Accurate, terse
timely
sssd
JURE REVIEWED
I HERE MONDAY
I foBimfesioners To Sit As A
Board of Review; Many
fjtizens Are Expected
m To Re Heard
pll'SET ASIDE BY LAW
Barren I'roperty Recently
fit-valued To Be Cause Of
Some Complaints
Board of County Commis socers
will meet here on Monday
^laonling at 10 o'clock for the pur ^'"oi
adjusting and equalizing
valuations. All taxpayers who
Cleave complaints relative to their
raliiatioiis are given the oppor^ smty
to appear before the board I
'jt this time and make their griev-1
ances known
The law sets aside one day al
^ vear to the commissioners to meet I
as a Board of Equalization and Re- I
^ isc- and requires that all com- J
^mpbias relative to adjustments be I
Kheirh at this time. The commis- I
Ksiomrs have no legal right to make I
^ adjustments at their other meetings I
caring the year. I
in-as-much as all property of the I
county was revalued several weeks J
ago. it is predicte d that there will I
bemore taxpayers before the board)
meeiing Monday ,han has been the I
case for the past several yearsK
SUMMER WORKER
MIS UNDER SS LAW
lacalion Jobs Count Under!
Social Security Act, Says I
Raleigh Manager
?IOTS wh0 tak(.
II aiuircma w . ....?
I vacation jobs this summer as
Iwaiteis. musicians, bellhops or en-1
Igags in any employment not specif
licallj- excepted by the Social Secur j
[llfict ate workers within thol
Ineaniiig ot the old-age benefits |
Iprorisions of the law, Stacey W.
Wade, Manager of the Raleigh of fice
of the Soc:.al Security Board
it 116 South Salisbuty Street, said
[today J
"Both students and teachers who!
engage m covered employment durI
ing the summer must obtain Social
Security Account numbers. Appli- |
cations for such numbers may be
obtained from the nearest post of - j
(ice ot from a Social Security Board
office The information called for!
on this application form?SS-5?-Is
necessary- to insure a proper wage
word will be established for the
iappucant The information will be
held confidential," Mr. Wade said.
"A s age record is kept through out
the life of the individual work- ]
et until he reaches the age of 65
<nd retires to receive monthly old?
benefits. To qualify for oldIfe
benefits a worker need not be
employed "continuously. The wages
received during each period of employment
from each employer deItermin'e
the amount of his monthly
Ibenefits checks, which will go to
pas a matter of right when he
Iheoomes eligible.
I "fhe youthfulness of a worker
I'oes not enter into the question.
I^t does it matter that a job may
I* a temporary one, or an extra
I i4, on the side.' Unless the em
Myment is specifically excepted in
I'tt Social Security Act the worker
list have a Social Security AeI.
?'Number and his employer :is
I. ! f?r payment of the taxes
**4 In the Act.
school students who are
""wated this month, and others
-.ter.c; to seek work during the
^ =??er," Mr. wade emphasized,
H get social security account
filets and file their numbers
their employers. Workers
keep their cards-"
ATTEND GERMAN
Among those who attended he
H ?e German in Rocky Mount last
night from Warrenton were
HJ: and Mrs, Barker Williams,
Hj 65 Mary Terrell, Ruby Wall,
Sfteh Boyd, Messrs. William
flames Polk, P. D. Jones, Ben
'ts, George Cook, Pryor Rodwell,
^Br2 n hovett, W. A. Miles Jr.,
i^on Jr., Alfred Williams Jr?
H3' Howard, Robert Baskervill,
Hrarik BanzetI
h, "
, A- A. Williams was hostess to
day ?* ^er car(t club on Thurs
4tkmirig' Both the top score
traveling prizes were won
I s- M. C. McGuire.
UJ
Pipe Smoker at 3
BOSTON, Mass . . . Walter Armstrong.
Jr., cut his first teeth on
a man-sized pipe, his parents say,
and- enjoys a "puff or twot" on
rising in the morning, and before
retiring at night._ .
