m accurate, terse
TIMELY
m^oUJME XXXVII
mm prices^
i Si It BORDER
I WD MARTS
ti ['rices Fur Golden Weed
Beer Holder iielt Tobacco
growers In North And
South Carolina
VERAC'E MORE THAN 25c
Billion Warehouse Reports An
lvenice of $28.12 For
Tuesday's Sale
jialeigli. Aug. 12.?Continued
oosnite lighter offer
MfQQg pritic. -4? "
Yesterday at many markets,
KKd border belt tobacco growers
Official reports of Tuesday's op
jaios indicated average prices
C*better than the estimated $25
^ hundred, and estimates on yes ^ays
sales said prices were equalB^'good
although rains at some
Brkets reduced the volume of de^Brrics.
One warehouse at Dillon, S. C-,
Brortcd an official average of $28 12
B another $27.10 for Tuesday
Bcs and estimated yesterday's sales
150.000 pounds for an average of
Lumberton Estimates
Official figures were not available
I Lumberton. N. C., but warehouseB
estimated that 600,000 pounds
Be sold yesterday at an average
Fairmont. N. C . sold 849,374 TuesBv
for an average of $26.89,
Timmonsville, S. C., reported an
Berage of $26.96 for initial breaksButhough
officials had not releasB
figures on yesterday's turnover
BLake City, S. C , estimates placed
Bes at 675.000 pounds for an avBee
of $22.75. The market sold
B.096 pounds Tuesday at an averHe
price of $22.61.
Klenn Richards, sales supervisor
Bcbadbourn, N. C-, said 98,140
Irs there yesterday- brought an
Btage of $26.10.
$24.10 At Tabor
Bt Tabor, N. C? Sales Supervisor
M. Lee said offerings were light
Bterday and that he expected
Bavier sales next week- An official
Bort put Tuesday's sales at 151,B
pounds for an average price of
Bingstree. S. S? reported sales and
^^BlPPc ahrmf tlio comn oc TiiocHqu'c
I?Vkl IWUUI I liv Uivliiv WU * MVWViWJ w
000 pounds which brought $26.
-oris. S. C.. reported an estimated
e of 110.000 pounds yesterday at
average of $22.85- At Conway
ices were said to be about the
ne as Tuesday's although rain
d cut deliveries to less than oneird
The official average for the opene
break at Darlington, S. C., was
390. and yesterday's prices conked
steady, but warehousemen
p quality of the approximately
No pounds offered was inferior
| Tuesday's deliveries,
farmers near the Clarkton, N. C.,
Fkt have brought only small
potities of better grade tobacco
rrf- officials said, because they
r still busy curing the leaf- An
piated average of $22.50 was paid
1 yesterday's offering of 75,000
l-.es
|We And Squirrel
Reason Opens Sept. 1
'r-- ciove and squirrel season will
m on September 1 and remain
through September 30 when
looses until Novmber 20, E HunBjfcnnell.
game warden, announcBthis
week, and submitted a list
Hthe Places where hunting licenses
fne licenses, which every huntsB*11
is requirred to have before goV
in quest of game, sell for the
B^e this year as they did last. A
license costs $1.10; a state
$2.io. a combination hunts'
and fishing license $3.10, a
trapper's license $2.25 and
l"atc trapper's license $3.25|
?HoMing are the places where
Blicenses may be obtained: Rods';
Bros Hardware, Miles HardanH
tu. -
aton- p rt "ouse- in WarL
c u?ono Davis store, Inez;
"cock a^if s*ore' Areola; Marvin
tive' ?jber?n; Wilbur Davis,
ire \t ' Hawkins Gilliland's
?:S ?n;C'.F- Burrow, Churf
Wi^f arris> Vaughan; Walire
v, s' Littleton; Delbridge's
J" C- Watkins'
U ?ry, and from E. H. Pin
J
R'ng and Queen 1
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K: &^Hh^^P
?^1g|^8tti?&: i yW
; LONPON, Eng. . . . Queen Elizabeth
! Margaret Rose greet their guests i
i Buckingham Palace for the second
George VI and Queen Elizabeth.
