BUY AND SELL IN ROCKY MOUNT, TRADE CENTER OF EASTERN CAROLINA
The Rocky M
VOLUME 1, NO. 4
Moving the Confederate
. *Monument In Raleigh
We see through the open
forum of the News and Observer
that there is a discussion going
on in Raleigfr about removing
the -Confederate Monument.
Some of the Modernistic and
Progressive groups feel that the
monument should be carried out
of town, and other conservative
and sentimental types feel that
the monument not only should
stand where it is, but if possible,
should Le built even higher than
it is, so as commemorate the
valor of our ancestors who
fought in the great Southern
Confederacy. .
Personally, we believe that
the monument should remain
where it is. However, a great
many of our cities are making
great changes, and if any
change is lo be made, we desire
to make the following recom
mendation :
Swimming has become very
popular throughout the state,
and almost necessary. The town
of Tarboro, a very progressive
city on the Tar River, has taken
one of it's principal blocks of
the city and in the very heart
of the city, and built a very up
to date swimming pool, so it is
very convenient for those who
desire to swim.
And our suggestion, since
swimming has become so popu
lar and necessary at this time,
is that probably it would be wise
to move the Capitol olf the pub-
Ac square down on some side
street where probably it would
not inconvenience the people, and
take the square and build a fine
swimming poor, so that the
people of North Carolina can go
to Raleigh and have access to
a fine swimming pluce without
having to go very far. Such a
pool would also be a great con
venience to the citizenship of
Raleigh.
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24 CWA WORKERS
ARE FIRST AIDERS
Certificates Awarded After
Completion of 15-Hour
Red Cross Course
Twenty-four CWA workers here
today had Red Gross first aid cer
tificates awarded them after com
pletion of a 15-hour course taught
by Edwin H. Powell, chairman of
the local Red Cross chapter and
supervisor of its first aid activi
ties.
Out of a class of 25, all except
one successfully stood the exami
nation and received certificates.
The class was composed of fore
men, supervisors and timekeepers,
in addition to a number of others,
in order that a person equipped
for first aid work might be avail
able on each local CWA project.
The class was conducted at the
request of E. G. Padgett, North
Carolina director of safety for the
CWA, and the national headuarters
of the Red Cross. Similar classes
are planned, underway or complet
ed in all sections of the country
in an effort to minimize loss of life
or serious results of injuries among
CWA workers.
Those receiving certificates
were: J. J. Andrews, L. M. Charles,
John Claxton Cherry, David Henry
Edwards, I. P. Exum, W. H. Flye,
R. L. Fisher, Edward J. Gordon,
Oscar Winfred Herring, Jr., L. A.
Johnson, David J. Lewis, A. R.
Odom, Z. A. Parrish, Alfred C.
Sumner, Earle D. Spruill, William
Clecy Duke Tharring-
H. Tharrington, El
wood W. Turner, Hugh A. Willi
ford, J. L. Webb and Paul Davis
Yates.
This was the 18th class to be
completed by the local chapter and
five others are now underway with
W. D. Smith, W. B. Middleton, V.
F. Sechriest, J. P. Roberts and E.
C. Speight acting as instructors.
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Lincolp County farmers are
paying their 1933 taxes with wheat
rental checks and payments on
their option cotton. During the
past week about SIB,OOO in cash
has been received by farmers of
the county.
Terms of Seven
Aldermen Expire
Race for Aldermanic Positions
Must Be Made in Each
Ward of City
Aldermanic elections in all
seven wards of the city will be
held here this spring when the
terms of orie alderman in each of
them expires, City Manager Leslie
B. Aycock stated today.
Mr. Aycock said that no candi
dates had filed notices with him
so far and that he has heard no
statements regarding whether any
of the present aldermen will or
will not be candidates for re-elec
tion or whether opposition will bo
forthcoming.
It was expected that all seven
terms expire will seek to retain
their positions. They are: J. M.
