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otDJE XXXVII
KflM BUI
mg JOHN DOWN1
fca(e Fire Marshall Says
MStructure Js Menace To I
" Life And Property 1
ItfKS OX FIRE MATTERS
I The Harrison Taylor Building,
imaged by fire several months j
Kn idstorm ccnter of a zoning /
" - i of Warren- |
mmnce for ?....
B fiS ordered condemned by the j
B , oi- Town Commissioners on I
iL 2C[i0n WaS takGn aft I" Sher"
Rockwell, Fire Marshall of
S:ate, appeared before the
Kara ana stated that in his opinB
fte building was a menace to
B a that the walls were in dan- i
B 0i conapsing and that it was in I
Edition a fire hazard, Mr. Brock- I
Bellm 111 Warrenton for the pur- I
0f attending the Colored Vol- I
HJ-ee: Firemen's Ball at Boyd's J
H^rejiouse on Monday night as an
Boner guest. He appeared before I
Be Board to invite the Fire Chief,/
Superintendent of the Water ComBirr
and three volunteer firemen I
Bi'md the Fire College to be held I
B Durham. April 27, 28 and 29th.
Erf also extend an invitation to I
Berbers of the Board to attend the J
Bssiens. Tiie commissioners voted |
B appropriate a sum not to exceed J
Bo to defray the expense of the Fire I
B.:e:. Superintendent of the Water I
BompsO}' and three firemen to the I
B FoLomg the extension of the in- I
Mr. Brockwell was ques-1
Bc:ed concerning his findings at a I
Been: inspection of the Taylor f
B (Continued on page 8) I
Burors Are Drawn I
" T- rvr |
tor iviay i erm \si
Superior Court
Jurors dram by the Board of
our.:y Commissioners on Monday
> serve at the May term of court
e as follows:
First Week?Ben G. Tharrington,
' X Boyd. V. C. Brown, Gid O.
harrington, Andrew Dickerson, A.
Jones- Henry E. Felts, W. L- Mar- ,
s, F F. Fleming. Charlie Duncan,
H Salmon, T. B. Creech, Fred
enton. B. T. King, Norman E.
litchell. G. E. Gardner, John H.
lemmg. Albert Seaman, G. WFagner.
J. P. Choplin, Mack Capps,
H Benson. John Cawthorne, T.
Tucker, H. P Read, Jack Bobbitt,
, E. White, J. E. Stansbury,
tola Skillman. J. Hope Bullock, .
'illie T. Robertson, W. Duke Jones, .
id Kin? PnrrAct nhoolr T* T
3, * *"* *
Bailey. H. H- Grant.
I Second Week.?J- M. Young,
Bn.es W. Limer, W. T. Pinnell, A. ;
B Bugg. Joe Adkins, Elton Dillard,
B B. Gray, W. G- Coleman, John ,
B Skinner. Silas H. Perkinson, WB
Grisson. J. L. Johnston, Lee J.
Buris. Wilton A. Reavis, O. ABauer.
Ed Collins, F. L. Robertson,
Bederal Inspector
B Praises B. Company
B Tne Federal Government's stamp
B approval was again placed upon
B?. 'V Warren's crack military
B"''"' here last night when Major
BR- Boatwright, U. S- Army InBc'x=
Officer, examined officers
B-h men in the Armory at their anB*;"
federal Inspection.
B^of Boatwright was particularBhheral
in his praise of the offiBts
men of the local unit, and
B^'ally so of the non-commis- |
Bned officers whom he classed as
B~5 hest drilled and informed nonB^Jissioncd
officers I have ever
B?- The only criticism I can
By? of Conmaiiv -r
j 10 ui its itriiiuiy i
:"c'ri is entirely too small," the in- I
(Continued on page 8)
B-Wlmasters Have I
I Cue For Ladies
giving ladies night, the School I
Club of Warren county held I
^feting at Bob Melton's Cafe,
JJfocky Mount, on Tuesday
f1 There were 32 members and I
Present for the occasion. I
the meeting John H.I
I "Continued on Page 2) 1
TO PREACH AT BROWN'S I
he Rev D P Harris o{ Raleigh
T ?teach at Brown's Church on
clo t momlng- April 111 at 11
anirouncement was made
WARI
SIX TOWN COMMIS
MAYOR RE-ELE
* 101st Birthday Party
NEW YORK Mrs. Aniore^ E.
