I
^ojrate, terse
timely
^
fe HEARING
f B POSTPONED
^ "Fm ms
board AW*n action
scheduled to take
TW hea HPnrv A. Grady
Ij) niiiuaH' j csnruay to determine j
\aeuxi we temporary restraining I
wer w pre rent uie United States!
laenty ana Guaranty Company oi I
uuiaere 110111 going oif tiie bond I
Krister ot Heeds Josepii c|
^H?o;vea and tnc Hoard of County!
hMu:..?"?ioii?s from declaring a|
'-^Biacaiiy m t'le oince was postponed I
to tiie lact tliat Judge Grady J
Hms out 01 die district- A new date I
Hor tiie hearing is expected to be J
Hairaugeti within the next few daysi
^Between Judge Grady, Julius Ban-I
Hzet- county attorney, representatives I
Ho; the bonding company, and coun-1
... Mr Powell
I Be temporary restraining order,
signed by Judge YV. C- Harris or
$^uu.e:gii on January 30. was made
^Hmimabie beiore Judge Grady, who
Hs to determine whether or not it is
^Ho tie made permanent.
.. uie icsiiamiiig order is made
^ ^rnnutcm trie Baltimore company
ue rorced to remain on the
01 Air. Powell and the county
^Ks not expected to tahe any action
^Hon trie matter, ir the injunction is
Hoiisoitea ana Mr. Powell fails to seHcuie
a suitable bona, in the sum of
- .1.. mmmi?]nnerS are ex
Uif w....
^Hprited to declare a vacancy in the
Horace of the register of deeds and
Happcmt a successor to Mr. Powell.
^H me commissioners were expected ,
So meet nere toaay and had the
^Hiearuig Been held and the injuncH..
tussoived, but since the hear|Hng
was postponed the commission^Hers
were notified to this effect and
^^Kniormed that their presence was
^Kiot required at this time^ Warren
Students
I Win Honors Crop
Judging Contest
j^B By ( II. DRYE,
Vocational Teacher
Seven boys of the Warrenton and 1
{Hllacon chapters of Future Farmers :
f^Hparticipated in the crop judging
f^|contEst ^or s'lldents of vocational
agriculture at Goldsboro on Febru
? --j mu: mnci ,
ttl\ 5 ailU 1U- 1IU& Lumcat noo j
in cor.r.ection with the Third An- j
hsal Conference and Seed Exposi
tion of the N. C. Crop Improvement
Association
The Warrenton team was compos- '
ec of Perry T. Twitty, Claude Welcon
and James King, with Everett 1
Harris as alternate- These boys won j
second place as a team- This en- | |
titles them to individual silver,'
medals. Claude Weldon has the j 1
distinction of being the second '
dullest score individual in the corr
test James King won fourth place '
as an individual. '
The Macon team composed of
fee King, Mack Hilliard and ]
Hoaard Weaver won tenth place- \
This contest was open to all ]
vocational agricultural students in1'
Horih Carolina The above named i
??_. . j
uu.,a wmpetefl against 192 boys t ^
J*'.iom 57 high schools of the state. 14
ffl Joseph W. Clark
Dies At Littleton 1
I tttleton. Feb. 11.?Joseph Wiln
Clark, one of the best belovcitizens
of this community, pass- J |
H ei from life into eternal rest on the ((
moraine of February 4 at his home | (
Ir,far Littleton He was born Sept. I,
13' 1883. at Enfield, N. C, the , .
s^Bwuneest son of the late Col. David ,
^ c and Elizabeth Matilda Clark. 1,
I funeral sendees were conducted ,
JJ? Ms home by his pastor, the ,
W. T. Phinns, pastor of LlttleMethodist
Church. Enterment .
at the Thome-Clark cemetery ,
,-** " ""ne.
fl Is survived by his widow, Mrs. (
| i?tpie Daniel Clark, two sons, ,
pit and Ned Long of Littleton; i
*? daughters, Miss Winifred Clark (
?.?* Macon school faculty, and (
Elisabeth Clark of Raleigh;
^ws. Mrs. M. A. Harris of j
jEftaro and Mrs. W. E. Beavans ,
3'kM: one brother, James H.