Daughtry, first ward; R. C. Brake,
second ward; J. Q. Robinson, third
ward; I. Woodall Rose, fourth
ward; W. S. Wilkinson, fifth
ward; C. W. Ivey, sixth ward, and
M. Williamson, seventh ward.
City elections this year are ex
pected to be more spirited than
last. On alternate years seven
aldermanic terms expire and this
is the year when that number must
succeed in re-election or go out of
office. Last year only four terms
expired, not including that of
Mayor Munn, who was reinstated
in office until 1935.
In addition, spice will be added
to the municipal election soup pot
by the fact that races will be made
for the office of judge and solicitor
of recorder's court—offices hithei--
to filled by the appointive power
of the board of aldermen. Candi
dates for these posts who have al
ready filed notices are Judge Ben
H. Thomas and Sam L. Arrington,
for the judge's job, and Solicitor
Norman Gold and Lynwood El
more for the solicitor's job.
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Civitans Conduct
Business Session
liist of Standing Committees
Are Read By D. E. Bul
luck, President
I
Announcement of the standing
committees for 1934 comprised the
most important feature of the reg
ular monthly business meeting of
the Civitan club in the Lantern
I tea room Thursday night, Feb. 1.
D. E. Bulluck, recently elected
president of the club, presided over
the session and read the list of
, 1934 committees. -
i Among other business matters
i discussed was the decision to offer
a prize in the Weldon high school
* for the best essay on citizenship.
> The contest will be similar to those
> held in local and neighboring
schools.
s R. T. Fountain, lieutenant gover
nor of the Carolina Civitan clubs,
reported briefly on a meeting oi
the Raleigh branch at which Ar
thur Cundy, international Civitan
secretary, was the principal speak
er.
TJgon the recommendation of
Fountain and the the
«üb, the Raleigh club will be is
sued an invitation to meet with
the local organization in the near
future.
The list of committees announe
i ed last night by Mr. Bulluck are
[ membership, W. M. Spears, chair
; man, E. S. Dodge, Bill Melvin;
. proflxpm, L. T. Bulluck, chairman.
J. * Smith, C. V. Walton; fi
nance, C. C. Ward, chairman, W.
H. Brake, A. H. Boettcher; fei
i lowship, H. H. Littrell, chairman,
; R. T. Fountain,' E. C. Lucas,
i Members of the public affairs
i committee, who are also represen
i tatives to the civic council are C.
' Ross Ritchie, chairman, E. C.
Speight, and J. G. Freezor.
ROCKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1934
Mrs. Roosevelt
To Speak in N.C.
j Accepts Invitation to Attend
International Relations
Meet At Duke
High Point. —Mrs. Franklin D.|
Roosevelt has accepted an invita—
tion to the lecture staff of the
second annual Duke Institute of
International Relations which will
be held at Duke University, Dur
ham, June 11-13, it was announced
here by Tom' Alderman Sykes,
field secretary of the institute.
The date for Mrs. Roosevelt's J
appearance before the institute has I
not been determined beyond the
fset that it will be during the
first week. Her topic will be an
nounced later and it is planned
that she spend an entire day with
the institute, Mr. Sykes stated.
Others who will be associated
with the faculty of the institute
will include Dr. Grover Clark,
noted lecturer on the Orient; Dr.
Kirby Page, editor of the Woria
Tomorrow; Dr. Fred Rippey, edi
tor of the Duke University Press
and authority on American dip
lomacy; Dr. Devere Allen, author
and associate editor of The Na
tion; Dr. Calvin Hoover, author
of the "Economic Life of Soviet
Russia"; Dean Justin Miller of
the Duke University law school;
Dr. D. D. Carroll, dean of the Uni
versity of North Carolina school
of commerce; Dr. Paul Harris, of
Washington, secretary of the na
tional council for prevention of
war, and others to be announced
later, it was said by Mr. Sykes.
The institute is sponsored jointly
by Duke University and the Amer
ican Friends Service committee.
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$900,00(1 UNCALLED FOR
Richmond, Va.—Property own
ers in the Shenandoah National
Park area have $900,000 waiting
for them in the hands of State
Treasurer John M. Purcell. For
some reason owners of land con
demned for the park seem un
willing to claim the money.
