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BUY AND SELL IN ROCKY MOUNT, TRADE CENTER OF EASTERN CAROLINA VOLUME 1, NO. 10 I Airport Hanger I Contract Is Let §L Approximately $6,000 to Be * Expended on Hangar— Funds for Field Assured MI; Work on the local airport hanger 'wis expected to start soon accord -3&. ing to an announcement made by ® City Manager Leslie B. Aycock, -E whp said that the contract had been ft let'to a Raleigh company. ■' Approximately $6,000 will be ex- R.pended on the hanger, Mr. Aycock Bsald, and the Dixie Metal and Cul febert company, of Raleigh, was the jp successful bidder. t Part of the material probably E| will be placed in readiness for m e - gg^Xyid' of the hanger. Ifc TUe citjnanager said that he i]f,Jiad "everjssurance that the sup- Rfply of pi funds will be l avail ||*hle for completion of the # ,*tset asideir labor and materials the ill, project. More than fef/800 CW/ rorke ra were employed WjM one fie on the project, but i' curtailm't of federal funds has £, reduced ' ' oca l quota to 203 now ||Sand parP this number is engaged oth projects. However, a ii ?ompar, vely large force is work ift j%uAg on j.ula r CWA schedule every | Mfleek jjpreparing the field. ' m I \ j——° M U. N. C. *ll IJEUCATOR BURIED » NEAR INSTITUTION ft Chapil Hill, March 19. —Francis ■K*BBt9* Venable, president of the I ElTpiversity of North Carolina from BiflOO to 1914, rested today in a Kyprave near the institution he help- Red in elevating from a small iHpehool to one of the south's lead- centers of culture. Jlkjghe internationally known who died Saturday in a KfSliclimond, Va., hospital was buried ■mere yesterday after a simple Iponeral service at the Venable A prayer written by the late Dr. | i.W. D. (Parson) Moss, former pas- I Kr of the Presbyterian church here | and close friend of Dr. Venable, |as used by the Rev. Alfred S. Lawrence, rector of the Chapel of |L, Townspeople, faculty members, ' Students, and relatives and friends from several neighboring states - : fcffttended the service. o I IFAVORS BANKHILL BILL I k Hie following from the Congres f. clonal Record, quoting Represen 'ffeative Truax, of Ohio, will be of Sst to North Carolinians who jncerned with agriculture: hen the commissioner of ag are for the state of North ina, Mr. William A. Graham, I have known intimately for - number of years, asserts that he was 'opposed to this tjjSpl' because he thought 'produc- iSpoil could be regulated by educa y'tlon and by diversification' but he fjyihas found that such measures |Mjave failed miserably* and now is jSttpfcartilv in favor of the Bankhead Y fjjifll' and is behind the sponsors of II this measure, I know because of his I long experience, his unquestioned Jjtategrity and honesty that he is inflecting the views of the cotton .Vgrowers of the state of North | Carolina." . SK Commissioner Graham was infi "jjjßSUrtely associated with Representa ,-active Truax, having attended sev tjgfral meetings with him while he *|3 l Mr&s commissioner of Agriculture pSfcr the state of Ohio. ! ANOTHER CUT FOR CWA PAYROLL - p! Tarboro, March 20. —Edgecombe . ;*«ounty's CWA payroll will under ffiko another large cut this week, .ipdfficials here reported. H Last Saturday pay in the of $2,296 went to 266 : workers; this coming Saturday | will find approximately 200 receiv ' ing pay. 5 Seventy-seven men were at work last week on the five canal drain- projects, 24 on tlje job of brick 'l veneering the high school finasium and others on miscella -4 neous jobs. The Rocky Mount Herald Manager Makes Report Of City $132,993.79 Collected From I General Sources at Close of February A monthly report of City Man ager Leslie B. Aycock showing the financial status of the city treasury at the close of February reveals $132,993.79 from general sources, $29,596.76 from property taxes and $345,562.62 from utilities collected during this fiscal year, which ends June 30. The balance expected from gen eral sources was stated as $lO,- 090.79, from property taxes as $15,403.23 and from utilities as $97,937.38. Expenditures were as follows: general government, $16,999; pub lic safety, $50,342; health and sanitation, $23,698; highways, $36,- 226; recreation, $9,412; city farm, $986, general items and debts, $21,296, utilities $201,980. The utilities expenditures were divided as follows: general over head, $17,741; water department, $22,432; light and power depart ment, $86,781; gas department, $46,951; gas and electric applian ces, $8,613; sewer and sewage disposal, $9,420, and bond redemp tion, sinking fund and contingent fund, $201,980. BANNER COUNCIL MEETS The Sons and Daughters of Lib erty, Banner Council No. 30, will meet in regular session on Thurs day evening at 7:30. The meet ing will take place in the Masonic Temple and all members are urged to be present. A special entertainment has been planned to follow the routine ses sion, members of the council state. ———o— : Final Statistics On Cotton Given Total of 12,659,953 Running Bales Ginned, Exclusive of Linters Washington, March 20.