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VOL. XVII = r FAjttVILLE, PITT COUMTY, NWtTH CARINA,J*IDAY, MARCH_2^1927 _ _ N?'"
GRIMED NEW i
~ ill IN CISEl
OF MURDER
Supreme Court Finds Errors in ?
Case Against Aleged Murder
er of Gordon Yelverton of Wil- ;
lianstoo.
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WilHamston, March 22?George
Frank Bazemore was granted a new
trial by the North Carolina Supreme
Court Wednesday.
Bazemore was convicted of nrst de
gree murder at the December term
of the Greene County Superior court
at Snow Hill. He was to have paid
with his life for killing Gordon Yel
verton of this town on November 5 j
as they were going to Wilson with a j
truck load of tobacco. The murder
was one of the most brutal ever com
mitted in the State. Bazemore who
had been hanging around the Wil
liamston tobacco sales during the
season and had made himself hand
and friendly with a number of people
who handled and hauled tobacco a
round town and frequently went with '
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them when they were nauung to uuki
factories. On this occasion Bazemore
sought the opportunity to go with
Yelveiton to Wilson with a large load
of tobacco. Leaving Williamston early
in the morning they passed through
Greenville about sunrise and reached
Farmville about 8 o'clock. When they
got a few miles beyond that town
they stopped and while on the ground
about 20 yards from the truck Baze
more shot the boy in the back of the
head, where he, from ay indications,
died instantly- Bazemore then took ,'
the truck load of tobacco, about 3,000j
pounds, back to Farmville and sold it |
as his own. The conscience of the
slave? must have gotten so hecve that
he did not remain to get the truck
nor the ?1,400 check for the tobacco.
He sneaked back to this county where
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he made to prove an alibi. He was
positively identified by warehouse
men of Farmville as well as by par
ties on the Farmville-W ilson high
way who saw Bazemore and Yelver
ton together on the truck and only
a few minutes later saw Bazemore
alone on the same truck load of to
bacco returning.
At the trial the jury quickly re
turned a first degree verdict and
Judge A. M. Stack sentenced him to
the electric chair to die on the 26 of
January. Bazemore's council, Paul
Vriziell. of Snow Hill, took an appeal,
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alleging several
triaL All of -his allegations were re- !
fused by the Supreme Court, bur
Chief Justice Stacy, who handed down
the decision, declared there was an
error committed when the clerk of
the court was allowed to receive the
verdict even though this had been
agreed to between council on the part
of both the State and defendant. The
Supreme Court's report also held that
an error had been made in the man
ner the jury was polled by the clerk. \
The clerk used language different in1
the poll than that~Tn which the jury
announced its verdict
The Chief Justice stated that neith
er error would be material in any
case other than those of a capital
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" TftwTaex^^fin of the Grain County
Hi8 Jane 27 at wtegtime Batf-more
? us. May the God of the universe!
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' ?rnd may they live many and hap-J
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J. Ol Ttf#\er, Instructor. Inl
Tilden's Choice * j j
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Wilbur F. Coen, Jr., of Kansas ?
City, Mo., Boys' Tennis Champion
ot the United States, has the best
net form in the world, says Amr- <
ica's scp, William Tiiden. > Ha
created a sensation in Sootfeim I
u '.'mevs?and is looked epon as a ,
inv? cf^r for the Ameriean team.
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MORE LIQUOR
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Dry Agents Destroy Five Big
Steam Distilleries of 1,500
Gallons Daily Capacity. Ves
sel also Searched.
NEW BERN, March 21.?Re
turning here from swamps of Dare
County, Chief John L. London And
Glenn Willis, in charge of the fed
eral "dry navy/' assigned to* North
'a , |, . < * ? .? y A -
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Ions a day, were destroyed by the
raiders, ftaicis were directed against
liquor plants located on-South Lake,!
! tributary of East Lake. Agents said
they obtained what they regard as
authenic information aa to the loca
tion of a reported "big still" in the
East Lake section.
Several vessels were searched by
the raiders, including a yacht bound
from Miami to New York. The two
boats captured were libelled and
will be sold at auction, agents said,
who believed the liquor taken war
destined for distribution in Balti
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Regional B. Y. P. U.
Conventions W i 11
I. ^ Start At Greeiiyine
The first of the five regional North |
Carolina B. T. P. V. conventions
held under the auspices of the Bap- '
tint State Convection B. Y. P. U. De-!
partment will be held at the Im
manuel Baptist Church at Green
ville, April 1, 2 and 3.
The four following regional - con
ferences will take place during the
rest of April and the first of May;
[The second conference will be held
fat Clinton, April 8. 9 and 10; the
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iiird at Henderson, Apm 19, n> I
17; the fourth at North Wilkesboro, '
April 22, 28 24; and the fifth at ;
Canton, April 29, $0, and May 1.
