BUY AND SELL IN ROCKY MOUNT, TRADE CENTER OF EASTERN CAROLINA
•v The Rocky Mount
NOLUME 1. NO. 25.
PARAGRAPHS
PROBLEMS AT
NEW POLITICAL LINE-UP
SELLING THE NEW DEAL
EDUCATIONAL CAMPAIGN
ROOSEVELT TO SPEAK
PARTY LINES WAVERING
ORGANIZATIONS TO FIGHT
BORAH A LONE-WOLF
WILL BUSINESS DECIDE?
PROHIBITION MAY ARISE
INQUIRY SIX YEARS OLD
TRADE TREATIES IN FALL
«. A new political line-up may be
seen in the next Congress as a
result of the somewhat unusual
aspects of the campaign about to
begin in the states, where every
Representative and one-third of
. the Senators will be named by the
voters.
Recognizing that the "New Deal"
must be sold to the public, it is
•plain that the Administration lead
ers will take the stump in an ef
fort to put over its meaning and
promise to the "people. Among the
higher-up exponents, who will be
on far-flung tours, are listed Dr.
-Tugwell, the storm center of recent
antagonism to the AAA; Harry L.
, Hopkins, administrator of vast un
employment relief programs; Gen.
Hugh S. Johnson, hard-hitting
chieftain of the N. R. A.; Chester
C. Davis, agricultural adjustment
spokesman and various members of
the Cabinet, including Secretary
Ickes, in charge of the huge public
works.
The campaign is to be inaug
urated along an educational line,
with an effort being made to fa
miliarize the public with the ad
ministration's aims and purposes
prior to the beginning of the usual
fight between the party candidates.
In fact, it is freely said that only
the leaders are able to - intelligently
present the program and that many
Congressional supporters of the
administration have no clear idea of
what it all means. Hence, it is con
sidered good strategy to have the
head men se? it up, where any and
all candidates can take their stand
and the voter make the decision.
In fact, President Roosevelt is
expected t 0 be the head salesman
of the entire project. Upon his re
turn from Hawaii he is expected to
make a swing through important
centers and deliver four or five
strategic addresses. In these he is
expected to outline the case of the
administration, interpret in full the
contemplated reforms, and ask for
a clear-cut endorsement at the polls
in November. One of his speeches
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THE HERALD.
ON NATIONAL
WASHINGTON
Tobacco Program
Aids All Business
The plight of tobacco growers at
the time the AAA adjustment pro
gram went into effect is shown by
the average family income of only
$250 a year as compared with $720
a year in 1929.
This reduced income had its viti
ating influence on business condi
tions in the tobacco belts. For ex
ample, in 1932 there were some 600
tobacco warehousemen and 12,000
employees engaged in selling to
bacco. Their total 1932 income was
about $5,000,000 —half the income
for 1929.
Approximately 90,000 wage earn
ers in tobacco factories received
$61,000,000 in 1932, or $675 per
person. In 1929, the 116,000 work
ers got $94,000,000, or $Bl5 a per
son.
Late in 1933 the income of the
tobacco grower had risen to an
average of SSOO per family and the
income of warehousemen climbed
back to $9,000,000. More men were
working in tobacco plants and at
higher scales of pay.
Tobacco growers are not only
helping themselves by making the
tobacco program successful but are
aiding employment, increasing
their best market for farm com
modities, and helping restore the
cycle of prosperity, said E. Y.
Floyd, tobacco specialist at State
College, who has charge of the
tobacco adjustment program in
North Carolina.
He pointed out that the
of the. large tobacco companies rose
from $125,000,000 in 1929 to $146,-
000,000 in 1932. In addition to pay
ing a 20 per cent dividend on cap
ital invested, the companies paid a
dozen or so administrative officials
$2,500,000 for person al services—
or as much as received by 10,000
farm families for their laJbor and
the use of their farms.
