: accurate, terse
ml "timely
xxxviii
i 111 ping plans
Mre authorized
Hwaird Tells Architect To Pre
^B^pare Sketches ror siuuui, .
H Garage and Addition
iui | ; K FEDERAL AID
Meeting here in special session
^ j.K Friday, .lie Board of County
^Kcoa imissieiuTS authorized Stuart
^ pjvis. Louisburg architect, to go
^ ioraard wiih plans for the con^ ;,ra(tioii
of a negro school in Sandy
^ cki* loivnsiiip. the erection of a
^Buragf a- Warren Plains to take
of school buses, and an agricul^ lural
room for the Norlina High
IigCllWiI
The total cost of the three buildIjjjS,
which the county is endeavoring
to have erected with aid from
She federal government, will be in
Che neighborhood of fifteen or sixteen
thousand dollars, 45 per cent
Cf which the government will pay
providing the projects are approved.
The county will need to raise
itjund S7.300 which members of the
:oard are inclined io believe can be
ecured without any increase in the
ix rate due to the fact that a sum
pproximaiely this large was spent
it year out of .he general fund for
' ""rtvKes and this
Ifcfi'.OOi 311U I'Hiv* fv.. x
Cj noi again be necessary this
-ear.
I Hie school in Sandy Creek townlliip
is to replace the building there
fitieh tvas destroyed by fire, originating
irom lightning, two years
L Since this building went up in
fames the negroes have been carling
on class work in a church and
Ir more than a year now the comlissioners
have been confronted
lull the vexing problem of providkg
another building, as required of
em by law.
I Tentative plans drawn up for the
Lard by Mr. Davis to conform to
[ale requirements and take care of
It situation in Sandy Creek call for
'.Condnued on Page 81
? H. Cook Defeats
Tom Burton To Win
Golf Championship
L H. Cook defeated Tom Burton
?'in first place in the men's :
ampionship tournament of the
arrenton Golf Club, and second
r.ors of the contest went to V. F.
?rd who came from behind to
itch victory from Dawson Alston.
Mile in the first flight Mr. Cook
4 the edge over Mr. Burton pracilly
all the way through the I
bole match, in the second flight
advantage was at one time with
* " nt?.
Ir.-vision anci men again wan iv*i.
a:;
S'mners of each of the flights are
have their names engraved on
?s which have been presented to
i club.
Mr. Burton won the first flight
the tournament last year.
irearms To Be
I Shown At Library
fee rare collection of firearms
M by J. a. Pipkin will be disW
Saturday at Warren CounMemorial
Library in a show-case
has recently been given the
T The weapons which Mr.
to will show date back to the
tot Capt. John Smith and repre'
the countries of England,
Spain and America. The
P is invited to visit the library
P vw these guns.
coming services
? shady grove church
1 Home Coming and Memorial
1 Service will be held a-t Shady
** Methodist Church on Sunday
toon. August 7, at 3:30 o'clock.
Itoeement was made this week,
limitation is extended the public
P* present.
i twin cantaloupes
cantaloupes were brought to
p, 01 The Warren Record this
to oe displayed along with the
of unusual vegetables which
B been loft here during the past
^M*eelts. Tire muskmelons were
by Adolpheus Thompson.
Ola Alexander of Hotel
^wen has returned after a week's
B^n in Clarksville and Buffalo
Va. with old friends and
Bjves and attending the Baptist
ff?/rd Association.
and Mrs. s. B. Yancey of
^B&lphia. Pa., spent Sunday and
E?1 ki:h Mrs. Ola Alexander at
barren.
WA]
Youngest Chancellor
i .A
nt
Dr. Harry Lee Upperman, newlyelected
Chancellor of Nebraska
Wesley an University at Lincoln,
said to be the world's youngest
college chancellor, is visiting educational
leaders throughout the
East in the interest of his institution's
extension program. An in
uviuugauic DlrUUCUV KJi. CUUV.OV1UU,
Dr. Upperman, at forty-two, has
visited leading universities in
tnany countries.
