ones," Mr. Cowles said. The proceeds are to be used to supply necessities for the school not provided by the state. School Masters Meet At Macon Macon, Feb. 26?On Thursday evening-, February 21, the School Masters' Club of Warren County met in regular monthly session at the Macon High School. After a speech of welcome by Principal J. W. King, Paul W. Cooper, president of the club, presented Mr. R. C. Ammons, teacher of agriculture at Norlina, who introduced the speaker of the evening, Prof. J. K. Coggin of State College. His topic for discussion was "The Function of the Schools in the New Deal." Following the address, some musicians from Norlina and Littleton entertained the club with appropriate musical selections. A motion was made and carried, expressing the club's regrets because of not having present County Supt. J. Edward Allen, who was attending a meeting of the Department of Superintendents in Washington, D. C. A vote of thanks was extended Miss Fannie House Scoggin, teacher of Home Economics, in the Macon High School, and to the members of her class, for the splendid dinner served the club. It was decided to hold the next meeting at Afton-Elberon School on Marcn zisi. r x w. ... King was appointed to act as chairman of the program committee for the next meeting. PLAY COMES OFF TONIGHT "Girl Shy," the senior play, will be presented in the auditorium of the John Graham High School tonight. l?rl OUNTY OF WARREN, N. C $219 Added To Charity Chest As Result Of Drive Two hundred nineteen dollars and eighteen cents was added to the Charity Chest as a result of the canvass which was made recently to raise funds to alleviate suffering cunuug me poor ana neeay, it was made known t?iis week by Mrs. J. E. Rooker Jr., who was in charge of the drive. In submitting- these figures Mrs. Rooker expressed her appreciation for the splendid manner in which the people responded to the call for financial aid and to members of the canvassing committee who gave their time, as well as their means. The biggest portion of the sum raised was donated by white persons, however, members of the negro race also showed their willingness to contribute to the cause. Nunie Stainback Adams was appointed by Mrs. Rooker to solicit funds among members of her race. In turning over the proceeds given .to her she said: "I wish to thank ItHrvco mhn r\ort ioir\af orl onH pnn _ KilWOV- TVXAV/ pUl VIVAJ^UVVU H11U \S\JXX ~ tributed toward t?ie colored drive Friday, February 22, in interest of the Charity Chest. The amount , raised and reported was $30.33." Growers Agree To Increase Crop At Raleigh Meeting Despite the fact that many of them feared that the new policy of increasing acreage might be dangerous, tobacco farmers from five states meeting in Raleigh on Monday agreed to string along with the Agricultural Adjustment Administration after Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace and J. B. Hutson, chief of the AAA, explained and defended the government's position in increasing the contract acreage of their crop by approximately 22 per cent over that of 1934. Having heard statements from the men in charge of the program which has brought prosperity to tobacco farmers, and agreeing to place their fate with these men for another year, the audience, estimated to number around 5,000, also adopted a resolution asking the AAA to launch a new signup, to become effective with the 1936 crop. The present contract will expire with this year's crop. Claude T. Hall of Woodsdale, Person county, presided at the meeting. First he called upon R. Hunger Pope of Enfield, who recalled (Continued on page 8) THROUGH CAP] By BESS HIT UPS AND DOWNS?The McDonald-Lumpkin anti-sales tax plan to tax corporations more, tax dividends from all corporation stocks and levy a tax of from $5 to $900 on all individual incomes above j $1000 per year rises and falls in popularity like a thermometer. It didn't have much visible support in 'the early days of the present Legislature, then its stock rose as the I two sponsorers explained its work1 ings and estimated its revenue yield. It took a drop when the lobbyists had their day in court be[fore the finance committee. But 'merchants came to the rescue and boosted the proposals with their enIdorsements. It hasn't been adopted 'yet and you can find plenty of 'prognostications that it will not become law. On the other hand, the McDonald-Lumpkin bloc is still hopeful and working industriously. SPEAKER?The gravevine reports renewed rumors that Representative R. Gregg Cherry of Gaston, Chairman of the House Finance Committee, will be a candii date for Speaker next session. Everybody agrees that he is doing his best to make a record for speed 'on the money bill but sales tax opponents feel that the matter of a 'month or so is not so important if J they can get out from under the i tax for the next two years. They are making it tough for Mr. unerry's political aspirations and he shows no little irritation in com! mittee at times. That isn't calculated to aid iiis chances in Legislative politics. WORRIED?Senator W. P. Horton of Chatham is worried about the State forcing parents to send their children to school in busses that grand juries say are unsafe and