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VOL. XXIX
DROUGHT IS
NATIONAL
PROBLEM
HART GETS
VERDICTOF
2ND DEGREE
MARSHALL, N.C. TufesDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1930
4 Pages This Issue
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With creeks and rivers dried , Jud'e OgUtby Sentences Him To
up, pasture lands burned to a N,lt'" J1" " vYem" Nor
More Than 30 Years In
crisp, countless sheep and cat- State Prison
tie thrown upon the market at The i,, , 1Z. ,
ine jury in the case of State vis
any price because of lack of Roosevelt Hart, Negro, charged with
feed, all crops except winter !h mu5der. of B- K- Bryan Je 6,
. .... , na"y returnod a verdict of
Wheat suffering anywhere second degree murder and Judge
from 10 per cent to total ruin SIesbv sentenced him to from 25
i a v. x. w years ,n State prison. The
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nation's
THE PUBLISHIllW
ABOUT VARIOUS MATTERS
prisoner was immediately rushed to
all the
INOCULATION
TO START
records whirh o-a e loth floor of the AstiAvillo. loil
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back 50 years-cries of distress "3 ?aleie false
Prt was spread around that an ef
reached the capital and Pres- fort to lynch him would be made,
ident Hoover and Secretary of However there were quite a number
Afm'piilrui.- U,, -j , of peoP'e who were more or less fa
AgriCUlture Hyde considered miliar with the case, who thought
togetner What might be done tflat he should have been convicted
in the way of national relief f dgree murder- However.
e j cttiuimi renei. g0 far a3 we haye been t
ine maximum intensity," learn, not many who heard
said the President, "seems to evidence had hat opinion,
lie in a belt roughly following!
the Potomac, the Ohio and the T V D If A I n
Mississippi rivers. Hp nrnmis. v
1 ,
ed that "no stone would be'
left unturned," in giving assist','
ance to (local authorities. He
mentioned low freight rates' .
fnr tJio irtT,o,4. j J County Commissioners have today
for the movement Of feed, and closed contract with Dr. W. A. Sams,
possibly of animals, and exten- to Sve Typhoid Inoculation, at all
sion of credit facilities to the "V'8 f -the County-
. . - . , ! your children about the time the
hit. Chairman Legge of the doctor wiU be in your vicinity.
Farm Board called on busi-; Friday's issue of this paper will
. i , have a full schedule of the starting
ness men to help farmers. a neglect matter It
A survey by the Agricultur-Jis of vitai imprtance.
al Department showed the
New England states and South- ---,mirmTvin m
eastern states in a pretty fair,!! lilllUlIul
position, while average feed
crops were expected in Wis
consin, Minnesota, Iowa, South
Dakota, and Nebraska, and
three-fourths of an
REVIVAL CLOSES
ed practically ruined,
the rice crops in
were abandoned Crop damage .
The revival which began last Mon-
i rfav eveninsr at the Methodist church
average in Marshall came to a close Sunday
ovanintr The nastor. Kev. O. Kj.
crop were seen for Montana, I Weatherlyi ann0Unced that due to a
Wyoming and North Dakota, lack of interest, he thought it better
But Kentucky's" crops appear- close the -eeng This was ,ot
... iiuu to rntik i "
wm,e Rev. Mr. Kincheloe, who was fring
Louisiana ' the preaching, was delivering some
,!of the finest sermons ever uenv-icuj
1 i s u-..i.oii And Mrs. K'hcheloe
in Missouri Was estimated atlWas faithfully leading the singing, j
more than WOO.000,000; to.p. ,h. ---M-,
Ohio at $200,000,000; the cot- the court going on at the ume time.
ton crop in Texas was estima-'so mk tZtJ
ted 1,000,000 bales Short, ' d-y until Saturday nigh
wnne me snortE.sc vj. v-u
crop in the Mississippi Valley
was placed from 600,000,000
KOOSEVELT HART WAS NOT ELECTROCUTED
The publisher of the News-Record haa nn a iu..
hitch-hikers who stun their benefactors and steal their cars.
No punishment is too bad for a 'bum" who will ask for a
ride and murders the driver of the car who accommodates
him. In our opinion an attempt of this kind on the part of
anybody, whether he succeeds in killing his benefactor or
-not, should be made a capital offense. We can conceive of
no crime so inexcusable and so deserving of torture. And
when we heard that B. K. Bryant had been beaten t0 death
by such a person, our first impulse Ws that the murderer
should be given a speedy trial and electrocuted the sooner
the better. At that time it was the opinion of those who
heard about it, that the murderer had lain in wnif w
ed for a ride, and when Mr. Bryant opened the car to accom
modate him, he was clubbed to death, and the car taken
from him. If such had been the case, and lynch law had
ever been excusable, it would haye been excusable at this
time. But the wisdom of letting the law take its course is
well illustrated in the case in question. PRonllp t .unpo I
who heard or read only a part 0f the evidence, will be puz
zled to know how a jury could have returned a verdict of
less than first degree murder. .. Certainly there was much
circumstantial evidence against the defendant. He was ar
rested with the dead man's car and wearing the dead m'an's
hat, and told two stories as to who murdered Bryant. More l
over, he was seen at a filling station aflane in the dead rnan'A
been and was going. But when the facts were brought out
in the trial, all the facts that could be obtained, and the de
fendant's story heard, a doubt arises as to who the real mur
derer was. A Negro boy, only between 16 and 17 years of
age, was either not guilty of the crime or had sense enough
to fabricate a story which was at least possible and corrob
orated in part by one of the State's witnesses. According
to the evidence of Mr. Black, who was with Bryant the night
before and heard a conversation between Bryant and the
Negro, Bryant had refused to take the Negro toward New
port and Asheville and had turned back to Greeneville, when
Bryant and Black separated. , The fact that Bryant was
found on his way to Asheville is evidence that he changed
hia mind. Went back and took the Negro with him. The Ne
gro's story and Black's story coincide thus far. The Negro's
MISS LILES
SUCCEEDS
MISS CASEY
Miss
NORTH CAROLINA !