Fraser. of Brooklyn, cuts her birthday
cake for the friends who
helped her celebrate her 101st
birthday, Mrs, Fraser started the
day with a long walk.'
Six Defendants
Face Rodwell In
Recorder's Court
Six defendants, four of whom
were white men, were tried before
Judge T. O. Rodwell in Recorder's
court Monday on charges of operating
automobiles while under the influence
of whiskey, driving without
a license, public drunkenness, and
larceny.
The three men found guilty of
driving a car while under the influence
of whiskey were J. P. Faucet,
Mason Aycock and Tom Rodwell.
Rodwell was also charged
with operating a car with improper
brakes and lights. The judgment of
the court in the cases was that each
of the defendants should pay a fine
of $50.00 and costs and lose his driving
license for 12 months.
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G. C. Overby was fined $5.00 and
costs.
Jim Hawkins and William Boyd,
negroes, were found guilty on a
charge of larceny and each was
sentenced to the roads for a period
of four months. The road sentences
were suspended upon the condition
that% they fay the court costs and
remain of good behavior.
Brockwell Holds
Fire School Here
The better methods of fire fighting
were pointed out to members of
the Colored Volunteer Fire Com-t
panies of Warrenton and Louisburg
at a Fire School conducted here on
Monday by Sherwood Brockwell,
state fire marshall.
After explaining several means of
saving time in getting water on a
blaze, Mr. Brockwell divided the
firemen into groups of five and put
them through drills- Demonstrating
at the John Graham High
School, Mr. Brockwell showed the
men how to use ladders on a second
story building, the proper way to
carry a hose and the amount of
hose to be used on different story
buildings.
The State marshall complimented
the negroes for the manner in
which they cooperated and for their
quickness in catching on to the instructions
he gave them. He also
praised the Warrenton company for
the manner in which it handled the
(Continued an Page 2)
Cafe Closed By Board
Dog Stand Close
Declared to be unsanitary by a
representative of the State Board of
Health, two eating establishments'
here were ordered closed on Tuesday |
and another was given a conditional l
permit to operate due to the fact J
that it was in the process of mov- j
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juig lu new quai ucio.
Two places condemned as unsanitary
and ordered to cease to operating
until health requirements had
been met were Peoples Cafe, a
negro establishment, and Rabil's
Hot Dog Stand, which does a small
business on a corner across the,
street from the court square.
The Puritan Cafe, operated by |
the Greeks, also failed to meet the
state sanitary requirements but was
not closed down. W. Murray Linker
Jr., district sanitation supervisor of
the State Board of Health, stated
that the rating of the Puritan Cafe
was below that which is required by .
the state for food handling establ-i
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tENTON, COUNTY OF WARI
SIONERS AND
.CTED IN PRIMARY
H. W. Holt Succeeds A. A.
Williams Who Refuses To
Be A Candidate
OPPOSITION IS SHOWN
Slight change took place in the
personnel of the Board of Town
Commissioners at the primary held
in the court house on Tuesday night
a,i o u uiuuk. wiicii uiiiy unc new lima,
Hugh W. Holt, received the nomination
for commissioner from the approximately
75 Warrenton voters in
attendance.
Mr. Holt will replace Commissioner
A. A. Williams who announced
that he would not be a candidate
for re-election shortly before
nominations were called for by
Julius Banzet, chairman of the
executive committee of the town of
Warrenton.
Although not a candidate nor
present when the nominations were
made, Mr. Holt is expected to serve
on the board. Serving with him
will be the following former commissioners
who were again nominated
Tuesday night: Herman Rodwell,
W. R Strickland, John Mitchell, DrG.
H. Macon. George Scoggin, and
Bignall Jones.