Mrs. C. L Hallett,
Native of Warren,
Dies At Hospital
Pinal rites for Mrs. C. L. Hallett,
(nee Myrtice Gardner) of Cape
Charles, Va-, were held at her home
in Cape Charles on Sunday afternoon,
August 8th, at 4 o'clock, with
her pastor, Rev. G- W. Powell in
charge. Interment was in the Cape ,
Charles cemetery. All of her sis-1
ters and three brothers were present
for her funeral.
Mrs. Hallett died in St. Luke's
(Hospital, Richmond, Va-, on Friday
night, August 6th, after being in
declining health for only a few
weeks. She was the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Winfield S. Gardner i
of Churchill, and was the first of
a large family of eleven children to
go, and her sudden death was a
(,V.Aolr V*or frionHc onH Inv
I glCilb OXiU^xv. l?u iici xixuuuu ?w i
|ed ones. In early life she united
with the M. E. Church and was
greatly devoted to its work and
ever loyal to the cause of humanity.
She was educated at the John
Graham Academy and Louisburg
College and after completing her
education, taught school for nine
years- A few years later, she became
identified with the Bank of
Cape Charles, Va., which position
she held until the time of her marriage.
Her business ability was soon
recognized by her employers and
she was made one of the directors
of the bank. |
On November 15, 1928, she was
[married to Mr- Curtis Lamar Hallett
of Cape Charles. Her home
life was one of affectionate devo-.
tion and loyalty. Full of hospitality,
kindness, and good cheer, she '
will be sadly missed by her family,1
her friends and neighbors, and by
her church, to which she was con
stant and true. 1
Besides her husband, she is surI
vived by her parents, Mr. and MrsWinfield
S. Gardner of Churchill; j
six sisters, Mrs. Lula G. Harris of
Macon, N. C.; Mrs. Jesse Gardner
of Churchill, N. C-; Mrs. W. Ray
Bowers of Littleton, N. C.; Mrs. B.
L- Rawlings and Mrs. C. W- Childers
of Richmond, Va., and Mrs. T.
V. Allen of Warrefiton; and four
brothers, H. M- Gardner of Georgia;
B. W. Gardner of Roxboro, NC.,
J. Herbert Gardner and S. M.
Gardner, both of Churchill, N- C. |
Roanoke Island And
The Lost Colony
By JOHN B. PALMER
Saturday night, August 7, I witnessed
the magnificent pageantdrama,
"The Lost Colony," an outdoor
play with music and dance, by
Paul Green, North Carolina's and
America's distinguished playwright
The theme is too great to attempt,
anything but a brief reviewThe
first English settlements in j
America were: Roanoke Island, N.'
C., 1585-1587, Jamestown Island,
Va., 1607; Plymouth Rock, Mass.,
1620. These were the pioneering
steps of our English ancestors to
carve an empire out of a wilder-'
ness.
Without the frustrated efforts of
.the gallant Sir Walter Raleigh and
The Lost Colony, there probably
would not have been the later sue-,
cessful colonization efforts at
Jamestown in 1607 and at Plymouth
Rock in 1620. Thus Roanoke
Island in North Carolina is really
. the birthplace of English civiliza(Continued
from pare 1)
br II;
WARRENTON, COUNTY C
lold Garden Party |
Queen Mother Mary and Princess
as they arrive on the grounds of
garden party of the reign of King
Lightning Wrecks
Chicken House At
Riggan Place
Lightning, followed by fire, destroyed
a chicken-house at the
home of W. H. Riggan near Warrenton
on Wednesday afternoon
around 5 o'clock. A pump was also
damaged and fuses in the home
were burned out.
No chickens were in the hen- !
house which was used by Mr. Rig-!
gan prior to two years ago when he J
discontinued raising chickens on a'
large scale. The chicken-house was '
being used at the time as a storage 1
place for hay. This was also destroyed
by the fireThe
bolt of lightning came into'
the house on wires leading from the ;
pump-house. No one was injured. |
CREEDMOOR GIRLS KILLED I
BY BOLT OF LIGHTNING
Creedmoor, Aug. 11.?A bolt of'
lightning instantly killed four at- j
tractive daughters of Mr. and Mrs.
