North Carolina Newspapers

I.I ^ 1 j accurate, terse timely VOLUME XXXVII ___ ? J barren Agric I Opens Hei I Parade To Form Around Tar ' Co He Headed By 40-Piece Be Biggest of Its Type renton; Compai i premium list larger) H Midway Attractions Reported x0 lie Much Better Than Those of Last Year H jjie Warren County Agricultural .vxnnri undertaking of) tjjjj nature to be sponsored by the warrenton Lions Club, will offic open here on Monday of next I wfk with a parade which is to form around Tarwater's warehouse be 11:30 and 12 o'clock and lead I ;j the fair grounds on the Norlina I The parade, which is predicted I to be the biggest of its type ever jfl r.accd in Warrenton, will be headfl ec by a 40-piece band composed of fl students from the John Graham I High School, the Norlina High I School and a Henderson High I Immediately following the I band will be Company B, after' I which is to march members of the I Lions Club. Other citizens of the ; town and county are invited and jl urged to join in the procession. t| Forming on Bragg street, the pa rade is to circle around Tarwater's warehouse to the entrance of Main ' street through which the trek will j be made to the recently prepared fair-grounds where it will disbandThose who are to take part in the parade are requested to meet on Braes street by 11:30 o'clock. In both entertainment and enlistment the fair this year promises to overshadow the club's fair of last year which won for itself and; its sponsors high praise from among the thousands who entered the canvas to view exhibits and enjoy the rides and showsWhile the midway was voted unusually good last year the shows which made it do not compare in : size and diversified entertainment! with the amusement organizations j cf the Endy Bros, which are to play the midway this year, according to those who have seen the Endy Bros, shows at a fair this yearLions Club President John TarI water and a number of other mem- ! bers of this organization drove to ! Spring Hope last week to witness a fair which featured the Endy Bros, i and they returned here with pronounced enthusiasm for the enter- j tainment which is in view for those j who attend the Warren county fairThe Endy Bros, shows,'' according, :o President Tarwater, "appeared to , be twice as large as the shows we had in our fairway last year; in fact, { thev seemprl H mP f r\ V-?o r?c rr/-?r?d n c _ ? .w wv/ wx- ?o &uv/u CA,kJ j anything I have seen at the State . I Fair." Comments similar in nature I came from others who made the I trip to Spring HopeThe more than 50 amusements I ieatures which the midway will ofI 'er includes various types of riding , I devices for thrills, freaks, different type of side-shows and a free act which is said to be exceptionally A larger premium book was gotI ten out earlier this year than last with considerable increases in prizesI Those in charge of the various deI Partments of the premium list are i looking for a considerable increase w exhibits. I Another advantage that the fair has this year over last is that the Lons Club nearly a year ago leased i desirable site on the road leading M out of Warrenton towards Norlina a permanent place for holding fairs and in addition to preparing, grounds has erected a large j building for housing exhibits and offering displays. For the past week or so members of the club have t work on the grounds constructing a fence around the site ? --^uay, October 5, is the date j ^hich has been designated as I sc'hooi day for children enrolled in j the white schools of the county and e following day the fair will be I open for negro school children. On c?th of these days there will be no ^mission charge for these children etween the hours of 1 and 6 o'clock I 'n the afternoonepiscopal services I ^ Holy Communion will be cele ?rated at Emmanuel Episcopal I , Urc'h on Sunday morning at 11 I 0cl?ok A study Class will be held I * ?t- Alban's in Littleton at 3:30 I ? clock Sunday afternoon, and SunM :*y tight at 7:30 o'clock Evening V -er Will be held at Littleton. I&823B& ultural Fair ! re On Monday water's