Opposition to the old board registered
itself at the primary when
several new men were nominated to
govern the affairs of the town.
Among those nominated were Roy
Davis, C. K. Plancon, Frank Serls
and James C. Moore. Both Messrs.
Serls and Moore stated before balloting
started that they would not
serve.
Mayor William Polk was again
nominated without any opposition
making itself known at the meetin&
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Negro Chauffeur
Pulls Will Kline
From Blazing Car
The calm and quick function of
a negro chauffeur probably saved
Will Kline from death by burns
yesterday afternoon when his car
caught on fire near McKinney after
being struck by an automobile containing
four women from New York.
While blazes threatened to envelop
the automobile after the
smash-up, Mr. Kline was pulled
from his car in an unconscious condition
by James Moss who was driving
him back from Richmond.
The fire was then smothered by
mud and Mr. Kline was carried to
a service station at McKenney
where he later regained consciousness.
Last night he was recovering
at his apartment in Hotel Warren
from cuts about his face and head
and painful bruises.
AppnrHinor tn rpnnr fc rpar?V?infr
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here, the New York car slid into
Mr. Kline's automobile and caused
the wreck. Both automobiles were
said to have been badly damaged.
No Fishing, Says
Warden Pinnell
To fish in any public stream or
pond at this time is a violation of
the law, E- Hunter Pinnell, game
warden stated this week and added
that he hated to embarrass any one
but that if he caught any one violating
this law he would be forced
to make an arrest.
The fishing season closes for 40
days, from April 1 until May 10, on
account of this being a spawning
period for fish, the game warden
stated.
Of Health; Hot
;d; Others Rated Low
ishments but that in-as-much as
r\T?Anrinfnro uroro in t.hp WftPPSS I
Lilt pivyjjiiv/uuio nrvAv VUV
of moving to another building he
assumed the responsibility of allowing
them to remain open until a
change could be made.
Hotel Warren was found to be
sanitary, although a few minor improvements,
such as a garbage can,
were recommended. The hotel was
graded under B at a rating of 80.5.
Mr. Linker pointed out that the inaccessability
of grade A milk here
lowered the hotel's rating several
points as it did other eating establishments
of the town.
The state inspector said that he
decided not to rate Boyce Drug Co.,
which makes and sells sandwiches,
at this time due to the fact that remodeling
was taking place at this
time.
Mr. Linker said that before the
places closed would be permitted to
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iEN, N. C. FRIDAY, API
TO SPEND $17(MT
HAWKINS SCHOIH,
Water And Sewage System
To Be Installed At Local
Negro School
REMEDY BAD SITUATION
The Board of County Commissioners
in regular session on Monday
agreed to appropriate $1,700
for the purpose of installing a water
and sewage system at the Hawkins
High School here and ordered that
a note in this sum be issued and
made payable one year from May
1, 1937.
Sanitary conditions at the school,
which is used by more than 800
negro pupils, had previously been
labeled as "bad" and "dangerous" by
Grand Juries and the County
Health Board and at the March
meeting of the board a delegation
of negroes appeared before the commissioners
and asked that the situation
there be remedied.
After listening to the remarks of
the negroes, which were corroborated
by Superintendent of Schools J.
Edward Allen, the commissioners
ordered that plumbing bids be advertised
for. W- R. Strickland submitted
the lowest bid of any of the
four plumbing concerns competing
for the work and he was given the
job at the figure of $1,590.
The minute covering the appro
priation reads as follows:
"That the Board of Commissioners
for the county of Warren borrow
the sum of $1700 for the purpose
of installing a water and sewage
system in Hawkins High School,
a necessary expense to be incurred,
the State authorities having condemned
the present unsanitary condition
existing at the school.
"Further resolved that the Board
execute a note in the sum of $1700
dated May 1, 1937, payable 12
months thereafter, bearing interest
from maturity.
"Further, that the Secretary and,
oi, Auditor of the board make application
to the Local Government
Commission for permission to incur
this obligation and to execute the
note herein contemplated."
