I 4CCLR-ATE, TERSE
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I BDOFSESSION
I Complete Session's Work I
Eary Jn -May;; Programs I
' 4re Announced
miosisG DATES GIVEN I
Months of hard work behind I
MS'xore than 7.000 students en- j
BE; in Warren county schools are I
m threshold of vacation, with I
e ^Jorltv of tlie sch00ls begin- I
'?. jfjfir final exercises on April I
rv closing exercises are being I
B(, ear;ier tins year than last due I
K'-re fact that only a day or so I
; ;ost during the 1936-37 session I
3c:0anr of inclement weather or I
M-je; circumstances which have I
mr& in the past to cause the I
k^s to shut down temporarily. I
Vfte commencement programs of I
e various schools have been work- I
on: by h'e principals and teach- {
Kiar.c were this week submitted by I
B'jsrintendent J Edward Allen as I
M John Graham School
rvday. April 30, Activities Day: I
frftth Grade Promotion Exer- I
presentation of Reading Cir- I
;e arc Perfect Attendance Awards; /
of School Work; Parents' I
dfarion Day; Baseball Game.
2. 8 p m. Bacca-1
|H 5'uCu^"
B^-eate Service, with sermon by I
B.. ? ? Wiley of Duke Univer- I
Hfi;cay. May ' 8 p. m.. Gradua- I
lion Exercises: Presentation of Highl
Bciwi Displomas by H A. Moseley. I
I:x-.T.an of the Local School I
I Xorlina High School
I Saturday. May 1. School Activi- I
|esDay: 11 a. m Formal Program, I
Kventh Grade Promotion; Reading I
Brine and Perfect Attendance I
Mwarcs: E>iiibits of School Work.
| Afternoon ?Varied Program of I
Bontest and Games.
| Sunday, May 2. 8 p. m-: Com- j
Bercemert Sermon, Rev. C. W. I
Bolte. Rocky Mount, N. C.
B Wednesday. May 5. 8pm.: High I
B:oei Graduation; School Year I
Msx-s: Ends.
Littleton High School
Friday, April 30, 10:30 a. m-, 7th I
Braae Exercises, Activities Day; 8 I
I m, Declamation and Recitation I
I Sunday, May 2, 11:00 a. m? Com- I
Bencement Sermon, Dr. B. W- I
Tuesday. May 4. 8:00 p. m., Music I
Wednesday, May 5, 8:00 p. m., I
(Graduation Exercises, Awarding of I
tolomas.
Macon High School
Tuesday. April 27, 8:00 p. m-,
lusical.
Friday, April 30, Activities Day;
Regular Class Work; Field Contest;
Ball GamesSunday.
May 2, 8:00 p. m.. Commencement
Sermon, Dr- B. W. Spiltan.
Wednesday, May 5. 11:00 a. m-,
Talk by Supt. J. Edward Allen and
Delivery oi 7th Grade Certificates8-W
p. m., Graduating Exercises
ttd Awarding of Diplomas.
Afton-Elberon School
Sunday, May 2, 3:00 p. m-, Comhiencement
Sermon. Service to be
to'd in the school building.
Wednesday, May 5, 8:00 p. mCcamencement
Operetta.
Thursday, May 6, 8:00 p- m- Prom
by Seventh Grade.
Drewry School
^dav, April 30, 8:00 p. m-, MusiRecital.
^UTday, May 1, Field Day.
Sunday, May, 2, 8:00 p. m? Com"cement
Sermon, Rev. A. S. Hale,
J BaPtist Church, Henderson,
I Tuesday. May 4, 8:00 p m., Opand
Awarding of 7th Grade
' j.oraas.
I Wednesday, May 5, School Closes.
I ? IVise School
Sunday, April 25, 7:30 p. m-. Com ^encement
Sermon, by Rev. P. G*
talker.
I Thursday, May 6. 8:00 p. m? Com
-ncement Address by Rev. W. C.
,, n: Awarding of Certificates
Prizes.
I Vaughan School
^Iay 8:00 P' m''
IS G?lden
"Mammy Song"; Presenta
^ Certificates.
Jo^atnes J- H- Kerr and H- F"
lT'4ayere visitors in wilson on
lv^ R B. Boyd of Oxford has
some time here this
I 011 business.