Truck, Trailer And
Freight Smashed;
Driver Not Hurt
William B. Gore, 23, of Whiteville
miraculously escaped serious injury
on Sunday afternoon around 4
o'clock when the truck-trailer on
which he was hauling a ferris wheel
from Ahoskie 'to Oxford overturned
at Neal's service station, a short
distance from Warrenton, and
crumpled into a mass of wreckage.
Gore, who was riding alone, was
scratched and bruised, but he was
shocked more from the accident
than he was injured.
The truck was said to have been
traveling around 30 miles an hour
when one of the tires blew out and
the vehicle started over the embankment
at the bridge. The driver
swerved the truck back across the
road, and the trailer part with the
ferris wheel crashed on one side of
:he highway and the truck spilled
an the other.
Sunday afternoon drivers attracted
to the scene registered surprise
that a person could escape with his
life in such a wreck.
Revival Spirit Shows J
Growth In Warrenton
i
By GROVER L. HARTMAN j
Warrenton has witnessed the beginning
of a chapter in the story of
deeper Christian experience which:
many other cities and nations have
already fel1: through the challenge (
of the Oxford Group. The men and
inMnOh nam- '
WUIIICX1 11UUI Vilgiiuu, HU.V11 m ? v
lina, and Washington, D. C., who
had been in the city since Wednes- j
day explaining the new life they|
had found left Friday, but behind
them remained many local people
who had committeed themselves j
completely to doing the will of God
as revealed by daily measuring 'their
lives by Christ's standards of absolute
honety, absolute purity, absolute
unselfishness, and absolute love.
The interest of Warrenton people
in fuller fellowship with Christ
shown by the number who greeted
the visitors at the Hotel Warren on
Wednesday night was further man- j
ifest in a meeting for women Thurs- ,
day morning, one for ministers in
the afternoon, the service at the (
Wesley Memorial Methodist Church
Thursday night, and in the luncheon,
for businessmen and lay leaders at
Che hotel Friday noon. At the
women's gathering speakers, including
Mrs Rees Jenkins of Littleton,
told of new direction in their lives,'
in their families, churches and communities
when God had taken control.
The ministers' meeting was
addressed by Rev. Blanton Belk and
Rev. Leverton Evans of Richmond
and Rev. Walter G. Borchers of
Brazil. The Cwo former witnessed
to the greater effectiveness of their
ministry when God had been given
direction and the latter gave a vivid |
picture of the awakening of ministers,
laymen, and whole churches!
in the Brazilian mission fields where j
ne nas laooreu uvci um
In the service at the church
Thursday night, Hon. William T.
Polk, Mayor of Warrenton, welcomed
the visitors as did Rev. J. O
Long, pastor of the church, who expressed
his gratitude for men andj
movements which bring man nearer
to his God. With Dr. Evans presiding
numerous people made statements,
concerning the manner in
which they had found greater use(Continued
on page 8)
he W<
RRENTON, COUNTY OF WA
COMPANY B GOES
TO CAMP SUNDAY
Local Company To Participate
In Greatest Peace-Time
Maneuvers In History
SKILLMAN IN COMMAND
Warren county's military unit,
Company B, will leave the armory
here at 5 o'clock Sunday morning
for Mississippi where it will participate
in what is claimed to be the
greatest peace-time maneuvers ever
staged in the United StatesThe
local unit of the National
Guard, which is under the command
of Captain Harold R. Skillman,
will march from its headquarters
in ,lhe town armory to
the Warren-on depot where it will
entrain for Warren Plains and there
be picked up by a "special" which
will be joined along the route by
other North Carolina units.
The train is scheduled to land at
Maxie, about 30 miles from Hattiesburg,
Miss., Monday morning at 8
o'clock and the men will 'then begin
to participate in the 4th field army
maneuvers.
Company B is a part ofi the 30th
division, which has been designated
as the Blue Forces in the maneuvers.
The enemy, known as the
Brown Forces, is supposed to be entering
Mississippi from 'the Gulf,
and it is the duties of the Blue
Forces to repel the Brown forces
and thus save Mississippi and the
rest of the country.