STANDS EIGHTH:
IN EDUCATION
Mieta Liles. of Tnrhnrn i RnlpiorVi A Qrt YiC
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Miss ciemmi rsv i,o.h ul Carolina stands eighth among
j -i uii;
Teacher Training Department of the 16 southern states in pub-
tiS d rested iic education, it is learned
to accept a position at Murphy. c 1JJeu
Miss Lilies comes hichiv M.n. from the office of the State Su.
mended, havine- tano-hf. in tVio (st Lan,njn.( r r..ii. t
. . a. "" Kwiureuucui ui ruu ic instruc-
Teacher Training School established .
in the State of North Carolina. For
the last six years MiSs Casey has This ranking of the states
had charge of the Teachers Training , uj
School in Moore County. The f0J baSed n flVe edtional
lowinsr resolutions litems eenerallv
the Moore County Board of Educa- dicative of a good school sys
tion. Carthaire .N. C at. t. mMmJ ovuuui OJfo-
oi June zna, i30:
WHEREAS, Miss Meta Lilies
has rendered faithful service- to
Moore County during the past sev
en years as Director of the Teach
er Training Department, and
whereas, she gave much of her
spare time to addition.:! work
the various
ir.
communities of the
county, leaving a lastim? impres
sion for educational and social
betterment, now therefore, be it
resolved :
1st. That the Mwore County
Board of Education extend Us
thanks to Miss Lilies for this val
uable service, and
2nd. That a copy of these reso
lutions be given Miss Liles and a
copy spread on the minutes.
Miss Liles spent the summer at Ca
tawba College. Salisbury, N. C. En-
ivysg Junes i mmi" i
4.1.. k ,A if M n& "1
BianKensnip.
Training
present 28.
HAIL STORM
DESTROYS CROP
A NUMBER OF FARMERS IN NO.
S TOWNSHIP LOSE HEAVILY
Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Chandler and
child, of California Creek, were in
Marshall Tuesday. Nosing arour
for news, we learned from Mr.
Chandler that a terrific hail btorm
struck his section of the County a-
tem- These items are: (1) per
cent of enrollment in average
daily attendance, (2) average
length of school term, (3) av-
jerage annual salaries of teach
ers, supervisors and principals, .
j (4) per cent of total enroll- '
jment in the high school grades,
iand (5) average vallue of
school property per pupil en
rolled. According to the statement
issued by the State Superin
tendent of Public Instruction,
the State f Missouri ranked
first among the 16 southern
states on the basis of these
five items. Maryland is sec-
Louisiana, Virginia and isortn-
Carolina. The states rankinfe-
below North Carolina on the
basis of a composite score on
these items are: Oklahoma,
Kentucky, South Carolina,
Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama,
Arkansas and Mississippi.
The North Caroflina rank
was obtained by the following
scares on the respective itmes:
per cent of enrollment in at-
Kn three weeks aeo, and more or
. i J -UA irAna tf t.flhaCCO
ir onH "Rlnrk' qtorv COlllCldp tflus iar- ine lNegiuo less Qamageu w..-
f and Black s story come ae s fa The , , 75.5; average length
story was to the effect that anotner wnne man w !., covered a strip about a mfle &
to 800,000,000 bushels. For
nnr.A the price of corn
that everything almost was more or .
less neglected to attend court.