NEW YORKMAN
1\T TATIf C AID I A U
Ill 1VIJL0 UJr UIT!
Resists Arrest On Vagrancj
Charge At Norlina; Chief
Carter Uses Forces
OTHER CASES IN COUR1
Charlie Hale, while man of New
York who was picked up at Norlina
on a vagrancy charge by Chiei
Carter after he refused to leave
that town, was convicted in Recorder's
court Monday on a charge
of resisting arrest and was sentenced
to 60 days on the roads, suspended
upon the condition that he
pay a $25 00 fine and court costs
The charge of vagrancy was re
manded to magistrate's court.
Hale, who was described as ar
[Italian or an Assyrian, is said tc
have been hanging around Norlina
and to have looked unkindly upor
Chief Carter's suggestion that he
move on. He is alleged to have become
unruly and to have beer
brought into submission by a tat
on the head from the officer's
black-jackAs
the result of trouble he had
with his mother-in-law, Alex Christmas,
negro, faced a charge of assault
upon a female. Judgment was
suspended upon payment of costs
A verdict of not guilty was returned
in the case wherein Ethel
Burnett, Rebecca Chrismas, Bustei
Davis and Richard Fraust, negroes
:were charged with larceny. The
charge was booked in connectior
with the moving of some furniture
from a home.
Four months on the roads was the
punishment meted out by Judge
Rodwell to Thomas Hargrove, negro,
after he had been convicted or
a larceny count.
The case against Bob Alston, negro,
charged with possession of unstamped
liquor, was continued under
the former order.
i Norlina Student Is
Scholarship Winnei
Norlina, June 16.?Miss Virgin!:
Hicks, a graduate of Norlina Higr
School in May, has won two schol
arships to Secretarial Colleges or
the merits of essays that she entered
at those schoolsOne
scholarship is to Kennedy'!
Commercial School in Durham, ant
the second, which Miss Hicks plan!
to accept, is to St. Claire's Secretarial
School in Richmond, Va.
At this school Miss Hicks' schol
arship admits her to any completi
business course which the schoo
offers, miss hicks xros cxiuacn v<
take the Medical Secretarial Course
This course prepares students t(
become secretaries to professiona
men and to do clerical work in hos
pitals, clinics, and etc- St. Claire',
School is said to be the first an<
only school to offer this course ii
the South.
H. V. SCARBOROUGH JR. TO
GO WITH GENERAL ELECTRH
H. V. Scarborough Jr., son of Mi
and Mrs. H. V. Scarborough o
Churchill, was graduated witl
honors last week from the Nortl
Carolina State College, receivini
his B. S. degree in Electrical Engi
neering. He has accepted a pdsi
tion with the General Electric Cc
and will leave some time in Jul;
for Schenectady, New York, when
he will be located.
Master Norman Newell is a gues
of Walter Marvin Rochelle at Wise
Mr. W. M. Rochelle spent Sunda;
in Raleigh.
hr W
WARRENTON, COIJN'
I in nnirni/i i t w -wt
lis UUTllALLi
BURNED IN CAR
WRECK HERI
Pulled From Blazing Auto
mobile Which Ignites As
Searcher Strikes Match
In Rescue Effort
IS CARRIED TO HOSPITA1
Driver of Car Removed T
Service Station On Back
Of Colored Miller
Miss Katherine Coleman, 31
year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs
Thomas C. Coleman of Paschall
was critically burned about 3 o'clocl
Wednesday morning when the Fort
coach in which she was riding witl
Herbert Merritt, 21-year-old em
ployee of the State Garage In Wei
don, failed to make the curve a
I Neal's service station near Warren
ton, crashed through a wire fenci
and dropped over an embankmen
into a creek.
Merritt, who is said to have bor
rowed the car from William Shearii
of Weldon to take Miss Colemai
from Weston's filling station nea;
Weldon. where she worked as i
waitress, to her home near Wise
suffered a severe shock and mino:
| injuries but he is expected to re
cover.