Price Cutting
Ruins Business
Without Fair Competition,
Administrator Tells Mem
phis Convention Business
Would Be Destroyed
The National Recovery Adminis
trator addressed the annual conven
tion of the Retail Credit Associa
tion in Memphis, Tenn., last Wed
nesday. He said:
"We in NRA know, and plenty of
you know that without the fair
competition proclaimed and estab
lished by industrial codes, thous
ands upon thousands more business
houses would be on the junk heap
today and, inevitably, more thou
sands which are surviving and be
ginning to proper, would land there
despite the wisest management or
sound merchandising policies of the
men who manage them.
"When the merchants of this
country put a halter on price cut
ting, and locked up the 'loss leader'
where it can do no harm; when in
dustrialists combined, with the
blessing of law and government, to
prohibit the unconscionably de
structive discounts and rebates
through which #he businessmen
wh 0 pinned hope to volume could
hurl himself to destruction by the
mere expedient of doing more and
more business, losing mroe and
more money; when they did these
and similar things they made pos
sible a return to unfrenzied mer
chandising that immeasurably
lightens the load of responsibility
on the shoulders of you credit
men."
BANANAS FOR 2 YEARS
East Orange. N. J.—An ailment
of the digestive tract has made it
necessary for Richard A. Zelaney,
three years old, to eat nothing but
bananas for the past two years. He
has grown steadily and is in ex
cellent health.
ROCKY MOUNT. NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY. JULY 6, 1934.
Search In Vain
For Store Robbers
Nashville, July 2.—Nash county
officials have been unable to appre
hend the four bandits who entured
the store of Matthews, Manning
and Company of Spring Hope early
Sunday morning and took away ap
proximately SIOO worth of mer
chandise. The robbers made an en
try at the r ear of the store by cut
ting the screen and breaking the
pane of the window. Four sets of
tracks led east through the wo ( >ds
to a place around five hundred
yards from 'the store where flour,
sugar, and shells were left. The
trail traced by Deputy Sheriff John
H. Grififn and his posses of men
then ran east to a side road off the
Nashville-Spring Hope highway,
where the robbers, apparently
made their get-away in an autotno -
bile.
Other than these there have been
no more helpful clues discovered.
The robbery took place around 2
ior 3 o'clock but was not discovered
until 6. The owners 0 f the store, J.
T. Matthews and W. H. Manning
are both from jftomeyer.
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CIVIL SERVICE
EXAMINATIONS
The United States Civil Service
Commission has announced open
competitive examinations as fol
lows:
Junior agricultural statistician,
$2,000 to $2,600 a year, Bureau of
Agricultlure Economics, Depart
ment of Agricullture. Specified ed
ucation and experience required.
Closing date, July 24 .
Associate veterinarian (diseases
affecting wild animal life), $3,200
a year, Bureau of Biological Sur
vey, Department of Agriculture.
Specified education and experience
required. Closing date, July 23.
All states except lowa, Vermont,
Virginia, Maryland, and the Dis
trict oT Columbia have received
less than their quota of appoint
ments in the apportioned depart
mental service in Washington, D.
C.
.Full information may be obtain
ed from the Secretary of the Unit
ed States Civil Service Board of
Examiners at the post office or
custom-house in any city, or from
the United States Civil Service
Commission, Washington, D. C.
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Demonstration
At Ouinn's
A demonstration of the new
Electrolux, Kerosene, Air-cooled
refrigerator, will be held Saturday
morning at ten-thirty in Quinn's
Furniture Store.
This refrigerator is something
new in refrigeration and supplies
a need for the farmers and people
not accessable to electric current.
It operates almost exactly along
the same line as an electric refrig
erator.
The public is cordially invited to
attend this demonstration at
Quinn's, inspect the Electrolux and
see it in action.
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Plans Laid For
Fair In Tarboro
Tarboro, June 30.—The directors
of the Coastal Plain Fair associa
tion met Thursday night in the
community house to formulate
plans for the fair to be held Octo
ber 23-26.
