I ACCURATE, TERSE
I TIMELY
I VOLUME XXXVI ~~
I Sowers seek"
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/ CURTAIL CKUfj
I Campaign To Secure Con-I
I trol Sign-Up Launched
I In Warren County
I farmers FAVOR PLAN
I The campaign to secure the volL
yntary tobacco crop control sign-up
J Mr 1936 was launched in Warren
",ith meetings in j
I county this wee* ??v~
I practically all the townships of the I
J countyI
County Agent Bob Bright was!
I taimig part ui one of the township
I meetings yesterday afternoon and I
I could not be reached for a state-1
I ment in regard to the progress
I which is being made but he is re-1
I ported to have stated that t he in-1
I rerest shown by the farmers and!
I the manner in wliich they are en-1
I tering into the agreement has geen I
I very gratifying to him. I
I Ed Turner, a member of the to-1
f bacco committee, stated on Tuesa
meeting held here/
I day iow?*t"?a " ?
I that "We expect to sign up 90 per
I cent of the tobacco growers of the
I county."
I Before the campaign was carried
I into the various sections of the
I county a committee meeting was!
I held and a resolution was passed!
I requesting that every business man
I in Warrenton cooperate in every!
I way possible to put the sign-up I
I movement across.
I McCall Sent To
I Warren To Aid In I
| Agricultural Work
I George McCall, an agricultural!
I agent, has been sent to Warren I
I county by the state to assist Ooun-1
I ty Agent Bob Bright. He assumed J
| his new duties this week.
I Mr. McCall, whose home is in I
| Cumberland county, was graduated!
^""*" tSie vpar His I
iroill OlillC ^uucgg www j
salary is being paid by the state.
Warren Politics
Quiet As Primary
Time Approaches
The approaching June primary
is bringing forth frequent inquires
as to who is going to be a candidate
for this place or that place
but all in all politics in Warren
county are unusually quiet for this
season of an election year.
There have been a number of
rumors for wfceks of individuals
whose political aspirations would
carry them before the voters to bid
for their support for the various
offices of the county but to the
present date these rumors have
brought forth no candidates to definitely
commit themselves publicly.
On tire other hand, some of those
who have been regarded as candidates
have emphatically stated
that they would not seek a public
office this year.
T. H. Aycock, superintendent of
the Warren County Prison Camp,
told a reporter this week that he
would not be a candidate for the
office of sheriff of Warren county
to opposition to Sheriff W. J. PinUeh,
but possibly he would announce
for the House of Representees.
He said that he had not
definitely made ud his mind in
regard to the latter place.
J A. Dowtin, former representative
from Warren county, told a
representative of this paper several
*eeks ago that he had not fully
decided but he thought he would
a?ain be a candidate for the House.
The senator this year is selected
by mutual agreement from Vance
county, this honor having been
?iven Warren county at the last
session when Prank H. Gibbs represented
Warren.
ft is pretty well conceded that
J?hn L. Skinner and Sam King, of
H'ver township, will be candidates
-?r berths on the Board of County
Commissioners, however, neither of
these gentlemen have announced
their candidacy.
Ah present officials in the court
house are expected to be candiates
for their respective positions
*|th the exception of Charlie
Reining who has let it be known
at he will not again be a candite
for the Board of County Commissioners.
SON BORN
Boi-h to Mr. and Mrs. Owen
n ertson on Thursday, a son?L.
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WARF
Warren Citizens
Asked To Help
Flood Sufferers
Citizens of Warrenton and Warren
are being appealed to by the
National Red Cross, through Paul
W. Cooper, principal of the John
Graham High School and chairman
of the Warren county chapter
of the Red Cross, to join in the
nation-wide move to raise funds
for the aid of the hundreds of
thousands of persons who have
been made homeless in the eastern
states by flooding rivers which
also strangled out the lives of
nearly 200 persons and did millions
of dollars worth of property damage.
?
Mr. Cooper has received two telegrams
from national headquarters
pointing out the graveness of
that situation in the flood areas and
asking for immediate response in
behalf of the victims. His first
message, which came last Friday,
stated that that indications were
that 38,000 persons had been driven
from their homes in the flooded
areas and requested that the Warren
chapter raise $350.00 Wednesday
he received another message
stating that 387,000 men, women
and children were looking to the
Red Cross for aid and asking that
efforts be made to exceed the original
quota by at least 50 per cent.