George W. Hester
Dies At W. Plains
Funeral services for George W.
Hester, well known merchant of
Warren Plains, were conducted
from the Methodist church of Warren
Plains on Tuesday afternoon at
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son. Interment followed in the
church cemetery.
Mr. Hester, who had been in the
mercantile business at Warren
Plains for practically 35 years, died
at his home there around 3 o'clock
Monday following a stroke of paralysis
suffered Saturday night.
He was a member of the Warren
Plains Methodist church for virtually
the entire period of his residence
in that community, and for 30 years
was a member of the board of
stewards of the church.
Mr. Hester was a native of Mecklenburg
county, Va. He is survived
by his widow, Mrs. Elizabeth Ridout
Hester of Warren Plains; two sons,
G. L. Hester of Charlotte and W. E
Hester of Tarboro; two daughtersMrs.
E. R. Overby of Macon and
Mrs. E. W. Shearin of Warren
Plains, and one sister, Mrs. Sallie
Jones, also of Warren Plains.
Miss Mattie Brown
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Lues un monaay
Miss Mattie Brown, 91, one of
Warrenton's oldest residents,, died
here Monday morning after a long
illness at the home of her niece,
Miss Lula B. Allen. Funeral services
were held Tuesday afternoon
at 4 o'clock at Miss Allen's home,
with the Rev. O. I. Hinson officiating.
Burial took place in Fairview
cemetery.
Miss Brown was a native of
Louisburg, the daughter of the^late
Taton and Sarah Brown. For many
years she taught school in this section
and was long an active member
of the Methodist church.
Surviving are a sister, Miss Lou
E- Brown of Warren ton; three halfbrothers,
Herbert Brown of Bridgeport,
Conn., Charles Brown of Mt.
Vernon, N. Y.. and the Rev, W. H.
Brown of Gaston Springs, and a
half-sister, Mrs. Fred Schoolfield of,
Waterford, Conn.
Patrolman William Baxter and
Mrs- Baxter are guest of relatives
here.
Smt
ElIL 9, 1937 Subscription
More Than $800.00 CI
Club From Auto SI
Great Attraction
Eight hundred and twenty-five
dollars was the approximate sum
made by the Warrenton Lions Club
from the Automobile Show and
Merchants' Exposition staged in
Boyd's warehouse all of last week
for the entertainment of white citizens
of this area and held over
until Monday night for members of
the negro race.
Proceeds from the show have been
placed in the coffers of the club
and are expected to be used for
various causes. Part of the money
will probably be used to condition
the fair grounds near the cemetery
which were leased from Mrs. John
Graham several months ago by the
club for a ten-year period.
Both as a money-making proposition
and as a means of ad'vertisthe
the town and developing good
will the show went over in a bigger
way than had been anticipated
by many of the Lions and other
citizens of the town.
Heavy attendance held up
throughout the week with an unusually
large crowd of persons
from distant towns here on Friday
night for the Queen's Ball which
Wildflowers, All
BAKERSFIELD Callt . . . Leota
Davis, "pirate girl" tor the 1939
Golden - Gate Exposition, poses
at the annual Wildflower Festival
in Kern^County. California.
Permit Necessary
To Start Fire
A permit is necessary before
starting a fire in any of the areas
of woodlands under the protection
of the State Forest Service between
April 1 and June 15, Forest Warden
E. Hunter Pinnell states this week
with the request that this news npr
inform t.he nnhlifi in reerard
to the law passed by the General
Assembly. The Act reads as follows:
Section 1. That it shall be unlawful
for any person, firm or corporation
to start or cause to be started
any fire or ignite any material in
any of the areas of woodland under
the protection of the State Forest
Service or within five hundred feet
of any such protected area, between
the first of April and the fifteenth
day of June, inclusive, or between
the fifteenth day of October and
the first day of December, inclusive,
in any year, without fifst obtaining
from the State Forester or one of
his duly authorized agents a permit
to set out fire or ignite any material
in such mentioned protected
areas; that no charge shall be made
(Continued on Page 8)
Twenty Negroes Retui
Short Strike Oi
Twenty negro employees of the
fertilizer plant operated here by the
Warren Cotton and Fertilizer Co., a
successor to the W. H. Dameron
Supply Co., staged a strike here for
a short while on Tuesday morning
when the wages of ten of the men
were garnisheed by the sheriff for
taxes due.