Ben C. Mayo, president, presided
and Dr. J. P. Keech, secretary,
made a report of his activities dur
ing the past two months.
President Mayo appealed to the
people tc give their active support
and cooperation and said he felt
sure that the fair would be a suc
cess if the right spirit was mani
fested.
Mr. Mayo served a barbecue sup
per to those present.
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Chatham County sheep growers
sold their wool cooperatively this
season and received 7 cents a
pound above local market prices.
Dr. Burrus Opposes Sales Tax
In the Senatorial contest in Guilford County last Saturday,
Dr. J. T. Burrus won the nomination.over State Senator Ca
pus Way nick. The issue between these two fine gentlemen
was the Sales Tax. Dr. Burrus running on a platform oppos
ing the Safes Tax and Senator Waynick running on a plat
form advocating the Gross Sales Tax. This campaign had
more than local interest because Greensboro has been the
main seat of campaign for the Gross Sales Tax, other than
the Governor's office and Greensboro is the home of the
Greensboro News which has been-the main publicity organ
for the Gross Sales Tax and Guilford has been the home of
Senator Waynick who has been recognized as the Adminis
tration spokesman on public occasions for it. The Senator
having traveled over the state and spoken in favor of the
Gross Sales Tax, he being employed by the CWA in the dis
tribution of CWA funds. »
The main argument for the Sales Tax, as outlined by the
Greensboro Daily News, was that it gave relief to burdened
land holders and out of Greensboro was issued statements by
the Real Estate men which statements were published in a
large number of rural news papers, especially in the East,
stating that the stand of the Real Estate Board was to relieve
Real Estate but in yesterday's Greensboro Daily News an ed
itorial appeared criticizing Dr. Burrus for his stand against
the Sales Tax, stating that if the Sales Tax was changed then
some of these taxes would have to be put on the corporations
of the State. Now we wonder if in the campaign if they were
frank with the people while the campaign was in progress,
they said the Sales Tax was to relieve Real Estate, since it is
over, they accuse Dr. Burrus of almost being disloyal to his
section because he wanted to take this burdensome tax off
the backs and stomachs of the poor people and asked that the
large number of corporations be required to pay in some form
of privilege tax since they had been relieved of property tax.
In this campaign, High Point, one of the finest industrial
cities of the state, the home of Senator Waynick and Dr. Bur
rus, almost voted unanimously for Dr. Burrus and against
Senator Waynick. This shows how Piedmonts feels about this
subject. It is not a sectional question, it is a state question and
one section is affected by it just as much as another and we
are surprised that this sectional issue should have been rais
ed, especially since the campaign is over.
500 Acre Tract
Needed For Cows
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Rocky Mount will e no por
tion of the 3,550 head of cattle that
is being shipped from the drought
stricken areas of the west to North
Carolina, Mrs. R. D. Bulluck, local
relief administrator intimated re
cently.
"It was necessary for us to guar
antee 500 acres of grazing land for
the cattle before we could receive
any part whatsoever," Mrs. Bulluck
said, "and we had access to no such
tract of land in this section."
The administrator pointed out,
however, that the major part of the
cattle that is being shipped into
this state would be placed at vari
ous centers in Eastern Carolina.
"If someone would come forward
and donate the use 0 f the land," the
administrator said, "then we might
hope to receive a portion of the
cattle."
SECOND OF RADIO
PROGRAMS BROADCAST
BY LOCAL GROUP
The second of a series of radio
programs sponsored by the cham
ber of commerce and given in in
terest of the civic rehabilitation
campaign was broadcast over
WEED, local station, Friday after
noon at 5:30 o'clock.
The program was as. follows:
Songs, Annie Laurie White:
"Dreaming" and "I Don't Care."
Violin, Larry Turner: "Minuet In
G' and "The World Is Waiting For
the Sunrise."
Talk, M. D. Munn.
Saw solos, Marvin Woodall: "Pa
gan Love Song" and "Sweetheart
of Sigma Chi."