—Final figures on the 1933 cotton crop announced by the census bureau showed 12,659,953 running bales, or 13,043,110 equivalent 500 pound bales were ginned, exclusive of linters. The 1932 crop was 12,- 709,647 running bales, or $13,001,- 508 equivalent 500-pound bales, and the 1931 crop, 16,628,874 run ning, or 17,095,594 equivalent bales. The average gross weight of the bale for the crop, counting round as half bales and excluding lint ers, was 515.1 pounds, compared with 511.5 pounds for the 1932 crop and 514.6 pounds for the 1931 crop. The final gunnings report by states, in running bales and equiv alent 500-pound bales were: Alabama, 951,245 and 972,762; Arizona, 92,764 and 95,951; Ar kansas, 1,014,201 and 1,049,310; California 210,106 and 216,457. o— NEW LADIES' DRESS STORE OPENS HERE The new firm will open up un der the name of Jones' Dress Shop and will be located at 120 Tarboro St., next door to Daniel Jones Co., which is generally known as the T. L. Conyers store building. Mr. W. F. Jones, Jr., will be the active manager and has just returned from New York where he purchased a large stock of the latest styles of dresses, which will be sold at most reasonable and popular prices, according to the statement of Mr. Jones. Mr. Jones is well and familiarly known in Rocky Mount, having been for many years, during the life time of the late J. H. Daniels, been manager of the J. H. Daniel Shoe Store. This store will open next week with a full line of Easter dresses, in time for purchasers for Easter holidays. ROCKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, Harold Lloyd's Father Is Honored 1 fl D % .flp I w ft Mt .). Darsie (Koxie) Lloyd, proud lather of tin- comedian. Harold l.loycl. Is receiving four executive certificates of appointments signed h.v Gov Floyd B. Olson, from State Commissioner of Purchases Carl It. Erlck son, who motored from St, Paul. Minn., to represent the governor in th swearing In ceremonies held In the 131 Mirador cactus garden at Palm Springs, Cnltf. The certificates and badges make Mr. Lloyd an honorable game warden, 'highway patrol captain, deputy state tourist commissioner and the official liquor tester of the state 'of Minnesota. Who Is The Father Of The Bill? A bill was passed through the United States Senate placing a tariff on interstate shipments where the state has a sales tax, last week, and is now pending in the House of Representatives. This bill was supposed to be passed for the state of North Carolina, but where did the bill originate? It cer tainly could not have come from the Senators, as according to press reports neither was present when the vote was taken neither claimed to be the father or mother to the bill. The merchants did not ask for this protection nor was there any demand from the people. Now, where did this bill come from? Who inspired it? When the bill was before the committee, Governor Eh ringhaus sent his commissioner of Revenue and his sales tax appointee, Mr. McMullian to advocate it to Washington but these gentlemen only went after the bill was inroduced. Now somebody had this bill introduced. The Gov ernor solemnly' promised" the peopFe that he was against the sales tax, but changed his mind on the account of the emergency and that it would be a temporary thing, and on the back of this statement we find him leading his ambassadors to Washington trying to make this tax upon poverty permanent. Has he had a lax of memory? Has he forgotten? The tax taken off of land would only amount to about $3,000,000. There is certainly no need for it. Is North Carolina being used as a buffer for other states by those seeking to carry this manner of taxation in other states so as to relieve them of their just burden of taxation. Has the democracy of Vance and Aycock weakened in the state ? Is it the desire of North Carolina to abandon its position on the time honored policy of the democratic par ty? Our people must arise and let those who would lead us into the republican ways know that we are followers of Jefferson. How Does He Do It? In our issue of February 16 we showed that in June, 1931, the- salaries of eleven appointive state officers as fixed by Gov. Gardner averaged $1,944.09 per year greater than the salaries of the eleven elective officers as fixed by the General Assembly. These figures show that elective government under the control of the people is cheaper than appointive government as set up and controlled by Gardner. We present to our readers a more direct comparison: Dan Boney is Insurance Commissioner, elected by the people. His salary in June, 1931, as fixed by the legislature was $4,500. At that time the salary of Gurney P. Hood, Commissioner of Banks, as fixed by Gardner was $7,500. The legislature of 1933 reduced Boney's salary to $3,825. The Governor re duced Hood's salary to $5,500. Is there any reason why Hood's salary should be greater than Boney's? Boney is a soldier of the World War and in a battered leg, broken body, and armless sleeve carries each day the testimonial of his courage and devotion. Hood has been a small calibre banker of the industrial type. Boney has been eminently successful in his department in the superintendence of Insurance companies and building and loan associations. Hood, as Banking Commissioner, has a record