accurate, terse timely xxxvl ||r WHITE MEN I SENT TO ROADS ^Somobile^^hilc Under j Influence Whiskey _ ..ntlw^itt pppiuit! fl.VE WI ' nw -* * f0Iir while men were sentenced I , -i!0 roads by Judge W. W. Tay ju Recorder's court on Monday I ,:,fn three of them were convicted I if operating a motor vehicle on the public highways while under the influence of whiskey and one was 'Mid gnilt.v of driving without a B penult Tlh''r driving licenses were I Cilus Mat iliews. H. P. Twisdale I and Walter J- Collier were each I sentenced to the roads for a period I oi four months on charges of drivI ag wiiiie drunk and Elbert Knight I is given a 40-day sentence for , nnr without a driver's CptMWiii. " -license Collier gave notice of appeal and bond was set at $300. Hot any of the four men found cuilty of driving while drunk were residents of this county, although Collier at one time lived in Warren i::d worked for a lumber company. He new lives at Enfield. Ernest Jiggett. negro, also faced j charge of driving while drunk but te asked for a jury trial and his rase was set for August 24th. The increasing number of drunken driving cases 011 the court's docket during the past month or so is credited with causing Judge Taylor to resort lo the prision sentence rather than fines in an effort to toak up this practiceSterling Warren, young white who socked Chief Harvev of littleon in the eye Sunday afternoon when the officer was about to arrest him cn a drunken charge, was found guilty of resisting and assaulting an officer and was sentenced to the roads for four monthsHe appealed his case to Superior courtJudgment was continued upon payment of costs in the case against Soloman Harry, negro, charged with operating a motor vehicle with improper brakes. L. W. Perry, white, was fined 85-00 and taxed with court costs then he was found guilty of reckless drivingSam Pitchford and Early Thomas, bcth negroes, were found guilty of an auray ana assault witn a aeaaiy seapon. Thomas was found guilty of assault with a deadly weapon and nas sentenced to the Toads for it months. Pitchford was found guilty of simple assault and was taxed with half the costs in the action. The evidence in the case ws that Thomas had been drinking and that for no apparent reason he accosted Pitchford with a knife and Pitchford knocked him down with bis list and struck him a few times after the knife had been knocked 'torn Thomas's hand by Pitchford's first blow. Thomas was given a reputation for fighting and drinkingJoe Reed, negro who had worked or the Henderson Bagging Company for 22 years in succession, was found guilty of possessing whiskey for the purpose of sale. Taking into consideration the negro's employment record and the fact that his and chidren would be forced to relief for support in event the defendant was sent to the roads, dodge Taylor suspended judgment ?n Reed Drnviriod no fino . ilC "PUW'WW a-d court costs. C. E. Morgan, 70, Buried At Littleton Littleton. Aug. 19?Burial series for c. E. Morgan, 70, were at the grave in Sunset Hill ca?etery on Thursday afternoon, by tl? Rev. W. T. Phippes, pastor of the Littleton Methodist Church. Mr Morgan died in Roanoke Rahospital Wednesday afternoon hums which he received when to extinguish an oil stove In ? home near here last ThursdayMr. Morgan was born near Peters,5r^' Va.. but had spent most of 7? life in Halifax and Warren "nties. He was the son of the late f ?d and Lucy Morgan. He was Member of Calvary Methodist ;rch and a man well thniiffht. of *lativeC?mmUnity' He left no cloSe 'urn a ?izabeth Taylor has re't>M '? Warrenton af'er a visit 'ss Catherine Gregory at Riohand Miss Pela Plummer at Port News. ) >>tS${?S? | Y.'s Safest Motorist NEW YORK . . . The New York , State Bureau of Motor Vehicles has discovered the name of NewYork's safest driver. He is E. F. Macaulay (above), of ~ Schenec- ( tady, who has driven a car 37 ] years and covered 1,021,000 miles without accidents, arrests, nor even a scratch on a fender, Staliings Describes Tenancy Trend As J A Major Problem , The trend from individual ownership to farm tenacy was de- ( scribed as one of the major prob- : lems of the United States by T. F. ^ Staliings of Warrenton, rehabilita tion supervisor of tiie Resettlement ] Administration for Warren county, i