As the car dived over the em
[ bankment to the edge of the creel
after ripping down a section of th
wire fence, the force of the crasl
\ awakened Isaac Powell, negro em
' ployee of Jones' mill who live
' nearby, and he went to the seen
of the accident to make an invest!
gation.
, Standing on the bank and shout
t ing, "What's the matter dowi
[ there?" a voice answered Isaac say
ine unto him, "Help me; I can'
' move; my back is broken"
i Powell then went to the car, sue
, ceeded In getting Merritt on hi
i back and carried him to Neal's ser
vice station where he awakened at
I tendants to give assistance.
As he carried the injured man t
. the service station, Powell said h
; asked if there was not some on'
with him and Merritt, in a supoi
. replied that there was not. Unde
l the impression that he had heari
other groans as he removed Mer
ritt, the negro went back to the ca
, and struck a match to see if an;
1 one else was there. As the matel
. ignited, the car leaped into flame
which revealed Miss Coleman lyini
, part of the way out of the automo
[ bile. She was pulled from the in
ferno by Clinton Neal and Clyd
l Wagner, who rushed from the ser
vice station with Powell after Mer
ritt had been brought there.
With her clothes and hair burn
off and her back and arms severel
burned, she was carried to the ser
vice station where she remaine
until she was carried to a Roanok
Rapids hospital in the ambulanc
- of Dorman Blaylock. She was no
expected to live for 24 hours whe
t she reached the hospital, it wa
1 stated, but later reports comin
from Shere were to the effect tha
j she would probably recover.
The cause of the accident is no
known. Tracks on the road indi
5 cated that no effort was made t
j turn the car around the curye an
5 it is thought that the driver wa
. asleep.
The car was completely destroye
- by the fire which also burned tree
3 for 15 or 20 feet down the brand
1 as flames leapeh from gasolin
3 which spread over water of th
!. branch3
A large number of persons drov
1 to the scene of the accident to viei
- the wreckage before the frame c
s the car was removed for junk Wed
i nesday afternoon.
i
18 Young People
Baptised On Sunda;
'i
??????
Fifteen young people of the Bap
f tist church were baptized here o:
i Monday evening: Misses Patsy Rod
1 gers, Mavis Serls, Mae and Bett
% Brickhouse, Katharine Reid, Edit
- Louise Allen, Josephine Hudgin
- Ruby Harris, Mary Allison Modlii
i. Wayland Modlin, Charles Pryor A1
y len, Monroe Gardner and Bill Rool
e
RETURNS FROM SCHOOL
Mr- Charles Tucker Jr., who ha
t been attending school at Culve
!. Military Academy, returned to hi
y home here last week to sp?nd th
'summer with his parents
mm
rY OF WARREN, N. C. FRID^
Wftst Point fflHi
1W$&
I.
1 F ' :
i F ' '' .: > .:%
" WEST POINT, N. Y. . . . Cadets of
! parade (luring annual visit and inspec'
[, Board of Visitors,
c
i Drwcrnw rHrrirc ci
- ' ""AND WIDOWS A
6 ___________ i
; Crabs vs. Groundhogs
? SEASIDE HEIGHTS* J. . . c
Earlyappearance of horseshoe $
U_ fnrn/iOJito Q lonff OtimmPT 1
| tiauo IUICWIOVS H ?VU0 UWM.M4V., ^
- just as groundhogs' ^appearance
j I forecasts Spring. The frightened .
Catalin angel fish on Gloria Inger- J
' soil's suit is heading for the sea,
11
'fireman killed ]
,s in boiler blast
Negro Fatally Scalded In Ex3
plosion At Wollett's Mill
e At Littleton Wednesday 1
e
Mark Jenkins, negro employed as 1
r' fireman at the sawmill owned and ?
i operated by Joe R. Wollett at Lit- j
" j tleton, was fatally scalded on Wed- r
r nesday morning around 8 o'clock
^ when a 150-horsepower boiler ex- c
s! plodedI
No one else was hurt by the ex- r
- plosion which cracked into the air
- with sufficient force to be heard
e throughout the town of Littleton.