WARI
Virginia Governor
?>ays Williams Will
Not be Returned
As was predicted by Sheriff W. J.
Pinnell upon his return last Thursday
night from Richmond where a
formal hearing was held, Governor
Perrie of Virginia denied an application
by Governor Hoey of North
Carolina for the extradition of Carter
N. Williams Jr., Richmond industrialist
and former president of
the Bank of Warren.
Mr. Williams, with other former
officials of the bank, is charged with
issuing false reports on the condition
of the bank and with accepting
deposits knowing the institution
to be insolvent.
Considering the two indictments
against Mr. Williams cited in the
requisition for the accused, Governor
Perrie said: I
"In rr.y opinion, the evidence at
the healing on April 8 shows that
the defendant, C. N. Williams Jr.,
was not in the state of North Carolina
on the specific dates on which
the crimes were alleged to have
been committed in the two indictments
referred to in the papers.
"The request for extradition will,
accordingly, be denied-"
The Bank of Warren closed in
1931 and approximately two years
later all of the former officials were
indicted by a grand jury. Since that
time the case has dragged from one
court to another for reasons presented
to the presiding judges
which they deemed sufficient to
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sicuu tuuunuauces- al uie September
term of court, 1936, a motion
to quash the indictment was granted
on the grounds that one man
served on the grand jury which accused
the men of violating the state
banking laws while another man's
name had been drawn for this service.
After the case had beea thrown
out of court, Mr. Williams left here,
(Continued on Page 8)
Wilson Resigns As
Chief Of Police;
Short Is Acting
Kenneth Short, night police officer,
was named acting chief of police
at a called meeting of the board
here on Tuesday night, at which
time the resignation of Chief of
Police Lee Wilson was tendered the
board.
Early Shearin, deputy sheriff, is
assisting Mr. Short in his duties for
a few days, through special permission
of Sheriff Pinnell, until a sue
cessor to Mr. Short can be named in
the event that he is promoted to
the chief of police position, or
otherwise to fill the position left
vacant by the resignation of MrWilson.
No tax collector has as yet been
named to succeed Mr. Wilson, who
held this position as well as that of
Police Chief, but citizens wishing to
pay their taxes are doing so at the
Warrenton Water office.
In view of the statement made to
the board by Sheriff Pinnell that
the services of Deputy Shearin
were badly needed by him at this
time, it is likely that a called meeting
of the town commissioners will
be held before the regular monthly
meeting for May.
Mr- Wilson, who has served as
Chief of Police for about two years,
and as night officer for about two
years prior to that time, gave no
reasons for his resignation which
was accepted by unanimous vote of
the board. He was not present at
the meeting called to discuss police
affairs, and nis resignation was
read to the board by the Mayor,
T. T. Thompson
Dies At W. Plains
Funeral services for Thomas T.
Thompson, 75, who died at his home
near Warren Plains on Tuesday
morning at 8:45 o'clock after an illness
of about one year, were conducted
Wednesday afternoon at 3
o'clock by the Rev. O. I. Hinson,
Methodist minister. Interment took
place in the Warren Plains Methodist
church cemetery.
Mr. Thompson is survived by his
widow, Mrs. Nannie Thompson;
three sons, Robert, Macon and Erwin
Thompson; five daughters, MrsSallie
Hale, Mrs. Mary Turner, Mrs.
Ida Thompson, Mrs. Lucy Ham, and
Miss Carrie Thompson, all of Warren
county.
Friends were greeting "Capt." A.
W. Hall downtown this week. Capt.
Hall has been confined to his home
for several weeks on account of i
pneumonia.
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tENTON, COUNTY OF WAR
GENERAL GRANT
AUSTIN ALI
Writer Relates Interesting Incidents
In Life of Confederate
Veteran
SERVED AT APPOMATTOX
By ROBERT DOUTHAT MEADE
In his autobiography, published
this year, Rudyard Kipling gives
some reminiscences of his friend,
Colonel Wemyss Feilden. Colonel
Failden, an English officer, served as
an aide-de-camp under Lee, and
told Kipling that he was with the
Confederate general "just before the
surrender. We had finished robbing
the grave, and we'd begun on
the cradle. For those last three
months I was with fifteen thousand
boys under seventeen, and I
don't remember any of them even
smiling."