Enfield, and several nieces ,
|H Dmf '6 P^lbcarers were Graham
las'n1 T Clark' J- L- skinner' 1
BHjjttu, ie' and Robert Clark of i
I jjJon' John D. Beavins and John i
j;^Enfield and Norfleet Clark :
m
wa:
Red Cross Funds
In Warren Around ,
Thousand Dollars
One donation in the sum of $25 00
and other contributions which have
drifted in during the past few days
from various individuals and organizations
have increased the total
sum contributed in Warrenton
county to the American Red Cross
to relieve suffering and aid in the
gigantic task of rehabilitating the
Hundreds of thousands of persons
who were vitims of the Ohio and ,
Mississippi valley flood to around
$1,000. Warren's quota, after being ^
raised several times, was set at $600. j.
The 625.00 check came from J. H- v
Gilliland and family of Macon. I
Other citizens of the county have A
responded generously to the appeal ?
for funds to aid the distressed f|
refugees, but the contribution from r
Mr. Gilliland was the largest indi- j
vidual donation to be made. An- other
family, last week, gave $15.00, ?
and practically every family in town
and a great many of those in the
county have made some donationFollowing
is the list of contributors
since last week:
A. E. Paschall, $2; Miss Georgie
LaCoste, 3-2; J. H- Gilliland and al
family, $25; Mrs. T. J. Holt, $5; h
Miss Elizabeth R. Davis, $5; R- X. al
Harris and family, $1; R. L. Capps, c
$1; E. W- Conn, 50c; J. F- Hunter, tl
$1; A. L- Capps, $1; W- T. Davis, P>
50c; Arthur Williams, (colored) 25c; 01
Warren Council, No. 38, Daughters w
of America, Norlina, $5; Vaughan di
Graded School, $2 50; Warrenton
Baptist Sunday School, by R- E- 111
Ransom, Supt., $5; Mrs. R- R- Rod- 111
well, $1; Brown's Sunday School, by 01
Sam E. Allen, $2; The Lovely Hill al
Babtist S- S-, $5; Stoney Lawn Sun- E
day School, $1; Shady Grove Sun- b<
day School, $25; R. Z. Egerton, $1; w
Snow Hill Sunday School, $5; Pleas- 115
ant Hill Sunday School, $4; Providence
Christian Sunday School, w
$160; tl
Christine Edwards," 5c; Charles st
Jones, 5c; James Robertson, 25c; be
Merle Harrington, 20c; Edna Sue m
Evans, 5c; J. T. Pendergrass, 11c; m
Bettie Marie Pendergrass, 2c; Ma- Ti
tnie B. Rooker, 10c; Annie P. Hale, K
7c; K, T Miller, 25c; Roy Miller, G
5c; Charles Pinnell, 5c; Duke Choplin,
25c; Lucille Edmunds, 10c; [
Marlin Aycock, 20c; Jack Bryant
Ayscue. 15c; David Dickerson, 10c;
James Lee Miller, 5c; Jimmie Peoples,
5c; Myrtle Roe Ayscue, 10c;
Emily Edwards, 5c; Annie Mae
Rose, 5c; Cornelia Limer, 25c; Geo. a
P. Bowden, 15c; Merlin Ayscue, 15c; ac
Josephine Pinnell, 10c; Carl Pinnell, sf
25c; Harriett Ann Miller, 25c; Rus- cc
sell Peoples, 10c; Edith Edmunds, of
LOc; 01
Ralph Ayscue, 20c; Peete Choplin, w
25c; Perry Pefnell, 10c; Tom Limer, p.