of extravagance and mismanagement. In two and one-half years he spent $542,000 in lawyers' and auditors' fees. No one knows how far his extravagances has gone in other expenditures for he has made no general report of the operations of his department. He opened one bank in Greens boro with glowing statements of its solvency. It closed in less than seven months. As against Boney's successful ad ministration Hood has had a career of dismal failure as a public officer. How does he get away with it? And how has he been able to get his salary at such a higher figure than Boney's? For one thing he was a member of the General Assembly of 1931 and took the lead in creating the job of Banking Com missioner for himself. He helped Gardner in all of Gardner's schemes in that legislature, and Gardner rewarded him by making him Banking Commissioner and fixing his salary at $7,500. Not only did Hood help create the job for him self but also in fixing it so that Gardner could fix Hood's salary at $7,500. What protection could a bank depositor expect from a Banking Commissioner of this type? In ability, standards, attainments and record as a public official Dan Boney far out-distances Gurney Hood. His posi tion is of equal, if not of greater importance. But Dan Boney did not have any employees in the legislature. He only had a great record as citizen, soldier, and public official. (Please turn to page two) , MARCH 23, 1934 Merchant Organ Raps Sales Tax Calls on People to Oppose Legislative Candidate for Sales Tax The Carolinas-Virginla Retailer, edited by Willard L. Dowell, sec retary of the North Carolina Mer chants' Association, Saturday edi torially called for the people of the state to "vote against any man who voted for the general sales 'tax at the last sessions of the Legislature, unless such a one has genuinely repented and is seeking an opportunity to undo the irrepar able injury and the grave injustice he helped to inflict upon his state and the citizens thereof." The publication is the official organ of the North Carolina. Mer chants' Association, and is "en dorsed' by the Virginia associa tion. In other columns of the maga zine the record votes by the com mittees and two divisions of the 1933 Legislature are printed. The editorial calling for opposi tion to all who voted for the tax says the levy "is literall ydriving millions of dollars of business from the merchants of North Carolina and it is exacting its op pressive toll from the destitute, the poorest and most helpless." Warning is given that "all indi cations point" toward Governor Ehringhaus and Revenue Commis sioner A. J. Maxwell advocating the reenactment of "this utterly destructive and crushingly burden some tax." o Arrest Three In Halifax Killing However, John McGee, Be lieved to Be Slayer, Report ed Still at Large Roanoke Rapids, March 19. Two young women and a man were lodged in Halifax jail today while authorities conducted a wide spread search for John McGee, 25- year-old saw mill owner, in con nection with the fatal shooting of Linn Tippett at Ringwood, last night. Ermon King, his 18-year-old housekeeper, Lucy Pattern, and Lucy Powell were the three ar rested. Officers said Tippett was shot through the heart at the home of Mrs. Anna Duke. After question ing all available witnesses, they said their information was Tippett was fired upon when he and others went out to the automobile occu pied by Lucy Powell, after King had entered the house. They quoted the witness as say ing Lucy Powell handed McGee a pistol, with which the saw mill man shot Tippett. Lucy Powell was said by officers to have first stated she shot Tip pett, but later to have asserted that McGee had promised her money to take the blame. McGee is a married man and has a number of children. Officers of Scotland Neck, Enfield, White Oak and other points joined in the search for him. o FINAL RITES HELD SATURDAY FOR FATHER OF LOCAL WOMAN Final rites for M. M. Stokes, of Stokes, father of Mrs. J. V. Cox, No. 234 Rose street, this city, were held Saturday afternoon at three o'clock from St. John's Episcopal church near Grifton with the rec tor, Rev. A. C. D. Noe, of Ayden, in charge. Burial followed at the church yard cemetery. Mr. Stokes died suddenly of heart trouble at nine o'clock Fri day night. He was 72 years old. Surviving are his widow, the former Miss Lou Rice; two sona, A. L. Stokes, of Fountain, and J. C. Stokes, of Stokes, and four daughters, Mrs. M. H. Richardson, of Kinston, Mrs. W. F. Fleming, of Grifton, Mrs. J. L. Mooring, of Stokes, and Mrs. Cox, of this city. ELEVEN SCHOOLS IN TRIANGULAR DEB A TES Seek Reduction Of County Taxes Edgecombe Commissioners Administer Oath to 14 Tax Listers for 1934 "If everyone will do his part in the mafjter of listing property ac cording to its value, I see no rea son why the tax rate in Edge combe county should not be re duced materially," C. C. Ward, member of the county board of commissioners, declared here today following a meeting yesterday in Tarboro of the commissioners and the list takers for the 14 town ships. The 14 list takers for the year were sworn in at the meeting yes terday and commodity prices for the listing