then refusing to pay expenses in cases of death or injury. He has 4K ' JR"' arrnt ,1;' FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1935 DRUNK DRIVER^ TO GO TO ROADS Judge Taylor Says He Will Exact Full Penalty Law To Check Menace WHITE MAN SENTENCED "I want to make it clear that this court is going to exact the full penalty of the law in regard to drunken drivers," Judge Taylor , told those who had gathered in the court room on Monday morning to ! attend the regular session of Re| corder's court. "The law," the I jurist stated, "demands a jail sentence, but it has been the common practice of courts to be lenient and to give a suspended sentence with fine and revokal of drivers license, but that has not checked the dangerous habit of those who have no regard for the lives of others, and I from this bench issue a warning that those who are found guilty of driving while drunk will have to serve time in jail or on the roads." The Recorder's warning came following the trial of Woodrow Higgins, young white man of near Norlina, who pled guilty to driving while drunk on February 15th along highway No. 1, at Norlina. Judge Taylor sentenced the young man to two months in jail, but suspended sentence upon him on the condition that he pay a fine of $50 and court costs and that his license be revoked for six months, and that he be of good behavior for two years. Judge Taylor also heard cases dealing with liquor and with the giving of a worthless check. Court adjourned at noon. A jury found Dock Saunders, negro restaurant keeper of Warren ton, not ^guilty to a charge of possessing liquor for the purpose of sale. Evidence in this case showed that Deputy Sheriff Roy Shearin, and Officers M. M. Drake and Lee Wilson made a raid on Saunder's place of business last week. Two of the officers went to the front of the restaurant while the other went in the back way. Officer .Wilson, who entered through the back told the jury that when he reached the .back door it was locked, but was immediately opened and as he stepped in the room, used as the lHfrhen Vip ran int.n .Tames Snruill. an employee of the restaurant, who was holding a half gallon jar partially filled with liquor, in his hand. iThere were a couple of glasses on the table and two "customers" in the kitchen, the officer stated. When asked by the defense attorney, W. W. Taylor Jr., why he did not arrest Spruill, the man with J (Continued on page 8) j [TAL KEYHOLES j fTON SILVER introduced a bill to require the State to pay up to $600 damages in school bus accidents. Prom all indications at present his bill will pass but it may be amended to cover only actual expenses and with maximum or minimum amounts not mentioned. j MUD-HOLES?It looks like you boys and girls living off the concrete may get your roads and bridges repaired pretty soon. The j General Assembly has made a special immediate appropriation of $3,000,000 for that purpose. A lot of folks are still hanging around ! the Capitol hoping to get a slice of ( vour gasoline tax for this, that and I the other and nothing but a stiff; fight and constant vigil is going to | ; prevent a raid on highway funds before the Legislature adjourns. The ' highway department could do bet- j ter if it didn't have to devote so much time dealing with propaganda dished out by those who would di- j vert road taxes. BIG SCRAP?The public school fight will be just half over when the j biennial appropriation is agreed, upon. The school machinery bill, which is the rules and regulations 1 of the State system, must be drafted and it is already apparent from many individual bills introduced that considerable liberalization of the present law is going to demand. The school forces want the question of local supplements arranged differently from the present -. ! law which requires local elections, j So far these elections have been so well for the school folks. TRANSPORTATION? Something else that may happen to your gas tax has been mentioned more than once in the Legislature. There appears to be some sentiment for (Continued c? Page 2) Swn Subs NEW YORK . . . F. Eugene Nort* i(above), N. Y. coffee merchant, surrendered $106,300 gold certificates to the government Feb. 1st, 1334, for the existing currency. His case is one of tlf four merged to ask the U. S. Supreme Court for a "gold clause" decision. He claims he has $64,334 still due him. Children Bitten By Mad Dog Taking Pasteur Treatment Two children of Alfred Davis, negro living on Miss Amma Graham's property, are taking the Pasteur treatment as the result of bites they received on Wednesday from a mad doe. After the animal had attacked the children and snapped several dogs around Warrenton, he was killed and his head was sent to Raleigh to determine whether he had rabies. A report received here yesterday from Raleigh showed that the animal was mad, it was stated. Last week a negro girl living in Shocco township began taking treatment as the result of being bitten by a mad dog several days before, and according to reports reaching here mad dogs have been causing alarm in several sections of the county recently. Publishes Slot Machine Law A copy of the bill which was passed by the legislature last week outlawing slot machines is printed below: H. B. 29. An Act To Prohibit The Manufacture, Sale, Possession And Use Of Slot Machines, Gambling Apparatus And Devices. