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What Chance Does He Have To Escape?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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an overstaffed
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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”
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letters sent by Colonel Edgar H.
Bain of Goldsboro, State Director
the Brewers and North Caro
lina Beer Distributors committee
in charge of the beer industry’s
“clean up or close up” campaign.
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New Marx Bros.
Laugh Hit Comes
To Palace Theatre
In the wildest, craziest and
most uproarious comedy of their
careers, the Marx Bros, return to'
the screen after a year’s absence
in “Marx Bros, at the Circus,”
at the Palace Theatre today and
tomorrow.
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This time the mad Marxes in
vade the world of the Big Top for
their riot. of merriment and are
assisted by the strangest aggrega
tion ever assembled for a car
nival of comedy. They include a
gorilla, an a.
midget, the Strongest Man in the
World, a trained seal,- a sym
phony orchestra adrift on the
ocean, a herd of elephants, Afri
can lions and beautiful ballets
that sing and dance atop of hors
es.
“Marx Bros, at the Circus” is
the story of two circus roust
abouts, Harpo and Chico, who en
engage a jobless lawyer Groucho,
to save Kenny Baker, circus ow
ner, from losing his show.
Thorugh a series of typically
Marxican hysterical sequences,
the show is saved, Baker wins
the love of Florence Rice and
Groucho fades out in the arms of
Margaret Dumont.
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-On Your Toes” -
Race Sets New
Show Record
Virginia Hart, 20-year-old Ft.
Smith, Ark., girl, recently set a
unique world record, the first for
such an event, by speeding 25
yards in 3.9 seconds on her toes.
The novel one-event sport meet
was staged at the Warner Bros.
There’s
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about Cigarette Tobaccos
There are four types
of tobaccos found in the more popular
cigarettes, namely. .. Bright, Maryland,
Burley and Turkish.
ALL THESE TOBACCOS except Turkish (which is
bought direct from the planters in Turkey and Greece)
and Maryland (which is bought through sealed bids
under government supervision) are bought at public
auction, just like any other auction where you might
have bought in a table or a chair.
At THE AUCTION SALE the tobacco is piled in
baskets weighing from about 100 to 500 pounds and
each purchaser buys all of his tobaccos by competitive
bidding for the particular piles he wants.
The CHESTERFIELD BUYERS buy the best of
these mild ripe tobaccos for the Chesterfield blend.
And it is Chesterfield's Combination ... the right amounts
of Burley and Bright... just enough Maryland... and
just enough Turkish —that makes the big difference
between Chesterfield and other cigarettes.
It IS BECAUSE of this combination
that Chesterfields are COOLER, have
a BETTER TASTE and are DEFINITELY
MILDER. They are made of the world’s
best cigarette tobaccos. You can’t buy
a better cigarette.
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C«wri«fct 1W», lnuwr a Him Tonew Co. ,
Studio in Burbank, Calif. Com
peting against the shapely dan
cer were five other ballet girls,
Marie Groscup of Wichita, Kan
sas, Marsha Kent of Hollywood,
Wana Williams of San Farncisco,
and Shirley Lopez and Sally Cra
ven, both of Los Angeles. All
were members of the ballet en
semble working in the film “On
Your Toes," starring Zorina,
which is showing at the Dolly
Madison theatre today and tomor
row.
Starter of the race was Louis
Zemperine, the University of
Southern California’s world-fa
mous mile runner, and time keep
er was Jim Kelly, A. A. U. offi
cial. Judges of the race were
Zorina and George Balanchine,
noted ballet master.
Winners were awarded coveted
ed Capezio ballet slippers, three
THURSDAY, NOV. 16, 1939
•pair to Miss Hart in first place,
two pair to Sally Craven in sec
ond and one pair to Marie Gros
cup, third. In addition, Miss Hart
got a special “On Your Toes” cup.
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HEAR BAND CONCERT
On Friday morning, November
10, the students of Person Coun
ty Training school, enjoyed a
band concert and song recital,
given by the Colored orphanage
of Oxford. The band was under
the direction of Madison C. Len
lon.
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POWER
Surveys on rural power lines
for Richmond County have bees
continued and prospects for thess
lines look unusually , bright, sayj
Assistant Farm Agent J. P. Chop
lm.