J. Edgar Hester of Creedmoor at!
about 4 o'clock Tuesday when they
sought shelter under a cluster of
bushes during a sudden shower.
They had been "tying" tobacco at
the Hester farm one mile north of
town on the Oxford highway.
I
Under a wagon not more than 10 I
feet away were their father, a1
prominent Granville county farmer;
their only brother, Joseph; and Roy
Mangum, a cousin. Standing about
the same distance away was Eugene 1
Rogers, a neighbor- All four escaped
injury entirely except Mangum,
who was slightly shocked.
The girls were dead when their
relatives rushed to them.
The victims are: Misses Marice,
24, a graduate of Eastern Carolina
Teachers College and teacher in the
Stem School; Vivian Mae, 19, who
graduated from a business school in
Raleigh last week; Mary Swain, 16;
and Edith Wiston Hester.
A joint funeral was conducted
from the Creedmoor Baptist church
Wednesday afternoon at 3:30
o'clock by the pastor, the Rev. S.
L. Morgan, with interment following
in the Creedmoor cemetery.
In addition to the parents and the
brother, the girls are survived by a
sister, Miss Annie Britt Hester, who
recently completed a business course
and holds a position in Raleigh.
The family is prominently connected,
and the young women were
held in the highest esteem- All,
Creedmoor is mourning their un-!
timely deaths.
The bodies of the sisters showed j
no effects from the shock, said per- ,
sons who viewed them after they
were brought to Creedmoor. They |
had been riding from their Creedmoor
home to the prosperous Hester
farm each day to aid in the tobacco
harvest.
Hawkins Students |
Win Third Prize j
At the close of a meeting of negro [
vocational students held at Bricks
Institute, Enfield, the Chilean Ni- (
trate Educational Bureau an-\
nounces that the Hawkins chapter
won third prize in the N. P. A.
chapter contest, according to H. G. |
Rose, vocational teacher. He said,
that the $7-50 prize was based on
the secretary's book, N. F. A. scrap
book, program of work, and membership
The Hawkins chapter was
represented at the three day meet- I
ing. by Mises Davis and Thomas
Plummer. I
arrot
>F WARREN, N. C. FRIDAY
SCHOOL OUTLOOK
BEST IN HISTORY
ALLEN DECLARES
State System Takes Great
Step Forward In Plan Of
Free Text Books For
Grammar Grades
HAD BEEN A HANDIOAP
Library To Furnish Traveling
Library As Aid To School
Children of Warren
The opportunity for educational
achievement is greater in the Warren
county school system this year
than ever has been the case in the
past, Superintendent of Schools J.
Edward Allen stated this week in
commenting on the fact that this
year for the first time in the his
tory of North Carolina the state is
not only making available free textbooks
for students in the grammar
and elementary grades but is also
providing supplementary readers on
a rental basis for these pupils. In
addition to this, he said, the Warren
County Memorial Library has
made arrangements for a traveling
library which will visit the schools
in the various communities every
two weeks in order to afford the
children an opportunity to secure
books which they desire to read.
Pointing out that the lack of
reading material in the past had
been a serious handicap to the
schools, Mr. Allen said that the forward
step taken by the state to
provide free text-books and supplementary
readers had brought
about opportunities for developing
the mind which had come sooner
than he had dreamed and hoped
for. "When we can awaken a craving
for knowledge in our schools
and feed this desire in and without
the classrooms, our greatest problem
of education has been solved,"
he said.
It has not been determined how
many free text-bboks'^nd supplementary
readers will be placed :n
thp schools of t.hp Warrpn connf.v
system this year. Eleven thousand
were placed in the 27 negro schools
which opened this week and many
more will be brought here when the
white schools and the other negro
schools open. An agent from the
State Text-book Rental Commission
will be here today to determine the
number of books needed in the
John Graham school.