?. This is the second year these 1
meetings have been held, and it is <
expected that about 2,000 will be in J
attendance at the five meetings.
Speakers and leaders-of the Will- .<
ferences include well-known State -
Baptist leaders such as Perry Mor- ;
gan, Secretary of B. Y. P. U. work ?*
in North Carolina; Ifin Wfrnte \
Rickett, Secretary of Junior Inter- J
mediate B. Y. U. in the Stite; ;
Rev. E. N. Gardner, a* Thonsawiltt; <
Dr. W. Cary Newton, of China; R. '
N. Simms, of Raleigh; Dr. Chkries
ur6w?rj Jrr6Siuciiw ,* ox
W. . MeDSuxfe^fp^detot
Southern Baptist Convention of
of i^chmond^y^f of
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rotal of 17,687,607 Bales; Larg- J
est in Record; North Carolina
Crop was 1,204,496 Bales.
Washington, March 21.?The Cen
tos Bureau's annual report today ,?
showing cotton ginned for the 1926 1
trop placed the amount at 17^^607 i
running bales, counting 66,8M^ound i
later as half bales, and excluding 1
inters, making it the largest crop i
jver grown. In equivalent 500 1
pound bales the crop was placed at <
17,910,258 bales as compared with s
18,618,000 bales, the December esti- i
mate of the Department jof Agri-? j
culture. I
Included in the statistics were 234,
041 bales which ginners estimated <
would be ginned after the March can-Ij
vass, a quantity larger than ever be-. i
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fore. Reports to the ueparcment 01
Agriculture indicate that there is a
considerable quantity of cotton still j
remaining in the fields in Texas,
Oklahoma, and North Carolina. 1
Officials feel the department's De
cember estimate Was not far wrong
and that had all the cotton grown 7
last year been picked the crop prob
ably would have been larger than the
December estimate. The difference
in the agriculture estimate and the
quantity actually ginned or to be gin
ned is around 707,000 bales or about
4 per cent.
It was considered problematical
whether increased price for cotton
might result in some of the cotton
still remaining in the fields being
picked. A check up of ginners' esti
mates of cotton to be ginned after
the March canvass will. be made by
the Census Bureau .later, Officials
~f jinTrinr " ^ per cent
pounds compared with 499.5 ih 1926
?Sa 499.6 in 1924.
The final ginnings by states, m
equivalent 500-pound bales, follows:
Alabama 1,497,197, Arizona 122,
700, Arkansas 1,595(659, California
130 935, Florida 31,952, Georgia 1,
498 061, Louisiana 828,020, Missis
sippi 1^83^52, Missouri 218,152, New
Mexico 70,866, North Carolina 1,204,
496* Oklahoma 1,759,895, South
1 Carolina 997,131, Tennessee-'450,520
" Texas 5,609,301, Virginia 50,545; all
o&er states 15,876.
Seven Man-o'-War sons and daughfc
ere have been nominated for th<
Kentucky Derby, May 14. . .l'toll then
bones?and come seven.
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Edison days every man should mar
ry?and marry young. He is cor
Beet. That wall increase our field o
inventors. You know?inventors o
alibis.
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Ladies Aaked j|t Wear Cotton
Womans Fed
ROCKY MOuft', ' March 19.?In
teeping with q^Kquest from the
State, the SastaK^Ca^^it Exposi- '<
;ion will designs^fcijftHfeung ball,
\pril 4th at Koc|^Mo?^t?r4Cot-'
?on BalL" f kll?es will J* asked .
:o wear cotton ?ods for this occO-1(
don. The club.1**7 'the State are
naking a fepeciaMrffort to get the
^oineoi through ow the South to go (
jack to cotton gc?. fi J
The queens onjthis night for the .
ionce wiHSbe asm to wear cotton,
jut c<Jt f<y? the wpealrance on the
stage ahasp! of function. .
Thfe fifth anmift^ dinner ox uie i
Eastern OaroUna jphamber o-" Com-}
merce which wilAe held Thursday,'
April 7 th, of fM'week of-the ex
position in Rock?B?iHt,- has every .
indication of beir? ftyen bigger and
better than any ?previous dinner.'
Last year little lsa than 500 men j
were present. Ti* , year the ladies
will be admittedMaft^and at least
1,900 are gxpectefcBfefcs occasion, j
The speaker thif yoar is Sir Fred-''
erick McGitl, froi? London, England,
English hfamorist* President John I
W. Holmes will jleside and Ray-1
montf Turiiage, oi?yt|en; will act as
floor manager foSany business .ses
sion ^that (*u""g. '
' The attempted hold-up occurred;1
when Messrs. Rardin and- WeUjpiurj
jwere making a hurry-up call to the
neighboring county seat to replen
ish the supply of newsprint in an
effort to publish this morning's is
sue. A delayed shipment- was. the
cause of the midnight ride. ?
