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VOLUME XLIV—NUMBER 9
Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina, Friday, March 3, 1933
ESTABLISHED 1889
PLAN FOR YOUNG
DEMOCRATS TO
GATHER ON 15TH
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County Chapter Is Entitled
To Delegates If Dues
Are Paid
Young Democrats of Washington
County have an opportunity to attend
the annual Jackson Day Dinner and
annual state convention that will be
held in Raleigh at the new Memorial
Auditorium on March IS, it was an
nounced here today by Wilbur M.
Darden, assistant chairman of the lo
cal unit of the North Carolina depart
ment of Young Democratic clubs of
America.
The convention will be held at 2
o’clock in the afternoon, at which time
new officers for the organization will
be elected and any other business that
should be transacted will be attended
to. This meeting will be held in the
ball room of the Sir Walter Hotel
and as many as are interested are
urged to attend.
The Jackson Day Dinner celebra
tion will be held in the form of a ban
quet at 7 o’clock in the evening. The
cover charge will be $1 a plate. The
principal speaker will be announced
within the next week or 10 days. Tick
ets to the banquet will be handled thru
Walter H. Paramore as president of
the county unit and all those who wish
to attend are urged to let Mr. Para
more know.
The Washington County Club has
not complied with the affiliation re
quirements of the constitution in that
the $10 quota assigned to this county
as its part of the campaign has not
been raised, but a recent memoran
dum received has advised disregard of
the quota but the $7.50 minimum can
not be ignored.
If the $7.50 minimum fee is paid in
10 days before March 15th, then Wash
ingt^r County will be allowed two
delegates and two votes in the con
vention, which will be held at 2 o'
clock. Among the number to attend
from this county, it is urged that W.
R. Hampton, chairman of the Demo
cratic Executive Committee, attend.
Others are welcome also.
The entire delegation of North Car
olina in Congress and State leaders
have been invited to the banquet and
convention. J. Wallace Winborne,
State chairman for the Democratic
hosts, will be in the convention. Sen
ators Josiah Bailey and Robert R.
Reynolds will make short talks at the
banquet. State officials are expected
to be present also.
Arrangements have been made at
the Carolina and Sir Walter for cheap
hotel accommodations. Headquarters
will be at the Sir Walter Hotel. Two
rooms have been tendered the clubs
without cost. The largest attendance
ever had at the affair are expected this
year. It is thought that the legisla
ture will be in session this time.
J. Dewey Dorsett, president of the
North Carolina Club of Young Dem
ocrats, who is very popular as leader
with the young partisans, will preside
over the dinner and convention.
SOCIAL IS HELD
AT CHAPEL HILL
E. H. Hicks Wins Prize for
Being Ugliest Man at
Entertainment
Chapel Hill—Ernest H. Hicks, sup
erintendent of the Plymouth City
schools, was awarded a prize cake by
a group who paid $3.60 for it to pre
sent to the ugliest among the 200 or
more people who were at the supper
held in the Chapel Hill school build
ing Friday night.
Miles SittersOn was the male rival
for homeliness of Mr. Hicks, while
Miss Ruth Satterthwaite, Louise Tet
terton, and Elizabeth Gurganus were
voted as the prettiest girls in the con
test. Bob Tetterton took a prize for
pinning the hatchet to the cherry tree.
Music was furnished by Mrs. W. C.
Brewer with her guitar. Pies sold
from 5 cents to 25 cents. Upwards of
$8 was taken in.
Mrs. A. R. Latham was elected as
the chief executive of the organiza
tion, which will hold affairs and use
the school building for public events
and for similar neighborhood gath
erings. »
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Keep Cows Off Pasture
Until Grass Is Developed
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Cows should never turned on a
pasture until the grass blades are
full developed. Too-early grazing
will injure any pasture by preventing
further growth of the grasses and then
too, the hooves will cut the sod and
permanently injure the root system.
As a general rule animals should not
be turned on pasture before the first
of April and in many cases it would
be better to wait until the middle of
the month.
Norfolk Southern To
Continue Low Fares
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The Norfolk Southern Railroad, j
through its local agent, W. C. Jones, |
announces the continuation of the one i
and one-half per cent per mile fare
between stations on its line, Norfolk,
Goldsboro, Beaufort, and intermediate]
points, including branch lines.
Effective March 1 the application of
such fares will be extended to, from,
and between points between Mars- j
den, Charlotte, Asheboro, Aberdeen,
Fayetteville, and intermediate points.