feel quite certain that if the meet-
ing had continued, a greater audi-
ence would have auenutu,
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them and that after they passed tnrougn mainu u,c and a nalr wia. nuuu . , h--- -, h-
it. i. -ii. x.i wViilo thp Necro was distance tnrougn me eraisc ai"
man struck Bryant with his pistol while the Megrc . was fa No 4 g rvisors and principals,
driving, and that the white man later drew his. gun on the ownship Some of the crops were .ers, p
wnne me wnne man iuw" " - - 0 lv . few oi uie i i .i.. DVinAi nrno-
rying hail insurance. Among those average v.u II - Slid
whose crops were damaged were: erty per pupil enrolled,
Messrs. J. P. Bail, Jno. J1"- Thi state is below the nation-
Sim Chandler, J. S. Chandler. Tom , mis sua
Buckner, Oscai' Swann, Herschel a average on each of these
Buckner, Jim Cody, Cornelius Grind- &ni spends one-half as
staff, H. G. Wllin, Burgin Metcal f does the
T Tlinmaa and froi vy. . x iv
the Negro, the unknown white man, who had black hair and
black moustache, with the Negro, drove on toward Ashe
ville, and as they neared the filling station the white man
gave the Negro a dollar with which to buy gas and oil,
while he (the white man) walked on up the road in the dark
and later boarded the car, after it had been serviced at the
filling station. When they were nearing Asheville the
white man left the car in the possession of the Negro, threat
ening to kill him if he ever told that a white man murdered
Bryant. Having read of s0 many heinous crimes being per
petrated on the traveling public, and knowing that there are
white men who are mean enough to commit such a crime,
and try to shift the responsibility onto some ignorant Negro
boy, we can see the possibility that the Negro's story could
jhave been true. At any rate the evidence was such as at
least to create a doubt in the mind of the writer as to electrocuting-
this Negro youth without better evidence that he
had committed the crime. And:wewere relieved when the
jury returned a verdict which coincided with our opinion of
H.
ner.
NEXT FRIDAY AT
Nation as a whole for the cur.
rent operations of schools.
i v
Catawba County had the larg-
i ttovdl a reah-sed Wiiat
r0Se;.l. miKRir.e until the incetin?
.
above that of wheat; tne iai-:closcd-
ter was used in some places as . ufADTATW
feed for cattle, while unripe I IT flllft 1UIN
HURT IN WRECK;
the country perished through Grape.
the drying up of the streams. I of gon County,
The Bureau Of Fisheries had to wft8 seriously hurt in a wreck Sun-
er places. Many fish'.of tbe direction bf Hot Springs towards
rnnttt&s from Marshall, and aa he rounded a curve
coa ui " -t-.t - , . .4 rn. j ' H juij ibmuhcu, c - nAeii uien xnureiHur ..-- - - ... :
the aea-water jwhicb ade to sentence; he received ltrtm tiie Jfudw .Fill; Pio.'. Ctob SSel
i .. it. v.v n1ftn In Mf. . . ' .: l w ..mil .mwiA Vwr fha rJo- afternoon, - - ' " ; )
fi A II n TT TTAf T017 lotinn of 4-H club beys and
L U U I llUUOLl attending the recent short
. course at State College. Fiftyone
MISS THOMAS- T O ADDRESS boyg and 23 girls were present.
WOMEN AT 10:00 O'CLOCK j
, A. M. I An outbreak of army worms m
As announced last Friday, Miss the lower end 0f Currituck Counts
Mary E. Thomas, State Nutrition- caused farmers considerable
alist Specialist, wilt give the third dama8.e. '
!3S -SSLfi? atOUroOUo8.8.j Flo-! suppose thislSTut
Al &Tn Wect will iJcollege nutn'. life bein? an ine,
SLxi She wiH Visit C women and song is exaggerated.
Jnjtia niorning, nd Joe It certainly is; yon yery mi-
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way Uih-''for record 'dlstancew'ran off the bank, resulttaf in ser-
during the time of flow water.
'The Pathfinder
The corn and bean crop In Bladen
County is looking
County Aeent J. R.
so reports that cotton nd tooacco , ge
t inlnriea to Mr. Norton.' He was
taken to Aston Park Hospital, in
Asheville where he is nndergoinsr
treatment. -
A hail storm covering an area two
miles wide and ten miles long eaus-
nrotect society froni a repetition of sucb a crime by this N
gro, if he-were the oneand it will make it possible for fu
ture developments to vindicate the jury in its decision ;
whereas if the defendant were electrocuted, no matter what
nhoirld develoo in the future, it would be too late. Having
?f h it i better to err on the side of mercy . thain for the .
State to Uke the life of a person not guilty Certainly
someone shoufld suffer and pay the penalty., for murdering
Bryant, -but the State should be Very sure it has the right
i ni.j.nl-.:i aa- .a tan miles ion? cans- . . M .. . . . , lt . . j. . - ' Kofnn h i marched into tne aeaw rowv . iuB .uiKui-
ai. uv m - --- 7 heard all tne eviaence ana ine -rgumeuv o fov-v- ., v
fine, according to ed great destrnction of crops in Lin- ."ef " V"! m . ,, . . - w . ti.ansmTxerOi which this Negro was protected from mob vi-
.PoweiL H. w eolnCoustv: .arty in August: Dam"? each side, we afe of the opinion that the verdict was comctfied manner fv - rfmv
tton nd tobacco ge to crops ran from 60 to loo per . j Of . course, we are 'aware that too much-. mercy on the.- ,
are looking good and his only hope j" cent, reports county -gent J.
' a -Ai-Wri'tVat tnA rnuchmercV on the olence and given every benefit of the law, deserves the com-
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part of the courts has a tendency to encourage the moD spir- : menaauoii x uux ws,
is for good prices.