Austin Allen of Warren County,
North Carolina, is one of the brave
remnant of Company F, Twelfth
North Carolina, which was with
Lee on April 9, 1865. He was then
only twenty years old, and had been
with the army for two years- On
the seventy-second anniversary of
the surrender of the Confederate
Army, he is perhaps the only surviving
Southern soldier who had any
I contact with General Grant at Appomattox.
He is also one of the few
surviving Confederate soldiers with
onnnrofn Hofoi'lpH ropnllpptvinn nf
the last days of the Army of Northern
Virginia.
The good Lord will forgive a
ragged, footsore Confederate for attempting
to "swipe" a saddle from
a well-provided Yankee in order to
ride home after the surrender, and
surely Mr. Allen will not mind our
repeating the details of this incident
along with some other of his
experiences in the Confederate
Army.
Through the assistance of his
brother, who had also stuck it out
to the end with the army, Mr. Allen
secured a horse to ride home. But
alas! there was no saddle. It would
be worse than walking to ride a
bony Confederate Army horse for a
hundred miles. Slipping into the
Union lines, Mr. Allen tried to
"swipe" the saddle of a Yankee sol- j
dier. But the Yankee was "too
sharp" for him. He was sleeping !
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Mayor Polk Issues
Safety Proclamation
"The appalling number of preventable
accidents and deaths upon
the highways of our community,
State and Nation has become a
menace of major concern to all the
people. Our beautiful threads of
travel, designed for pleasure and
trade have been converted by the
reckless driver and the careless, incompetent
operator into lanes ofj
horror. Daily the newspapers carry
gory account of lost limbs and lives
and of maimed and injured bodies.
On Sunday, April 18th, the Carolina
Motor Club is sponsoring a Carolina-wide
observance of "Safety
Sabbath." This date being selected
upon the eve of Summer travel
season in an effort to make the
general public safety-conscious, so
as to decrease, if not eliminate, the
terrible road tragedies incident to
the seasonal increase in the use of
automobiles.
I, therefore, proclaim April 18th,
Safety Sabbath in this community, j
and do hereby urge the leaders of |
religious and civil life to fittingly
observe with well-planned programs
this date, and by precept and example
to foster the ideal of consid
eration for the rights of others, to('
the end that the irreducible mini- j
mum in accidents and death may
be accomplished.
The Ministers, the Sunday
School Superintendents and the
laymen can, by a strong sermon, a
prayer offered or a word spoken,
join the program in encouraging a
concentration of thought upon this
problem.
Dated at Warrenton, N. C , this
13th day of April, 1937.
WM. T POLK, Mayor.
SKINNER BEING CONSIDERED
Reports coming out of Raleigh
indicate that John L Skinner, former
county commissioner and executive
secretary of the State Board
of County Commissioners, is being
seriously considered by Governor
Hoey as one of the members of the
State Highway Commission which
he is to name within the next few
days. Mr. Skinner has the endorsement
of the Board of County Commissioners
of this and a number of
counties as well as friends in Warren
and throughout the state. '
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arrw
REN, N. C. FRIDAY, APRII
VATCHES AS
.EN SEEKS SADDLE
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AUSTIN ALLEN
with his head on the saddlej
Mr. Allen returned to his own
lines without mishap. But there
had been one witness to his effort
| to obtain the saddle. While he was
j attempting to take it, he saw General
Grant sitting on his horse only
J about forty feet away and looking
straight at him- Although Grant
clearly perceived what Mr. Allen
! was trying to do, he made no moj
tion to stop him but only "sorter
grinned.''
Remembering perhaps this toler,
ant action as well as Grant's con1
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auct in general towards tne confederates
at Appomattox, Mr. Allen
now praises the Union general in
extraxagant terms. He says that he
wants a picture of Grant to hang
beside those of Lee and Jackson.
