II .4cclr-4te, TERSE I i timely i Jxxxvw Farmers To Bt | Crop Con I fire Thousand Warren Coun-j. I |v Growers Eligible To |' I Express Choice iveeds two-third vote) I Appealed to by county, state and j I federal agricultural officals. eligible!" of the nation will go to Ir' Itie po-~ 011 Saturday, March 12, |? I to participate in the election on r' /proposal-- to invoke marketing con- a |(jdi provisions of lite new farm act. C: I Mere .lion 5,000 growers of cotton j so c tobacco in Warren county have t( Itie right to say whether they favor ri jappicanon oj a marketing quota a jivitem to keep surplus yields off the J Jmarkec tins year. In the nation IJ Ittere are more than 2,000,000 d growers eligible to par.icipate in I tl (tie election and under the terms of I T Itiie new farm act, two-thirds of j tl Itiose voting must approve the cur-1 ai Lament measures for the new act!p. |:o become effective. | From County Agent Bob Bright's I s( Jc?ce yesterday it was learned that J tc lihere are approximately 4,000 cot-jo 1 Jgroans and 1,500 tobacco pro- j w ; ?"ntv eligible to I iV tucers tu um> w? take part m the referenda- All are G k~s tac.ura?cd to vote regardless m ci iiow they cast .lieir ballots. lit While a few growers of the county oppose the new measure, the B consensus of opinion is that the in county will vote by an overwhelm- Vi ing majority in favor of restricting Pi the 16J8 t-bacco and cotton crops. R If approved, the quota system c would limit sale oi 1938-grown cot- tr ten to about 11,000,000 bales, com- al pared with last year's record yield A :: 18.740,000, The flue-cured to- sc bacco quota would be 705,000,000 te pounds and the dark tobacco quota 148,000,COO pounds. G Growers selling more than their share o: the national quotas wouid sg ce subject .0 a penalty tax of two cents a pound on cotton and halt r the market price on tobacco. They t mtw pim he i-enalized under the SojO.OOOO.OOO soil conservation subsidy program. For the convenience of farmers polling places are being established in cotton and tobacco growing s'; communities ci 20 states- In War- 111 ten county voting precincts will be to ts.abibhed i.t all townships as fol- ^ tas: Fishing Creek, Grove Hill, Fori, Inez School, Hawtree, Jud- fil tins, 'A'ise, Vaughan, Nutbush, in Drewry, River, Littleton, Roanoke, M Elans, Sandy Creek, Vicksboro, Shocco, PitmeH's Store, Sixpound, cl Churchill. Smith Creek, Ncrlina pa Mayor's Office, Warrenton, Court M Bouse. Bal.ots must be cast be- st Been the hours of 7 a. m. and in i p, m- za HIRE ARE CHIEF POINTS of IX MARKETING PROPOSAL H Raleigh, March 10.?The pro- eii Posed marketing quotas for cotton j ar and tobacco would: gr Endeavor to keep production in | the with consumption so as to pro- j ex tect growers from ruinously low m Puces on glutted markets. j Wl Give each co.tcn and tobacco ^ Sower his fair share of the total tt0P that is to be produced this ^ Seat. M g Entourage growers to participate 12 lhe agricultural conservation pro- 0j E'ani and receive payments offer- or icr limiting TP qprootro nf I ?o ? w* at depleting crops and for carrying g| ? soil-building practices. lis Provide penalties ior farmers "w exceed cheir cotton and to- a ba'w quotas111 brief, the cotton and tobacco (iotas would be determined for tach farm thus: farms growing more than five q attes of tobacco would make adinstments of about 30 per cent from se 'tar normal acreage, which is #b0M -be same as the old "base tj1 ucreage." kj firms with 3.5 acres or less ""lid make about a 10 per cent n, %stment, while farms with be- vi lteen 3.5 and 5 acres would make ^ %s:ments ranging irom 10 to 30 ei t*r cer_t TV,? -?;u tne farmer's marketing I would be calculated by mulling his allotted acreage times j j/ average number of pounds tl e?