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Section 1. That it shall be unlawful to manufacture, own, store, keep, possess, sell, rent lease, let on shares, lend or give away, transport, or expose for sale or lease, or to offer to sell, rent, lease, let on shares, lend or give away, or to permit the operation of, or for any person to permit to be placed, maintained, used or kept in any ! room, space or building owned, j leased or occupied by him or under his management or control, any slot machine or device as hereinafter defined. Sec. 2. That it shall be unlawful to make or permit to be made with any person any agreement with reference to any slot machine or device, as hereinafter defined, pursuant to which the user thereof, as a result of any element of chance or other outcome unpredictable to him, may become entitled to receive any money, credit, allowance, or thing of value or additional chance or right to use such machines or device, or to receive any check, ?inor <-.nken or memorandum en "*?s> titling the holder to receive any! money, credit, allowance or thing j of value. Sec. 3. That any machine, apparatus or device is a slot machine or device within the provisions of this act if it is one tfcat is adapted, or may readily be converted fnto one that is adapted, for use in suc^i a way that, as a result of the insertion of any piece of money or coin or other object such machine or device is caused to operate or may be operated, and by reason of any element of chance or of other outcome of such operation unpre-1 dictable by him the user may receive or become entitled to receive any piece of money, credit, allowance or thing of value, or any check, slug, token or memorandum, whether of value or otherwise, * J * which may be excnangea iui any , money, credit, allowance or thing of value, or which may be given in trade, or the user may secure additional chances or rights to use such machine, apparatus or device; irrespective of whether it may, apart from any element of chance or unpredictable outcome of such opera(Continued on page 8) r& , . ;;lRU Vto"" cription Price, ISfa Year Negro Woman Is Charged With The i\/r i r\c r-k:i J murucr wi V/iiuu A jury impaneled on Tuesday by Coroner Jasper Shearin ruled there was sufficient evidence to hold Leona Maynard, negro of the Warren Plains section, for trial at the May term of court in connection with the death of a baby boy found buried near her home on Friday of last week. The child, alleged to have been strangled to death and buried shortly after birth, was unearthed by David Cook, negro, who, according to his testimony before the coroner's jury, thought he had found some whiskey buried. The baby was wrapped in paper and buried in a small trench, he said in giving a detailed account of his discovery and his own reactions. The body of the infant was exhumed at the county home on Wednesday morning in order that memlinrn rtf f Vin ill XTT w* 1 4- nnAtvtlnn IUGIO Ui UXXC JIAJL y llllglll; CActlHIIlU marks around the boy's neck. "Strangulation was the cause ot the child's death," members of the jury are quoted as expressing themselves after examining the body. The finger of suspicion pointed towards the Baynard woman as the guilty person when an investigation was made last week but she was not taken into custody until after persons living in her neighborhood expressed surprise that she was not arrested, Coroner Shearin said. Although the accused woman denied her guilt at the hearing here on Tuesday and brought out testimony to show that she had not been missing from her home for a day or from her work, her mother and other members of her race living in her neighborhood testified that a short time ago she looked as if she was about to become a mother and that her appearance had changed considerably within a brief period. "It was the neighborhood gossip," these witnesses said, "that she was the mother of the dead boy." The defendant took the chair in her own behalf to deny her guilt. Upon being examined by Coroner Shearin she admitted that she had been married twice, that her first husband took her home and put her out after coming to Warrenton and going through the marriage ceremoy and that she had not seen him since. She is without her second husband also, she admitted. Her youngest child, she said, is nearly three years old. The child found buried weighed around ten pounds and had been dead fSr only a few days when discovered, it was said. Hugh Holt Weds Former Teacher Miss Elizabeth Morton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. Z. Morton of ' Greenville, was married on Saturday at high noon to Mr. Hugh ; White Holt, son of Dr. and Mrs. T. J. Holt of Warrenton. The ceremony, which was im pressive in its simplicity and dignity, was performed at the home of the bride's parents, with only mem- 1 bers of the families in attendance. > Guests were greeted at the door 1 by the bride's mother and ushered 1 to their places by John L. Hassell, 1 a cousin of the bride, and Howard Jones Jr. 1 As Mrs. Fleming played the 1 Bridal Chorus from Wagner's f opera, "Lohengrin," the bride with 1 her father descended the stairway. ' The bridegroom, attended by his ' [brother, Thomas Holt, as best man, 1 [entered from the den. 1 The wedding vows were spoken 1 'at a beautful improvised altar in 1 the parlor before the Rev. A. W. ' Fleischmann, pastor of Memorial Baptist Church at Greenville. ] Following a luncheon in the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Holt left on a trip to Mexico and other points of interest. Upon their return, they will make their home { in Warrenton. 