(Continued on Page 8)
Garden Club Asks
Soil Conservation
A carefully planned program of
soil conservation is recommended
by the Warrenton Garden Club
which by a unanimous vote at a recent
meeting adopted the following
resolutions:
"Whereas, recent published reports
give some results of a very
comprehensive survey made by the
North Carolina State Department,
under the direction of Governor
Ehringhaus, who stressed the need
of a program of progress and rehabilitation;
and
"Whereas, the report of the survev
thus far. disclosing natural and
human wealth, justifies the appraisal
of North Carolina as possessing
abundance almost unlimited;
and
"Whereas, it is found that many
of the most valuable resources have
been developed in wasteful manner
?lands lying in idleness, forests destroyed,
soil fertility exhausted, poor
methods of credit and financing;
and
"Whereas, by thoughtful and intelligent
planning and co-operation
on the part of its citizens, North
Carolina may eliminate much waste,
and derive untold benefit from its
natural resources; therefore, be it
"Resolved th?t we, the Garden
Club of Warren ton, give wholehearted
support to a program of
conservation, carefully and prac
tically planned; and do all in our
power to enlist the interest, support
and cooperation of individuals as
well as organizations.
MRS. WAGNER ILL
Mrs- B. N. de Foe Wagner is critically
ill at her home here with
pneumonia. Her daughter, Miss
Elizabeth Wagner, a student at the
University of Alabama, is expected
to arrive here this morning. Other
members of the family are with her.
There will be no services at Emmanuel
Episcopal Church or other
churches under the Rev. Mr. Wagner's
charge on Sunday, it is announced.
Mr. Bill Rook has returned to his
work at Gillam Auto Co. after being
confined at home for two days with
a bad cold
?prn
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I 16, 1937 Subscriptio
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WHlMUbiY LAW
Mayors And J. P.'s Agaii
Given Jurisdiction Over
Whiskey Cases
CASES IN COUNTY COURT
The state-wide whiskey law
which in its original form contained
a provision which removed cases
of public drunkenness from tht
jurisdiction of magistrates anc
mayors and placed them under the
control of the judge of Recorder's
court, was amended before the
legislature adjourned to restore
cases of this type back to the jurisdiction
of mayors and magistrates
according to an opinion from the
Institute of Government, which is
regarded as reliable in such matters.
The opinion from the Institute o]
Government pointed out that between
the time the law was enacted
and amended that those charged
with public drunkenness shoulc
be tried in the higher court but
with the amendment of the Act
such cases went back to the jurisdiction
of magistrates and mayors.
During the period that the lav
was in effect a number of cases oJ
public drunkenness were disposed oi
by Judge Rodwell in Recorder's
court, although some authorities
awaited a ruling from the attorne;
general on the law before sendinj
their cases up to the higher tribunal.
Several cases of this type wen
removed from the Recorder's couri
docket on Monday by Solicitor Pippen
and Judge Rodwell with th<
usual fine of $5 and costsOther
matters, regarded by tht
law as being of a more serious na(.Continued
on Page 8/
Warren Negro Boy
To Represent State
At Texas Meeting
Leading its closest competitor b:
a total of 146 points, the Warrer
County Training School won th<
loving cup offered at the annua
livestock and crop judging contesl
held at A. & T. College, Greensboro
from April 7th through April 9th.
The judging team, which wa:
composed of three tenth grade
'students, John Williams, Thomai
Kimble and Vernard Walker, made
a total of 3,367 points. In additior
to winning the cup, one of the members
of the team, Williams, won a
place on the state judging teair
which will go to Texas in August tc
participate in the national contestHonors
were also won at the
state-wide meeting by three seniors
of the Warren County Training
School. Joseph Green participated
in the public speaking contest and
won a medal for his talk on "Whal
Vocational Agriculture Has Done foi
My Community,"
Joseph Fitts, who has served as
secretary of the state organization
for the past year, was selected bj
the supervisor to broadcast over sta|
tion WBIG on Friday afternoon as
a mark of appreciation for his services.
Although not present himself
Robert Thomas sent his records tc
Greensboro and received the degree
of Modern Farmer, as well as a key
j The students were accompanied
to Greensboro by J- L. Bolden, vocational
teacher, who also plans tc
take Williams to Texas for the
national contest.
Wise P. T. A. To
Have Amateur Houx
j Wise, April 14.?The ParentTeacher
Association of the Wise
school will present an amateur hour
program in the school auditoriuir
on Friday night. April 23, at c
o'clock. There will be a small admission
charge.
