I host of the news all the time XXXVIII board studies ^solventlist I Commissioners Agree to Pay Hall Hospital Bill After I Lengthy Debate t0 11 kn over books Tj10 Bi ard of County Commisj'oncis was in session Wednesday] niornina :o study the insolvent list] preparatory to turning the books] ,ver to Sheriff Pinnell for the col- ] ection ot 1938 taxes. It expected that the books will ] K turned over to the sheriff the] ;:jt Monday in October. In the] leantune he is to push collections] inch are slightly behind those of] In addition to discussing the tax] cords, the commissioners attend-] to several other matters, includ- ] y tiie issuance of a beer and wine ] ense to O. C. Brown and instruct.] . nhairman to Droperly exe-| ing mc ? I cute the note of $7,000 which repre sents money the county borrowed I temporarily to pay its share of the cos: of erecting a negro school in Sandy Creek township and a school bus garage at Warren Plains. The board also agreed to pay Fiulutgh Read $6800 as approximately half of the hospital bill of Sidney Jiggetts which Mr. Read | stood for when he rushed the old and poor negro, who was in a critiII cal condition, to Park View hospital. Rocky Mount, several months ago. Mr Read paid the other part I of the bill. It was with reluctance that the board settled the hospital bill with I Mr. Read, one or two of its members pointing out that to do so would violate a rule made by the commissioners previously not to pay any core hospital bills unless the patient was ordered to a hospital by I the welfare officer or a member of I the board. *--J iU-4. I Jlr. Read expiamea mau nucu the ca^e was brought to his attenjtnn and lie was assured by a phyIsician tiiat the indigent negro could I not live but a few hours unless he received the benefit of an operagliicn he informed the welfare of J ,'::er of the situation and her in ability to get him in Duke hospital within ten days led him to call sev eral hospitals and finally get him I admitted in Park View at a rate of 9 $3.00 a day- Informed by board aembers that if the case had been handled by one of the commission ers the negro would have been ad. mitted at the county rate of $2 a I cay for patients of this type, Mr. 1 Read replied that he was unaware I of this fact, that he thought he was i I contacting the right person when I he went to the head of the county I welfare department, and reminded . I 'he commissioners that it was an < H emergency case. "It was a case of : I ~e or death and I would save al- 1 I tost any man's life if I could do i fl 50 lor S150. provided I had the I money," Mr. Read stated in request- 1 I mg the board to pay half of the i r-e?ro's hospital bill, which totaled around $140. After discussing the matter pro ' I and con the board agreed to pay i Mr. Read $08 00. Mr. Read had al- , been paid around $30.00 by 1 I Stives of Jiggetts, but this amount as offset by telephone calls, get- ; tin *i , , .. . , Jx_, j !-"s we paueni to tne nospuai anu buying medicine, he told boaTd i members. ' After all, by me paying balf the bill the crnlhty is getting 1 ?ut with less expense at the $3.00 a % rate than it would have if the i Patient had been sent there by the county at a rate of $2.00 a day," he ! Proceeds will be used to further i the Macon cemetery improvement < I project. Item 4BER 23, 1938 Subscript! MAN ROBBED OF TOBACCO MONEY Pickpocket Lifts $147 From Negro Tobacco Grower As He Is Leaving Bank FEW CLUES ARE GIVEN George Daniel, Enfield negro, was robbed of $147.00 on the streets of Warrenton Wednesday morning iround 11:30 o'clock by an unidentified negro who lifted the money from his watch pocket as he was leaving the bank where he hadj cashed his tobacco check. Daniel told this newspaper he thought he felt some one brush igainst him as he was leaving the aank but he paid no attention to this until he noticed a negro who lad watched him cash his check ;curring down the street. "I felt in nv nocket, and discovered then mv noney was gone, but so had the nan," he said. Daniel said that he had never ;een the thief before but he would ecognize him upon sight. The description he gave officers of the pickpocket gave them scant clues vith which to work. Nol Pros Ordered In Cast Against Commissioners Learning that the jail had been econditioned and other instruc.ions complied with, the state took i pol pros in the case booked against nembers of the Board of County Commissioners approximately a year igo charging them with failure to :arry out recommendations made >y Grand Juries. With the exception of auditing he affairs of the county over a >eriod of five years and publishing i list of relief beneficiaries, all the ecommendations have been carried )ut. The contention of the comnissioners has been their delay in implying