The free text-books are for children
who have not reached the
high school grades. Those in the
high school, as has been the case
for the past two years, may secure
books on a rental basis, but
the high school rental system is
now complete for the first time.
The supplementary readers, which
are expected to number about ten
for each student, are put out on
the following basis: $140 a year for
those in the sixth and seventh
grades; $1.20 for those in the third,
fourth and fifth grades; and $1.00
for those in the first and second
grades.
The books from the library, it is
understood, will be free.
At the meeting of the Lions Club
last week Supt. Allen informed
members of the new school advantages
which are in line with recommendations
made by Governor
Hoey, and later called on Bill Polk
to discuss plans of the Warren
County Memorial Library. Mr. Polk
said that the library has always
tried to supply material for all
classes of readers and especially
worthwhile books which may serve
as parallel reading for those in the |
schools. He said that this year for
the first time the library has made
arrangements to secure a secondhand
school bus to haul books over
the county for the benefit of those
who find it inconvenient to get to
the library. This is one of the few
counties of the state which will
have this service this year, it is understood
UNUSUAL CANTALOUPE
A twin cantaloupe was brought to
the office of The Warren Record for
display purpose on Saturday by
Ricks Mustian. The melon, which
weighed between four and five
pounds, appeared to be normal except
for the fact that it was joined
together. Mr. Mustian said that he
had picked five similar cantaloupes
from his two acres this summer.
DAUGHTER BORN
Born to Mr- and Mrs. Roy Perkinson
of Wise on Saturday, August
7, a daughter?Sallye Annice
, AUGUST 13, 1937 Suta
BUMPER COTTON
CROP PREDICTED
Government Makes Forecast
Of Fifteen And A Half
Million Bales
SENDS PRICES TUMBLING
Government experts' prediction of
a bumper cotton crop of 15,593,000
bales this season sent prices downward
and southern farm representatives
to Washington to renew demands
for federal crop loans to
check the decline.
The cotton crop estimate includes
an increase in North Carolina from
597,000 to 727,000 bales, and Commissioner
W. Kerr Scott of this
state was one of the most enthumnmknwn
/\f /IfilflOroUAn
OiaOl/Xl/ IllCUlUti O Ui V11C Uviv^aviWM
to descend upon Washington to ask
for more aid than cotton has ever
received at this or any other administration.
Writing from Washington for the
News and Observer, Robert Williams
says: "Cotton is one crop
which has never sold at parity, now
figured at between 16 and 17 cents.
The commissioners asked for a repitition
of the 10c loan of 1935, with
the important difference that subsidies
would be paid up to the full
amount of parity instead of up to
10c a pound as was the case in
1935- The plan would also make no
distinction between the growers who
have expanded and those who have
not."
The commissioners appeared before
the Senate agricultural committee
Monday and expected to con(Continued
on page 8)
Four Cases Are
Heard In County
Court Monday
Four cases were tried before
Judge Rodwell in Recorder's court
iliUUUUIJ AWHllllgW.
A. Powell was convicted on a
charge of trespass and was- given a
90 day road sentence which was suspended
upon the condition that he
remain of good behavior for a year
and pay the court costs. He gave
notice of appeal to Superior court.
Ten dollars and costs or 60 days
on the roads was the sentence meted
out by Judge Rodwell to William
Henry Plummer, negro, was
convicted on a charge of possessing
unstamped liquor. The defendant
paid out.
James Crosson, negro, who was
riding with Plummer at the time he
is alleged to have thrown a bottle of
bootleg whiskey out of the car, also
faced a charge of possessing unstamped
whiskey. After his companion
had been convicted by Solicitor
Pippen he called for a jury
trial which automatically postponed
his case.
Refusal of Ernest Weldon to surrender
his drivers license when called
for by the state patrolman was
responsible for him being in court.
The patrolman called for the license
j on the grounds that Weldon had re.
ceived treatment in a state hospital,
| which, it was stated, automatically
I revokes an inmates license The
j aeienaant was oraerea 10 surrender
his license and appear in court on
August 16 for judgment.