Baggage allowance will be permitted
as well as stop-overs.
OPERATE APIARY
TO FEED FAMILY
Plymouth Man Sells Over
30,000 Pounds of Honey
During Season
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By FRANK H. JETER
No alternative but to beg or starve
seemed to fate Garland Hardison, of
Plymouth, as a result of losing his
job when the small manufacturing
plant by which he was emoplyed
closed down last year.
But Mr. Hardison didn't know how
to beg and he could not starve be
cause he had a dependent family. So
he continued to hunt for work and
would take any kind of honest job
that was offered.
In the meantime, the honey flow
had started in Washington County.
It starts early there, beginning in
late July in the blacklands, and con
tinues until frost.. During Mr. Hardi
son’s more prosperous days he had
established a small apiary of 30 colo
nies of bees, housed in modern hives
and well looked after and it was this
apiary that came to his rescue in a
time of need.
Recently, C. L. Sams, extension
specialist in beekeeping at State Col
lege, was in Washington Comity hold
ing some demonstrations with the
beekeepers when Mr. Hardison told
him about bis experience. From the 30
colonies, Mr. Hardison sold over 3,
000 pounds of honey for cash and his
wife bartered another 2,000 pounds
for groceries and other household
necessities. Being out of work, Mr.
Hardison was able to give the bees
more attention so he increased his
colonies to 50 and is planning now to
enlarge this number to the extent
that the bees will furnish him with a
comfortable income.
Other bee owners in Washington
County did not harvest a pound of
honey last year because they had their
insects housed in the old gum or box
hives. L. W. Hawks harvested about
140,000 pounds from his hives and C.
E. Marriner, of Roper, said be took
five tons of fine honey from his 100
colonies.
Mr. Sams says these incidents teach
two valuable lessons. Bees will pro
vide an income but they must be
properly housed.
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Welfare Laborers Get
But $2.40 Week Here
By W. C. BREWER
Because of welfare conflicting with
farm labor, many counties in the state
are reducing wages to 50 cents per
day. Washington County welfare
workers do not think it fair to work
men who do not farm who have house
rent and many other expenses that
rural people do not have. Therefore
the present rate of pay will be main
tained with a three-day per week sched
ule in the county, which gives the
worker $2.40 to buy provisions. If
any man working at welfare work re
fuses to work the farm at the regular
farm rate he need not apply at the
welfare office for aid.
Federal, state and American Red
Cross aid have saved the day for us
this winter, and now that planting
season is here, every man is expected
to do all he can to cooperate with his
Jaijdlord in evety possible way to
prevent suffering next winter and help
Washington County to be one of the
first to be self-supporting.
Creswell Girls Win Over
Columbia and Boys Lose
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Creswell.—The girls’ basketball
team of Columbia met defeat at the
hands of the Creswell girls, 19 to 0,
in a one-sided game on the Creswell
court Tuesday afternoon. The Cres
well girls outplayed the Columbia
team in every respect. The Columbia
forwards had the ball in their hands
only a few times during the game and
scored nothing.
The Creswell team is composed of:
Center, Dot Woodley; right forward,
Blanche Spear; left forward, Minnie
Ifurlough; guards, Virginia Comstock,
Rosalie Swain, and Laura Langley.
The boys’ teams of the two schools
also played with a score of 13 to 7
in favor of Columbia.
BILL PROPOSES
IMPROVEMENT
COUNTY ROAD
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Measure Is Introduced by
Mizelle and Thompson
In House
Fate of the two bills introduced in
to the lower house of the North Car
olina General Assembly by Captain
Charles E. Mizelle. representative
from Washington County, and Thomp
son, of Beaufort, could not be deter
mined today, as no action was taken
immediately, but they will be up for
disposition before the 1933 session
ends.
These two members of the lower
house will no doubt get the aid of
Senator Carl L. Bailey when the bill
reaches the Senate, as Mr. Bailey is
from this county also, and will prob
ably use his influence in getting the
passage of the two measures that
mean much directly or indirectly to
Washington County.
The first bill: “The North Carolina
Highway Commission are directed as
soon as practical, and if possible dur
ing 11933, to Repair, condition, and
make passable the road known as the
Turn Pike Road leading from highway
No. 97 to the Beaufort County line
through Wenona to the end that the
star mail route and school trucks and
other traffic may be able to ingress or
egress to and from the Black Land
Test Farm.”