with the wishes of the >rand Jury has been occasioned >y a lack of funds in the treasury. Invir A rrain Lti aim i/ ui y r&gum Recommends Five Year County Audit Public offices and affairs of Waren county were found to be in good irder by the members of the Grand Tury who yesterday afternoon landed in their report which callid attention to the fact that while nost recommendations made by ormer Grand Juries had been carded out, instructions relative to luditing the public offices of the :ounty for a period of five years ind publishing a list of relief benificiaries had not been complied vith. The Grand Jury recommend;d that this be doneIn accepting their report Judge 3arker made no comment on these wo recommendations, but instructid the Clerk of Court to have two guardians whom the Grand Jury 'ound had not complied with the aw in regard to filing reports to do ;o at once. In releasing the body le expressed his appreciation for he service they had rendered and lis pleasure in working with memiers of this body. The report in full follows: 'Honorable R. Hunt Parker, 'Judge Presiding September Term Superior Court. 'Your Honor: "We, the Grand Jury of the Sepember Term of Superior Court of j Varren County, make the following eport of the duties performed by J is while acting as a Jury"We have carefully examined all i witnesses and passed on all bills >resented to us by the Solicitor. "We visited the following places n a body and find: ''SCHOOL BUSES: We met with he Superintendent of Schools and jxamined certificates of all drivers if school buses, fifty-nine in all. We 11- - --1 U..? ' ilso met wnn me suuuui uiu mc:hanic and find that all buses are n good repair as of September 1st, 938. We recommend that all buses rave governors and that same be nspected and regulated according ;o the law governing speed of same ind officially sealed. We are informed that the garage building ind repair shop for school buses will je built in the near future, as rec)mmended by the May Grand Jury. "JAIL: We find that all work recommended by the past Grand Jury has been taken care of and ;hat the Jail is in very satisfactory :ondition. The new steel bar door (Continued on Page 8) / tb on Price, $1.50 a Year i Wins Award ! ! : ' CLEMENT HUNTER WESTON, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Weston, who has been awarded the North Carolina State Scholarship to the Shenandoah Valley Academy, a military school for boys located at Winchester, Va. The award was announced recently following a meetincr r?f tV?o "RnorH nf TVn.cfppQ nf t.hP VilV MVU* Vt V/4 A A WVVVW w* academy. Fire Alarm Box Shorts; Burnt Out Siren Is Result A short circuit in the alarm box near the home of Pete Reavis was responsible for the siren being burned out Tuesday morning between 4 l and 5 o'clock when the alarm went off twice to cause citizens and firemen to scuttle from the warmth of their beds and hurry downtown In search of a blaze. The short circuit in the alarm box, which was recently installed along with a number of others about the town, is believed to have been caused by rain in or about the box where the switch is located. The alarm first went off about 4 o'cock and blew steadily for about ten minutes. Approximately 30 I minutes after its grating sound faded into the early morning atmosphere and citizens had returned to their beds its call went out again, but its stop this time was as sudden as its start. The belief was expressed by an electrician yesterday that there was a mild short circuit in the box some time before there was enough "juice" to cause the siren to blow and that the mechanism of the apparatus was already hot and on the verge of burning out when a Setter contact occurred and the siren began to blowThe alarm box has been repaired and another motor for the siren has already arrived here. It will probably be installed today. Lions To Be Guests At Football Game Displaying appreciation for the support it has received from time to time from the Warrenton Lions Club, the John Graham High j School will be host to members of the civic organization this afternoon at a football game which is Vi be played between the locals and j Nashville's feam. The invitation to attend the game, which the school has asked this newspaper to convey to mem[ bers of the club, reads as follows: "To show the appreciation of the John Graham High School to the Lions Club for all the things that the club has done for the school, an invitation is hereby tendered to all members of the Lions Club to attend the Warrenton-Nashville football game, played today. There will be no charge to the Lions, so please wear some signification besides your 'growl'." j With new material on hand and a new coach who, it was stated, has already shown the boys some new tricks which