10c; Tommy Harrington, $2,58; ge
Eugene Ayscue, $1.20; Ted Dickerson,
10c; Goode Fleming, 35c; al
rhomas Frazier, 25c; Myrtle Evans, ar
5c; Hazel Pinnell, 20c; Lillie Ay- H
cock, 25c; Sidney Pernell, 10c; M
O'Bryant Ayscue. 25c; Clarence j-0
Harris, $1; Beulah Turner, 7c;
Joseph Ayscue, iuc; uia iviiuer, oc, jM.
T. Miller, 5c; Margaret Edmunds, *"
10c; Ida Belle House, 10c; Dorothy
O'Brien, 25c; Aileen Bowden, 25c;
Lorene Fleming, 25c; Estelle Abbott,
51; Ollie Choplin, 25c; Edna Powell,
25c; Egerton Ridout, 50c; Alice Ed- M
munds, 10c; Alice Stevenson, 25c; t
Marvin James, 25c; Teachers, $2.55;
Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Holt, $2; Grade ac
l-A, $175; Miss Julia Dameron, $2; ^
^ash, $5. ^2
Child Hurt When w
Struck By Car p]
S. P. Lenox Jr., 9 or 10-year-old
coy of Castalia, was seriously injur- o{
;d Wednesday afternoon around 2:30
D'clock when he was struck by an b?
automobile being driven by Peter G- g?
Seaman of Warrenton. The child
was picked up by Mr. Seaman and
rushed to a hospital in Rocky Mount
where he is expected to recover if w
no complications set in.
Mr. Seaman was traveling sc
Nashville, en route to Wilson, when i a(
iie saw two children standing on the | j-a
side of the highway, one apparently H
daring the other to dash across the p(
road before the car reached them- q
Mr. Seaman said that he slowed H
down, blew his horn, and thought {jthat
the children were waiting for fj,
him to pass when they both ran
into the highway- He stated that he
cut to his left and that one of the er
children turned back but that the s{,
ether dashed on across the road
Into the pathway of his car. fo
The child was knocked into a yi
puddle of water by the automobile ar
and some fear is felt that he may
develop pnuemonia, but if this does ar
not happen he is expected to re- a
cowr. to
tip
RRENTON, COUNTY OF Wi
8-Year-Old Inventor
IEW YORK . .. Perhaps many
oys of 8 years have invented
worthwhile gadgets, but Norman
!. Bierman of New York (above),
led his application for patent on
closet clothes rack when he was
% years old and now at 8;Tias
een granted a U. S. Patent on his
ack/" making him one of our
oungest inventors.
'lans Underway;
For Automobile
Show In Spring
Plans are going forward for the
utomobile show which is to be held
ere in the early spring under the
jspices of the Warrenton Lions
lub. The committee appointed by
le club has been active in making
reparations for the show, the first
: its type to ever be held here, and
ill announce fuller details and
ites later.
The show is to be held in a wareouse
in which are to be arranged
iany booths for merchants and
;hers to attractively display the
rticles which they have for sale,
ach night of the show there will
; free acts in addition to dances
hich are to be held on several
ights.
"Nothing will be lacking to make
rarrenton's first automobile show a
emendous success from every 1
andpoint, M. C. McGuire, a mem:r
of the automobile show com- 8
ittee, stated this week. Other *
embers of the committee are John *
arwater, chm., John Mitchell, W- c
. Lanier, William Boyce. and
eorge McColl. 1
t
laraeron Company t
Incorporates As A r
New Business r
The W. H. Dameren Supply Co., ?
business built up here many years
;o by the late W. H. Dameron and g
rengthened in about 1920 by the v
insolidation with Rodwell Brothers ,
Oakville, has been dissolved and L
it of it has been organized the
'arren Cotton & Fertilizer Com- ^
my, which will continue to do a v
meral agricultural supply business. 1
The new corporation has an
ithorized capital stock of $75,000,
id subscribed stock of $30,000 by ?
W- Rodwell, C, E. Rodwell and 1
attie W. Dameron, all of Warrenn.
'
1
unds Allotted For d
Nat Macon Home v
t
WPA funds for making repairs
id improvements at the Nathaniel '
aeon home place in Warren counhave
been allotted by the state 1
Iministration of that Federal c
;ency. The WPA gives $647 and f
ie sponsors provide the sum of 1
57, a total of $904 that is to be
;ed in restoring the home place of '
'arren's most famous patriot.