Mr. Cooper asks that citizens of
Warren join in the move to relieve
suffering through donations
and that they turn their contributions
over to him at the school
house or to Howard Jones, Jr., at
the office of The Warren Record.
"Any sum, no matter now smau,
will be gratefully received," he
said.
Since announcing the appeal m
school last week he has received
more than $60.00 from students
who wished to help in the gigantic
rehabilitation work, he stated.
Several dollars have also been
turned over to Mr. Jones by persons
who were informed that he w3s
receiving donations for Mr. Cooper.
Following are the messages carried
in the telegrams received by
tht chairman of the Warren chapter
of the Red Cross:
"Reports received late tonight
indicate thirty eight thousand
families in eleven states driven
from their homes in flooded areas.
This number expected to increase.
These people all looking to Red
Cross for immediate relief, including
shelter, food, clothing, medical
care. Minimum relief funds of
three million dollars necessary to
provide care for the flood victims
for indefinite period, until they
can return to their homes. Please
take immediate action to raise
your quota of $350.00 in behalf of
these disaster stricken families.
Feel confindent people of your
community will wish < to give
promptly and generously. Remittances
should be forwarded to headquarters
as promptly as possible.
Report progress at least twice each
week."
His second telegram read: "Since
original flood relief jfund qupta
assigned, number of victims has
been doubled. Latest reports of our
relief directors now in the field
place total number of men, women
and children looking to Red Cross
for immediate emergency relief at
three hundred eighty seven thousand
with every liklihood this figure
will increase as flood crests
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continue. To meet ciear aiiu eaocntial
Pled Cross obligations to these
suffering fellow citizens now imperative
we ask you make every
possible effort to secure relief contributions
exceeding your original
chapter quota by at least fifty per
cent. As flood waters recede some
areas we must continue to feed,
shelter, clothe homeless refugees
also extend medical and nursing
cfcre in order to prevent epidemics.
This will continue indefinite
period until Red Cross can aid in
repairing damaged homes and
victims can return to normal living.
Feel confident people in your
community will wish increase contributions
promptly and generously
in order this emergent human need
be met. Keep us advised." .
Mrs. Wm. H. Boyd of Reidsville
and sister, Mrs. Palmer of Halifax,
Nova Scotia, are guests of Mr. and
Mrs. G. W. Poindexter.
Ntiss Dorothy Odom is critically
ill at "Park View Hospital.
Mr. Jimmy Boyce is recovering
from an attack of influenza.
Mrs. Ed Hester of Ridgeway has
returned from Duke Hospital.
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crow meat with the same enthusii
mental diners. . . . The diners sa;
as chicken. The Illinois state cons
crows for baking for a Decatur
oomnnio-ns now take on a dinner 1
Puppies Required
To Be Given Shots
Against Rabies
Puppies two months old will be
included this year in the drive
which begins next week to
wipe out rabies in Waren County
and North Carolina through vaccination.
Last year the treatment
was given only to dogs six months
old and older.
T\ie age bracket was lowered
this year in compliance with the
actual wording of the act as set
down in the Public Laws of North
Carolina. Before this book was
compiled and mailed to the clerk
of court in each county a phamphlet
was sent out by the state
giving notice of the law and in this
phamphlet the two month's old
age limit was struck out and "six
month's old'' was written in its
plase in pen and ink, presumably
for the reason there was a shortncro
in ffprnm and on account Of
the fact that the law was new and
late in being put into operation.
Uuder the six month's old limit)
of last year there were around 3,000
dogs vaccinated in Warren County.
In-as-much as the dogs which
were immunized last year are required
to be vaccinated again this
year and two month's old puppies
are included this year, it is expected
there will be around 4,000 dogs
vaccinated in Warren County in
1936.
The law states that the annual
campaign shall begin on April 1
and be completed within 90 days,
and that it shall be the duty cf
dog owners to have their animals
at points designated by the inspectors,
who are to be paid 50 cents
for each dog vaccinated at the
points which they designate and
if the animals are not brougnt 10
the prescribed places they are at
liberty to charge an additional 25
cents for their work. The owners of
dogs treated with the serum are
given a metal tag and a certificate
of vaccination, which will reduce
their taxes by 50 cents if
properly presented before the Sheriff
of the county.
Debate At Local
School Tonight
The public is cordially invited to
attend a high school debate in the
auditorium of the John Graham
High School on Friday evening at
8 o'clock.
The debate will be between the
John Graham and Franklinton
High Schools. Dick Ward and Lois
Reid will defend the affirmative
side of the query, "Resolved that
the several states should adopt the
socialization of medicine," against
Franklinton's negative team.