This bill would entail the improve
ment of one of the most needed roads
in this county, as it would draw trade
here from the Wenona section that is
now going to Belhaven or into Beau
fort County and it would also make it
necessary to repair and condition No.
97 that leads to the Turn Pike road
from Plymouth and would mean a
great saving of effort and time to trav
e! this road as well as the inconveni
ence now experienced.
The second bill: “That division of
purchase and contract ... is hereby
directed to purchase foodstuff and
supplies for state institutions where
the prices, product, or other supplies
are available and equal . . . taking into
consideration price and quality, shall
purchase and use and give preference
to all such products and supplies
grown or produced within the state.”
WOULD ENLARGE
JURISDICTION OF
JUSTICES PEACE
New Bill Would Lower the
Maximum Fines From
$100.00 To $50.00
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A bill introduced in the legislature
last week by Representative J. C.
Smith, Martin County, would increase
the jurisdiction of justices of the
peace in the handling of certain high
way and traffic violations. Under the
present law, violations are called to
the attention of justices of the peace,
who, unable to try them on account
of their limited jurisdiction, find it
compulsory to send them to the high
er courts, increasing costs in the minor
cases.
The new bill would amend sections
24, .35, 42, and 47 of tbe 1927 road
laws and empower Justices 'of the
peace to dispose of any actions that
might arise. Section 24 has to do with
those cases where motorists stop their
cars on the highway, and carries a
maximum fine of $100. The bill would
lower the maximum to $50, making it
possible for justices of the peace to
handle such cases.
Section 35 of the same law requires
a light or a flag at the end of a pro
truding load and carries a maximum
fine of $100. The maximum fine would
be reduced to $50.
Section 42 has to do with loose
brakes and sections 47 deals with
lights. The maximum fines would be
reduced from $100 to $50 in each in
stance, and would make it possible
for the trial justice to make final dis
position of any case arising under the
sections.
Baseball Team Planned
At School This Spring
Guess no longer. The Plymouth
High School will have a baseball team"
this season. Every boy in the eighth
grade has been called out in an at
tempt to get a nucleus for the team.
The less skillful of these will be elim
inated. Supplements will come from
the remainder of the grades.
Two teams will be chosen by Coach
J. Frank Furches to stay out all the
spring. Suits and other equipment
may be secured from the Plymouth
Fire Department. Any assistance
from the community will be appre
ciated by Mr. Furches and the boys.
Some games have already been ten
tatively arranged. Scotland Neck will
be here and a return game will be
played there this spring.
( STILL TRADING
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New and renewal subscriptions
continue to come into the office of
the Roanoke Beacon as the result
of the present campaign for paid
in-advance subscriptions. J. L.
Rea, O. A. Chesson, and Mrs. D.
R. Pomering paid their subscrip
tions in advance this week.
Premium prices are paid on farm
produce and other merchandise
that can be used about the home.
Every person who has brought
any kind of useful item to barter
for subscriptions has gone away
fully satisfied. Others will con
tinue to do so. Pay up now or
your paper will be discontinued.
SUNDAY SCHOOL
CONVENTION IS
HELD SUNDAY
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Interesting Program Is Pre
sented at Lees Mills
Gathering
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Roper.—A decision was made to
have the next meeting of the Lees
Mills Township Sunday School con
vention at Zion Chapel Church near
Roper on the fourth Sunday in May
at a convention held in the Mount Zion
Free Will Baptist church near here
last Sunday.
H. L. Lewis opened the meeting
with the devotional exercises last Sun
day as W. A. Swain, president of the
organization, presided. The welcome
address was made by Mrs. John T.
Singleton with the response being
made by J. C. Tarkenton. Mrs. Hook
er was named secretary to succeed
Miss Lela Chesson.
With Mrs. H. D. Peel and Miss
Ruth Furlaugh singing a duet, the
Mount Zion church put on its pro
gram. A song by 10 small girls and
boys with Mrs. L. V. Chesson leading
and Miss Jamie Riddick as organist
and a recitation by Miss Doris Ches
son constituted the Zion Chapel pro
gram.
A declamation on the narrative of
Queen Esther by Miss Lillian Phelps
and a solo by Miss Margaret Vail
constituted the program for St. De
light. A iunrtet by four ltitle girls,
with Miss Jamie Riddick playing, was
Pleasant Grove's part on the program.
Present at the convention were del
egates numbering as follows: Mount
Zion 31: Zion's Chapel 42; St. De
light, 34; Pleasant Grove, 7; Roper
Methodist, 4; Roper Baptist, 1; St.