Eleven relief persons will be em- ^
oyed on the project which is ?
lonsorea Dy tne umteu uau&xibcio i
the Confederacy and the Board, t
County Commissioners- After t
le home has been restored, it will '
: open to the public and used for 8
ineral purposes, it was stated- '
PI,AY AT WISE TONIGHT J
The play. "Where's Grandma," 1
[11 be presented by "Our Club" of 1;
le Norlina High School in the v
hool auditorium tonight (Friday) t
; 7:30 o'clock. Those who will g
,ke part in the play are Nan
awks, Sylvia Rose, Buck Duke, j I
' ? " ?? Trrn?n? TTi"Mo I c
3t Keaa, ivaary cmuc rviuun, x*xn?t? ^
verby, Juel Williams, Norman t
awks, Katie Clark. Proceeds from c
ie entertainment are for the bene- s
t of "Our Club " s
Mrs- Duke Jones spent the week ^
id in Roanoke Rapids with her
ster, Miss Jo Carty.
Mrs- R B- Powell left Wednesday
r her home in Henderson after a
sit here to her sisters, Misses Lucy a
id Edith Burwell. fc
Messrs. W. F. Alston, J. C. Moore e
id son,. James Carr Moore, spent T
few days this week In Washing- a
n, D. C.
T '
to
VRREN, N. C. FRIDAY, FE
FOUR ARE KILLED
IN PLANE CRASH
Worst Airplane Smash In
State's History Occures
Near Warren Line
RIPS OFF TWO WINGS
Four persons lost their lives in
the worst crash in this state's aviation
history on Sunday afternoon at
L o'clock when a privately owned
lirplane smashed at Gold Sand,
rear the Warren county line and 12
niles northeast of Louisburg in
Franklin county.
me aeaa were laentmea as unes;er
H. Betz, Arthur S. Conn and
Daniel L. Breen. all of Akron, Ohio,
tnd Miss Caroline Danley of Jacksonville,
Fla.
Residence of the Gold Sand comnunity
were horrified when the
red, four-place Waco cabin ship
swung in a low circle, ripped off
-wo wings in a clump of trees and
shattered in a field. The occupants
vere mangled almost beyond identification,
parts of their bodies being
;hrown into the porch at the home
)f K. S. Leonard, where he stood.
The cause of the accident is not
cnown but the general belief is that
he pilot, handicapped by low ceilng
which prevented visibility, atempted
to come near the earth to
let his bearings and struck the tops
if trees.
Hundreds of persons, including
nany from Warren county and a
ew from Warrenton, drove to the
icene Sunday afternoon to view the
vreckageiVOMAN
FAINTS WHEN PARTS
OF BODIES LAND ON PORCH
By JOHN A. PARRIS JR.
In. News and Observer
Gold Sand, Feb-17.?"My wife,
dary, fainted ..."
A jittery farmer, his nerves rag
:ed, was talking. A few hours beore,
he saw a red Waco airplane
lurtle out of the fog and rain and
rash right in his farmyard.
Four persons were killed- He Saw
>arts of their bodies thrown onto
he porch where he stood.
"It was the hardest lick I ever
leard." said K. S. Leonard, the fartier,
father of six children.
"Mary and me heard the airplane
oaring above the house and started
mt in the yard to look for it"We
just got to the door when we
aw two men falling through the
,ir- They dropped off right there
,'here the car is parked- And their
todies struck that tree."
The parked car was 50 feet away,
flue tree where the bodies struck
uas 25 feet from the doorway where
.eonard stood talking.
Wife Fainted
? -r- - r i
"JVLy W1I6, IViary, sue juab xauiucu
lead-away when she saw them men
lit that tree "
Blood splotched the oak tree
there the bodies of Pilot Chester
L. Betz and Arthur Conn struck.
"See this window here," Leonard
lirected to his right. "Two panes
fere broken, and there was blood on
he shade and curtains."