CHIEF OF POLICE TO
RESIGN FROM OFFICE
Has Been Chief of Police of
Rocky Mount for the Past
Twenty Years. Asks to
Be Transferred.
I
Oliver P. Hedgepeth, Chief of
Police of the City of Rocky Mount
for the past twenty years, has
announced his intention of resign
ing from the office of Chief ot
Police, on the first of May, which
is the end of the municipal year,
and asks to be transferred to some
other department of the police
force, so as to give him lighter
work.
Mr. Hedgepeth was elected to
the police department in 1907 and
in 1914 was elected Chief of Police,
upon the resignation of the late
J. S. Davis, who had been Chief
of Police for many years.
The writer has known Mr.
Hedgepeth during all these years
and has seen him under varied and
trying conditions, and never saw
him waver from the path of duty.
While his upright character and
life has always been a terror to
the evildoer, and while he has al
ways been zealous in his enforce
ment of the law, yet never at any
time was he ever known to allow
his personal feelings to enter into
any case, regardless of how anxious
the state was to convict, to the
extent that he was ever thought
to have exaggerated or suspected
of mistating the facts. On many
occasions has the writer known the
judges to ask of Mr. Hedgepeth
what he knew about the character
of some defendant who was before
him, and it was always the custom
of the Chief to state the facts, and
if the defendant had any good
qualities, he would state them also.
During Chief Hedgepeth's ten
ure, he has not only had the re
spect of his subordinates, but ha
has had the respect of the entire
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State Salaries
We observe that the new set-up of the Revenue De
partment carries an executive salary load of $42,320.00
a year. Part of this is accounted for by the three new
positions created for Dr. M. C. S. Noble, Jr., at a salary
of $5,000.00, Mr. Harry McMullan, at a salary of $4,-
500.00, and Mr. George Scott, at a salary of $5,000.00.
Of course the employees and field men draw their salaries
in addition,? to the above.
Some question has been raised as to the legality of
the creation of these positions, or at least in the way
they were, established. We know nothing about that
except some interesting comparisons which occur to us.
The General Assembly of 1933 fixed the salary of the
Commissioner of Agriculture at $3,850.00. This officer
has supervision of the great Agricultural department
of this State in its relations and contacts with our farm
ers. The same salary was fixed for the Commissioner
of Insurance, and the Commissioner of Labor. These
three, the Commissioner of Agriculture, the Insurance
Commissioner, and the Commissioner of Labor, are elec
tive officers. They must make campaigns, both in the
primary and in the election. They go through the heat
and burden of these contests for the party.
We wonder why these three salaries in the Revenue
Department should be so much greater than the salary
of $3,850.00 per year fixed by law for the Commissioner
of Agriculture, the Insurance Commissioner, and the
Commissioner of Labor.
We hear also that Dr. A. T. Allen, superintendent of
Public Instruction, has been voluntarily returning 15 per
cent of his salary to the State treasury. His salary is
fixed by statute at $5,000.00. He has voluntarily reduced
it to $4,250.00. He is an elective officer. He is the head
of our great Department of Education, of our whole
school system. Why should he receive less than these
subordinates in the Revenue Department?
Surely something needs to be explained to the people
about this salary business.
Anomaly in Government
The State Legislature has created the Department of
Revenue and has further created the office of Commis
sioner of Revenue to direct this Department. With the
coming in of this administration the Honorable A. J.
Maxwell \yas appointed to fulfil this legislative job at a
salary of $5,500.00 per year. Simultaneously with this
appointment came an executive creation of a new job
which hat? not existed before without the sanction of
the Legislature known as Legislative assistant, to which
position Honorable M. C. S. Noble, Jr., has been appoint
ed, which job takes precedent over the Commissioner of
Revenue and the Commissioner acts directly under him
and is subordinate to this new job, the duties of the job
which the public has never been able to understand yet.
The Legislature further created the job of State High
way Commissioner which position was filled by the Gov
ernor in the appointment of Honorable E. B. Jeffreys,
editor of the Greensboro News, of Greensboro, N. C.