Warehouse At Noon; Band and Is Predicted To s Ever Staged In Warly B In Parade I Notes For School Funds Bought By J. Willie White Three thousand dollars worth of Warren county notes, issued for the purpose of constructing a building at the John Graham school to relieve over-crowded conditions there,' were purchased this week by J. Wil- , lie White of Warrenton. He bought ine notes at par with interest at 2 975 per cent. Other notes sold at the same time from another county carried an interest rate of six 1 per cent. The commissioners agreed several months ago to issue the notes after being advised that the John Graham High School would lose its Home Economics and Agricultural ^ Departments if more space was not' provided at the school to take care | c of the over-flow of students. jj The school, which was construct- j ed with the view of taking care of ' i around 500 pupils, has had an enrollment of approximately 750 stu- ^ dents for the past several years, j and with this increased enrollment 0 has come repeated requests for v more space to take care of the children Several rooms of the building j which were built for other pur- g poses have in the past few years g been turned into classrooms in an ^ effort to relieve the overcrowded r conditions~ a P n n r ainnace IVV T I Jfc- All V/M T 1AAVUU Is Taken By Death * t Raleigh, Sept 29.?The Rev. D. g N- Caviness, for 39 years a Methodist minister affiliated with the 5 Eastern North Carolina Conference, k died late last night at the home of his son, Dr. Verne S. Caviness, on Vance Street here. He was in his 78th year- n Mr- Caviness twice had held pas- p torates in Raleigh, at Central M. E. 0 Church and Epworth Church. He w also had served churches in Hills- p boro, Durham, Roxboro, Burlington c Aberdeen, Warrenton, Morehead City, Cary and Franklinton- He had 1 ^ been ill five weeks- s Retiring from the ministry nine h years ago, Mr. Caviness and his wife r had spent winters in Ocala, Fla., l; and summers at their home in Roar- q ing Gap. v Mr- Caviness was a graduate of g Trinity College, now Duke University. tl Funeral services will be held here c Thursday afternoon at 4 o'clock, a Arrangements had not been com- P pleted last night. Surviving Mr. Caviness are his a wife, Mrs Nora C- Caviness; four s sons, Dr. Verne S. Caviness and W. si B. Caviness of Raleigh; Rupert jc Caviness, Ocala, Fla- and W. C.' v Caviness, Philadelphia; one daugh- c ter, Mrs. George A. Foss, Philadelphia; and one sister, Mrs. C. C. s Holt, Concord. a c Seven Divorces p Granted This Week s |fi Seven divorces were granted in . Superior court this week, each on ja the grounds of two years separa- p tion. Following are the couples be- ' tween whom the bonds of matrimony were severed: Ruby Palmer Moore was granted a divorce from O. B Moore. Gladys H- Nelson was granted a I divorce from John Nelson. Their j1 infant child, Harold Nelson, was,*1 left in the custody of Mrs. Nelson- 1 A divorce was granted N. HSmith from Lizzie M. SmithEffice Billins was granted a di- jc Jvorce from Paul Billings. f Negroes divorced were Sasanna ^ , Moss from Willie Ed Moss; Lewis $ Williams from Nannie Williams; and Thomas Williams from Marga- I ret Lyons WilliamsBREAKS ARM Master Gordon Poindexter is re- ( covering from a broken arm, sus- 1 tained in a fall from his bicycle last 1 week- ? DAUGHTER BORN Born to Mr. and Mrs- A- S. Bugg ? on September 25, a 10|3-4 lb. girl? 1 Annie Laurie. 1 br 11; WARRENTON, COUNTY OF WESTWOOD, Cal. . "BUI" Wil- * liamsrtJ.C.L.A. fullback (kicking), and Ernest Hill, tackle, pictured a In their first days of practice of C the 1937 football season. ? r VVarrenton Boy J On First String Of J1 College Players t For the first time in many years, u Varrenton has a representative on s he first string of one of the big v ollege football team. He is Robert t; Jaskervill, son of Mr. and Mrs. W- b I- Baskervill, and a student of 3uke University, Durham. t: Announcement was made on Mon- g lay by Coach Wallace Wade that c Jaskervill and Fred York, the latter si f West Virginia, had fought their a