Luke's Episcopal, 2. Mackeys, Mount
Hebron, Pentecostal were not on the
program and were not represented.
Janies W. Norman, superintendent
of public instruction in Washington
County, was the principal speaker and
used as his subject, “What the Sun
day School Means to the Church.’’
Walter H. Paratnore also made a
short talk.
CAMPAINCOSTS
$1,638,177 IN 1932
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National Democratic Group
Now Has Net Deficit
Of $769,055.00
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i Washington.—The Democratic nat
! ional committee told Congress recent
ly it had spent $1,638,177 last year, an
amount many times greater than the
cost of keeping a president in the
White House during four years.
The report of the Democrats filed
with South Trimble, clerk of the
house, showed receipts for the same
period totalled $1,708,507, leaving a
balance of $70,330.
However, the report also listed un
paid obligations of $839,385 so deduct
ing the balance from these the net
deficit appeared to be $769,055.
The report indicates that even
though there was a loud cry for a
Democratic president and congress,
there wasn’t such a ready effort to
pay for it. But the deficit is in keep
ing with the national committee, for
it would hardly know how it felt to
be out of debt.
The Republican reports has yet to
be made.
There are no railroads on the island
of Ireland.
Swain Club Sponsors
Community Gathering
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Last Thursday evening the Swain
Community enjoyed an evening of en
tertainment sponsored by the Swain
Home Demonstration Club at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Burdine.
About 60 people were present, mar
ried and single, children and grown
folks, all together. Games and old
time singing was enjoyed.
T. B. Brandon, county agent of Mar
tin County, has recleaned and treat
ed enough tobacco seed to plant 104,
000 square yards of plant bed for 47
farmers.
FURCHES PAL OF
PAT CRAWFORD;
TALK PROSPECTS
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Local Coach Played “Pro”
Baseball With Big
Leaguer
Fhey were just two old cronies; one
a high school athletic coach, and the
other a hall player destined for the
hig show; so they gathered to talk over
old times, including te days when they
pounded the sandlots, pushing later in
to professional baseball together, and
now both interested in sports.
J. Frank Lurches, coach at the Ply
mouth High School, and Pat Craw
ford, of Sumter, S. C„ met at the
Edwards home in Kinston, where Pat
is staying as a son-in-law and where
Mr. Lurches visited a girl friend as
" ell as calling on his old-time friend.
These two played baseball in the
western part of North Carolina a few
years ago, and later Crawford went
down to Kinston to play for that club
and there is where he met his wife
and in some way Mr. Lurches became
acquainted with the sister of the ball
play ers wife and thus began a friend
ship that usually includes the four
some.
Pat Crawford is the property of the
chain system of the St. Louis Cardi
nals. Last year he played at Colum
bus in the American Association. He
was voted the most valuable player in
his league that year. He has spent
two years on the Columbus farm and
now believes he is ready for the first
base berth at St. Louis this year.
Crawford expects the Cardinals to
win the pennant in the National Lea
gue. Recent trades have strengthened
them, he thinks. Pittsburg will fur
nish most trouble for the Cards, ac
cording to Crawford.
In the meantime Lurches is work
ing on a nucleus of aspirants here,
endeavoring to build up a winning
high school team and he will take as
much interest in his work here as
Crawford will in the big time, as both
are striving for success in their work.
SOME PROGRESS
IS REPORTED BY
STATE ASSEMBLY
No Crucial Point Has Been
Reached So Far In
The Legislature
North Carolina's 1933 General As
sembly continues to mark time, main
taining a lead of only a step or two
lover the 1931 activities. And the
I crucial point has not been reached,
therefore, no actual deadlock has de
veloped. No long session is expected,
and should a deadlock develop, it is
believed an adjournment would be in
order, making a special session neces
sary. A special session would pro
vide pay for the lawmakers.
The statistics show that 291 laws
have been enacted so far as compared
with 251 to the same legislative day
in the 1931 session, but fewer meas
ures have passed each house. So far
the 1933 Senate has passed 287 bills
as compared with 311 at the same
time in 1931 and the 1933 House has
passed 402 as compared with 454. But
there are fewer bills in committees as
the total number of introductions has
I been 1,023 as compared with 1,327 to
the same date in 1931.