While carrying on the defensive
battle the members of Company B
will be in several areas and will live
in tents rather than in one large
centralized camp.
In the two maneuvers there will
be a total of around 59,000 men. In
the one in which Company B is to
participate there will be an army of
(Continued on Page 8)
_
Dr. Coleman Buys
Dental Practice Of
Dr. A. A. Phillips
Coming here as a successor to Dr.
A. A. Phillips, H. Evans Coleman Jr.
of Wise began his dental career
here yesterday in the office formerly
occupied by Dr. Phillips.
Dr. Phillips, who came to Warrenton
two years ago as a successor
to Dr. Wallace Mustian, said yesterday
that his plans were not defi
nite for the future. A member of
the Reserve Corps, he will leave for
camp the first of the week.
Dr. Coleman recently graduated
from the Medical College of Virginia.
In addition to his dental
training he received his education
at the John Graham High School
and at Oak Ridge Military Institute.
He also holds a 1st Lieutenant's
Commission in the Reserve
Corps.
Jenkins Announces
Presbyterian Services
Services will be held at the Presbyterian
Churches of Warrenton and
t c!iiv?rlat7 thf R.PV RpeS I
JDlLUietUll Uli Uiuiuuj,
Jenkins, pastor; stated this week.
There will be no service at Gruver
Memorial on the fifth Sunday night,
he said.
The service in the Warrenton
Presbyterian Church will be held a':
11 o'clock in the morning, and at ?
o'clock that evening a special song
service is to be held in the Littleton
church.
(Referring to the song service at
Little ion the Rev. Mr. Jekins said
some of the great hymns of the
church will be sung by the congregation
and choir and a short sketch
of the authors and circumstances
under which they were written will
be given- The public is invited.
ACCEPTS POSITION
M. S. Burt has accepted a position
with Boyce Drug Store and will
begin his duties here on August 1.
Mr. Burt is the son of Dr. Burt of
Holly Springs and graduated in
pharmacy at the University of
North Carolina. He comes to Warrenton
from Lyon's Drug Store in
Oxford.
CAPTURE STILL
| A 50-gallon still, 150 gallons of
mash and one galon of moonshine
whiskey were captured yesterday af'
ternoon when Sheriff W. J. Pinnell,
Forrest Cheek and Dick Hight
made a~ raid in Shocco 'township.
The still was in operation at the
time
irrett
RREN, N. C. FRIDAY, J
j "Lighting Up In
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s* . . ? ' 1
M- : '
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SOUTH BOSTON, Virginia
girls, left to right, Misses Helen
bard, practicing for their roles in
Festival to be held here on Septei
and secure lights for their cigare
much to the interest of the nick
Farmers Should
Report Errors To
Office, Says Agen
By R. H. BRIGHT,
County Agent
We plan to notify farmers of the!
acreage as shown by the supervis
ors' report as soon as possible am
I hope the farmer will examine th
report and if he is satisfied tha
the acreage is not correct he shouli
come to the office at once and re
port the discrepency.
Farmers should bring their re
ports to the office and let some on
that is qualified to go over the pro
gram with them explain how the;
may qualify for their greatest pay
ment. Every year some farme
loses payment that he would be en
titled to if he did a few extri
things. I have tried to make thi
program a farmers' program in
stead of a program for office work
ers. The County and local commit
teemen have given their time am
put forth every effort to make i
success of the program, but withou
the cooperation of the farmer w
will all fail. I do not have anythini
but praise for the cooperation of th
Warren county farmer. This coun
ty has participated in all of th
programs 'that have been offeree
The farmers of this county in 193
participated to the extent of 92 pe
cent in the program. I am not sure
but I think this is the highest b
>;he state.
With poor crops, farmers shout
put rortn every enorc to quamy iu
their maximum payment in 1938 an:
I will be glad to go over the pro
gram with any one at any time an:
clear up any point that he or sh
does not understand.
Compliance is coming on fine an:
let's continue to give i the super
visor full cooperation.