of property were estab lished as principal features of the meeting. Urged to do so by the commis sioners, the list takers will try to get the people of the county tn list accurately their property ac cording to its value, Mr. Ward pointed out. By so doing, the com missioners are hopeful that the t*x rate can be greatly reduced. The present rate is 91 cents. "I be lieve the rate can be reduced 25 per cent if the people will coope rate," Mr. Ward said. The rate for each township, how ever, is determined within the township and the rate of 91 cents is the county-wide rate, it was shown. Listing will Slart in Edgecombe, on April 2, Mr. Ward said. Con trary to the general belief, it was pointed out, the list taker has the right to visit the premises of a property holder and make a sur vey in an effort to determine whether or not the correct value has been placed upon the property. A standard of prices of com modities and other articles was agreed upon as a basis of listing property for taxation for the year 1934, and some of the prices fixed were as follows: cotton, SSO per bale; corn, $3 per barrell; oats, 50 cents per bushel; hay, $lO per ton; meat, eight cents per pound; lard, eight cents per pound; pea nuts, $2.50 per bag; soja beans, $1.50 per bushel; sweet potatoes, 75 cents per bushel; Irish potatoes, $1.25 per bushel; onions, $3 per bushel; chickens, 40 cents each; turkeys, $1.50; guineas, 25 cents; ducks, 25 cents each. o TOBACCO PLANT BEDS SUFFER FROM EFFECTS OF COLD WAVE Henderson, March 18.—With the severest winter in many years in this section apparently about end ed, tobacco growers are turning their attention to their plantbeds. The severe weather has retarded the sprouting of the plantbeds, and growers are worried over the prospects. The ground is in good condition at this time for the growing crop, and farmers are hoping there will still be an abundance of moisture when the season gets under way. Some plantbeds were sown weeks ago, but have not sprouted as was expected. The cold weather may have its benefits, however, is hold ing down insect and disease dam age later. NOTICE Those desiring to subscribe to The Rocky Mount Herald may do so by sending SI.OO with name and address to The Rocky Mount Herald, Rocky Mount, N. C. Name Town State Route No SI.OO PER YEAR Eleven high schools of Nash and~ Edgecombe counties will partici pate on March 30 in the annus] triangular debates of the North. Carolina high school debating union. In addition to the Rocky Mount high school, the enrollment of schools from the two. counties for the debating contest is as follows: Edgecombe Battleboro, Cone toe, Leggett, South Edgecombe, Tarboro, and West Edgecombe. Nash—Bailey, Nashville, Red Oak $ and Whitakers. fw The query which will be discus sed in this year's contest of the high school debation union is: "Re solved, That the United States should adopt the essential features of the British system of radio con trol and operation." The Rocky Mount high school will debate in a triangle with the Hugh Morson high school of Ra leigh, and the Washington high school. Battleboro, South Edge combe, and West Edgecombe wii! compete in a triangle together. Tarboro will debate in a group with Roanoke Rapids and Scotland Neck. Leggett will debate against Bethel and Hobgood. Conetoe will debate in a group which will in clude the Arthur high school of Pitt County. The Nashville high school will debate in a triangle with Aurelian Springs high school and Warren ton high school. Bailey, Red Oak, and Whitakers will debate in a triangle together. Altogether, 200 high schools scattered through all sections of North Carolina will participate in the State-wide triangular debates on March 30. The high schools winning, both of their triangular debates will send their teams to Chapel Hill to compete on April 12 and 13 in the final contest fo r the Aycock Me morial Cup, the trophy which has been provided for the high school, debating union by the tic debaters of the University of North Carolina. The high schools of Nash and Edgecombe counties always take m. lively interest in the annual debat ing contest. Last year four high schools from Edgecombe County— Conetoe, Leggett, South Edge combe, and Tarboro—were repre sented in the final contest at Chapel Hill. # The high school debating leagues of thirty-four stages will discuss in their spring contests this year the • question as to whether the United States should adopt the essential features of the British system of radio control and opera tion. BOY'S CONDITION UNCHANGED FOLLOW ING SEVERE INJURY The condition of Woodrow Shearin, 14-year-old local youth, who was struck Sunday night by a hit-and-run driver on the Tar boro highway near the Pine View cemetery, today remained unchang ed, according to reports from the local hospital where he was brought following the accident. Young Shearin suffered a frac tured skull and bis condition was regarded as serious. He was riding away from town, according to police who investi gated the accident, when the car. which was believed to have been going in the same direction, struck him. The driver of the car was. unknown. The car did not stop.