1 Mrs. Holt, a former member of 1 the John Graham High School 1 faculty, received her education at J the Greenville city schools, East 1 Carolina Teachers College, and * Meredith College, Raleigh. Mr. Holt received his education s in private and public schools at s Warrenton, Virginia Military Insti- t tute, Lexington, Va., and the Uni- I versity of North Carolina. He is a v member of the Theta Ohi fraternity i and is a well known grain and cot- g ton broker of Warrenton. Those from Warrenton attending the marriage were Dr. and Mrs. T. J. Holt, Mrs. Hugh White, Mr. r Hugh White, Mr. and Mrs. Edmund c White, Mrs. A. A. Williams, Mrs. G. \ W. Foindexter, Mrs. John Kerr and a Miss Kate White Williams. t ?<ytBl | ;M MOST OF THE NEWS ^ ^ NUMBER 9 __ _ NO ALLOTMENTS, i /iniim nm i mnn AUMl M AMS Tobacco Base Acreage Moved Back To 1929; Limited Amount of Tobacco TELLS OF NEW RULINGS There will be no new tobacco allotments made in 1935, Bob Brignt, county agent, said yesterday in an article prepared for The Warren Record explaining new rulings on the growth of tobacco. The tobacco base khas been moved back to 1929 . , and those producers that produced tobacco in 1929 or since will be given a limited amount of tobacco, he added. These and other features are taken up in Mr. Bright's article which follows: "I have the administrative rulings on the 1935 tobacco program. There Aill not be any allotments made in 1935. The tobacco base has been moved back to 1929 and those producers that produced tobacco in 1929 or since will be given a limited amount of tobacco. We will have 4 per cent of the base acreage and base pounds for persons qualifying under this administrative ruling. "A tobacco base may be established in two ways for the special contracts that have been written. The history of the farm may De taken as base provided tobacco has been produced on the farm in 1929 or since. The base may be established on the basis of the tobacco grown by the applicant. The following are the rules we must work under: "The producer agrees that the recommended base tobacco acreage for the farm in 1935 shall be either: "(1) The average acreage of tobacco planted on the farm in these years from 1929 to 1934, inclusive, in which tobacco was planted on the farm; or "(2) The average acreage of tobacco grown in the years 1929 to 19934, inclusive, by persons living on the farm in 1935; or "(3) The ' average of tobacco which could be produced on the farm in 1935 with tobacco barns, r equipment and labor on the farm. "The signer of Phis special contract will not be permitted a greater base tobacco acreage than those tobacco farmers around him. ,<??* !ii i : .1.1.. on/i " We will nave approximately wj acres of tobacco to give under this special base and all of those producers that are sure that they will be able to qualify under one of the rulings should apply for a contract as soon as we get them. We have applications for 350 acres in the office at the present time. These applications must be reduced'approximately 50 per cent. "Several tobacco producers have requested that their base pounds and base acreage be raised. We will have 3 per cent of the base acreage and base pounds to make these adjustments with, but the producer that secures a raise in pounds or acres will not receive any rental or parity payments for the year 1935. '"niose tobacco producers that have signed contracts and have i base acreage of 3.2 acres or less nay plant the full base acreage and sell the base pounds shown on the contract up to three acres, rhose planting their full base will not receive any parity or rental payments. I am advising those growers with small bases that they may plant their base, but I am requesting them to come in and see ;he plan after it is worked out before they decide to plant their full aase. I have worked out each case ind the producer will be able to >ee just what it is costing him to ;ake the increase.'' Baptist Evangelist At Areola Sunday Rev. R. L. Ickson, noted Baptist :vangelist of Los Angeles, Califorlia, will preach at the Areola Methodist Church on Sunday night, Hiss Elizabeth Davis announced resterdav. Mrs. Ickson, an accom jlished pianist, will furnish music or the occasion. The Rev. Mr. Ickson, Miss Davis aid, comes to Areola through pecial invitation. He is an unuslally well versed Bible student and -fiss Davis said that the meeting t-as for all denominations and that t was 'hoped that a large congre;ation would be present. TO BROADCAST Miss Alice Vaiden Williams, fortierly of Warrenton and organist f fame, will broadcast over station VliWL, New York, on Friday night ,t 7 o'clock, it was learned here his week. B x ?