Mr. Stallings quoted figures com- | piled by the Resettlement Adminis- : tration showing that nearly half of | all farmers in the United States are ] now tenants- 1 "Every agricultural section of the j country," he said, " -has some ten- 1 acy." It ranges from around eight ! percent in the New England states to better than forty-five percent in : parts of the corn belt and a high of i more tiian seventy five percent of i an iarmers in some parts ui rue i cotton belt." I The figures of the 1935 census of ] agriculture indicate that farm ten- ] acy is still increasing all major < sections of the country. Tenacy in 1 the states of this region is as fol- 1 lows: t Nor.ii Carolina, 142,158 tenants, ! gain of 3 percent since 1930; Vir- t ginia, 58,386 tenants, gain of 16 per ( cent since 1930: Kentucky, 103,215 1 tenants, gain of 16 per cent since < 1930; Tennessee, 126,607 tenants, l gain of 11 per cent since 1930; West ( Virginia, 27,021 tenants, gain of 76 i per cent since 1930. s : j Kinnpl I litrpnns Morehead Meeting t Mr. E. H. Pinnell of Warrenton, 1 a member of the Board of Directors < of the Henderson Production Credit i Association, attended a group meet- 1 ing of production credit association >' Board of Directors at Morehead 1 City, North Carolina, August 10 and 1 11. t Present at the Morehead City i meeting were Directors of the Graham, Raleigh, Smithfield, New Bern >' Washington, Weldon, Greenville, t Ahoskie, Elizabeth City, Henderson, t Louisburg, and Rocky Mount As- < sociations. Representatives of the f Columbia and of the Farm Credit 'i Administration of Columbia also at- 1 tended. Mr. Pinnell said that a growing | appreciation of the short-term credit facilities offered by the associations was reported by the farmer-directors attending and that reports at the meeting indicated that 1 the associations in the states of 1 North Carolina, South Carolina, ' Georgia and Florida had increased J their volume of business this year ^ approximately 20 per cent. The vol- ] ume of business done by the assoc- ' iations, he said, had shown a substantial increase in each of the ' three years they have operated. ' Problems of common interest to j the associations were discussed at | Morehead City, according to Mr. , Pinnell, who said that cooperative 1 farm credit units are carrying on their lending activities with mini- J mum service to the borrowers. NOT TO SELL STYLE SIIOP Mrs. Macy Pridgen who has gone to Richmond to enter the grocery 1 business, will continue to operate 1 Thp stvle Shop at Warrenton, she 1 stated this week- She said that as '< soon as she gets her new business established in Richmond she will 1 divide her time between her two t places of business. The Style Shop < at present is being managed by < Mrs- Joe Powell. i i Mrs. J. E. Adams and son, Jimmy, 1 and Miss Dorothy Parker have re- ! turned after spending a week at < Cape Charles. 1 11 WARRENTON, COUNTY 01 Funeral Services For McRary Jones j Held On Saturday Funeral services for Hamilton McRary Jones of Montreal, Canada, eldest son of Mrs. Adel Jones, jl Warren Ion, were conducted from Smmanuei Episcopal Church here I Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock by -ire Rev- B. N. deFoe Wagner, rector, interment followed in Fairview lemetery wuh the following serving as pallbearers: A. A. Wlliams, Dr. C. H. Feete, W. N. Boyd, J. A. 1 Dameron, W- K. White and S. E. Burroughs. 1 Mr. Jones, who was general man- 1 iger of the international Power Jompany ol Canada and active for j more than 30 years in the electrilal industry in many parts of the , vorld, died Wednesday morning hi i ;he private patient's pavilion of the . Montreal General Hospital in his 1 >3rd year, after a brief illness. At 1 ,ne time of his death Mr. Jones was Uso manager of the southern prop- ' hties of vhe Montreal Engineering Jompany, Limited. I Mr. Jones was born in Warrsn bounty, North Carolina, on August 1 JO, lb83. Graduating from the Uni- 1 ,'ersity of North Carolina in 1905, ie entered the Westinghouse Company at East Pittsburg the same rear, and was later transferred to . he company's New York office, shortly thereafter he served as electrical engineer with the South Porto Kico Sugar Company, in Porto Rico, and later transferred his nterests to the Porto Rico Railway, jight