"A piece of skull went through
here and into the parlor."
Elizabeth Leonard, daughter of
he farmer, said parts of the mahine
"whirled" through the air beore
the plane landed- The ship did
lot burn.
While the farmer described what
hree veteran airmen said was the
worst crash we have ever seen,"
lundreds of curios sightseers'striped
the ship of souvenir parts.
The wreckage was strewn over
-C 1 J All of.
hree or iour acres ui anu, mi
ernoon the road to Leonard's farm
/as swarming with traffic. Even
fter nightfall automobiles coninued
to arrive.
Dwight Cross, William D. Lawson
r. and Ericson Boyce, all of Charotte,
occupants of a ship which
anded at Warrenton. said the
leather was impossible for flying in
hat vicinity and that they had
rounded their plane.
They said, in their opinion, that
iretz was flying at a high rate of
peed, riding the top of the fog,
hen came down under it, got too
i? that. the wines were
iuoc, anu vuuv w_
horn from the plane when it
truck a patch of timber.
Widening Highway
Talked At Meeting
Henderson, Feb- 10?Information
,nd discussion of the Junior Chamber
of Commerce's project, the widening
of U. S. No. 1 to the north to
lorlina from Henderson, was had
t the regular weekly session of the
(Continued on page 8)
IRmi
1BRUARY 12, 1937 Subset
Congressman
Cooiey s brother
Killed 1 n Wreck
A radio is believed to have been
responsible for the automobile accident
which brought instant death
to Hubert Bernard Cooley of Nashville,
a brother of Congressman
Harold D. Cooley, and painful injuries
to Miss Gloria Davenport of
Marsh Plains, N. J., on Monday
night about 9:30 o'clock when the
Studebaker sedan in which they
were traveling towards Warrenton
crashed into an abutment of the
Smith Creek bridge, several miles
below Wise on U. S. Highway No- 1Mr.
Cooley, Miss Davenport is
quoted as stating, was reaching over
to turn on the radio when he came
to the curve, lost control of the car
and the vehicle crashed into the
bridge on a section of the national
highway which is some times referred
to as "death's trap" on account
of the number of fatal automobile
accidents which have occurred
thereWhen
the car struck the abutment
the force of the impact threw MrCooley
against^ the steering wheel
and caused him to be crushed in the
chest and to receive a lick on the
head. Miss Davenport was rendered
unconscious by the shock and
the cuts she received on her forehead,
arm and leg, but she later regained
consciousness in a Henderson
hospital where she was carried
by Dorman Blaylock of Warrenton
and is reported to be resting wellHer
injuries are not regarded as being
serious.
Following the crash Mr. Blaylock,
| local undertaker, Coroner Jasper
Shearin and other oficers were call
ed to the scene of the accident. Coroner
Shearin said that inasmuch as
no other car figured in the wreck
that he deemed an inquest unnecessary.
Mr. Cooley, who was 44 and unmarried,
was employed as assistant
auditor in the New York PWA office
and was en route to Nashville to
visit relatives- Miss Davenport was
reported en route to Miami, Fla., to
visit her mother, Mrs. Homer Davenport,
and a sister, Mrs. Mildred
D. Malonas.
Funeral services for Mr. Cooley
were held Wednesday afternoon in
Nashville at the residence of a sister,
Mrs. B- J. Downey. He is also
survived by another brother, Horace
C- Cijoley of Raleigh, and a second
sister, Mrs- Mildred L. Saunders of
Smithfield.
Retail Sales Rank
Low In Warren
Sixty of the 100 counties of North
Carolina ranked above Warren hi
trade per capita for the year 1935,
according to a table in the current
issue of the News Letter, which also
shows the total volume of retail
trade in each county for that year,
the number of retail stores in each
county, the number of employees
and the total payroll.
The table shows that in 1935 there
were 181 stores in Warren county
with a total of 236 employees who
were paid $177,000. Retail sales
amounted to $2,015,000. Sales per
capita were $86 00.