At the same hour Katherine
Parker and Billy Peete will be debating
the negative side of the
same query against Louisburg's affirmative
team at Louisburg.
hapttst SERVTflES
VISA ? . ? ?
Baptist) services will be held in
the John Graham school auditorium
on Sunday morning at 11
o'clock and at Macon at 7:30, the
i Rev. R. E. Brickhouse, pastor, announced
yesterday.
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College Banquet Menu
may become obsolete in the fields
ppetite of the nation adopts baked
asm as recent mid-western experiy
the meat is tender and as tasty
iervation department furnished the
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table coraDlex?
Horse Stands
Guard Over Dead
Body Of Master
The death of L. B. Carter, respected
negro of River township,
revealed that a horse may prove
as faithful to his master as a
dog.
Carter, according to Coroner
JasDer Shearin. droDDed dead about
I a mile from his home when plow
ing Monday. When he failed to
return home that night members
of his family became uneasy and
a search was made for him early
the next morning. He was found
by the plow "with the horse standing
by his side.
Coroner Shearin said that the
horse had gotten loose from the
plow and was standing by when he
arrived. Carter was 62 years old.
There was no evidence of foul
play, the coroner stated.
Warren's Cotton
Crop 2000 Bales
Short Last Year
Warren county's cotton crop last
year was around 2,000 bales short
of normal production, figures reeased
by B. G. Tharrington, inspector
for the census bureau, in
uioatc.
Mr. Tharrington states that in
1935 the number of bales ginned
in the county amounted to 12,232
as compared with 14,289 for the
year in 1934.
Wants To Know
Way To Be Rid Cats
Mrs. Ella Thorne wants to know
how to get' rT3 of her cats.
She said that she had four of the
animals at her home all through
the winter, much to her displeasure,
and that she was neither able to
j catch them or chase them off.
Last week, she said, three of them
were baited to liie kitchen where
they were captured by the use of a
blanket.
Witi* the felines in her custody
she motored to the Afton-Elberon
section where she deposited the
two male animals. She then went
down 'oelow Creek, nearly to Inez,
and IgTt the "lady" cat to find a
new home.
Yesterday morning, she said, the
1 cat she carried below Creek had
I returned to her home in Warrenton
I to sta!k around beyond reach and
stare fier in the face.
"I Ffeve heard of animals reI
turning to their homes but tills is
| the first time vnat x nave ever
actual know IF to happen," she
said and added: "If those other
two are back there in the morning
I am going to sound a call for held
fo rid"*our home of the pests."
Mr. Enis Bryant of Scotland
Neck spent the week end here
with Mr. James Polk of Richmond
who was spending the week end
here with his mother, Mrs. Tasker
Polk.
Mr. Arnilstead Boyd was a visl
tor in RaKign Monday evening.
Mrs. Z. B. Mitchell of Littleton
was a guest of her daughter, Mrs.
W. R. Boyce, last week.
:H 27, 1936 Subsc
BRIGHT PRAISES |
PLAN SAVE SOIL
Farmer Paid To Do Thing#
He Knows Should Be
Done, Says Agent
HOW PLAN IS WORKED
By BOB BRIGHT
County Agent
The soil conservation program is
one of the best programs that has
ever been offered the farmer. Under
this program a fanner or land
owner is paid to do the things that
every good farmer knows should be
done. The following is an example
of how the program will work.
A farm has a base acreage as
follows; Cotton 10, tobacco 6, corn
15, lespedeza 5, peas 5, truck 3. This
farm Will now have two bases, a
base for soil depleting crops and a
base for soil building or soil depleting
crops. Under the above
acreage the following crops will be
classified as soil depleting: cotton
10 acres, tobacco 6 acres, corn 15
acres and truck 3 acres, making a
total of soil depleting crops of 38 1
acres. This farm has a base of. les- 1
pedeza 5 acres and peas 5 acres, j
making a total base of 10 acres.
This onerator mn v tpHiipa Hie I
cotton 35 per cent or 3.5 acres. Assuming
a yield of 250 pounds per
acre and a payment of 5c per
pound he would receive payment of
$43.75 for diversion of 3.5 acres of
cotton. He may reduce his tobacco
30 per cent or 1.8 acres. Assuming
a yield of 700 pounds per acre he
would receive a payment of $54.00
for diversion of 1.8 acres of tobacco.