and Power Company, as supjrintendent of the lighting division. ] In 1914 he returned to the States , md was sent to the Orient as a . special representative of the West nghouse Company, with iieadquar- , ;ers in Tokio, Japan, and a terri- ( ,ory comprising most, 01 die far Sast. He returned to New York m L919 and in 1921 was sent to Mexi:o as a special representative of tlie Westinghouse Company. He later lad charge of the electrification of ,he Chilean State Railway from Santiago to Valparaiso. On his reurn from Chile he became manager if the department of the Americas 'or his company and served in that lapaeity until March 1929, when he esigned to -take over the position if general manager of the Interlational Power Company, and has ;ince been active with International Power interests in acquiring the ,'arious properties controlled by hat company. In 1912, Mr. Jones was married < io Helen Baker, daughter of a forner president of the University of lolorarto at Boulder. Colorado. He s survived by his wife, Helen Ba:er; his mother, Mrs. Adele E. , Tones; and two sisters, Mrs. W. H- ( Dameron and Miss Rowe Jones of ] Warren ton; his brothers G. Her- j jert Jones, of Burlington, and Er- ( rest Jones, of Evanston, Illinois. ( He was a member of the St- ; Tames Club, the Montreal Club, and , he University Club, in Montreal; he India House and the University ( 31ub in New York; the Maniwaki j md Beaconsfield Golf Clubs, and , he Zeta Psi Fraternity of Chapel Jill. 1 I Car Stolen Here Is 1 *-? H A . ITT 11 found At Weidon t A second-hand Pontiac car stolen; from the Boyd-Boyce Motor Co.!, iere several weeks ago was recover- I, -d at Weidon this week, Sheriff W. . 1. Pinnell reported yesterday. Thei! Sheriff said that the abandoned car ( vas found by a patrolman of Hall-.1 'ax county and reported to him on1' ruesday. j i The car was stolen the same night j 1 ;hat a quantity of whiskey was stol-1 s :n from the ABC store at Norlinajj ind it is believed that the same', obber committed both crimes- No race of the stolen whiskey or of the operators of the stolen vehicle has 1 reen found, the Sheriff stated. 1 Revival Services A ?. D ' j Revival services will begin at the Jeedy Creek Baptist Church c.n Sunday, August 23, and run through 1 Friday, August 28, Mrs. Peter Davis i mnounccd this week. ' The first service of the meeting, 1 vhich will be in charge of the pas- ( ;or, Rev- J. F. Roach, will be held .< )n Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. Dn Monday there will be a service it 8:15 o'clock in the evening. The est of the week services will be i leld at. 3:30 in the afternoon and t 1:15 in the evening. Hie revival ( :omes to a close on Friday with an t ill-day meeting. i F WARREN, N. C. FRIDAY 18TH AUTO DEATH OCCURS SUNDAY Automobile Wrecks Take Terrible Toll In Warren County During This Year NEGRO MAN IS KILLED The eighteenth automobile death in Warren county this year occur red at Mt. Auburn, near the Virginia line, on Sunday afternoon when a car containing three Virginia negroes failed to make a curve in the read, overturned and brought ta.al injuries to one of the occupants and slight injuries to the istners'i'iiei Moses was almost instantly Killed when the f ord overturned rnd crushed against the ground, and Alfred Jeuress, trie driver, received injuries which necessitated medical attention and confined him to his ued. George Washington Jones was slightly hurt but both he and Jetfress are expected to recover. Whiskey and reckless driving are believed by Sheriff W- J. Pinnell to nave been responsible for the accident. Sheriii Pinnell said there was evidence of whiskey having been in -he car and of the negroes drink mg. A warrant charging manslaughter will he served on Jeliress, the Sheriff statedDove Seasons To Open Sept 1; Quail Season Nov. 20th The dove season opens on September 1 and it will be lawful to >hoo; these birds until September 10 when the season closes until December 20, E. Hunter Pinnell, bounty game warden, announced -his week. The open season for rabbitt, wild turkey, and quail is from November 20 to February 15 and for squirrel from October 1 to January 15, the warden said. Both the dove and bird, and rabbit seasons open earlier this year . -ian was uie case last year wnen ;he dove