Mecklenburg county stands at the
top of the column with retail trade
averaging $265 per capita with
Durham and New Hanover counties
very close behind Mecklenburg with
$264 and $263 each respectively. At
the bottom of the table appears
Avery county with per capita retail
trade of oniy $25 for the year 1935Mecklenburg
county had 1,228
stores and Avery county 70.
Vance county ranks 13th with
total sales of $5,179,00 and per capital
sales averaging $190 for the 238
stores in that county- Halifax
county, with 391 stores, ranks 54th
with total retail sales of $5,184,000and
per capita sales of $96.00
Floyd Explains
Crop Payments
The 1937 Soil Conservation Program
was explained to several hundred
farmers who gather in the
court house here yesterday by E- YFloyd,
tobacco specialist of the
State College extension service. The
farmers appeared to be well pleased
with the program, according to
County Agent Bob Bright.
Mr. Bright said that the tobacco
specialist informed the growers that
they may reduce their cotton 35 per
cent from the base acreage with a
5c per pound payment, and that
tobacco may be reduced 25 per cent
from the base acreage with payment
of 5c per pound- Peanuts, he said,
may be cut 15 per cent with a payment
of 1-40 per pound.
Co'
J|| .B^V?n
Cflttw u
wr_ ^
. SWle ^
*
iption Price, $1.50 a Year
WASHINGTON . . . Women are
taking a more and more active
leading part in government, as is!
manifest in a survey of federal
departments here. .) Above is Mrs.
Jewell W. Swafford, who is chairman
of the United States Employes
Compensation Commission.'
Mrs. C. C. Hunter
IJif>s IVI nnrlav Attpr
A Long Illness
Funeral services for Mrs- Clement
clay Hunter, who died at her honu.
nere early Monday morning following
a long illness, were conducteu
irom Emmanuel Episcopal Church
on Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'cloca
with the Rev. B. N- de Foe Wagner,
rector, officiating. Her remains
were laid to final rest hi
Fairview cemetery beside her husoand
who died on November 19,
1936.
Mrs. Hunter, who before her marriage
in 1894 was Miss Mary Elizabeth
Patterson of Petersourg, Va.,
was II years 01 age. ner neann oegan
to fail about 10 years ago and
since that time she has been confined
to her home.
She was born at Jones' Springs,
Warren county, on October 28,
1859, the only daughter of Dr. and
Mrs. Frank Patterson of Petersburg,
and was reared in Petersburg- In
1894 she was married at Fernandina,
Fla-, to the late C. C. Hunter and
the couple made their home at the
old Hunter Homestead in this county
for two years, after which time
they moved to Warrenton where
she lived the remainder of her life.
Mrs. Hunter is survived by one
daughter, Mrs. R. R. Weston, and
one son, Dr. Frank Patterson Hunter,
both of Warrenton.
Pallbearers were William Polk,
Stephen Burroughs, J. P. Scoggin,
Alpheus Jones, J. A. Ahem, G. W
Polndexter, ..
Vaughan Painfully
Hurt In Wreck
Henderson, Feb- 5?W- R. Vaughan,
Seaboard Air Line railroad
agent here, was very painfully injured
late Thursday afternoon when
his automobile overturned just
south of the fertilizer factory north
of the city. The car was badly damaged
after overturning a time or
two.
Mr- Vaughan's condition was said
not to be serious, although he suffered
a cut on the back of his head,
one on his neck and severe bruises
and shockMr
Vaughan was coming toward
Henderson at the time of the accident
and was riding alone. It appeared
his car in some way rolled
from the pavement onto the shoulder
of the road, dropping into a
shallow gutter and overturning. He
was rushed to Maria Parham hospital
for immediate treatment, and
X-rays did not reveal any serious
internal injuries.
Ralfimnro Wnmnn
Injured In Wreck
Henderson, Feb. 9?Miss Mary
McClosky of Baltimore, Md? was
injured late yesterday afternoon
when an automobile in which she
was riding and a transport truck
sideswiped each other on a curve
near Manson and crashed into a
ditch.
