V ——————— mmmmmrnmmmm*mmm~m*mmmmmmmmmmm.mmmmmmrnmmmmmmm mmmmmmmmm—mmammmmatmmmmm ■n ■ n n n«■ What Chance Does He Have To Escape? rMm Hu Ahoet Ome Ckum 1b A Thousand . To Make GMawiy. The chance of. > Person escap ing 'from the State prison system is about one in a thousand. At last investigations of the division j of institutions and correction of the State Board of Charities and Public Welfare into the number! of escapes since 1933 leads to that opinion., Women prisoners take French! leave practically are negligible,! W. C. Ezell, director of the divi-1 sion, said this week, and pointed. out the fact that during si* years only three women, all Negroes,! have escaped and all three were 1 recaptured. “Though the Negro group makes up only about 30 per cent of the general population of the state, the race has contributed 56.5 per cent of the 168,826 pris oners handled since the state took over the job of caring for county prisoners in 1933,” Ezell said. “While during the entire peri od the prison division lost one prisoner for each 862 handled, while escapes were one out of each 37 handled, Negroes were one out of each 72 handled. Loss es sustained were one out of 747 handled and one out of 23 es capes for white prisoners, one out of 877 handled and one out of 13 escapes for Negroes,” he said. White prisoners have shown a tendency to escape twice as often as Negroes although the latter have been much more successful in eluding the officers once they were out on their own. Escapes during six years have been 1992 white and 1330 Negro, while 1905 whites and 1221 Ne groes have been recaptured. This leaves a total of 196 former pris oners still at large, 87 white and 109 Negro. The escape rate has been lowered gradually and re captures increased during the period as shown by records of fiscal 1934 when one out of each 30 handled was able to escape in comparison with the lower rec ord of 1939 of one escape out of each 87 handled. o Playmakers’ Club Presents Program The Playmakers Club of Per son County Training school will make its initial appearance of the season by staging three one-act plays, Friday night, November 17 at 8 o’clock, under the direc tion of M. M. Graves. The following students will participate: Emma Jay, Gladys Clay, Elvana Jeffers, George Baird, Nora Willis Buckner, Sam uel ones, James Woods, Mary Lunsford, John Harris, Odette Baird, John Baird, Nathaniel Vil lines and Bennie Owens. All pat rons and friends are invited to attend. o C. M. Gray, Jr., of Trenton, was winner of this year’s corn growing contest conducted in Jones county for 4-H club mem bers with a yield of 87.6 bushels an acre. A cigaret and an overstaffed chair Iff Have you ffreiitsuanc* ? THOMPSON nisUMIHK.ASENCY Roxboro, N. d B&er Industry’s “Clean-Up” Plans Work Thoroughly Raleigh—Twenty-one dealers in seven counties have lost their, retail beer licenses as a result of the beer industry’s “clean up or close up’’ campaign in North Carolina. The board of commissioners of Buncombe, Wayne, Mecklenburg, New Hanover, Brunswick and Iredell Counties have revoked 19 licenses on petition of the Brewers and North Carolina Beer Distributors Committee, it was announced. The Gaston County Superior court revoked two licenses after the committee had filed revocation petitions with the Gaston County Board of commissioners. One dealer in Iredell county was placed on probation after he promised the board of commis sioners he would heed the com mittee’s warning and “clean up”. The Haywood County Board of commissioners deferred action until its December 4th meeting on one revocation petition to await the outcome of a case a gainst the licensee in Superior court there. The Committee also has filed petitions for revocation of sever al licenses in four counties, but the board of commissioners are not expected to act upon these petitions until the latter part of November or in early December, it was announced. In addition, 27 beer outlets have been warned to “clean up” 'come hereTolrl HANES! I PEEBLES Department Store | — "Chevrolet's FIRST Again!" —| NOWHERE ELSE—FEATURES LIKE THESE! 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