Mrs. Katherine Black of High
Point submitted to a charge of operjating
an automobile on' the high'
way in a careless and reckless manner.
Judgment was suspended upon
payment of costs.
i Miss Pippen To
Tobacco Festival
Littleton, Aug. 12.?Miss Emily
i Pippen was selected last week by
Mayor John J. Taylor to represent
I Littleton at the first Eastern Carojlina
Tobacco Festival in Wilson on
August 19-20. Miss Pippen will attend
the various activities given in
honor of the sponsors on those two
days and will participate in the contest
for the honor of being chosen
Queen of the Festival.
SHEPHERD AND MARTIN
FAMILIES TO HAVE REUNION
TVio KhonViprHs arid Martins Will
hold their annual family reunion at
the home of Mrs. Delia F. Aycocks
on Sunday, August 15. All relatives
I of the families are invited and requested
to be present- A basket
dinner will be served on the ground.
ACKNOWLEDGES THANKS
The Warren Record acknowledges
its appreciation for some fine cantaloupes
left here a few days ago
| by John W. Mayfield Sr.
JSfe .i 1 cription
Price, $1.50 a Year _
County-Wide'
Boosted Fro
27 Negro Schools
Begin Work For
1937-38 Session
Twenty-seven of the negro schools
of the county began their 1937-38
session on Monday and will run
until cotton opens sufficiently to
cut down attendance to the point
where it is not logical to operate,
it was learned from the office of
the superintendent of schools this
week. The other 15 negro schools
of the county, most of which are '
located in sections where farm labor 1
is at present in demand, will open <
on September 8?the same time
that the white schools of the county
system begin their work.
With the opening of the 27 negro
schools this week 11,000 free textbooks
were turned over to the teachers
for use among the pupils. This
is the first time in the history of
XI XI x f j x ? ? t
me staie mat iree text-DOOKS nave
been made available to students in ;
the lower grades- Two years ago i
they were put on a rental basis for ;
the first time and this system will
continue to apply to students in :
high school, it is understood. i
Home Economics
Teacher To Begin
Work Next Week
Miss Emelyne Evans of Tennessee,
a George Reed teacher, is ex- 1
pected to arrive here on Sunday to
begin ten months of service as
Home Economics teacher in the
John Graham High School and
carry out instructive projects in
cooking and canning in various
communities of the county.
Miss Evans, who taught Home
Economics in the Littleton High 1
School for the past four years, is
paid Tor ten inonths in her line by
tlite \Federal government through
the George Reed fund.
She arrives in the county practically
a month before school opens
and remains for practically a month
after school closes. The John '
Graham school opens on September
8.
Hutson Discusses
New Farm Plan
The ideal farm program under the
AAA would be one confined to edu- '
cational work and soil conservation !
but in actual experience such a program
is inadequate.
This is the opinion of J. B. Hut- ,
son, assistant administrator of the ,
Agricultural Adjustment Adminis- ,
tratlon, who spoke twice last week j
before delegates attending the 34th ;
annual Farm and Home week exercises
at State College.
Mr. Hutson said it was almost a
necessary to place some restrictions (
on the production of price-depress- (
ing surpluses of cash crops. Even (
with acreage control, there are of- |
tentimes good growing seasons when
piuuuutiuii win gu uiguci man was j
anticipated. Mr- Hutson declared ,
that the present tobacco crop in- ,
dicated a production of 750 million f
pounds and if the amount did not (
go materially beyond this figure, ,
prices should be as good or better <
than last year- The cotton situa- (
tion does not look so good, he said, ]
Indications are that a 14 million ,
bale crop will be produced in the <
South with consumption at 13 mil- |
lion bales for this year.
Looking forward to 1938, Mr. Hutson
said a simplified and more
equitable farm program is being j
constructed by the AAA. The idea
is not to make farm commodities
scarce but to keep cash crop production
in line with market needs.
A special effort will be made to 1
help growers of truck crops and the *
whole program will be developed so (
as to fit to every kind of farm in 1
{this and other states. It is likely (
that the old "base acreage" plan 1
will be discarded but that each 1
farmer will be given his share of I
the soil depleting crops that he can I]
grow without penalty and will be .
paid on that- allcttment. The allott- ]
raents will be made by counties and
divided within the counties by
committees of farmers- I
<
VISIT MASSACHUSETTS ?