The transport truck was loaded
with heeds of tobacco, and was
going north- 1 - truck got onto
the shoulder of -md T4
hogsheads of tobacco rolled intc _
adjacent field.
Miss McClosky was being treated
for injuries at Maria Parham hospital
today.
If
\ II
MOST OF THE NEWS
ALL THE TIME
NUMBER 7
DISTRICT BILLF
PASSED BY HOUSE
Bill To District County For
Election Board Members
Passed In Lower House
MUST GO TO THE SENATE
Representative T. II. Aycock's bill
to divide Warren county into districts
for the election of members
of the Board of County Commissioners
and members of the Board
of Education was passed by the
tiouse on Tuesday. Present mem.
lOVC rtr 1 Mo Uno.'n rtt . .......... . ?...
v* vAiv .uv/uau vi wuiibj' VU1U"
missioners have expressed opposition
to tne bin on tne grounds tnat
tue proposea uivision vrtiuiu niaxe it
aimost impossible to elect a man
iiom one 01 tne smaner townships
in the aistricts, ana this opposition
may mane itself felt wnen the
measure reaches the Senate.
A committee split on two other
oills by Representative Aycock,
urawn with the aim of insuring purity
in public office holoing. His
mil to inaae it a misdemeanor tor
omce holders to take a part of their
subordinates' salaries as the price
j of appointment was favored and the
second bill to provide for removal of
county clerks of court, register of
deeds and prosecuting attorneys by
the residing judge for certain offenses
in public office was given an
unfavorable status.
Three Defendants
Face Judge Rodwell
In Recorder's Court
Disposing of mortgaged property
escaping from the state's prison
camp, and abandonment and nonsupport
were the charges which
brought three defendants, one negro
and two white men, before
Judge T. O- Rodwell in Recorder's
court on Monday morning. The
cases were removed from the docket
in short order by Solicitor Joseph
Pippen of Littleton.
Early Kearney, negro, faced trial
on two counts and was sentenced to
four months on each charge, the
sentences to run concurrently- The
charges he faced were disposing of
part of a crop on which there was a
mortgage, and abandonment and
non-support.
The two white men who escaped
from the prison camp were Leslie
! McKenzie Adams and Kennith RPritchard.
One of the men gained
temporary freedom by taking advantage
of the privileges of a trusty
and walking off, and the other escaped
while working the roads.
Adams was given an eight-months
sentence to begin at the expiration
of his present term, and Pritchard'8
time on the roads was increased by
four months.
The case booked- against C. 13Loyd
charging him with resisting
arrest was continued until the
fourth Monday to be tried by a jury.
Seniors Present
Play Tonight
The John Graham Senior class
will present "Bachelor's Choice," a
three-act royalty play by Frances
Hundley, tonight, February 12. at
8 o'clock.
The play is the heart- warming
story of a girl, portrayed by Mary
Delia Davis, who is forced by her
mother to sing in a contest. Jean
Williams is the mother- Jackie
Scott, the young scamp of a kid
brother, lends comedy and complications
to the play- The dashing
hero, Ralph Williams, will be appreciated
by the audience as he
tries gallantly to aid the heroine In
her desperate attempt to elude the
singing career planned for her. The
lovable character of the play is
dear, abrupt, brusque, Aunt Jane.
The dear old lady, Finetta Gardner,
gives us some very anxious moments,
but as the plot progresses to a
stirring close, Aunt Jane returns
and relieves the suspense. The hero
and heroine are brought together
in the last act to live "happy ever
after."
Other members who support the
cast are Kelly Moseley, Mary Macon,
Billy Peete, Harold Davis, Laura Ellis,
and Helen Holt
AUXILIARY TO MEET
The American Legion Auxiliary
will hold its monthly meeting in the
:me of Mrs. Eleanor Loyd on
1 wsday evening. February 18.
Mi oyd Wood and Miss Nancy
LoyiMMkbe joint hostesses vrtth
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