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all-copper still in Cheeks Town ship. It was the first of this type sepn hereabouts in many years. Chief Burch Compton said the outfit was of about a 35-gallon capacity and was not in .opera tion. CHAPEL HILL’S BOY SCOUTS, only two days back in town after their three-weeks bus trio to tte National Jamboree in Colorado Springs, are already talking of traveling, again. Scoutmaster Paul Trembley and his boys in Troop 835 wiH take their annual camp ing trip to the mountains on Aug. 21. And next summer the Troop hopes to take an intercon tinental jaunt—-to Europe — to top their last year’s trip to Can ada. —Mars next? .. • THE TOWN OF CARRBORO came out so-so bid-wise on its public auction Tuesday noon. About $70 worth of desks, tables, aiuf other equipment were knock ed off from the Carrboro School Hie Town Clerk is empowered now to sell anything else at what he considers a fair price. John Cates of Chapel Hill Realty bid, $3,000 for a five-acre lot W.m * GlWen*bo*> St. And Ben Yates" bid $.50 a square foot for an al ley-way area behind his Orange ! Plumbing shop. All of the auc tion transactions are subject to Town Board approval. COMING AROUND “LAWSON’S Curve” on E. Franklin St. in Chapel Hill yesterday a big flat bed trailer truck lost about 20 bales Of cotton when a cable snap ped. The giant white bundles scattered along the curb and spilled over into the Collier Cobbs’ front yard, blocking the driveway as Mrs. Cobb was get ting ready to leave in her car. The truck was carrying the cot ton from Durham to a Swepson viHe mill. JUDGE L. J. PHIPPS WAS much sterner than usual with the audience in his crowded County Recorder’s Court room during thr bootlegger trials on Monday When a ripple of chuckles spread, through the spectators during de-' fense questioning the Judge hang ed his gavel: “I don’t see any thing funny,” he said. ‘There’ll be peace and quiet m this court room, nr else you’ll think this is Judge MaHard’s Court,” The Re corder was referring to the strict Tabor City judge who’ll hold a week of superior court in Orange next week. THE GENERAL LINE OF De fense. taken- by those charged in the bootleg trials was that they hadn’t figured they were selling their liquor to the state ABC un dercover agent who was confront* ing them in court. Instead, they argued, they thought the decoy man with him was the buyer. But (Sec PEAUNGS, Page 12) ■■ ——j ■■ ■ Circulation today 7,042 m WLMicirSuNy W ' - . .1 l.f 1 mu / , - . : IDENTIFIES MOONSHINE - In para phrase of the Biblical tract from Matthew, a State ABC undercover agent identifies the fruit i-v„: jar of moonshine liquor that he bought from one of 61 defendants on trial in Orange County Rec order’s Court this week. The cases of 15 defend » ants Uvere heard by Judge L. J. Phipps on Monday and all were found guilty. -rAnd in the case of the liquor itself, it’ll be - disposed of just as Matthew wrote—‘ Every tree that bringeth forth fruit that is not good is hewn down and cast into the fire." News Photo 3 -.
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