He would receive $1.00 per acre for i
his soil building crops or $10.00,
making a total og $87.75. This is the
paymeht he may receive provided
he has as much as 20 per cent of
his so* depleting base in soil build- :
ing or soil consefving crops. Suppose
the above operator instead of
reducing his tobacco acreage increases
his planting 1 acre above
his base his payment would be reduced
$54.00 plus $35.00, making a
total reduction of $89.00 when his
payment is not this much.
The small farmer is allowed a
payment of $10.00 for additional
practices that the large farmer
cannot qualify under.
Three Seniors To
Be Honored At
Graham School
A Good Citizenship program will
be presented at the John Graham
High School auditorium on April 2,
at 11:45. At ttiis time Good Citi
fif cjnH fftT I
Zdldllip llicuaio W XUvti - ?
Service, Loyalty, Attitude, Leadership,
and Scholarship will be presented
to Virginia Weldon, Leonard
Daniel and Raymond Modlin, voted
the three outstanding members
of the Senior Class. These medals
are given by the Warrenton Chapter
of Daughters of the American
Revolution.
The public is cordially invited to
the following program:
Song?"America the Beautiful."
Devotional ? "The Weavers,"
Laura Ellis. i
Introduction to the speakers.
Ralph Williams.
"Why Take Advantage of Your
Opportunity," Virginia Weldon.
"The Work of the Students' Cooperative
Club," Leonard Daniel.
"The School Paper?A Tie Between
School and Home," Raymond
Modlin.
Presentation of Good Citizenship
Medals, Mrs. C. R. Rodwell.
Poem?"In Flanders Field," Edna
Montgomery.
Pledge of Allegiance?Standard
Bearer, John B. Bell.
Song?Leader, Sam Pinnell.
Poem?"Awake, America!" Ella
'C. Pinnell.
Talk?"The Meaning of Good
Citizenship," Supt. J. E. Allen.
Song?"Follow the Gleam."
GARDEN CLsB TO MEET
The Warrenton Garden Club
will meet on Wednesday, April 1st,
at 3:30 p. m. with Mrs. W. A. Connell,
Sr., according to an announcement
made this week by an official
of the club.
Mrs. Eva Watson has recovered
from influenza.
Miss Katherine Scoggin of Chapel
Hill is expected to spend the week
end here.
Mts. Mary Eleanor Price Grant
has recovered from an attack cf
| appendicitis. '
ription Price, $1.50 a Year
To Coach Cornell . j
ITHACA, N. Y. . . . Carl
Snavely (above), new football
- ? ?
coach Of Uorneu, succeeding uu
Dobie, is being acclaimed a good
selection by football^ coaches
throughout the land. His winning
records at Bucknell and North
Carolina landed the job for him
Teacher Should
Work To Correct
Defects ? Cooper
The teacher should discover if
any physical defects exist among
pupils of her classroom and take
steps to off-set these handicapps,
Dr. G. M. Cooper, director of ttie
division of preventive medicine,
told faculty members, fathers and
mothers, at a county-wide meeting
of the Parent-Teacher Association
held in the auditorium of the John
Graham High School last Friday
night. His subject was "Prevention
rktts] r?Awn/>flAn /?f DVivcinol T*W?
auu wiigvMW? v* & w
fects in Children."
Pointing out that the teacher
has a better opportunity to learn
the abnormalities than do parents,
Dr. Cooper said that she should be
on the alert for irregularities and
that if she finds one of her children
handicapped by poor hearing
she should move this child to the
front of the room.
"Many children/' he said "are
regarded by their classmates and
teachers, as dullards because faulty
hearing has prevented them from
hearing what goes on in the classroom."
As an example of this he
referred to the late Thomas Edison,
the great inventor, whom, he
said, was looked upon in his
early school days as being unusally
stupid when the trouble was that
poor hearing prevented instruction
from reaching his master mind.
As soon as Edison was able to
learn to read for himself, he proved
unusual! y bright/, the speaker
stated. Dr. Cooper also cited similar
examples with which he was
peiduueuiy lamina*!.
The speaker told of the advancement
which has been made
in this state to wipe out typhoid
fever, smallpox and diphtheria in
the past 21 years through vaccination
and stressed the importance
of being immunized against these
dreaded diseases.
Dr. Cooper also paid tribute to
the Warren county nfedical profession,
pointing out; that Warren
county was the first place he
came officially when he became
connected with the state health
department 21 years ago. mere
was an epidemic of typhoid fever
here at that time which extracted
several lives, he said.