vay to the No. 1 squad. tl The outstanding showing that Jaskervill and York made in last tl Saturday night's opener with Vir- ti inia Tech was said to have been s] lirectly responsible for their pro- n notion to the first string. h York is a guard and Baskervill is tl tackle- o: Jimmy Mayfield is believed to o iave been the last first string man Varrenton offered to one of the big sj earns of the state. He played for sj itate College. c; P >olons Made Pact ti With Roosevelt I g: Washington, Sept. 29-?The ad- n linistration's nine-cent cotton loan it lan, said Senator Ellison D. Smith Ct f South Carolina, is "at variance" ti nth an understanding between 21 'resident Roosevelt and southern e otton senators. ji Smith, chairman of the Senate igriculture Committee, said in a ci tatement Wednesday night it was ei is understanding the agreement h pnehed in the closing days of the ti ist session of Congress did not re- | e: uire farmers to agree to comply d nth a 1938 farm adjustment pro- a: ram in order to qualify for loans- p He understood, he said, that only tl he provision for a subsidy of three ti ents a pound was conditioned upon w greement to abide by next year's c< roposed farm act. "This whole setup is confusing p nd at variance with the under- si tanding and agreement," Smith w aid, after quoting a recent Agri- k ulture Department statement fc .'hich said 1938 compliance was a ondition for cotton loans. e: The Senator said also he under- IV tood the loans were to be made on cl 11 tenderable cotton in the 1937 f< rop instead of being made on 65 a: >er cent of the base acreage. K Smith said he would insist the re- k trictions be lifted "so that the b armers might be able to secure this si san as easily as they have been' A ble to secure government loans in ci he past-" A ti 'Work or Starve" Strikers Told " b Dunn ?Striking cotton pickers of t< larnett County had this admoni ion Thursday from miss j-ame o Davis, county welfare officer: fi "Work or starve." n She said her department would tl iffer them no aid, since, she said, armers were reporting their pickers | y vere refusing to work for less than o il a hundred pounds. r The farmers said they could not 1 >ay so high a wage. y I COOPERATIVE CLUB MEETS o The Cooperative Club of John 3raham High School sponsored a Doll Show on Wednesday afterioon. Cake and candy were also t ;old- a I Mrs. A. E- Jones and Miss Rowe a Jones returned to their home here p yesterday after spending the sum- u ner months at Waynesville. t irrrn 1 WARREN, N. C. FRIDAY, ( lUDGEORDERS A NON SUIT IN POWER CASE suit In Which Father Sues Carolina Power & Light Co. For $40,000 For Son's Death Ends S VERY UNUSUAL CASE Sxpert Witnesses Entertain Spectators With Technical Discussions A non-suit granted late yesterday .fternoon by Judge Paul Frizzelle nded the $40,000 liable suit brought gainst the Carolina Power & Light lo- by Edward Powell for the death f his 12-year-old son, Warren 'owell, who was fatally shocked and urned on the afternoon of Novemer 26, 1935, as he walked beneath J ligh-tension wires strung across his ather's farm between the barn and he house. The suit, one of the most unuslal to have ever been tried here, tarted on Monday and indications j ;ere that it would have lasted hrough next Monday had it not t een settled through a non-suit. ^ The plaintiff claimed that the ragic accident was due to neglience on the part of the power ompany in not having adequate c afety devices on the line and had * messenger wire been in use that tie boy would not have been killed. The defendant contended that * lie company lines were well promoted by poll gaps and arcing s poons and that the youth would 1 ot have received the fatal shock ^ ad he not come in contact with1 II tie electricity by throwing a wire, r a rope, or some other conductor . ver the line- I Experts were here from several ;ates to testify in behalf of each ,de, and although the plaintiff's tiief witness testified that it was t ossible for electricity to jump from ^ le wire which carried a potential i oltage of 120,000 to the boy, tanding 