Losers Entertain
Winners At Social
The losing side of the Warre:
Plains' Epworth League gave th
winning side a social Wednesda
evening, July 20, a't the home c
Miss Edna Harris. After the game
an ice course was served.
Among those attending wer
Misses Nan Hawks, Kitty Wilsoi
Rose Thompson, Mary Earl Wilsoi
Novella ^furray, Dorothy King, Dori
Harris, Catherine Frazier, Alic
Newson, Gladys Frazier, Edith Kat
zenstein, Margaret Thompson, essi
Mae Frazier, Anna Lee Copley, Myi
tie Thompson, and Mildred Steven
son; Messrs. Rob Yancey, Jam*
Wilson, Sam Yancey, Wilson Cople:
Everett Yancey, Gilmore Cople:
Richard Bolton, Woodrow Boltoi
Crawford Frazier, Benzie Kin;
Clarence King, Thomas and Jam*
Harris. j '
EPISCOPAL SERVICES
Holy Communion will be cel<
brated at Good Shepherd Churcl
Ridgeway, on Sunday morning at
o'clock, and at 11 o'clock the san
day morning prayer will be held ;
Emmanuel Episcopal Church, tl
Rev. Mr. Wagner announced th
week.
arrested
James Alston, negro, was picki
up on suspicion and brought he
where he was given a prelimina:
hearing by Magistrate Ed Petar ai
placed in jail in default of bond
the sum of $250.
Stern:
ULY 29, 1938 * Subscript
Dark Company"
Kfffi ffajpE
i?m
These three South Boston, Virginia,
rohnston, Jean Hill and Hallie Hubthe
fourth annual National Tobacco
Tiber 8 and 9, stop by a Negro cabin
ttes from the Negro mammy's pipe,
aninnys.
Fourteen Cases
Hold Recorder's
t Court Until Dark
Fourteen cases, several of which
were tried before juries, were dis_
1 l e , T.. Jnn rr> /"> DA/tnmll
I puscu Ui UC1UIC UUUgC X. \J. IVUUWCU
. Monday in the longest and largest
j session of Recorder's court he has
? presided over since he succeeded Dr.
^ W. W. Taylor on the bench. Three
j other cases were scheduled to be
heard this week but these were
postponed on account of approaching
darkness.
e Whiskey and fighting were responsible
for most of the defendants
y being brought into court to answer
charges of violating the laws. Memr
bers of both races were involved in
the charges, however, the biggest per
a cent of those tried were negroes,
s Four of the , cases were presented
- and argued before juries, and in
. each of these indictments a verdict
. of not guilty was returned. They
3 were: Weslem Wimbush, negro,
a charged with driving drunk; Roscoe
t Fitts, negro, charged with -assault
a upon a female;. Myrtle Fitts, negro,
X X
y LWU sepal aic uasco ui asset luu,
e Found guilty of possessing and
- transporting moonshine whiskey,
e Theo Roy West was sentenced to
I. work the roads for four months.
1 William Read was found not guilty
r on a similar chargei,
Judgment was suspended upon
a payment of court costs'in the case
against Lee Gooch, charged with
d reckless driving.
r Convicted on a charge of assault
d upon a female, Sylvester Henderson,
- negro, was given a six months road
d sentence which was suspended upon
e the conditions that he pay the couit
costs and keep peace in his family
d for twelve months. Kemp Watson,
- negro, was tried on a similar charge
and was given the same judgment,.
Grecy Silver, negro, was found
guilty of possessing and transport*ricr
hnnt.lpo' urhtclrpv. "Hp was ffivpn
a four months sentence and the
sheriff was instructed to confiscate
n his automobile and apply the proe
ceeds according to law. An appeal
J was taken and bond was set at $200
lf for his appearance in Superior court
IS Pour months on the roads was the
order passed out to Deedham Wile
liams, negro, after he had been con1,
vlcted of possessing moonshine whisi,
key for the purpose of sale.
Is Tom Alston, negro convicted ol
;e assault upon a female, was sentenced
to 60 days in jail, assigned to the
ie roads.