When nearing the Pitt county
seat the newspaper men were con
fronted by the quartette who . acted
as if they wished 'hs car to stop.
Tho occupants, however, having
lived ili Mingo county in the moun
tains of West Virginia, where the
ring ofj'a pistol is nusic to the .ears
of the .undertaker, took no chanced
! on stopping but on 1 he contrary shov
' ed the accelerator o tlie floor and
'' sped away. On sh )t was fired and
1 upon close examin: tion of the car
afterwaitl it was foi n>l that it had hit
the right side of -tf1; automobile and
glanced off.
Had .the negroes mown that two
^ newspaper men oc upied the car
f certainly they woul not have at
tempted a hold-up >r financial gain
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State Highway Required to Add
20 per cent More Mileage.
Congressman Warren Cause
of Federal Act.
On the last day of the session of
the recent General Assembly, the bill
requiring the State Highway Com
mission to' add additional roads to
the state highway map was passed.
This measure is of special interest to
the, counties in Eastern Carolina, and'
is a result of a series of speeches
made last Fail by Congressman Lind
say C. Warren who pointed out that
the First Road District was . being
discriqiinated against in the number
if miles on the map.
The act recently passed require-:
the State1 Highway Commission to
add twenty per cent new mileage,
the reads s'e'ected ..to be in the dis
cretion of the State Highway Com- ?
mission. As the Commission has had J ,
no meeting since the Legislature ad
journed it is not known if the entire '
twenty per cent increase will be ad- j
dec! at the sam? time. If the new
mileage is pro-rated by districts it
will mean that the First Road Dis
trict of which Frank C. Kugler is
Commissioner will take on about" ISO
miles of new roads. Mr. Ku.Tler
'state that he has nothing to say about
the act until the Commission decides
the amount of mileage to be taken
over, in each district.
North Carolina
Sells $10,000,000 More
of its State Bonds
.' Rsu'cigli, March 22.?-Ten miliie^
I syiidiit^hsis Bggiv jumbuiic^d Ky J
At the time the bonds we're bid oh?
the New York syndicate reached a
coihpromise with the Council of
State wereby it would buy ten mil
lion of the bonds at a figure con
siderably better than the market
as of that date but would be given j
an option on the other ten million at
the same price.
Since December 3, 1926, a change
in the bond market has made the
option price a "very" advantageous one
to the syndicate.
Governor McLean was severely
criticized for granting the option
iby. unsuccessful parties in the bid
ding, but defended his position by
asserting that he and the Council
of .State acted in' good faith and
saved North CaVolina money.
Sale of these bonds practically
winds up the bonds authorized by the
1925 General Assembly and Governor
McLean has announced that it viill
1 be at least six months before a start
' is made on selling the almost forty
millions authorized by the late legis
? iature. .>!'(
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Hasn't Missed a Day
School Contest
Bertha Kurtzhals, 10, Cedar
County, Neb., with three years, six '
months and twenty-two days to her
credit, at this writing, is entry No. <
1 in. a_ national contest to learn ]
which boy or girl has the most per
fect 5-day-a-week school attendance
without being tardy or absent. Is
there a boy or girl in this county
who has a better record ? Tell this
newspaper. Send us your picture
and let us enter you in this con- -'
test ? ? ? ? ?
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Says Dr. Herbert A. Gibbons in
Reference to New War in
United States by European
Countries.
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CHAPEL "HILL, March 21?Ameri
ca must make a sweeping revision of
fcfcyar .debt" claims 'of take the res
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Dr. Gibbons, - who has travenea 1
extensively, is just back from fej
trip to.Europe and he spoke of con-]
ditions from the viewpoint of one
who. has just studied them at first
hand. _ "
Unless America assumes a more
liberal attitude toward its war
claims, any- moves this country may
make toward conferences for- the'
limitation of armaments will be
futile, he asserted.
Backed by . uninformed public
(opinion, the American government
has imposed conditions for the set
tlement of war debts that are im
possible of fulfillment, Dr. Gibbons
said. N
"Being the creditor of all the
other nations, we are the influence
for good or evil in- European recon
struction," the speaker said. "This
causes a vicious circle.-. England, for
instance, takes the view that if she
has to. pay us her continental debt
ors must pay her. This means that
France, for her financial salvation,
j must continus to press Germany and
Italy and the other beneficiaries in
the distribution of reparations must
do likewise. It is well established
that Germany cannot continue much
longery to make extensive payments
in cash' under the Dawes plan. Ger
many's creditors will not be able to
absorb' payments* in."kind" two years
hence, even if Germany could make
the delivery, which is- problematical.