All amateur musicians are invited
to compete for the several prizes
which are to be offered- ?"If you
play, sing, or dance come and join
with us in an evening of fun," is
the request coming from the sponsors
Those who contemplate participating
are asked to get in touch
with the Parent-Teacher Association
by April 20th in order that the
program may be worked out.
SHOW AT HOLLISTER
Hollister, April 14.?The Hollister
P. T. A. presents the Monroe Brothers
in a gala show with fun galore
at the Hollister graded school on
Monday, April 19, at 8 o'clock. There
will be a small admission charge.
The public is asked to attend.
rii
>n Price, $1.50 a Year
Alexander Giyes
Safety Talk At
Graham School
Caution in the operation of au
1 tomobiles and walking along the
highways was stressed during a
Highway Safety program held at
the John Graham High School
? yesterday morning with State Patrolman
Parks Alexander and sev,
eral of the students taking part.
Impressing upon the children the
i danger and cost of carelessness on
? the highways, the patrolman stated
[ that annually more than 36,000 per>
sons are killed in automobile accii
dents and approximately 100,000 are
> injured. The chief causes of wrecks,
: he said, are speeding, reckless driv.
ing, driving tmle drunk, walking in
, the highway and children playing
; in the highways.
> The number of deaths on the
highways in North Carolina each
month exceeds the number of per[
sons who were killed for a similar
period by war and crime combined,
the officer stated, listing the toll for
each per month as follows: World
1 war, 34; modern crime, 37; highway
s deaths, 82.
3 Urging caution at all times, the
patrolman said that 56 per cent oi
the accidents happen on straight
1 roads, 12 per cent on curves, 5 per
: cent at railroad crossings, 3 per cent
E at bridges, 15 per cent at street in5
tersections, and 9 per cent between
3 intersections, and that 75 per cent
' of these accidents were among pas
5 senger cars.
[ The above figures were cited bj
^ the state patrolman in conjunctior
with the following remarks he hac
[ prepared:
"It is truely an interesting subject
when we talk about safety. J
' presume you have already talkec
about safety in other places, so let's
think about safety on the highway
I suppose some of you young folks
think it is our duty to make arrests
only, but that isn't true. We
travel these highways trying witfc
\ all our might to make them safe
for you and your family to trave:
f over. It is our aim to guard oui
i fellowman against accidents. Nortt
J Carolina has the most up to date
1 highways but we also have one oi
t the highest percentage of accidents,
, In 1927 the Revenue Department
started keeping a record on motor
3 vehicle accidents. It is found that
' we are killing our citizens at the
> rate of 3 per day.
' Courtesy is a main factor in
1 safety. Should one neglect to use
his hand signals, we should call
' that being discourteous as well as
1 unlawful. To dim ones car lights is
? only caution but should be a law
by all means.
Since most of you are pedestrions
let's concentrate on those for a
while. There are a flock of quesL
tions one should ask himself as he
1 walks along the highway. One of
' those would be, Am I lacing uie
traffic? The answer, of course, is
yes. Pedestrians should always ob>
serve the traffic lights and never
t cross the street diagonally. One
' should wait until there is ample
time for crossing the street. It
i isn't necessary for us to run. So
suddenly pedestrians, especially
children, run from behind parked
, automobiles right into the path of
> an approaching car. Most pedes!
trians think that the driver should
be on the lookout for them but if
I they would reconsider this, they
would think of their responsibility
1 to the driver. I believe a good mot!
to for the pedestrian would be "do
unto others as you would have
them do unto you.
"The idea of this new drivers
license law is to bring our death
rate down. It is found that states
having this law have fewer deaths
J * 1" i- .TSNOT* nnrvi _
man mose WIU1UUI/- winy vciy Wiu'
petent drivers may secure these
license. A person physically or men1
tally affected shall not pass the
1 test. These licenses are taken away
if not properly used. We must put
safety first on our highways. With
so many automobiles in our state
i we must take all precaution.
i "Records show that in 1928 there
i was one person killed for every 88
cars in our state. In 1935 that had
dropped to one to every 59 cars.