*n pet acre. cotton quota would be the a&ount of cotton the farmer can on his allotted acreage. fi n a farm where the planted and si Averted cstton acreage has not, p 6a as much as five acres during n 6 Past three years, the allotment I ttld be the same as the largest I | "fAer of acres planted and di- a | dlontinued on Page 8) | ' ?] WAR] illot On trol Saturday Soys Apply For Membership In Scout Troops Going forward with plans which : 'ere started several months ago to 1 evive Boy Scouting in Warren 1 ounty, meeting were held at Warenton and Macon on Wednesday 1 nd a number of boys made appli- 1 ation for membership. At the meeting in the armory here i :n former scouts and six men were ] egis.ered in scouting. The boys | re John Long Jr., William Boyce r., Victor Bell, Carlton Modlin, ' amine jdujxc, uuuan rvinie, xvaii- i olph Miles, Clement Weston, Ar- ' lur Williams and Horace Williams- ] 'wenty new boys are working on ' leir Tenderfoot tests and will be ' dmitted to the troop upon comleting the necessary requirements. The Warrenton troop is sponsor;red by 'the Lions Club of this >wn and is under the direct charge : Scoutmaster Dorman Blaylock ho has as his assistants N. B. IcDaniel and Duke Miles. E- E. illam is troop committee chairlan with A. G. Bracey and Wilim K. Lanier serving with liim. The organization meeting for a oy Scout troop at Macon was heid i the school auditorium there on 'ednesday evening when seventeen ' rospective members met with H.! . Skillman, Claude T. Bowers and ' M. Calhoun, field executive. The oop is sponsored by the Eaptist ] id Methodist churches of Macon.j rthur Lee Nicholson is the new outmaster and the troop cotnmite is composed of N. M. Thornton, lairman, E. H. Russell, 15. M. ardner, and one other member do was no; present. Three patrols ! ere formed and patrol leaders lected. i ! t Company B Wins * Good Rating At j Annual Inspection Living up to its reputation of long ; anding, Company B, local guard! lit, was again given a "Sa;isfacry Rating" when Lt. Colonel p rthur M. Ellis, representing the 0 deral government, examined of- jj :ers and men in annual federal p spection held in the armory on v onday night. | r A property and administrative 2 leek of the affairs of the Com- i my was made by Colonel Ellis on C onday afternoon, and it is under- p cod thai the officer was much c ipressed with the entire organi-! ii tion. Following Colonel Ellis' inflection' si the organization, Colonel Aiolphe o uguet, senior instructor of Ral- j S gh, spoke briefly to the officers! a id men at which time he con- j a atulated them upon their splen-1 o d showing, stating "It was to be 1 \ .pected that Company B would b ake a creditable showing; it al-1 r lys does." The instructor was t irticularly high in his praise of A le company's dress. Other offi- b ::s present for the inspection were ijor T. S- Kittrell and Cnpt. 0. I Sturgess of Henderson. F Colonel Ellis was the dinner guest j a Captain Bowers at Hotel Warren 1 Monday night. Others present ( ; this time were former Captain .ephen E. Burroughs, Mayer Wilim Polk and Duke Jones. ilee Club To ^ Appear At Church s a The Littleton High School Glee j lub will render special selections I i connection with the 11 o'clock r irvices to be held at the Little- g in Presbyterian Church on Sun-11 ly morning, the Rev. Reece Jen- f ins, pastor, stated this week. a The Rev. Mr. Jenkins also an c ounced that there would be serces in the Warrenton Presbyterian i hurch at 7:30 o'clock on Sunday i ,'ening. z s ACCEPTS POSITION t Mr. Howard Stancil or Kocay s Count has accepted a position at i le A. & P. Store here. UNDERGOES OPERATION Mrs- Dawson Alston is recovering om an appendix operation which tie underwent in Park View Hos- 1 ital in Rocky Mount on Tuesday i ight. s i Mr. J. B. Gee of Henderson was < business visitor at Warrenton on I rhursday. I be H< RENTON, COUNTY OF WAR Town Board Asks Car* Light Company To l! Find Cause of Ra Radio interference for which the : Carolina Power & Light Company may be responsible received official attention of the Board of Town Commissioners at their regular meeting on Monday night