Simultaneously with this appointment came the creation
of the job known as the Executive Assistant and was
filled by the Governor by the appointment of the Honor
able George Ross Pou, former Prison director or Super
visor, whose duties now supercede the duties of the High
way Commissioner and the Highway Commissioner has
been subordinated to him.
Now the question under debate is whether the jobs
created by the Legislature or the jobs created by the
Executive order without the authority of the Legislature
shall take precedent over the jobs created by the Legis
lature.
This is the anomaly in government whjph the public
would like to have explained.
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William Elliott
5- Year-Old
Tarboro Juniors
Stage Big Rally
The Junior Order of Tarboro is
staging a great rally to be held
in Tarboro on February 22nd.
There will be high officials and
disinguished members present
from many sections of the country.
It is expected that the Governor
will be there and deliver the prin
cipal address.
Tarboro has a very acive order,
one of the best in the state, and
those who receive an invitation
will be indeed fortunate.
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FLOWER SHOPS
DECORATE HALL
Fallon's Flower Shop and the
Rocky Mount Floral Company
showed their interest in civic and
national life by furnishing and
decorating, without cost to the
committee, the recreation hall for
the Roosevelt Ball, which took
place recently here.
They carry at all times a large
and beautiful stock of flowers,
both cut and potted plants. ,
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Nazis order uniforms for 3,000,-
000 boys and girls.
Tragedy Occurs Near Mome
yer Friday Afternoon
Little five-year-old William El
liott Hinton, only child of Mr. anc
Mrs. Malcolm R. Hinton of nea:
Momeyer, was instantly killec
when struck by a car driven bj
Milton Strickland of Nashville las)
Friday afternoon about 3 o'clock.
The little boy was playing in the
highway with another child ir
front of his home. A truck came
down the road and as he ran from
the truck the Strickland car came
over the hill and struck the Hin
ton child as he ran directly in its
path. The accident was declared
unavoidable and Milton Strickland
was absolved of the blame.
The funeral services for the ac
cident victim were held from the
Momeyer Baptist Church Saturday
afternoon at 2:30 o'clock with Mr.
E. S. Sexton of Rocky Mount and
Mr. G. G. Willis of Momeyer con
ducting the services. Music was
furnished by the church choir. In
terment made in the Spring
Hope cemetery.
A great host of friends and
relatives paid loving and sympa
thetic tribute to the deceased b*
attending the last rites and the
floral tributes were many and
beautiful.
V*»"W * IU/
Will the Representatives State
Plainly Where They Stard
Noss Will Seek
His Post Again
Veteran Nash Legislator Will
Run for House and for
Speakership
O. B. Moss, of Spring Hope,
prominent and veteran Nash
County legislator, will seek hi 3
last term in the general assembly
in Nash County this year, accord
ing to a statement accredited to
him Saturday in Raleigh.
Mr. Moss, who is one of the
oldest members of the legislature
and who played a leading part in
the affairs of the House during the
1933 session, will also be a candi
date for the speakership, he
stated. He was a candidate last
year and probably has an advan
tage over candidates for the speak
ership this year, although several
other veteran legislators have cast
their hats into the ring.
Mr. Moss has served for a num
ber of terms from Nash County,
has served as chairman of a num
ber of the powerful committees of
the lower body and has also been
a. leader on the floor in some of
the hectic House fights over warm
ly contested legislation.
In Nash County he is well known
to the voting public.
While no other announcements
have been made for the two Nash
seats, other candidates are expect
ed to file long before the dates
for the June primary.
Serving in the lower House in
1533 from Nash was Representa
tive Van S. Watson of this city,
who went to the legislature for
his first term after holding a
number of offices in the city gov
ernment. Mr. Watson, so far, has
not indicated that he will or will
not be a candidate.
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29 Applicants
Pass Bar Test
♦
William Nicholson Clark, of
This City, Successful in
His Examination
i
Raleigh, Feb. 1. —North Caro-i
lina's total number of lawyers was |
increased by 29 today as the re-1
suit of the examinations given last I
Monday to applicants for admit
\ tance to the bar.
This number received the right!
to practice out of 64 aspirants |
] who took the examinations, given
by the newly incorporated state
bar association. Heretofore the
examinations have been given by
. the state supreme court.