Pound guilty of driving while uni
der the influence of whiskey, Judge
is Rodwell told Elijah Ingram that he
1, could serve four months on the
y, roads or pay a $50.00 fine and courl
i, costs.
I, Judgment was suspended upor
:s payment of costs in the case againsi
\X7ai-er\W newer rrv PhflTCPd Witt
UllUCib ?? avouti, hvb.w, v. 0 ?
possessing and transporting moonshine
whiskey.
-- A case of skipping a board bill
ti, booked against Genie Ott, negro
9 was continued, as were the case
against Hal Connell and Exon
?t Clark. Mr. Clark is to be tried b:
ie a jury on a charge of possessini
is equipment for manufacturing whis
key, and a jury is also to hear th
evidence in the case against Mi
Connell who is charged with operat
id mg a motor vehicle while under th
re influence ot whiskey and the reck
ry less use of firearms.
ld Commenting on the unusua
in lengthy session of court, Judge Rod
(Continued on page 8)
ion Price, $1.50 a Year
Citizens In Ms
Give Approvi
First Tobacco Sales
Indicate Prices In
20c-30c Range
Raleigh, July 28.?Tobacco growers
in seventeen Georgia and Floriday
market centers heard auctioneers
ehant the first prices on
me lyse Drigm, rear crop iriursuay,
with the bulk of the early offerings
in the 20 'to 30 cents range.
Some baskets went as high as 40
cents, others as low as 5 cents a
poundSales
were undisturbed by the
Georgia and Florida court attacks
on the validity of tlje national
marketing quoCa system, which
places a penalty tax on tobacco sold
in excess of quotas.
Growers and Agricultural Adjustment
Administration afficials have
indicated they would be well pleased
if prices averaged near the 19.66
average in Georgia and Florida last
year. The national average in 1937
oo on
WttO O.UQ, |
Valdosta's firs; basket was auctioned
at 19.50, the first row at a
range of 13 cents to 32 cents and
four straight baskets in another row
for 33 cents. The majority of early
sales went ai? 23. Quality of the tobacco
was described as on a par or
slightly better than 1937's first offerings.
First sales at Hazlehurst ranged
from a low of 18 cents to a high of
36 cents, with the bulk selling for
around 27 cents.
Warehouses generally reported
(Continued on Page 81
Modern Fire Truck
Arrives; New Alarm
System Is Installed
Warrenton became better prepared
to combat the menace of fire
this week than Jt has been at an;
time during the history of the
town as the new and modern fire
truck arrived here and the job of
installing the new alarm system was
completed.
The shiny red-coated truck with
its 500-gallon capacity centrifugal
pump and other modern apparatus
arrived here on Wednesday and has
been put through several tests
which proved its efficiency and won
high praise from the colored firemen.
The alarm system, which was devised
by Hugh Holt, local amateur
radio operator and a student of
electrical engineering, was installed
by Jim Moore and tested out on
Wednesday afternoon.
With the new system there are
twelve alarm boxes scattered
.hroughout the town and when the
alarm is sounded an indicator drops
at the fire house, signifying to the
firemen in what block the fire is
In case of fire, the person giving
the alarm should rush to the nearest
box, press in the alarm, and remain
there until the firemen arrive.
The siren will blow no longer
'than the switch is held in, which
fact makes it impossible for a person
to throw in the switch and
| rush off leaving the siren screaming
with no one knowing where the
' fire is.
Under the old system there were
only three alarm boxes in town and
neither of these indicated in what
direction a fire was located when
r the alarm sounded. The old system
. also made it possible for the siren
, to be burned out by some person
throwing in the switch and driving
off as was done a number of years
, ago by some person celebrating New
, Year's night.
- -c. -Ci TV, nnoa f\f f l' rP
J inSWUCMOIIS iXl C. xxi i/aoc wi
; rush to the nearest box, push in the
alarm, and remain there until the
i firemen arrive so they may be told
t which home to go. The firemen
t will go directly to the box where the
. alarm is given.