when the members passed a resolution decrying the condition and calling upon ; the Power Company to send adequate testing device here to trace i leakage in lines and transformers believed to be responsible for much !: of the trouble. . j It was pointed out that the Power (1 Company had recently sent men j here to try and rectify the trouble, |. but, as one of the commissioners ' stated it, the citizens of the town' 1 want something more than two or ,' hree men riding down here from 1 Henderson trying to locate the trou-1 ble with an automobile radio- Con- i inuing, this member said that 1,he' t .Who? 1 ?rt 1L*> g The names of the persons pie- t ured above may be found in one of p he advertisements in this paper. c Vlrs. Lina Andrews a Dies At Home Of j c Daughter Tuesday jj j Funeral services for Mrs. Lina c mdrews, 78, who died at the home ^ f her daughter, Mrs. Hugh E. Wei- d on, in Norlina on Tuesday follow- p ag an illness of about two weeks, a /ere conducted from the Weldon v esidence on Thursday afternoon at g :30 o'clock by the Rev. Mr. Cran- p ord, pastor of the Spring Valley c !hurch, with the Rev. Mr. Roach, r astor of the Norlina Baptist v ihurch, assisting. Interment was p, i the Providence Church cemetery, y Mrs- Andrews is survived by three s Dns, Herbert and Stewart Andrews b f Norfolk, and Boyd Andrews of i lan Francisco, Cal.; two daughters, n Irs. H. A. Dowtin of Norfolk and t] Irs- Hugh E. Weldon of Norlina; p ne brother, Robert Pinnell of. irarren county; and two half-' ' irothers, W. C. and J. W. Bur-. oughs of the Afion-Elberon sec-J ion. Her husband, the late John mdrews, preceded her to the grave' y about ten years. : i Pallbearers were Walter Cook \ lurroughs, J. K. Pinnell, W. J. p 'innell, C. B. Basket, Joe Baskett, c nd G. Badger Harris. ! c t Services At The 1 Methodist Church 0 jr By REV. J. O. LONG, Pastor j p The pastor will preach at the t norning and evening hours on t iunday, March 13. He will preach a ,t the morning hour on the sub- i ect: "When the Song of the Lord i legan." Two weeks ago at the s norning service the emphasis was c ;iven to the fact that the Song of I he Lord had very largely departed r rom us. In the present sermon an t ittempt will be made to answer the p [uestion as to when it will return- g The subject for the evening hour e s: "Sermons in Shoes." Travelers e n strange cities often place money e md other valuable things in their s hoes for safe-keeping. Spies in the c erritory of the enemy sometimes ihould be done but for quite a dif- J erent reason. At 3:00 p. m. the regular preach (Continued on page 8) r ? EPISCOPAL SERVICES ? Morning Prayer will be held at t Smmanuel Episcopal Church on 1 Sunday morning at 11 o'clock, and 1 it 3:30 o'clock in the afternoon 3 ;here will be Evening Prayer at 3ood Shepherd Church, Ridgeway, ;he Rev- B. N. de Poe Wagner, rec- 1 ;or, announced yesterday. irmt REN, N. C. FRIDAY, MAR olina Power And t Send Equipment To dio Interference Here Power Company had a truck specially equipped for this type of work that one time came to Warrenton, and his opinion was that this truck should be brought here to locate the trouble, and should be brought here after that three or four times a year to see that the condition did not again occur. The board cont curred and embraced in its petition a request that adequate equipment for mking the test be brought here. The Board decided to hold up all at.rppt wnrk exeeDt that of emer jency tpye, until after the voters of the town had expressed their opinion on the street bond issue. Reason for the delay is that work can be done at less cost with the aid of 9VPA labor in the event that the ^ oond issue passes. ^ Other business was of routine r, lature and the board adjourned af- tl ;er an unusually short session. ? - t Plancon Given ^ Roofing Contract p At County Home Complying with recommendations if the Grand Jury, the board passid an order authorizing work of epairing and