The cause of the accident is un
known. Mr. Wollett said yesterday t
morning that "it was just one of }
t those things which happen some- ^
y times without any one knowing ex- ^
- actly why or how."
d Following the explosion, Jenkins i
e was rushed to a hospital in Roa- c
e noke Rapids where he succumbed j
to his injuries Wednesday after- j
11 noon at 5:30 o'clock. f
s The property damage has not 1
g been estimated, but in view of the I
' enforced idleness of the mill it was I
stated that the loss caused by the (
't accident will probably rim into t
- thousands of dollars. t
o Mr. Wollett has been in the lum3
ber business for many years and \
s the mill he operates is one or tne : c
biggest concerns in Littleton. la
d
: Commissioner!
* For Failure
< Jail, Bio
Despite the fact that members of. (
the Board of County Commissioners \
?no v? i Y
I are unaer lnaiuwncnu uw
Y rying out recommendations of grand i
juries in regard to re-building or i
improving the jail here they can- s
n not go forward with this work now c
- unless the people of the county say c
y so through popular vote. $
h This fact was made knwn yes- i
s, terday by William Burroughs, chair- c
>,' man of the board, following a visit t
1 to Raleigh on Wednesday when he v
i. conferred with W. E. Easterling, <
secretary of the Local Government I
Commission. t
is Mr. Burroughs stated that Mr. I
ir Easterling informed him that fln1s
der an amendment adopted in the i
.e! election last year no county may c
' issue bonds for more than two
Sterol
lY, JUNE 18, 1937 Subs<
ets on Parade
the ^U.'s M^lil^ry 00^
tion by members o? Congressional 1
1
OR VETERANS
T CLERK'S OFFICE!
itiggan And Allen Only Remaining
Veterans In 1
Warren County
rEN CLASS A WIDOWS
Pension checks for Warren couny's
two Confederate veterans and
eventeen widows of Confederate
eterans have arrived at the office
f the clerk of totirt and are ready
or distribution.
The checks, which come semi-anluaiiy,
aire in ffie total sum of $2,15.
Three hundred knd sixty-five
[ollars of this amount is divided
qually between Charlie Riggan and
Lustin Allen, and the remainder
;oes to class A and class B widows,
[here are 10 class A widows in the
ounty and each of these receive
150. The seven class B widows in
Varrpn par.h rpppivp $50.00.
YJRS. BOWERS DIES^
NEAR LITTLETON
Mother of Capt. Claude T.
Bowers; Sister of J. A.
Dowtin of Warrenton
Funeral services for Mrs. Mary
Jowtin Bowers of near Littleton, a
ister of J. A. Dowtin and the
nother of Captain Claude T. Bowrs
of Warrenton, were held at the
Sear Swamp Baptist church at
Irinkleyville on Wednesday afterloon
at 2:30 o'clock.
Mrs. Bowers, the wife of Thadleus
R. Bowers, died at the family
lome on Monday after a long illless.
She was 78 years of age and
vould have been married 60 years
lad she lived until July 25.
The final rites were in charge of
he Rev- E. R. Nelson of Henderon,
an intimate friend of the famly
and pastor of the Bear Swamp
r?Vmr/?V? nnfc far from the
Japnou V/AIM&XSA*, ? ?? -?
lome, of which the deceased had
leen a member for 60 years.
The deceased is survived by the
allowing children: Rev. B. A. Bowirs
of GasEonia, W. E. Bowers of
tsheville, Mrs- B. P. Bowling of
lougement, J- D. Bowers of Norolk,
Dr. T. R. Bowers of Bristol,
tain., C. T. Bowers of Warrenton,
j, R. Bowers of Henderson, W. P
Sowers, Mrs. J. A. White and Miss
Carrie Bowers of Littleton. One
irother, J. A. Dowtin of Warrenon,
also survives.
Active pallbearers were D. L.