ACCEPTS POSITION
Friends here will be interested ic
5 know that P. D. Jones, who made
i his home in Warrenton for a numY
ber of years before leaving to wort
r in Florida for a year, has acceptec
. a position with the Imperial Tobace
co Co. and began his duties yester .
day.
e NO BAPTIST SERVICES
There will be no preaching ser
vice at the Warrenton Bapiis
j Church on Sunday morning at 1
_ o'clock, the Rev. R. E. Brickhouse
pastor, announced yesterday.
MOST OF THE NEWS
ALL THE TIME j j j|j:
NUMBER 30
iss Meeting I
al To Projects J
Representatives of All Sections
Express Views On
Building Program -|||
JOHN KERR JR. PRESIDES
Three hundred or more citizens
representing every township in the
county with the exception of Roanoke
gathered in the court house
Wednesday ni|ht to attend a mass
meeting called by the Board of
County Commissioners and indicated
by raised hands that they were
in favor of various projects which
have been recommended for Warren
and that they would be willing
to vote bonds to raise the necessary
money to match the government's
appropriation and have needed
work done.
While two or three hands went up
in opposition to, one or two of the
projects, the sentiment of the crowd
was overwhelmingly in favor of all
the projects which were recommended
and discussed at length.
What will be the results of the
meeting are unknown at present
but inasmuch as it was called by
the commissioners to indicate to
thorn hmir tovnovoro fj.lt ohnnt. is
suing bonds and securing federal
money to carry on work of a public
naure in this county, it is believed
that the board will be guided by the
expression of sentiment Wednesday
night and will call an election in
order that citizens may vote on the
bond issues which will be necessary
to secure the projects.
Three of the five county commissioners,
Wm. H. Burroughs, Chm.,
R. L. Capps and Sam King, were
present at the meeting. When asked
yesterday what he thought the
board would do about the projects,
Mr. Burroughs said that, he did not
know; that the matter would be
discussed further at the next regular
session of the board- ij;ll|T|
The projects on which a vote of
raised hands were taken Wednes?Jay
night included an armory, improvement
and enlargement of the
court house, a room for vocational
work in the Littleton High School
and another building to afford more
space at the John Graham High
School. While the fish pond was
not discussed extensively due to the
fact that it would not be necessary
for the county to borrow money to
purchase two or three hundred acres
of swamp land, John Kilian got this
project before the people and secured
their endorsement. The
question of improving the county
home was also brought before the
attention of the citizens present by
Rev. Mr. Lyles, north Warrenton
minister who made an impressive
talk for this measure, but this project
was not considered as were
others due to the fact that some of
the citizens have expressed the sentiment
that the county home is good
enough as it is for the inmates while
?~fool fVior if U'nn'f hp
many uuiicxc wihv .. ~
but a few more years before such
institutions are done away with and
the poor and unfortunate are taken
care of in district hospitals '.r
'through Social Security.
| The meeting was presided over by
i John Kerr Jr. at the request of the
Board of County Commissioners.
After explaining the purpose of the
meeting he called on his father,
Congressman John H. Kerr, to
throw further light on the projects
and explain the proposition the
federal government is making in
regard to civic improvements and
works of a public nature.
Quoting figures to show that this
country is financially sound, Judge
Kerr said that while the national
aggregate debt of America, including,
cities, counties and municipalities,
is fifty-five billon dollars, the
assets of this country amount to
four hundred and filty billion dollars
and that last year the aggregate
wealth produced in this county
i amounted to sixty-nine billion dollars.
&
"Don't be mislead and frightened
by those who are attacking the
Roosevelt Administration and are
) raising the cry that this country of
! ours is on the brink of ruin. The
average person, particularly those
: who hold stocks and bonds and are
1 most severe in 'their criticism, is
. twice as wealthy as he was five
. years ago," the Congressman averred
While the national debt has been
increasing as the government has
- loaned and given money to cont
struct 70 per cent of the school
1 houses which have been built, 60
i,; per cent of the hospitals, 64 per cent
I (Continued on page S)