season opened on the 21 )f September and the rabbit and juail season opened on Thanksgiving day. The game warden pointed out ;hat hunting licenses are required ,o shoot doves and other game and said that he is expected to receive ;he 1936-37 metal tags within a few lays. W. H. Walker Dies At Vaughan Macon, August 18?Burial Services for William Henry Walker who lied Sunday morning, August 2, at lis home near Vaughan after an llness of several months, were conlucted at the grave in Gardner's jemetery Monday morning, August I, at 11 o'clock. Rev. Boone of Roaloke Rapids officiatedMr. Walker was reared in Haw;ree Township but moved into River n early manhood and lived there intil his death. He was a man who didn't care 'or pomp and show, but for the nore worthvirile things in life; he lad high ideals and lived up to hem. He was held in high esteem jy all who knew him and will be ;reatly missed in the community. Mr. Walker is survived by his vife, Mrs- Mollie Wright Walker, md three sons: Alexander, W. C-, md Stith of Macon; six daughters, ifrs. Claude Bottoms, Misses Maude md Mary Walker, also of Macon, VIesdames Jesse Pegram and Eaton 3obbitt of Littleton, and Mrs. Heriert Speight of Roanoke Rapids; a lister, Mrs. B. R. Rooker of Macon; 'ive grandchildren and seven nieces md nephews. Pallbearers were R. D. and T. B. 7iir,?r n k. Saddler. H. L. Pope, Hugh Haithcoek and F. B. LynchThe Sunday School Class of which ;wo of his daughters are members lad charge of the floral offering1LUMNAE ASSOCIATION LFA MEETS AT LITTLETON TODAY The alumnae association of the jittleton Female Academy will meet it Panacea Springs today (Friday)Kie Rev- and Mrs. J. M- Rhodes of Florida, who for years were In charge of the academy, will be ipecial guests for the occasion. CHILD DIES William E. Carroll, 6-months-old son of Robert E. Carroll of Haw.ree township, was buried Wednesiay afternoon in the family ceme;ery. He died on Tuesday mornng. '/ i' , AUGUST 21, 1936 Subscrip Supervisors Check Compliance With Soil Program BY R. H. BRIGHT County Agent Supervisors or local committee men ate now checking compliance under the soil conservation program. A high percentage of the farmers are complying, but there seems to be a lack of interest on the part of some producers when it comes to complying with the regulations of program. Those producers that fail to qualify for their payments even though they have reduced their crops will not receive any payments. I realize that the program is complicated and difficult to understand, but this is the best program that could be offered the farmer under the circumstances and every producer should take advantage of the program and qualify for his payments. The crops that are required for qualification are crops that should be grown on all farms. A farm that is not growing sufficient crops to qualify is not a well-balanced farm Producers should look upon this program as an aid and a means of putting farming on a sound basisThe producer that refuses to cooperate in a program that he knows is going to benefit him and his fellow men is not only damaging himself, but he is influencing some other producer to split away and refuse to cooperateWhen tile supervisors or compliance committeemen visit a farm the producer should make it a point to assit these men in every way possible in checking compliance- The cost of the administration of this program is coming out of the payments that would go the producer. I am satisfied that we have in this county an excellent gioup of men as local committeemen and these men are sacrificing their time and energy in this program. The county committee spends day after day working on the program that they do not expect to be paid for, and that is the spirit that will make tills program a success. Young Farmers Attend Camp i BY C. H. DRYE 1 Sixteen members from the John Graham and Macon High School I chapters of Young Tar Heel Farmers attended the Young Tar Heel ] Farmers Camp at White Lake last week- This group of boys left War- i renton early Monday morning, Aug- i ust 10, and returned on Saturday, ] August 15. The group in Camp last week was composed of 250 boys together with : their guests, and represented six- ; teen different schools from over all ; North Carolina. This camp is design to take