painting a roof at we he county home to begin. The job cej ras given C. K. Placon at a cost of 0>c 42 no. and must be done according ?,v o contract. The work is to be ^ uaranteed for five years. W? Five dollars was ordered paid G- j0 L King of Hawtree township per 0Cl nonth for two months on account f disability. Walter Harris was given a $2.00 sjj efund on a marriage license which se] las issued to him on December 28 jje iut was never used- The negro did hi; lot reveal why he failed to use the icense. tic It was ordered that Mr. and Mrs. . Lerling Pitehford be paid an iddi- mj ional $5 00 per month as outside aupers. an The board recommended that the ilark's Bridge road be repiured, I a nd ordered that the county be re- ch ponsible for the hospital account pa if the wife of Roger Champion, ^ egro, provided he arrange for the cal alance of money needed. al? The county agreed to pay Mrs. ^ ilivia Stallings $5 00 per month for , reping Samuel Davis, aged and op ependent negro, whom Mrs. Stal- sj0 _ngs took out or tne county nome gil year ago and has been keeping ca /ithout cost to the county. Mrs. itallings told the board that she ? elt that she had rendered the ounty a service by keeping the legro a year, when no one else /ould keep him but a short time, 1 ut that she was unwilling to keep dm longer without financial as- j <3 istance from the county. The : b oard decided to let him remain in I 1 ler custody at a cost of $5.00 per i :ionth rather than place him in a be county home at a cost of $15.00 y er month. h c ro Take Pictures For Guard History _ T Representatives of the Army and Javy Publishing Co. will be in Varrenton on March 22 to take' ictures which are to be used in I ] onnection with a history of North we Carolina National Guard which is do o' be published, Capt. Claude we lowers stated this week. on Capt- Bowers said that the men ] f Company B would drill the n0 light of the 22nd and that he ex- pe lected their pictures would be thi aken at that time as well as pic- an ures of the armory, supply room ] ,nd equipment. Be Adj.-Gen. J. Van B. Metts is aid- of ng in having the history of the Be tate's militia written and he has cai ailed on the various companies in pe: forth Carolina to look up old , ecords and secure other informa- bo ion bearing on activities and the an tersonnel of companies in years sei ;one by. Capt- Bowers has inter- jui sled himself in this work for sev- 1 irai weeks and tnrougn tne coop- ed ration of a number of persons has De ecured a supply of inter esting gu lata. cei kn r. J. TARWATER CONFINE]) TO HENDERSON HOSPITAL J. J. Tarwater, proprietor of Farners Warehouse, suffered an acute Le ittack of indigestion last Friday CI md has been confined to a Hen- fr< ierson hospital since that time. Sa friends are pleased to learn that lis condition was reported better yesterday. ou Miss Emalyne Evans spent the pii veek end with relatives at 3cotland te: Neck. in Emu CH 11, 1938 Subticriptioi \vowed 1940 Candidate J ^ -j1 M 3H 3 WASHINGTON, D. C. ... His riends say Paul V. McNutt will esign as High Commissioner to tie Philippines next August to egin campaign for the' 1940 ? lomnnroiip r?ra?HHAntin 1 r?itmina? .< ion. White House silence is inerpreted as tacit approve!. rank Neal Is Painfully Hurt In Auto Accident Frank Neal is recovering this iek from painful injuries he reived on Saturday night about 8 lock when the Pon'tiac Sedan in lich he was riding with several ler persons towards Warrenton is struck by a Ford driven by hn Russell, negro of Oine, and cupied by four tenants of Gas irrin. While occupants of both cars were aken and bruised, no one was riously hurt other than Mr. Neal. ; received a blow on the back of s head and cuts about the body lich necessitated medical attenm. rhe accident occurred about a le from Warrenton on the Nora road. Sheriff Pinnell said that investigation revealed that as the o cars approached one another on slight curve Russell cut his maine