Claiming that under their present
wages they could not pay their
taxes and the additional cost of the I
garnishments, the men stated their j
position to the other employees who (
joined with them in the strike.
Later the sheriff was summoned,
to the plant and after a consulta- 1
tion in which it was agreed to take !
$100 out of the men's pay each
week and to relieve them of the
garnishee cost, the strikers went
back to work.
It was neither a sit-down nor a
stand-up strike. The men simply [
l Price, $1.50 a Year
leared By Lions
low; Event Proved
; Exceeds Expectation
took place shortly after Miss Elba
McGowan had been crowned queen 1
of the Exposition and prizes had
been awarded to other contestants
for the honor who were also on the
stage for the ceremony. ]
The only hitch in the plans arranged
by the club for the seven
nights of entertainment occurred j
on Monday night when Georgia
White failed to show up with her
band to play for the negro dance.
Although their enthusiasm was
somewhat dampened by the failure
of the blues singer to arrive here
with her recording orchestra, the
negroes seemed to enjoy themselves
by the music of the orchestra which
was here during the week with the
showIt
is not known why the negro
orchestra failed to arrive here for
the dance. She had been booked to
play here upon recommendation of
a member of the negro race and a
small deposit had been made, it was
stated. Those who paid to dance
by her band Monday Sight were returned
their tickets with the assurance
that the Lions Club would
hold another dance for them sometime
in the future.
Board Education
Members Qualify
Here On Friday
Having qualified as members of
the Board of Education following
their appointment by the General (
Assembly in the "Omnibus Bill of ,
Boards of Education," P. M. Drake,
J. P. T. Harris, R- A. King, N. H.
Paschall and Harry Walker met here
on Friday and organized for the
transaction of the following business:
Harry Walker was unanimously
elected chairman; J. Edward Allen
was unanimously elected superintendent
and secretary; Miss Edna
Allen'" was unanimously elected
bookkeeper and clerical assistant;
Early Shearin was unanimously ap- \
pointed as chief school bus mechanic;
and Herbert Gardner was unanimously
elected superintendent of .
maintenance plant.
School committeemen were ap(Continued
on Page 8)
Scoggin Praises
Lions Club Project:
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Symbolical of the verbal praise J
that has been heard from many in 1
regard to the Automobile Show here
last week is the following endorse- ]
ment given to the project by Palmer
Scoggin, head of the Scoggin Motor ,
I Company:
"Although not a member of the
Lions Club, I wish to express my
appreciation to this organization for
the good that I feel it did for this
town in promoting the Automobile
Show and Merchants' Exposition.
"The show not only provided en- ,
tertainment, advertised this town J
for a radius of many miles and
produced revenue to be used for
worthwhile causes, but it also
brought to the surface a fine spirit ^
of cooperation among the business
men of Warrenton. I have never ^
known the whole town to cooperate (
with any organization more mag- ,
nanimously than it did with the ^
Lions Club in this undertaking, and }
I feel that this willingness to put
our shoulders to the wheel and push
together will mean a great deal to
this town and county. \
(s) "PALMER SCOGGIN." s
n To Work After !
/er Garnisheed Wages .
refused to work if their pay-check <
was to be taken over by the sheriff 1
fm- tovot TT-iprp was nn disorder
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at the plant.
FORMER WARRENTON GIRL
WINS AT HORSE SHOW
Miss Dorothy Green of Durham,
formerly of Warrenton, daughter of
Mr- and Mrs. R. B. Green, won first
prize, a sport watch, over 37 jump- i
ers at Pinehurst this week in the
Horse Show. Miss Green also won
in the Durham High School debate
which was held in Raleigh this week.