care of 300 boys each week during the summer and is owned and operated entirely by toe Young Tar Heel Farmers organization of the State. ; The camp opens during the latter : (Continued on page 8) Skinner Re-Elected To State Office Littleton, Aug. 20.?John L. Skinner, for 16 years secretary-treasurer of the State Association of County Commissioners, was reelected to this position at the 29th : annual convention of toe association held at the Battery Park Hotel in Asheville last week. REVIVAL SERVICES Revival services will begin at Shady Grove Methodist unurcn, Inez, on August 30th, the Rev. L. CBrother, pastor, announced this week. The Rev. B. O. Merritt of Kittrell will assist the Rev. Mr. Brothers with the preaching during the meeting. A cordial invitation is extended the public to attend these services by the pastor. SERVICES SUNDAY The regular worship services will be held at the Warrenton Methodist Church on Sunday morning at 11 o'clock and on Sunday evening at 8 o'clock, the Rev. O. I. Hinson announced this week. Services will be held at the Warren Plains church on Sunday morning at 9:45 o'clock, the minister stated- Visitors are invited to attend these services. DR. PEETE OUT OF TOWN Dr. C. H. Peete and family left : Tuesday for a few days visit to his brother, Mr. Will Peete, in Bowling : I Green, Ky. l^v tion Price, $1.50 a Year Hypnotism Baby | r ^ jsmm COLUMBUS. O. . . . Above Is a 10-pound girl whose mother volunteered to be hypnotized by Dr. A. H. Kanter, to relieve the pain at her birth. Dr. Kanter says the method of hypnotism at childbirth Is widely practiced In Russia and that he will experiment further here, but It can only be successful when the expectant mother Is willing to be hypnotized. Person Who Plays With Fire Enemy 1, Brockwell Says "Public Enemy No. 1 of this country is the person who plays with fire, especially in and around buildings and factories where wage earners are at work," State Fire Marsnau snerwooa rsrocsweu iuia members of the North Carolina Colored Volunteer Fire Association in bis address to them at the opening if the forty-sixth annual session in the court house at Warrenton on Tuesday. "You read and hear a lot today of the men who the Department of Justice have designated as Public Enemy No. 1 and Public Enemy No. 2, 3, etc., in connection with bank robberies and murders, but the real Public Enemy No. 1 of this country is the person who plays with fire, especially around a building where hundreds are employed, whose carelessness is not only responsible for the destruction of thousands of dollars worth of property and sometimes the loss of lives, but is also responsible for wage earners, dependent upon their jobs, being thrown out of work temporarily if not permanently," the fire chief said. The state fire chief told the ne?ro firemen that it was as much their duty to prevent fires wherever possible as to extinguish them after the flames had developed, and caled on the women in that audience for their cooperation in the precautionary measures. "Practically every one of you, if you live in a two-story house, have old clothing, furniture and other articles which you are ashamed to wear or for your neighbors to see and you have stored this rubbish in the attic, cellar, or under the steps in a closet Clean them out, they cause fires " he advisedMr. Brockwell also warned against poorly constructed flues, telling the men to be on the look-out at all (Continued on page 8) Completes Survey Of Bus Routes J. S. Blair, school bus road agent for the State School Commission, has completed his survey of school bus routes in Warren county and has returned to Raleigh. A report of his survey is expected to be made to the county within a few days and any changes made will be made known by the coujjiy superintendent. i' 1 : i: Elberon Girl Dies From Heart Attack Funeral services for Miss Edith Reavis, 16-year-old daughter of Eugene and Sally B. Reavis of near Elberon, were conducted from Sulphur Springs Baptist church yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Miss Reavis died early Wednesday morning following a heart atack which she suffered while at a tobacco barn hhe afternoon before. Crissman To Head Macon School Curtis Crissman, who for the past two years has been principal of the