20-feet below on tne,round, all those" who testified ad- jc litted that they had never known.r i to do so. Experts for the power ompany said that it would take; t mo and a half million volts to jump r 3 feet. According to the laws of 1 lectricity it takes 10,000 volts to'v amp one inch, it was testified. The chief witness for the power c Dmpany and for the plaintiff were r ach kept on the stand for several! ours undergoing rigid examina-' j on and cross-examination by the v ight attorneys in the case. Their j iscourses on electricity, atoms, ions ' g nd molecules appeared to be com- 11 licating to attorneys questioning j lem and were listened to attenta- : \ I vely by a number of citizens heie s 'ho are usually strangers to the. aurt room- !r Dr. Sherwood Githens, who is at ^ resent assistant professor of phy- 1 cs at Wake Forest College and ( ho holds degrees from several col- (k :ges, was the chief expert witness >r the plaintiff. K. B- McEachron was the main xpert ior tne power cumpauy. ivn. j IcEachron is research engineer in ^ barge of high voltage protection )r the General Electric Company c nd is stationed at Pittsfield, Mass. [ fe left here Thursday night for Atmta to give an address at a com- ! ined meeting of the American In- j ;itute of Electrical Engineering, the ! .merican Association of MechaniI \ il Engineering and International ssociation of the Electric Institu- I on- i* The knowledge which both of! lese experts displayed of electricity (I nd the way they handled attorneys t rought forth admiration and laugh- s ;r from those in the court room- i The defense also had a number f other notable witnesses here ^ rom North Carolina and Virginia, lost of whom were connected with | tie Virginia Power Company. Attorneys for the defense were A. ' Arledge and W. H. Witherspoon f Raleigh, John Kerr Jr. of War enton and John Picot of Littleton. x lie plaintiff was represented by 1 rarborough and Yarborough of ( <ouisburg and Banzet and Banzet T f Warrenton- ) t U. D. C. TO MEET A meeting of the United Daugh- i ers of the Confederacy will be held < ,t the home of Mrs. H. W. Petar at 1 tidgeway this afternoon (Friday) J ,t 3:30 o'clock, Miss Amma Graham, ] resident, announced this week and ] irged members of the organization 1 o be present- 'i )CTOBER 1, 1937 Subsc To Count Jobless {'" in -::: - v fl^K B bi s ;<:# :;^l^K: :,%a > ''"' f/mk J&jjlg WASHINGTON, D. 0. . 7 . John' D. Biggers, Toledo, Onlo, glass pianufacturer. arriving it j the White ^HousO to accept an ap*' polntment as Administrator of a Federal unemployment census. > - - ? - -- Miss Moseley Winner In Ladies* Golf Tournament Miss Catherine Moseley won the adies championship golf tournanent of the year on Monday by deeating her nearest opponent in the irst flight, Mrs- W. D. Rodgers, by t small margin. The tournament, which started in Thursday of last week with 20 >layers participating in three lights, is still underway. Miss mcy Burwell and Mrs. W. H. Damiron were competing yesterday afernoon for championship of the econd flight. The third flight will >robably be played off today or tonorrow. The date for this match lad not been set yesterday afterloon. highway Deaths Nearing Record Chicago, Sept- 29.?Death is seting a record-breaking pace along he nation's streets and highways. The National Safety Council estinated today traffic accidents had :ost 24,520 lives in the first eight' nonths of this year. The total was 11 per cent greater han the 22,160 recorded in the cor esponding period 01 laae?tne year he all-time high mark of 36,500 vas established- ' Deaths numbered 3,850 in August :ompared with 3,740 in the same nonth last year. But statisticians pointed out the tugust increase of three per cent Has more than matched by the 14 >er cent rise in automobile travel as ;uaged by gasoline consumption figires, while the 11 per cent increase n the first three-quarters of 1937 nas equalized by an identical upwing in motor mileage. They expect the deaths-for-miles atio to be somewhat lower than 936 if the current trend holds. Sets New Record For Phone