Piano soles, Sudye Bailey: "Some
of These Days" and "Margie."
MRS. M. L. KILLEBREW
Tarboro.—The funeral services
of Mrs. Meta Pitt Killibrew, wife
of Mark L. Killebrew, a prominent
planter of Edgecombe county were
conducted from the home by her
pastor, assisted by the cboir of the
Tarboro Presbyterian church.
The pallbearers were: John R.
Pitt, Jr., Martin P. Lyles, Lester
Harper, George Killebrew, Charles
Killebrew, Taft Stallings.
Mrs. Killebrew was born and
reared in Edgecombe county, being
the eldest daughter of the late Mr.
and Mrs. John R. Pitt. She was 45
years old at the time of her death.
Surviving, besides he r husband,
are five children,, one sister, Mrs.
Vance Lyles of Tarboro, and one
brother, J, R. Pitt.
Hold Rites For
Boy Here Sat.
Services For William Boone
Are Conducted From Home
Of His Parents
Funeral-services fo r William Phil
Boone, 14-year-old hoy who was
drowned in Tar River Friday, were
held from the home of his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Boone, at No. 802
Washington street, Saturday after
noon»at 3:30 o'clock with Rev. R.
N. Childress, pastor of the Arling
ton Street Baptist church, officiat
ing.
The burial took place at Red Oak.
The boy was drowned here at
Flat Rock, located below the Sunset
Avenue bridge, around noon Friday
morning while he was swimming
with his brother and several play
mates. Informed by one of the boys
that his "brother had been drown
ed" neighbors went to the river to
recover the body and efforts to re
suscitate him were unsuccessful.
The boy's father is a CWA work
er here and is employed on the local
airport project. In addition to the
boy's parents, he is survived by a
number of younger brothers and
sisters.
Pallbearers for the services were
chosen from the group of friends
attending the funeral.
John Thomas Held
In Joyner Killing
Nashville, July 2.—John Thomas,
young man of the Taylor's Cross
Roads section is being held in Nash
county jail here on suspicion of\be
ing connected with the death of
Bard Joyner, farmer of the same
community, who died early Sunday
morning as a result of a bullet
wound through his forehead. Joy
ner was first adjudged a suicide by
Coroner M. C. Gulley, of Nashville,
wh, 0 performed the autopsy, there
being no evidence pointing to mur
der.
T"homas has been working on the
same farm with Joyner for several
years. He will be given a hearing
tomorrow morning at Joyner's
home.
Funeral services for Joyner were
held this afternoon at 1 o'clock at
the Elm Grove church with Rev.
Garland Henricks, pastor, officiat
•ngi He was buried in the Barnes
graveyard. Joyner, who was around
40 years old, leaves a wife and
three small children.
Special Election
For Unexp
Eagles Wins
Over Griffin
Mr. W. W. Eagles won over Mi.
Roscoe Griffin in the contest for
the Legislature in Edgecombe
County last Saturday. Mr. Eagles
receiving about 2200 votes and Mr.
Griffin 1700. This was the only
contest in the County and the vote
was larger than was expected. Both
gentlemen making splendid runs.
Mr. Griffin carried his end of the
County by a large majority and
Mr. Eagles carried his end by a
good majority. Tarboro almost di
vided cn the votes, giving Mr. Ea
gles a small majority. Both 'of
these gentlemen are outstanding
men and have the esteem of the
entire citizenship.
Must Distribute
Tobacco Payment
A large number of complaints
have been made by tenants because
of the failure of the trustees to
distribute the price equalizing
payment in accordance with the
terms of the trust. Some landlords
who have been designated as trus
tees have attempted to apply a
tenant's share in the payment of
debts owed to them by the tenant.
In other cases no reason has been
given by the trustee for his failure
to distribute the payment.