Von Lee High School in Charlotte, has been elected principal of the Macon High School. Before going to Charlotte Mr. Crissman was for five years principal of a school in Nash county. I 1 ! I MOST OF THE NEWS ALL THE TIME NUMBER 34 FIREMEN DEPART AFTER BIG RALLY j Local Negroes Honored By State Association; Many Persons See Events IN SESSION THREE DAYS Negro firemen from fourteen North Carolina town, after bringing Warrenton a varied convention program, departed yesterday afternoon and last night after three days and nights of making merry at their annual meet held here for the second Hmo Th/wo urn o tint onirfhinflp to criticize about the programs or the conduct of any of the firemen and their visitors from the score of Carolina towns during tSijeir stay here and the convention won the vote of all as a success. The official program opened on Tuesday morning in the court house with a word of welcome from Mayor William T. Polk, who was introduced by Baker Plummer, and speeches by Congressman John H. Kerr, J. Edward Rooker, State Fire Marshall Sherwood Brockwell, and the white state fire chief of Raleigh. Rev. D. A. JVTHs responded to Mayor Polk's welcome, and C. RMiller responded to Mr. Rooker's talk. Rev. Odell Harris spoke in behalf of the churches of Warrenton ana froi. u- m. jarnigan spoae in behalf of the schools- Their speeches were responded to by Rev. J. E. McGrier and Rev- J. W- Grimes. The opening program Included a number of musical selections and moved along smoothly as J. W. Grimes of Washington, president, presided, and L. W. Hall of Salisbury, treasurer, served as master of ceremonies. Vice President Baker Plummer of Warrenton was seated beside the president during the program Election of Officers In the election of officers on Tuesday, Peter Collins was re-elected secretary for something like the fortieth time and J. Baker Plummer was again named vice president for about the tenth time. Hie other officers nominated and elected by acclamation were J- W. Grimes, Washington, president; I? H- Hall, Salisbury, treasurer; J. N. Lyons, Enfield, financial secretary; C. R- Miller, Fayetteville, statistician; D. A. Willis, Oxford, chaplain; Harvey Brown, Warrenton, Marshall. Forming at the John R- Hawkins High School grounds on Wednesday morning, the firemen, guests and friends swung into a mile-long parade into Warrenton and with bands playing and fancy uniforms resplendant, covered the entire town in a line of march which kept them moving until near noon. Numbers of the companies had floats in the parade which also included decorated cxen straddled by riders and fancy dressed ox carts. The early part of Wenesday afternoon was devoted to contests to determine the best companies for the list of prizes offered by the association. The events were run off on Fifth avenue, between the hotel and Dr. Peete residence, before a large crowd of white and negro specta , tors- xarouro won mic xw-jtm* hook and ladder race. Oxford was the only other company competing for this honor, which for the past several years has been divided between these two units of the association. Stephen Terry out-stepped opponents from several competing companies to capture the prize for the Warrenton company in (he 100yard foot race. Segraves of E Spencer came in second in this contest The biggest races of the convention were held yesterday morning on Main street when various companies competed for honors in the hose reel races, the grab races, the belt races and the truck races. Warrenton took first place in the 100yard hose reel contest by showing water in 19 seconds. Greenville won second place by running the 100yard hose reel contest by showing water in 20 seconds. East Spencer made a fast run in this race but ting the hydrant turned on. Greenville and Wilson tied for first place in the 50-yard grab race, each producing water in 20 seconds. They agreed to split the prize rather than run the race over. Hard luck also traveled with the East Spencer company in this race. The company ran the 50-yard distance and had water in 17 seconds, but the man running with the nozzle failed to make the proper contact before water shot through the end of the Ihose and the company was again (Continued on page 8)

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