Calls WacViincrf-nri?Kpnfltnr Robert R. ieynolds of North Carolina claimed rhursday something in the way of i record for office telephone calls luring a Congressional recessReynolds, spending a few days in Washington preparatory to leaving n a vacation, said the Capitol Telphone Exchange informed him an tverage of 264 telephone calls a day vere made to his office. "That's something for a recess," le commented. The North Carolina Senator said lis vacation plans were indefinite, mt that he was not contemplating my extended tour similar to those ( le has taken in past years. "I'll probably go out west some-' vhere," he saidMiss Burwell Wins On Durham Links Miss Lucy Burwell of Warrenton vas one of the prize winners In Durham's Hope Valley Country Ulub's annual invitational golf meet vhich was held on Tuesday- Miss 3urwell won low-gross score in the ,hird divisionClubs represented at the tournanent were Durham, Raleigh, jreensboro, Pinehurst, Oxford and Warren ton. Those attending from lere were Mesdames M- C. McGuire, L B. Beddoe, Julius Banzet, W. H. Dameron, W- M- Gardner and Misses Olivia Burwell and Lucy Burvell. iription Price, $1.50 a Year Warrenton Ms Tobacco Official Averages Show Warre For Golden Weed Than Ai Also Leading All Oth( Average of $27.! Large Whiskey Still Captured In Raid In Roanoke One of the largest whiskey manufacturing plants captured in War- ^ ren county in years was taken on . Wednesday when officers of this , county, supplemented by a force of ^ Virginia authorities, made a raid in , Roanoke township. The still, which was a 120-gallon capacity copper outnt, nau never , been put into operation, however it was all rigged-up ready to go and ( 3,000 gallons of mash was discovered nearbyFailure to find the still running j and any men around the plant led i officers to believe that the manu- ; iacturers had been tipped-off. Everything had been in readiness 1 for the still to make its first run a i day or so ago and the fact that the ] moonshiners had failed to return to 1 their plant and had let the beer remain there and spoil was one of J the primary causes which led the '< officers to the belief that the dis- 1 tillers had been informed that a i raid was to be made. The officers arrived at the site of the still, which was located near the Roanoke River, at 4 o'clock in the morning and remained in close proximity of the plant until 4 i ~ u uiuuis. ixi tut; tti tci iiuuii 111 tiic . hope that some of the men would gather there but no one appeared- 1 According to the tip which came to the officers, the still was located on Saturday. The fact that it ( was well bricked-in with a nice grate indicated to officers that the i plant was placed on the spot with intentions of leaving it stationed there for some time manufacturing whiskey- i The plant was estimated to con- ! tain 100 feet of copper which was 1 brought back to Warrenton. The mash was destroyed. 1 Assisting Sheriff W. J- Pinnell in i the raid were his deputy Roy 1 Shearin, Chief of Police Jack Scott, < Faulk Alston, two revenue officers from Richmond, two A- B. C. officers and two special officers from Virginia. With the exception of a plant which was captured last year in the same neighborhood, Sheriff Pinnell ] said that it was one of the largest j and best equipped stills he had < seen in years- i Mounties Tiring Of Their Slogan \ < Washington?The Royal Cana- ] dian Mounted police force is tired of the slogan it "always gets its < man." ] "We're still looking for the fel- i low who started it,'' Colonel S. T. l Wood, deputy commissioner of the Mounties, chuckled Thursday- 1 "All we know about him as that.l ne probably was an American " is The slogan, Wood thinks, is pret- i ty silly, especially because it "eclipses completely" the force's real ' motto to "uphold the right.'' Rally Day Service At Macon Sunday i A Rally Day service will be held < at the Macon Methodist Church on 1 Sunday morning at 11 o'clock, the < Rev. O. I. Hinson, pastor, announc- i ed this week- A cordial invitation < was extended by the minister to all members and friends of the church 1 to be present- 1 Tacky Party To Be Held Here Tonight A tacky party will be held at the Parish House of Emmanuel Episcopal Church tonight (Friday) at 8 o'clock under the auspices of the Sally Drake Twitty Chapter of the Children of the Confederacy. There " * ? - - ??i?i? -i??? : Will De an admission cnaige 01 iut for the entertainment which offers games, refreshments and prizes. Every one is urged to come ir. costume. 