Mrs. Tasker Polk, Mr. and Mrs- c
John Mitchell and Mr- James Polk r
left' Tuesday for Provincetown,
Mass. They are expected to be gone, ^
'for about ten days. 1
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.^ar
0F TH? NEWS
ALL THE TIME
NUMBER 33
Tax Rate L
?m 60c to 85c
Social Security Law And Several
Other Factors Force
Commissioners To Up
Tax Rate 25c
SCHOOLS GET 5c RAISE
$3,000 To Go For Additional
Rooms at John Graham
High School
The county-wide tax rate for the
fiscal year 1937-38 will be 85c on
the $100 valuation as compared
with 60c last year the tentative
budget adopted by the Board of
County Commissioners in special
session last week and prepared for
publication this week reveals
The 25c increase in the countywide
rate is due primarily to an
appropriation to match funds demanded
under provisions of the
Social Security Act, to a 5c increase
for the schools and to laws
passed at the last session of the
legislature effecting Warren county,
according to Board Chairman William
Burroughs and Auditor T. B.
Gardner. Part of the additional
revenue will also be used to take
care of obligations that the county
has already made for school purposes
Twenty cents of the 25c raise goes
to the general fund for operating
expenses, and the additional 5c
represents an increase from 18c to
23c in the county-wide levy for
school purposes. This increase was
made necessary, it was stated, on
account of repairs needed in many
schools of the county. A total of
(21,000 was the capital outlay provided
in the budget for the schools. '
The twenty cents increase to go
to the general fund for operating
the county is expected to raise
around (18,4000 from a total countyWide
valuation of (9,449,000-00. This
additional revenue is expected jL.
to be disbursed in the lollop
manner: For the blind, old age aim
dependent children under tne provisions
of the Social Security Act,
$9,704; for water works and sewerage
at the Hawkins High School
several months ago, $1,700; for a
temporary building at the John
Graham High School to relieve overcrowded
conditions, $3,000; for
local laws adopted at the last session
of the legislature authorizing
an increase in salaries for county
officials and to compensate Mrs.
Macey Pridgen for the lost of her
first husband, Sam Pinnell, who
was killed a number of years ago
while serving as an officer, $3,500.
rhe law requiring the county to pay
the estate of Mr. Pfnnell says that
i total of $2,000 shall go for this
purpose and that it is to be paid
in a period of several years at so
much a year.
The 85c county-wide rate is made
up of the following levies: general
fund, 15c; health and poor, 18c;
court costs and jail expenses, 7c;
eld age assistance, dependent children
and aid to the blind, 14c;
bonds, 8c; schools, 23c.
Although the tax rate has been
increased by 25c from a countywide
standpoint, this does not
hMn that oil tflYnavprQ will havp
AAV M A A UAAMV Ml* VMAAJ^M^ V* U ?I *? ?AM I v
;o pay 25c more on the $100 valua;ion
this year than they paid last
r'ear. This is due to the fact that
school bonds have been lowered to
some extent in several townships.
For instance, those living in Warrenton
township last year paid the
50c county-wide rate and an addisional
40c rate for school bonds
rhe school rate has been lowered
(Continued on page 4)
Revival Services
At Reedy Creek
Revival services will begin at the
iteedy Creek Baptist church on
Sunday evening, August 15, at 8
/clock. The Rev. Paul Worrel will
issist the Rev. Mr Roach in coniucting
the meeting which is expected
to come to a close on Friday
light.
d* i T~
uisiiu^) x ciiiviv a. u
Preach To Negroes
Rt- Rev. Edwin A. Penick, D- D,
3ishop of the Diocese of North
Carolina, will visit All Saints Colorid
Episcoal Church here on Suniay,
August 15, at 11 o'clock, anlouncement
was made this week.
Vn invitation is extended both
vhite and colored people to hear
Bishop Penick.
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