The 1931 joint finance committee
appointed a sub-committee of 10 mem
bers which reported a general sales
tax and a selected commodity tax al
ternatively on the 58th day of the ses
sion. The 1933 joint finance com
mittee appointed a sub-committee oi
10 members which reported a general
sales tax and a selected commodity
tax alternatively on the 47th day oi
the session.
This gives the 1933 session an ad
vantage of 11 days in point of time
but much of that advantage will be
lost as the full joint committee re
ported in 1931 on the 69th day of the
session. The report would have tc
be made on Thursday of this week tc
maintain that gain.
However, the parallel has been car
ried ven further. In 1931, the two
committees split, the House deciding
for a sales tax and the Senate refus
ing to sit in on the preparation of
such a bill. This time the Senate is
almost a unit for a sales tax and the
House is badly divided. Tam Bowie
is said to be leading the fight against
a sales tax and the eight months
school term in the house.
But there is one important differ
ence over 1931. A 15-cent ad valorem
tax was levied for the support of the
six months school term in 1931, but
an overwhelming majority of both
houses is pledged to remove that tax
this time. It was also possible for
the 1931 session to incur a deficit of
$12,500,000, but it is conceded that the
State’s credit is now exhausted and
that the budget must be balanced or
the State will have to resort to scrip
payments.
[ The impending fight on the ap
Men Fined Costs in Case
Charging Affray Recently
Costs of the case were shared by
Sampson Heath and Abraham Petti
I ford, who were arraigned in record
er’s court Tuesday morning charged
| with engaging in an affray and with
[ using deadly weapons. The jury
agreed to a simple assault verdict.
It developed at the hearing that
j Pettiford's upper lip was bitten off
and spit on the ground by Heath dur
ing the fracas. Teeth prints were on
the remaining part of the severed lip
that appeared to evidence the fact
that no weapon was used.
CONGRESS NOW
IN ITS LAST WEEK
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Believe A Special Session
Will Be Called About
Middle of March
Entering upon its last week, the
| 72nd Congress, the last of the “Lame
Duck” type, will find it impossible
I to complete the work before it by
1 next Saturday noon when the gavel
falls to stop the congressional ac
tivities. Some bills will be left
stranded at that time, but the unfin
ished work will probably hurry the
calling of a special session. The plan
was to call the lawmakers in special
session about April 15, but it is now
believed a special session will be con
vened about the middle of March.
Every effort will be made to push
through before Saturday two bills to
lift the strain on individual and farm
debtors and those who hold their
obligations. These are the La
Guardia - McKeown - Hastings bank
ruptcy reform measure, which the
House has already passed, and the
Hull-Walcott bill to supply $(500,000,
000 of Reconstruction Finance Cor
poration credit so that mortgage
holders may grant a two-year mora
torium to farmers and owners of
small city homes. Both are pending in
the Senate. The latter has not pass
ed the House.
There is a possibility some addi
tional bank measure may be brought
forward in the closing days of Con
gress to supplement the sweeping
I Couzens bill, signed this week by
; President Hoover, which gives the
J Comptroller of the Currency broad
j powers to include national banks in
! any such moratorium as those in
Michigan and Maryland.
Leaders are considering the possi
bility of further banking measures,
either new or pending. Deadlocked in
each branch are two bills which,
I their sponsors claim, would be of
great value at this time.
These are the Glass banking bill,
which among other features, pro
vides a fund to aid depositors of
closed banks, and the Steagall bill
which authorizes a $500,000,000 fund
; to guarantee national bank deposits.
Mrs. Pratt Covington
McSwain Duplin Agent
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Mrs. Pratt Covington McSwain, for
several years a popular leader in home
\ demonstration work in this county,
is now in charge of that work in
] Duplin County.
The Extension Farm News, in a re
cent issue, says: ‘Mrs. Pratt Coving
ton McSwain is delighted with Duplin
I County and Duplin County is delight
ed with Pratt Covington McSwain. It
is the prediction that things will be
gin to hum in a home demonstration
wray in that county now that the form
er home agent of Washington Coun
ty is on the job."
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Automobiles Kill More
People Than Does War
During all the wars in which this
country has engaged as a nation—
the Revolutionary, the War of 1812,
the Mexican War, the Spanish-Amer
ican. and the World War—Ameri
cans killed in action or who died of
I wounds numbered under 300,000.
During the last 15 years—a period
I approximating of these six major
wars—Americans killed in automo
bile accidents within the United
States or who died of such injuries
have numbered 325,000.