France, pressed by us' for payment,
feels she has to keep a hand in the
JRhineland and maintaiir her arm}
on a war like footing to safeguard
her territorial pledges should Ger
many default. This blocks the re
1 turn to normal Franco-German re
lations. TJms they go in a viciou:
circle." .... -
(Says Land Bank
Still In Position
To Serve Farmer
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R Greenville, March 23.?Dr. Joseph
I J Pix~n returned last night from Dur
ham where he attended a meeting of
directors'cf the North Carolina Joint
E Stock' Lhnd Bank- D6 stated today
Hia session wa?I'< me of th^ beit in
th? history of the organisation, and
IJ that {virtually every section of the
State was represented by its director.
Dr. Dixon said the organization!
found business conditions in North]
^Carolina fairly promising, and would
; continue to loan money to farmers
with productive lands, .,. 0,
Tras Joint| Stock Land 'Bank i al
ready has lotted ow; a million dol
lars to the farmers of Pitt County,
Dr. Dixon said, and will ? continue
its operations in all sections. Dir.
Dixbn* is the Pitt County director
of the institution. " f ?
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N. CAROLINA
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Governor-elect Hard man and
Party Especially full of Praise
of Highway Works Here.
Raleigh, N. C., March 23.?North
Carolina officialdom was admittedly
>verwhelmed today under a barrage
)f Georgia praise.
-?"It is all great, simply great"
>eamed Governor-Elect L. 4. Hani ?
man, at the head of a party of
'Cracker" observers here in search
>f new governmental ideas to carry
back to their native State. H? will/'"
sura up his findings when he re-'
turns home.
State College was the object of
the first attack. Fresh after a
night's rest, the Southern pilgrims
joined forces with a Tar Heel re
ception and took to motors in order
to cover the program outlined.
Praising this, jotting down that
the party made its way in from the
college to the Highway Commis
sion, the capitol building departments,
the budget commission, the Revenue
Department, the education, health,
agriculture, insurance * conservation
military and judicial departments.
The visitors enthusiastically said
that they had gathered numerous
valuable suggestion to be submit
ted to the Georgia General Assem
bly . which convenes June 24 two
days before Governor Hardman is
inaugurated.
Governor Hardman was especial
ly full of praise over the work done
by Highway Commissioner Frank
Page and that cf former Health
Secretary Ranlrin.
Conspicuous in the party was J.
0. M. Smith, Commerce, Ga., ir.
yield of cotton ever produced.'*
Several members of the party have '
made -plans to return to Georgia to-.
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night, bat 4jo7ernor nmumau ...
intended to stay over until tomorrow
to get some more "inside information"
from Governor McLean. He said
Governor Mclean was highly re
garded in Georgia- as a business ex
ecutive.
The Georgia Governor, himself,
j lays claim to some business experi
lence as a banker, farmer, practicing
physician, and member in the Geor
gia Legislature.
Among members of the Georgia
party were: State Senators I. F.
Duncan, J. K. Patrick and Joe S.
Burgin and Mrs. Burgin; Repre
sentatives Homer Hancock, Richard
IB. Russell and C. M. McClure; Dr.
T. F. Abercrombie, State Health Of
ficer, and Dr. Fort E. Land, Georgia
Public school head. Mrs. Hardman
was also with the party.
The Tar Heel reception commit
tee in addition to Governor McLean
included W. N. Everett, Secretary q?
State; Heriot Clarkson, Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court; J. Van
Ib. Metts, Adjutant General, A. T.
Allen, State Superintendent; Lt Col
Gordon Smith, and other State of
ficers.
"Ju^t looking around," Mr. Hard
man said.
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New Cement Plant
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r . to Locate iii Eastern
North Caroiinh
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I Raleigh, N. C,, March 22.?New
I Bern today was selected as the site
r for a mahunoth cement manufactur
- ing plant financed by Mid-Western
s capital.
J. A. Acker, Port Huron, Mich.,
told The Associatted Press here that
?definite. ueuuil U1 imMVHH
would be announced later.
I Mr. Acker, in company with other
?foreign capitalists, has been in the
State for several' days investigating
?possibilities for locating such a plant
in Eastern North Carolina. ,
New Bern was selected for adja
cent deposits of limestone and its
transportation facilities. The inves
tigators have expressed themselves
I as greatly pleased with the prospects
id Craven County. > ?< ?
? Tentative plans call for the erec
tion of a plant to cost about |3r"
000,000 with a capacity of a million
mid a quarter barrels of cement an
nually. r
The cement representatives con
ferred with Governor McLean JM
Iterday about North Carolina's atti- ?
'tudertoward foreign capital. H?ey ?_?
also called to see Herman Bryfon, ?
State geologist, but Mr. Bryaon #as
iir Birmingham attending the South
ern mining conference.
Locations were considered near
J Rocky Mount, Tarboro and WilsoK,