materially strengthens the team, a surprising and interesting game is promised. ! The probable lineup for the John Graham team, which is playing the first game of the season this afternoon, was given as follows: Left end, James darr Moore; left tackle, ' Egerton Ridout; left guard, Everett I TJnvfio' porxfor Ti1 T* .Tt* j liailiO, VVliVVl) m. * < AVWVTVI, ' right guard, John Long; right tackle, Ed Davis; right end, Cross; j right halfback, Arthur Williams; I left halfback, Dick Miles, team [ captain; quarterback, Mac Aycock; fullback, Harmon. "Support the school team by attending this opening game and giv' ing your backing whenever possi' ble," is the request which comes from the local boys. 31 f -*v ?291 ACCTTPATE, TERSE MELY i . NUMBER 38 CRIMINAL TERM COURT CLOSES | Mistrial Order In Manslaughter Case After Jury Is Unable To Agree OTHERS ARE ACQUITTED . The criminal docket of Warren county Superior court was brought to a close yesterday afternoon -hortly after 4 o'clock "when a mistrial was ordered in the manslaughter case against Ernest Alston, negro, and court adjourned until n /r i i * a _i.i ?_ ? iviunaay morning at ru ociock wnen the civil calendar will be taken up. The mistrial was ordered by Judge Parker after he had learned from members of the jury that they had been divided 6-6 over their verdict and they were not likely to reach an agreement in the case which had been given them several hours before. The original bill of indictment charged Jesse Alston, Ernest Alston and Murphy Alston with murder as the result of the death of Trim Williams, who received a blow back of his head during a disturbance among the negroes at Inez on the evening of July 9, but at the outset of the case Solicitor Tyler announced that he would not ask for a verdict of first degree murder but would modify the charge to second degree murder or manslaughter, as. the evidence might justify. At the conclusion of the state's evidence the court ordered a verdict of not guilty as to Murphy Alston and at the conclusion of all the evidence a verdict of not guilty was directed as to Jesse Alston, leaving Ernest Alston the only defendant in the hands of the jury. Ernest Alston's contention throughout the trial was that he accidentally struck Williams while attemntiner to nreserve his own life during the fracas at Inez. The only other murder charge on the docket at this term of court was booked against Ed Dowtin, negro, who fatally shot Ed Lewis in the abdomen with a pistol on Tuesday night, August 9. He pled guilty to a charge of manslaughter and was sentenced to Central Prison to serve a term not less than five years nor more than eight years. While a sizeable crowd packed into the temple of justice during this term of court, there were no cases of county-wide interest tried and most of the spectators, as well as the defendants, were negroes. The only two white men tried at this term were Roy Long, for violating the provisions of a former judgment, and R L. Ellis of South Hill for hit and run driving. A judgment which was suspended over Roy Long in 1937 when he entered a plea of guilty to a charge of assault upon a female was ordered in effect this week when the court learned that he had violated the conditions of the suspended sentence. Last year Long was given a twoyear road sentence which was suspended by Judge Grady on the condition that he pay court- costs and i remain sober and of good behavior. I Learning this week from Recorder's court record that Long was convicted last month on another charge of assault and sentenced to the roads for four months, Judge Parker ordered that the former judgment go into effect. The state took a nol pros with leave in the case against Crayton Kelly, charged with larceny. Willie Green Harris failed to appear in court to face a charge of seduction and a capias was ordered issued for him. A capias was also ordered issued for Whit Perry, charged with breaking, entering and larceny. A case of possessing whiskey for the purpose of sale, booked against Lucy Bullock, was continued due to illness of the defendant. A true bill was not found in the case against Theodore Roosevelt Taylor who was accused of larceny. Convicted on a charge of hit and run driving which was booked against him as a result of injuries the automobile he was operating inflicted upon Charlie Newton of north Warrenton early in May, R. L. Ellis, young man of South Hill, | Va., was given a twelve months road sentence by Judge Parker in Superior court this week. The road sentence was suspended on the condition that he pay a fine of $100.00, pay the court costs and refrain from driving an automobile for a period of three years. He was further ordered to post bond in the sum of $100 and appear here at the SepCContlnued on Page t)