1 Mr. James Polk yesterday to accept a position as . salesman in Orlando, Fla. 1 I I ST OF THE NEWS ALL THE TIME I NUMBER 40 irket Leads Belts In Price nton Market Is Paying More ly Other Market In Belt; ;r Belts With Season 15 Per Hundred DAILY SALES BETTER Wednesday Average $30.24 Best of Any Market In Any Tobacco Belt Official figures of the sale of to>-?o r>nr\ fnt* iho coo cAn moHp nilhHft *c*v,v^ ?">- ? [n the daily press on Monday, revealed that the Warrenton market led all markets of the entire belt svhich gave complete reports of sales in price average per pound sold. Maintaining an average for the season of $2735 per hundred, the Warrenton market was 55c per hundred over its nearest complete reporting competitor, Henderson, which averaged for the season $26.90- Oxford was a fraction of a cent higher per pound, but all sales for the season were not reportedThe Warrenton market sold for the season a total of 489,541 pounds in maintaining this average of $27.35 per hundred. For this amount of tobacco growers received $133,901.00. In the Bright Belt Wendell led all markets with a seasonal average of $24.01- On the Border Belt market Fairmont led with a price average of $23 88 per hundred. Turning back to daily sales, official figures released last Saturday for Friday's sales show that Warrenton again led the Middle Belt with a price average of $2874 per hundred. Continuing in its high place, the official report discloses, Warrenton led this belt on Monday with an average of $29.64 per nunarea ana again on ruesaay with an average of $28.90 per hunired. Warrenton was still ahead of the other markets on Wednesday with an average of $30.24 per hundred.- v which was nearly 2c per pound higher than her nearest competitor in the Middle Belt. Thursday's average was not available when this newspaper went to press. The high prices for the weed on the Warrenton market are resulting in more poundage on the floors of the three warehouses here and general satisfaction among the growersBrush-Down Costly To "Marse Ed/' "Marse Ed,'1 as the veteran Warrenton warehouseman is known to many friends, received an expenhniifh i r v-> frA?Y* o nnrrrn nrhn )ivc ui uoii-uunu xiuni a xibgxu nx*v ran against him this week. Apologizing profusely for not ivatching where he was going, the negro began brushing Mr- Rooker's elothes thoroughly, exclaiming time ind again, "Boss, I wouldn't have bad it to happen for nothing." When Mr- Rooker came up the street and reached in his pocket for change he discovered that the negro had taken six dollars off of nim as he brushed his clothes. The name of the negro is unknown to Mr. Rooker but the warenouseman is reported to have stated that he would recognize him ipon sight. Will Outline Curb On Cotton Crop Washington, Sept. 30.?Secretary Wallace prepared today to outline erop control plans to Southern cotton growers at Memphis Friday, bulwarked by what he said was an endorsement of crop restriction policies by the International Institute nf Agriculture. The secretary said he would attempt to convince the Southern farm leaders that his "middle way" ?a course midway between abandonment of world's markets and (Continued on page 8) PRESBYTERIAN SERVICES Services will be held at the Presbyterian Church in Warrenton on Sunday morning at 11 o'clock and at the Littleton Presbyterian Church on Sunday evening at 7:30 o'clock, the Rev. Reece Jenkins announced yesterdayMrs T. B. Gardner and Mrs- JT. Bell of Littleton attended the wv-idjng of Miss Dorothy Lee to Mr. Waverly Croom of Kinston in the First Baptist Church of Kinston on Tuesday evening. The bride is a niece of Mrs- Gardner