"I wonder if the school bus drivers
realize, as they travel their
daily routes, how many lives are
in their hands. It's true that the
speed for a car on the highway is
45 miles per hour but for a school
bus 25 miles per hour is the limit.
At no time should the driver exceed
this 25 mile limit"Only
with cooperation from each
i and every one of you can we bring
our highway accidents to a lower
rate. In behalf of the Patrol and
' (Continued on page 8)
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| ALL THE TIME
NUMBER 16
Conference to
MEET MONDAY
! More Than 100 Ministers And
Delegates Expected To
Gather Here
[
BISHOP KERN TO SPEAK
More than one hundred ministers
and delegates are expected to gather
here next week to attend the one
day session of the Rocky Mount
District Conference which opens at
Wesley Memorial Methodist Church
on Monday morning at 9:30 o'clock.
The meeting comes to a close at
5 o'clock in the afternoon.
t-v? t "**" rinltvrofk 4-V?a rvvaoMinff
i_/l # U. IV1. VU1U1 V/UUj vuv y*VM?v>???Q
elder, will be in charge of the conference,
and Bishop Paul B. KernT
1 together with representatives from
i the various institutions of the
church, will be present and speak.
The conference is composed of 30
> preachers and 120 lay delegates,
most of whom are expected to ari
rive here on Monday morning and
r leave for their respective homes on
Monday afternoon after the meeti
ing adjourns. Lunch will be servI
ed at the church, and in the event
i any of the ministers will remain
over for the night they will be ini
vited into the homes of members
, of the congregation, it was stated.
i The conference is open to visitors
; at all hours, the Rev. O. I. Hinson,
. pastor of the Warrenton church,
stated in announcing that the disr
trict meeting is to be held here.
[ This will be the first time the Con^
ference has met in Warrenton in
several years.
[ Officers Seek Hens;
1 Capture A Still
The investigation of the theft of
30 Rhode Island Red hens stolen
from C- W. Cole of Wise on Mon|
day night led to the capture of an
illicit whiskey plant and the arrest
j of two men on Tuesday morning.
; The officers were searcning near
t Wise for evidence to throw some
, light on the chicken robbery when
their suspicion was aroused by the
sudden activities taking place
! around a negro's home. A tramp
down a path through the woods to
. a branch disclosed an oil-barrel
' type of still in operation, around
200 gallon of mash ' and approxit
mately 200 pounds of sugar.
Following the capture of the still
| Willis Thornton and Romance
, Thrower, negroes, were taken into
' custody and brought to Warrenton
| where Thrower, according to Sheriff
Pinnell, admitted at a hearing that
he was manufacturing booze in the
plantWith
Sheriff Pinnell on the trip
were Deputy Roy Shearin and Will
Carroll. Neither the stolen chickens
nor the robber or robbers were
located.
Two Men Slightly
Injured In Wreck
\ John W. Dunstan Jr. of Warren*
T?J- * 3 T)AflW ftf
IUI1, ni. 1, tVilU VvaibCl uaoaw vr*
Warren Plains, were slightly injured
' on Sunday when the Ford and
Pontiac automobiles they were
operating crashed in a head-on collison
two miles east of Wise.
, The wreck, according to Deputy
Roy Shearin, who made an investigation,
was due to carelessness. The
| Pontiac, which was driven by Duns,
tan, was damaged about the front
and the right rear tire. The Ford
was damaged about the front and
the windshield- Cost of repairing
1 each automobile was estimated at
around $100.
( Nunn Loses Cup
In Golf Play-Off
S- O. Nunn, local golf enthusiast
and one of the best on the Warrenton
course, offered strong compe!
tition for the cup offered in a tourI
nament held in Richmond on Wed
| nesday by the Imperial Tobacco Co.
for its employeesAccording
to reports reaching
here, Mr. Nunn was at one time
winner in the tournament, but the
score later became tied, and in the
play-off he lost the match and the
1 cup. He was expected to return to
Warrenton late yesterday atternoon.
POSTMASTER PARALYZED
Albert P. Paschall. postmaster at
Manson, suffered a stroke of paralysis
on Wednesday. He was carried
I to Duke Hospital for treatment
, shortly after becoming afflicted, ac|
cording to reports reaching here