across the highway into the , th of the Neal automobile, strik- | r the rinor of the Pontiac and , using it to overturn. The officers IJ :o stated that Russell voluntarily ;tled for1 damages, rhe Neal automobile was being erated at the time of the collin by Gray Neal. Woodrow Higis was also an occupant of the r. Dog Hurt ?o whom it may concern: Saturday afternoon our old og, Fr&nko, was rim over and lis hip broken by some person inknown to us. This dog had ' he feelings and consideration of , human being, far surpassing ' ou who would not stop to save 1 is life, but who, I hope, some 1 lay will have the gentleness and onsideration this dog had. * ?T-? <~1 TTI TT7TTT' I Tl.l I IVLCtO. Hi. VVX11XJJ. | | I 1 ] hree Cases Tried 1 In County Court 1 i Pour oases involving six negroes i re removed from Recorder's court < cket Morning when three of them ] re tried and the other was placed j the Superior court calendar. j Kenry Alston was found guilty of I n-support and received a sus- ; nded judgment on the condition ] at he remain of good behavior ; d pay the court costs. i Bonnie Harris and James (Teddy) 1yd came into court on charges breaking, entering and larceny, yd was found not guilty and the se against Harris was sent to Sudor court. A charge of receiving stolen goods, , oked against Aaron Alexander ; d June Sommerville, was also , it to Superior court for want 01 ] risdiction. , Prayer for judgment was continu- . in the case against Richard j ivis after he had been found iliy on a charge of carrying con- ( iled a deadly weapon?a pair of , ucks. FOOD SALE The Young People's Service ague of the Warrenton Episcopal lurch will hold a food sale in int of Burrough's market on 1 turday. MRS. WILSON ILL Mrs- Milton Wilson has been seri- i sly ill in a Roanoke Rapids hostal this week. Her condition yesrday was reported to be improv- i e i Go* jOS^T nP i Price, $1.50 a Year $5,000 Estima Of 5-Year Delay In Handling Pension Forms Is Costly, Says Agent Endeavoring to place this county n a position so in the future it will lot lose thousands of dollars in lenefit checks due eligible persons inripr nrnwicinne nf f-Vto Snrrial Ca uauui yiwiuuvim VI U1V KJWltAI. IW:urity Act, Clark W. Blackburn, ield social work representative for he State Board of Charities and 3ublic Welfare, suggested to mem>ers of the Board of County Comnissioners on Monday afternoon hat they place a trained interview:r in the County Welfare Office in irder that the cases of those makng application for old age assistince may be investigated with more peed and the names of those eligible to receive funds certified to he Rleigh office. Mr. Blackburn made this sugges;ion after informing the commissioners that $24,000 was the annual Ulotment for Warren county to ;arry out the various phases of relet offered under the Social Secur.ty Act and that through January, ?hich coves the seven months perod that the program has been in effect, only $4,911 has been paid through this county to eligible persons. He stated that through Jan nary 136 persons had received old age assistance checks and that ? day) to assist those needing help in filling out these reports and also stated that he had secured for the convenience of the public a number of State Income Blanks, as well as Intangible Person Property Tax Blanks which he will be glad to give to those needing them. Mr- Gardner pointed out that under the new law any one having mm4orowij and other evi | UUIM, UiViVg^vw dence of debt must report same ?o the state this year rather than to the county. The penalty for failing , to file returns is heavy, the auditor stated. TRAINING SCHOOL HEAD TO ADDRESS P. T. A. OF MACON Mr. Leonard, superintendent of the Eastern Carolina Training School for Boys, will deliver a talk before the Parent-Teacher Association of the Macon High School In the school auditorium on Monday night, March 14, at 7:30 o'clock, announcement was made yesterday. The public Is Invited to attend.