From seed imported from the is
land of Tasmania, Coy Arsett, of |
Belmont, Mass., grows beans 3 to 5
feet long and weighing 10 to 15 pounds j
each. The beans, when sliced and[
cooked, are said to have a flavor re-j
sembling that of veal steak.
propriations bill will settle the ques-|
tion of whether or not a sales tax is
necessary to balance the budget. All
leaders are united that such a sales
tax is necessary.
Many members of the House still
cling to a contrary view. When and
it' they arc forced to change their
view by the adoption of an appropria
tion bill it is believed that many of
them will insist that if there is to be
a sales tax it be enlarged by $3,000,
000 so as to provide for an eight
months school term.
NEGRO MAN HELD
WITHOUT BAIL ON
SERIOUS CHARGE
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Charles Anderson Charged
With Criminal Assault
On White Girl
A sordid tale of how the lone daugh
ter of an aged white couple was be
trayed by a negro man who was the
! recipient of many favors not usually
j accorded members of the black race
[ by those of Caucasion descent, will
probably be unfolded when the case
of Charles Anderson comes up in the
next term of Washington County Su
perior Court.
Defendant Anderson, ■througji ^iis
attorney, P. H. Bell, waived the pre
liminary hearing in recorder’s court
I uesday, and Recorder Darden sent
the negro back to jail to await the
next term of court without allowing
him bail. As soon as the indictment
was read the attorney waived the
hearing, and a large crowd was dis
appointed.
H. T. Gurganus, father of the white
girl, signed an affidavit in the indict
ment that Anderson had carnally
known his daughter in July, 1932. The
warrant for the arrest of the negro
was issued by J. W. Darden as a jus
tice of the peace on February 25, and
the negro was arrested on the same
date by Sheriff J. K. Reid.
Witnesses for the State include the
victim, Miss Clara Gurganus, her
father, H. T. Gurganus, Vida Gur
ganus, J. T. Browning, W. A. Mi
zelle, R. C. Jackson, Lloyd Waters,
and F.. H. Hicks for statistical infor
mation. Anderson gave his age as
25 years.
Miss Clara Gurganus is 15 years
old and was in the sixth grade in the
Plymouth High School. Records
show that the girl was not bright in
her school work, as she had failures
on four subjects for the last month
with two other subjects rating as bare
ly passable and one which is just fair.
Previous monthly grades were just a
little better than last month.
The negro was allowed privileges of
being with the girl in the home at
' times, but the father and mother did
not suspect any intiu acy between the
two, as the colored man was em
ployed on the farm on Long Rridge
by Mr. Gurganus, and the negro ate
meals some time at the Gurganus
home. Sometimes, it is said, the two
read the papers together.
] The girl is said to have admitted
the relations with the negro when her
parents questioned her as to her con
dition and then she admitted that she
was pregnant. Her physical condi
tion caused her to break down and
name the negro as the cause. The
trial is expected to bring out more
sordid details, as the negro may at
tempt to deny using force.
SEED WILL BE
GIVEN NEEDY
Details of Plan To Be An
nounced Within Next
Few Days
Needy people in Washington Coun
j ty can secure some of the 125,000
' packages of garden seeds for use in
I planting gardens for destitute families
for which a contract has been let by
, the State Department of Purchase and
Contract. These seed will be paid
for by the Governor’s office of relief
and in turn are made available to des
titute families who will plant them.
Details of working out the plan are
in charge of Farm Agent R. E. Dun
ning and Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Brewer,
welfare workers, in Washington Coun
ty. This system is designed to en
able destitute families to produce food
they consume. Information as to the
j planting, amount to be planted, and
i instructions for cultivating can be se
! cured from Mr. Dunning.
Sunday School At Chapel
Hill School This Sunday
Chapel Hill.—There will be Sun
day school at the Chapel Hill school
house Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o’
clock. Rev. Gilbert Davis will preach
at the schoolhouse March 10.
Mrs. Wilton Ayers will entertain
the home demonstration club Thurs
day afternoon at the schoolhouse.
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Parent-Teacher Meeting
At Roper School Tonight
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Roper.—'The Roper Plarent-Teach
ers' Association meets Friday night
at 8 o’clock. A full attendance is de
sired, as officers will be elected. An
interesting program is promised.
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Try Out Idea of Covering
Plant Beds With Straw
Cumberland County tobacco grow
ers will try out the new plan of cov
ering their plant beds with grain straw
this season. Several demonstration
beds have been arranged.