In order that ail parties may be
properly advised as to their rights,
the following instructions are is
sued:
The trustee must distribute the
equalizing payment to the producer
and each of his share tenants and
croppers in proportion to their re
spective shares in the proceeds
from the 1933 crop. The share of
a producer or a tenant in an equal
izing payment cannot be applied
by the trustee t 0 debts owed by
the producer or tenants to the trus
tee or other persons or to debts
owed by the tenants to the produc
er. The trust requires that the pay
ment be distributed directly t 0 the
producer and the tenants.
It is to be particularly noted
that where the landlord has been
designated as trustee he is not per
mitted to appVjr a tenant's share
in the equalizing payment to a debt
owed to him by the tenant. The
failure of a landlord designated as
trustee t 0 make a disbursement to
a tenant of his respective share in
the equalizing payment is a breach
of the production adjustment con
tract and grounds for recision. In
the event of a. recision the contract
provides that the producer shall bo
required to return to the Secretary
any payments theretofore made to
him together with all costs incident
to the collection thereof.
A trustee who willfully fails to
carry out the terms of his trust is
subject to prosecution, and such
cases may be referred to the De
partment of Justice for appropriate
action.
J. B. HUSTON,
Chief, Tobacco Section.
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J. C. Tomlinson of Wilson Coun
ty has trap-nested his flock of
white leghorn hens for the past
four years and has several birds
which lay over 300 eggs a year.
There are 150 hens in the flock
with records of over 250 eggs.
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Harold Cooley, Democrat And
Hobart Brantley, Republi
can, Are Candidates For
Unexpired Term Of
Late E. W. Pou
Voter? of the 4th Congressional
District will go to the polls again
Saturday of this week, July 7th, to
vote on the congressional nominees
for congress, Harold D. Cooley,
Democrat, of Nashville and Hobart
Brantley, Republican, of Spring
Hope.
This is the first time in many,
many years, if ever that a special
election has been necessary for
this district, and Democratic voters
should not allow themselves to be
lulled into a feeling of security by
the fact that the district is nor
mally Democratic by a large ma
jority.
The fact that we have just gone
through two primaries should not
detract from thfe fact that this is
a real election between a Democrat
and a Republican. The successful
candidate will be elected for the un
expired term of the Honorable Ed
ward W. Pou.
Polls will be open in every pre
cinct in the 4th District from aun
up until sundown next Saturday.
July 7th. Do not fail to vote for
the candidate of your choice, be ha
Democrat or Republican.
A. €. L. Offers More
Air Conditioned Cars
j 1 ,Bi «ilVu
Lounge Cars On Two Trains
Of A. C. L. Remodelled
And In Service
Starting Monday all lounge cars
of the Havana special, crack Atlan
tic Coast Line train, and part of
the lounge cars on another flyer,
the Tamiami, had been equipped
with air-conditioning precesseß
similar to that being placed on the
diners, railroad officials have an
nounced.
All dinnig cars on the Havana
special have been reconditioned and
cars on the Tamiami were to enter
service remodeled on July 7.
Features of the serviae have been
explained as fellows: No ice is
necessary for cooling purposes; cir
culating air in the cars is continu
ally freshened with the outside air
coming in through filters; the
mechanism is automatically and
thermostatically controlled.
The mechanism operates inde
pendently of the train movement;
and the temperature can be simi
larly regulated in cold weather as
well as hot weather.
All of the work on the cars is be
ing done at the Emerson shops in
South Rocky Mount.
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LEGORE WINS
Milwaukee, June 30.— Ralston
LeGore, University of North Caro
lina athlete, today threw the javc
line farther than ever he had done
before i n competition—and won
first place in that event in the Ni-,
tional A. A. U. championships at
Marquette Stadium.
LeGore threw the spear 216 feet,
9 6-10 inches, to win with a margin
of more than seven feet. Johnny
Mottram, entered from the San
Francisco Olympic Club, was next
with 209 feet, 8 4-10 inches. Lee
Bartlett, Michigan A. A. U., was
third with 209 feet, 6 inches, and
Horace O'Dell, New York A. C.,
was fourth with 203 feet, 6 inches.