Henry London, Raleigh, secre
tary of th« examining board, in
announcing the results of the ex
• I aminations, said that although 55
[ per cent of the applicants failed,
■ the tests were not unusually hard,
I but "practical."
p Three additional licenses were
granted by agreement of the ex
- aminers to practitioners from out
of the state.
i William Nicholson Clark, of
i Rocky Mount, was listed among
L the successful applicants for the
> bar.
Others in this section who made
t above passing marks on their
I examinations were announced as
I follows: James Milton Braswell,
Elm City.
WEBB'S CHAPEL
ORGANIZES S. S.
Sunday School was organized at
i Webb's Chapel last Sunday. Quite
a good little congregation was
; present and much interest was
manifested. Messrs. W. D. Smith
[ and M. G. Frye of the North Rocky
Mount Baptist church went out
and assisted in the organization.
i Mrs. R. S. Roberson was elected
i superintendent and Mrs. Li.;ris was
elected secretary and treasurer.
SI.OO PER YEAIV
M
It has appeared in the prei
this week that North Carolina
the second largest income ta
| Paying state in the union. No
withstanding the large ineonn
produced in North Carolina, tl
state of North Carolina is undei
taking to raise it's revenue by
gross sales tax, which places tl
burden of government large]
upon the backs of the poor po
( pie of this state, food and rai
i ment or commonly expressed a
s back and belly.
r And yet our state boasts a
. having the finest roads, payht
, the largest income save the Ea
pire of New York, and collect
, it's taxes as above stated, j I
, probably the only state in «S
, Union doing such a thing, sa*
, the poor state of Mississippi, wh
has always existed by raisin
cotton by half fed Negroes.
, What are we to do with thi
sales tax in the next legislature'
The suggestion of the Herald i
[ that all representatives a»
senators offering themselves b«
fore the people shall state boM
ly and plainly how they stand w
this question and probably |
would not be amiss that the'
give some assurance that the'
, will not change their minds be
tween the nomination in Jpni
and the adjourning of the legia
lature in March.
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C. C. SOUTHALL
DIED WEDNESDA
C. C. Southall, prominent cil
zen and merchant of this city, dii
Wednesday morning at 1:30.
He is survived by his widow, wl
■was feefore her marriage Miss W*
ler, and one daughter. Mr. Soati
all was an outstanding citizen 
Rocky Mount and it i s with sii
cere regret that his friends lew
of his untimely death.
Funeral arrangements had m
been made at this time.
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Last Eagle Badge
For Council Givei
Van Watson, Jr., Receive
Scoutings Highest Award
After Council Disbands
Receiving the last official aw«i
! of the Tar Heel council before
j was abolished, Van S. Watson, h
I son of Mr. and Mrs. Van S. Wt
son, of this city, today had
the Eagle Scout badge, highd
| rank Scouting affords.
At a special meeting here k
Monday, January 29, three meji
bers of the Rocky Mount court 
honor, Charles D. Benbow, Re
F. H. Craighill, and Dr. Roy No
ton, recommended to the nation
court of honor in New York th;
young Watson be awarded tt
rank. Late yesterday the nation
court approved the recommend
tion and the badge was awardt
here.
Young Watson, who last nigy
was awarded, his diploma at Cm
tral High school in the mid-ter
graduation exercises, left th'
morning for Oak Ridge where 1
will be enrolled at the Oak Ridt
Military Institute.
Herbert Stucky, deptuy region
executive of Region 6, wa» «
pected in the city Monday to fcf
mulate plans for the continual
here of Scouting, which met « at
back when the council voteif 1
disband late in December.
Six troops are functioning 1 |
present in the city. Watson W;
a member of troop No. 7.
James W. Keel, Jr., student
the University of North Carolii
won the first Eagle badge here
1931 after the council had be
reorganized.
19TH ROUTE ARMY
BEATEN
Hong Kong. The Nineteen
Route Army, which
itself in the defense of Shmjll
and later was in rebellion to d
National government, hut s«
rendered and will be reorganize