Vilsori, W. R. Bowers, A. G. Wilox,
W. R. Boyce, J. Edward Allen
,nd V. I. Mohorn,
s, Indicted
To Repair
eked By Law
hirHs nf the amount of county
fide bonded indebtedness which is
>eing retired each year without the
>eople of the county voting on the
natter. This county, which is
:econd lowest in the state in the
imount of bonded indebtedness
lutstanding against it, retires
18,000.00 worth of county-wide
ndebtedness each year, and conseluently
may borrow only twohirds
of this amount, or $5,000,
vithout a vote of the people. The
intire county-wide bonds are exacted
to be retired in 1943. Disrict
bonds do not figure into the
lorrowing power of the county.
While a county may not borrow
nore than two-thirds of the amount
if county-wide bonds which are beCCorvtinued
on Page 8)
*>> ^
r II
:ription Price, $1.50 a Year
WHY HONOR IS
PAID TO MACON
Jones Tells Purpose of Celebration
At Buck Springs
On June 29th
PEOPLE LOVED MACON
By HOWARD JONES SR.
In The News and Observer
There are certain citizens, even
in this county of Warren, who express
themselves as seeing no reason
for a great public gathering at
'Buck Springs,'' the hom? of MrMacon,
to do him honor.
"Why he was an old fogy; he
wouldn't know how to get about, if
re were living."
AnW not V?q nmo thn frionrl of .Tof.
1U1U J VV UV KMU A A Vk ? v?
ferson and Randolph; a member of
the House of Representatives;
speaker of the House; member of
the Senate and its president pro
tern, and so beloved that scores of
counties and towns of this nation
dere named to honor him. But he
was the representative of the people.
He is not spoken of as Senator
Macon, with all its dignity and
self-esteem. He was Mr. Macon
and the people loved him.
So our citizens have missed,
through ignorance or purposely, the
true intent of the gathering at
Buck Springs. "We come not to
bury Caesar; but to praise him."
Is there anyone who loves the
people who will question that Mr.
Macon has left his foot-prints upon
the democracy of the nation? He
was an intense Democrat?now not
fashionable in certain quarters except
just before the election. Mr.
Macon was wise enough to see that
those who represent the people
should renew their faith and account
for their stewardship. He
was broad enough to state that a
Gaston, who spilled his blood in his
country's cause, though a Catholic,
should be permitted to hold office;
he was sincere enough to feel that
it was wrong to deny suffrage to
an honest blacksmith, and give it
to his brother who owned 50 acres
of land so poor it would not sprout
sassafras.
So the purpose of our gathering
at the home of Mr. Macon is to renew
our faith in the people, as exemplified
by the greatest citizen of
Nnrt.h f!n.rnlinn.
Harlow Estate
Goes To Mother
Los Angeles, June 16.Jean Harlow,
platinum blonde "glamour
girl" of motion pictures, whose
death shocked the film colony
litle more than a week ago, left her
entire estate to her mother, Mrs.
Jean Bello, it was disclosed tonight.
The estate was legally phrased as
being "in excess of $10,000."
The will was filed late today in
probate court, but considerable
speculation remained as to the
exact sum left by the late starHer
property was estimated vari
i? - a- ?- ??j aiaa nnn
ousiy al ngures ueiweeu ?iuv,uuv
and $1,000,000.
The testimony was witnessed by
Mrs. Jetta Chadsey, Miss Harlow's
aunt, and by W. A. Bullis, an attorney.
Mendel B. Silberberg was
named executor.
Mrs. Bello under terms of the
will receives "all personal and real
property," estimated "in excess of
$10,000 and having no probable income."
Braddock-Louis
To Fight For Title
Heavyweight Champion James
BraddOck and Joe Louis, negro
bomber, will meet in a 15-round
bout next Tuesday night in Chicago.
Both boxers are undergoing
heavy training at present, with
press reports coming out from each
famp that the men are in fine
shape for the battle, which is expected
to be listened to here and
throughout the country over the
radio.
SWING BILLIES TO PRESENT
PROGRAM MACON SCHOOL
The "Blackwood Swing Billies"
will present a program in the auditorium
of the Macon High School
on Thursday evening, June 24, at
8 o'clock under the auspices of the
Parent-Teacher Association of the
school.