The speaker was introduced by
Dr. C. H. Peete as a man who had
done more to carry forward the
state health program than any
other one man who had ever been
connected with the state health
board.
An added attraction of the meeting
was a program of dance numbers
and songs put on by Miss
Sara Price of Raleigh, who conducts
a dancing school here.
No Fishing During
April, Says Warden
It is unlawful to fish in any pond
or stream in Waren county, except
in privately owned ponds,
from April 1 to May 10, both dates
being inclusive, E. Hunter Pinnell,
warden, announced this week,
pointing out tnat iisn are spawning
during this period.
RETURN FROM FISHING TRIP
Messrs. Edmund White and G.
V. Boyd returned yesterday from
Alligator river where they spent
severaP days this week on a fishing
trip.
ATTEND GOLF TOURNAMENT
Messrs. S. O. Nunn and Jimmie
iviayueiu tti/iciiucu a ruu twiuunment
at PinehUrst yesterday. I
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MOST OF THE NEWS
ALL THE TIME
NUMBER 13
WESTON TRIAL
PROVES FIASCO .
Evidence Presented, Jury
A Tl M n
Deliberates, i nen .
Had Not Been Sworn
A MISTRIAL IS ORDERED
A mistrial was ordered in the
case against Ray Weston by Judge
W. W. Taylor late Tuesday afternoon
when members of the Jury
which had been selected to try him
on a charge of posstssing 81 pints
of government whiskey for the purpose
of sale filed into the court
room and informed the jurist that
they had not been sworn.
The Jury had been given all the
evidence in the case and had deliberated
over what action to take
for perhaps 20 minutes when they
returned from the Jury room to inform
the court that the Jury was
not impaneled when the case was
started Tuesday morning.
When the surprising revelation
was made in court Judge Taylor
expressed his disappointment and
ordered that a new trial be set for
the fourth week in April, which will
be the next regular time for trying
cases before a jury.
Failure to swear the jury was due
to an' oversight believed to have
been occasioned by the fact that
the jury was agreed upon by both
defense and the state on Mon
day afternoon and Instead of going
ahead with the case at that time It
was continued until the following
morning on account of the time
that would be required to present
the evidence and argue the matter.
Members were told not to discuss
the case with any one but they
were not Impaneled.
Beulah Dean is co-defendant hi
the bill of indictment charging
possession for the purpose of sale
but the state decided to try them
separately. They were both tried
jointly several months ago on the
charge but a jury was unable to
agree at tnat time and a mistrial
was ordered.
The evidence presented Tuesday
was that officers found 81 pints of
government whiskey In the Pine
Tops Service Station when the
place was raided in April of last
year. Part of the whiskey was
secreted in a wall in the downstairs
part of the building and the
other part was hid upstairs. The
Dean woman claims that she owns
and operates the service station,
and presented privilege licenses issued
by the state to her, that the
whiskey was her property, that eflle
bought! it for her own use, and that
Weston works for her at a salary of
$15.00 a week. The state contends
that the whiskey belongs io Weston,
that he is the real owner of the
business, and that he has the
Dean woman there in charge as a
blind to hide Behind.
When the whiskey was seized it
was brought here and placed In
jail for safe-keeping, but prisoners
got into it before the Jail was repaired
recently and more than half
of it was taken. For the past sev
eral months it has been kept in the
whiskey store here.
Members of the jury which heard
the evidence Tuesday were S. L.
Carroll, J. G. Wright, Geo. H.
Thompson, W. J. Cole, 8. H. Dlllard,
and Douglas Mustian.
The Weston case and other matters
tfied before Juries caused Recorder's
court to run for two days
this week, and attracted more than
the usual number of spectators.
Tom Harris was found not guilty
by a Jury on a charge of possessing
whiskey for the purpose of sale.
Evidence was that 21 pints of booze
was fffund at his service station
near Manson.
John B. Milam, negro, was convicted
on a charge of operating an
automobile while under the influence
of whiskey and was ordered to
pay a $50 fine, court costs, and had
his license revoked.
The case against William Henry
Plummer, negro, charged with larceny
in the warrant which carried
the case into the Recorder's court,
was remanded to the Justice of the
peace for his disposition. Evidence
in the case indicated that the
charge should have been highway
robbery and this charge is beyond
the iurisdiction Of Recorder's court.
A case charging Plummer with possessing
whiskey for the purpose of
sale was continued.
Charlie Cook, negro, pled guilty
to a charge of assault. He was
sentenced to jail for a period of
four months, assigned to hard work
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