She is the granddaughter of Mr. .
and Mrs. E. L. Green of Warren- i
ton. <
j
CONGRESSMAN RETURNS i
Congressman John H. Kerr has i
returned to Washington after spend- 1
ing a few days here. 1
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J-VW.; f* THE NEWS
ALL THE TIME
NUMBER IS
BOARD NAMES
SOLICITOR'S PAY
Pippen To Receive $25 Per
Month As Assistant To
W. H. S. Burgwyn
RAISE AGENTS SALARY
Three hundred dollars, plus 50
per mile for traveling expenses, was
the figure set by the Board of
County Commissioners on Monday
as compensation for the services
Solicitor Joseph P. Pippen of Lit
1?
tleton is expected to rentier mo
county as assistant to the district
solicitor- In addition, he is paid
$900 per year as solicitor of Recorder's
court.
Solicitor Pippen was named assistant
solicitor to the district solicitor
in a bill passed by the recent
General Assembly "which removed
him from the fee system of
pay and stipulated that he, as well
as the judge of Recorder's court,
should receive $75 00 per month.
Under the new arrangement Solicitor
Pippen will be subject to the
call of the sheriff in prosecuting
cases of a serious nature coming
before magistrates for a hearing,
and he will gather evidence, examine
witnesses and otherwise lay
the foundation for the trial of cases
coming up in Superior court.
In allowing Solicitor Pippen $25
a month for his services as an as- .
sistant to Solicitor Burgwyn, the
commissioners took the view that a
total of $1200 was not as much
money as he was paid last year under
the fee system and that he
should be able to save the county a
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WlMJMMUbVft V?t * H0? w.
Believes Williams
Not To Be Brought
Here For Trial
J
The opinion was expressed last
night by Sheriff W. J- Pinnell that
the governor of Virginia would not
grant the requisition papers of the
governor of North Carolina to bring
Carter N. Williams of Richmond,
former president of the Bank of
Warren, back to this county to face
trial for violation of the state banking
laws.
The sheriff expressed this opinion
after returning from Richmond
where he, with Solicitor W. H. SBurgwyn
and several other citizens,
spent yesterday attending a hearing
to determine whether the papers of
the North Carolina governor should
be honoredThe
sheriff said that the governor
took no action following the hearing
yesterday but stated that he
would notify North Carolina authorities
nf his decision in writing later.
'However, I don't think he is going
to send him back here," the officer
added.
Declaring that he is entirely innocent
of any wrong doing in con(Continued
on page 8)
Minister's Father
Buried On Sunday
J. J. Brothers of Elizabeth City,
father of the Rev, L. C. Brothers
)f Warrenton, died at his home on
Friday after a long illness. He was
>6 years of age. Funeral services
tvere conducted at the Newland
Methodist church Sunday afternoon.
At the time of Mr. Brother's
death he was a member of the
Board of Trustees of the North
Carolina Annual Conference. He is
survived by the following:
His wife, 13 children, the Rev. L.
D. Brothers of Warrenton, Mrs. W.
M. Reid of Norfolk, J, J. Brothers
Jr., of Gatesville, J. A. Brothers of
a J-J- T - IV? n P W4nol/MV
ri.lCXmiU.nili JLitx.f nuo. v/? v nuioivn
)f Hertford, H. H. Brothers of South
Mills, Mrs. Johnnie Scott of Weeks/ille,
James A. Talmadge and Mrs.
Marion Whitehurst of Newland,
Miss Grace Brothers of Norfolk and
Mary Ellen and Bertie; 14 grandchildren;
two sisters, Mrs- E. B.
Granger and Mrs. Charlie Sawyer of
Newland, and two brothers, W. S. of
Norfolk and P. W- of Newland.
Drivers Permits To
Be Issued Tuesdays
State Highway Patrolman Parks
Alexander announced this week
;hat he would not be in the office
3f Sheriff Pinnell on Wednesdays
is heretofore for the purpose of Issuing
automobile driver's licenses,
but that on each Tuesday afternoon
there would be a representative of
the state there for this purpose.