Mr. W. T. Hardy of Grove Hill was
a visitor at Warrenton yesterday
afternoon.
' - ' '-1111^8 NEWS
,nA" ALL THE TIME
NUMBER 25
NOTABLES TO
SPEAK AS COUNTY
HONORS MACON
Dr. Archibald Henderson Of
The University of North
Carolina To Deliver Principal
Address of Day
PAXn?DMAD 1X7TT T A TTi^VH
urvymviivw niuu ai JIUIW
Congressman John H. Kerr
To Act As Master Of
Ceremonies
With Governor Clyde R. Hoey,
Dr. Archibald Henderson, Congressman
John H- Kerr and other notables
present for the occasion, indltions
are that the exercises which
are to be held at Buck Springs on
June 29th when the home place of
Nathaniel Macon is to be dedicated
will be one of the most significant
days In the history of Warren
county.
The principal address of the day
will be made by Dr. Henderson, historian,
lecturer, personal friend and
biographer of George Bernard
Shaw, and mathematics teacher at
the University of North Carolina.
Governor Hoey will speak of the
virtues practiced by Mr. Macon,
who was a soldier of the Revolution,
Ofofn Conotni- 1 r?QO on/4 17QA TDnnM.
wvabb uguavvi, x iuh WUU x iwi) xw^xv
sentative in Congress, 1791-1815.
and speaker of the House, 18011807,
United States Senator, 18151828.
and President Pro-Tem of the
Senate, 1826-1828, and President of
the Constitutional Convention, 1835.
Congressman John H. Kerr will
serve as master of ceremonies for
the occasion which marks the
100th anniversary of the death of
Warren's most illustrious public servant.
The home place of the unpretentious
patriot, which has
been restored through efforts of
patriotic organizations of this county,
will be dedicated at this time
and the 70-acre park turned over
to the public.
John I.. Skinner, secretary of the
State Association of County Commissioners,
will deliver an address
on the "Civic Responsibility as Exemplified
by Mr- Macon."
Rev- J. A. Hendrick, pastor of
Gardner Baptist Church, which was
attended by Mr. Macon, will de
liver the invocation, and there will
also be special music by local choirs
and possibly by a band from ono
of the military posts.
In addition to Congressman Kerr,
the entire delegation in Congress
from North Carolina which represents
the territory that Mr. Macon
served has be'Sh invited to attend,
and it may be that several of the
Congressmen and Senator Bailey
will attend.
Recalling the fact that a crowd
estimated to be around 8,000 persons
Were here for the Bragg dinner.
which was held in a day when
horse and carriage were the mode
of transportation, and that attendance
was unusually large when the
monument in memory of Annie
Carter Lee, the one at Falrview
cemetery and the one on the court
house square were unveiled In
memory of the Confederate soldiers,
those in charge of the Macon exercises
are anticipating a crowd of
several thousand persons.
The county commissioners have
provided barbecue to feed the especially
invited guests, which are
expected to be around 100 in num
ber, and all others who attend are
expected to carry baskets.
Children Asked To
Meet Macon Home
Children of Warren county are
requested by Miss Amu Graham
to meet at the home place of
Nathaniel Macon at 10 o'clock on
Tuesday. June 29, to lead in singing
two verses of Carolina at the
beginning of the dedication exercises.
ATTEND FUNERAL
Among those who attended the
funeral of Mrs. Mary Bowers of
Airlle on Wednesday were Mr. and
Mrs- T. V. Allen, Mr. and Mrs. W.
Duke Jones, Mr. and Mrs. R. T)
Watson, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Con
[nell, Mr. and Mrs. P. G. Seaman,
| Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Rodwell, Mr.
,and Mrs. John Kerr Jr., Mr. E- T.
. Odom, Mrs. D. P. Blaylock, Miss
OUvla Burwell and Miss Sallle
Allen.
Mr. and Mrs. Russell E. Shearln
announce the birth of a daughter
'on June 4?Evelyn Joyce