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f The Rocky Mo VOLUME 3. NO. 25 ROCKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA. FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 193G $l.OO PER YEAR ■ V June Gernan To Be Held June 19 Hr. Savage And Mlm Snyder To Lead 56th German; Harold Stern T» Play The Carolina Cotillion Club has already mailed many of the four thousand bid* which will go to the corners of the nation to invite , aembers of society, young and old, [ attend the fifty-sixth annual Ju.ie Sherman in Rocky Mount on v ,she ev ning of Friday, June the nine teenth. The handsome cardboards lure engraved in blue and white and Sear the insignia of the club, irhieh is one of the oldest in the fcouth, and one of the most import ant from a social standpoint. I President Leßoy Savage will lead i'the club member's figure with Miss fclaudine Snyder and this will foa fare the German at mid-night. [These two will be assisted by Mr. End Mrs. Henry Toler and G. Ittatheson Young and Miss Caroline £renholm, of Savannah, Georgia. Messrs. Toled and Young hold the f\fficea of vice-president and secre- Ary of the Cotillion club. Direct- Tfc "this figure will be past Presi [fcnt Edward U. Lewis, and Miss ■irgaret Battle of Tarborc, who U the distinction of leading sev ■d years ago and of assisting for § past two Germans. Jboßorary members of the club jßdly open the German with their wure, which will take place at 1:30, and this will be lead by Mr. fid Mn.,J. C- Qraswell and direct iff v and Mrs. F. P. SpruUl. Sr. and Mrs. Ben H. Bunn and tr. and Mrs. B. H. Gregory, Jr., wist. Twc always provide msic for the Germans, a corps of MS&I opticians who play for a con art dance from 9 to 11 o'clock, and • a orchestra of nation-wide reputa son which provides dance rhythm rom 11 ' o'clock until broad-ppen flight, when the dancers look the sing sua is (he face and decide tat it is tine to be about other burauits. Breakfasts, usually, af nr a round of intermission parties, I tor th#e is lavish entertaining and Iflmost every home in the city hangs Kl lateh key oa the outside of the and writes "welcome" on the L This year Harold Stern will come prom New York to direct his society fcehestra in the dance program for ■he': fifty-sixth German. Stern is ■widely known among habitues of the ' exclusive places in New York. fid Other large cities, having fre- j linen ted the St. Moritz, Martin's [jttfiera and the "Amen Corner" in ilto «astern metropolis, and the Ed-J Hotel in Chicago, among thor fashionable hosteleries. For ( he past three years Stern has broadcast over a national hook-up ad his radio fans are legion. rwo Thousand Sign Compacts Wilson, June 17.-— According to sn anouncement by W. L. Adams, lo il farm agent, made Tuesday, 2,- il Wilson County farmers have gned up with the government's eonservation program. The sfFline on sign-ups was last Sn t rday**- Adams stated Tuesday that it felt very satisfied with the sign- It and that a great many more irmers signed; up than he had anti pated. There are around 2,200 to icco farmers in the county. Around 176 signed up during the last fow Mgn with the defunct program. Children Get Supervised Play fA Recreation Supervisor Announ ces Schedule#, Leaders For Playgrounds Rocky Mount's children this sum e#* will be given an opportunity >r recreation under supervision, and «» supervisors will be in charge at of the parks here, beginning flay, Mrs. J. It Bandy, WPA ■creation supervisor, announced is morning. Mrs. Bandy at fhe same time in cated . will be at e parW trom' nine until eleven •loetc in the morning and from yr until seven o'clock in the ef - be carried X^^AiovariotnHftt'V ro und3 will Jftjifid: games, ~hickes, picnics, a llßandy, who succeeded John , 1 Kisjre'wer, today invited the ' ] flfij of the city to gp out and 1'j. #31130 supervised activities whieh \ »ffiicarried on at the playground J M[during the summer. * lilaygrounds, with supervisors, j ' school—WilliforA McGoe 5 rank Swain. HhkMtfaywood Bray and Crowder and Lil- V' —Dorothy House ■ placed at the Ne- Hlre. Bandy said. ! bene- Mm Road Widening To Begin Tues. Tarboro-Rocky Mount Highway To Be Widened—Employment Ser vice Furnishes Labor The widening of the highway be tween Tarboro and Rocky Mouu: about 14.5 mile stretch, will be started Tuesday from Tarboro, S. L>. Bennett, manager of the North Carolina state employment office, Rocky Mount district, reported to day. He estimated about 150 men will be employed on the job and said the state employment office here will furnish the labor therefor. This piece of work, a WPA proj ect, is expected to take possibly tSO days, given good weather, Mr. Ben nett said. "The labor will be furnished from those who are registered with the employment service and are quali fied. The workers selected will be notified by the employment service, and need not apply at the office for the job," stated Mr. Bennett. He indicated Edgecombe county men, otherwise qualified, will be given preference over men >:Vrom other counties, but if the gtoup cannot be filled with them alone, h» will turn to Wilson, Halifax, Nash, and Pitt counties to supply the do ficiency. Blythe brothers, of Charlotte, has th» contract, but the work will be ; done through Kline company, of Ra eigh, it was understood. The road will be paved from Tar boro westward. ' The total cost was not determin ed immediately, but it was indicat ed it will be np in the thousands. Nan Deplores Hoover"Liberty" Washington! an Deplores Suggestion of Return To 1929 Days (From Washington, D. C. Po3t June 14, 1936) To the Editor of The Post —Sir: I s-'e where Hoover was shouting for "liberty" at the Republican con vention. What kind of liberty does Hoover and the G. O. P. wantf Do they want that kind of liberty again—to shoot down the former soldiers in the bonus march? Do they want the liberty to exploit I the working man againt Do they [ want the kind of liberty that per mits the bankers to loot their . banks and leave millions of deposi- I tors in poverty t Do they want the days back when Albert B. Fall I ran around the country with a handbag full of money! Do they want to exploit the coal mineis again? President Roosevelt is thi greatest President this country ever had. Mankind are his friends and to do good to "all" is Roosevelt's religion. Roosevelt fearlessly has spoken true heartening words of courage and buoyed up millions of sinking souls of the common people. Our First Lady (the finest this country has ever had), Eleanor Roosevelt, is a most gracious ladylind is not too highbrow to go among the common people (without a bodyguard) help ing the poor and giving them hope and courage, something no other President's wife has ever done. Our First Lady has done and is doing now more for charity than any other President's wife. Now the G. O. P. alias the Li berty Leaguers, the phony tele gram gang, Hearst (with his big Red scare), tho Sentinels of the Republic, the DuPont gang, Wall Street and the big shots in business (whose daughters squander millions in marrying so-called blue-blooded foreign counts and more millions in the Reno divorce courts), want to defeat Roosevelt. This is the gang that likes the $50,000 crystal bath tubs while the common herd has no bath tub at all. This is the gang that never thinks tenderly or feels generously toward the common people and who never does any contemplating un selfishly. This is the mob whe wants their dummy in for a President. I am sorry that they cannot have this declared unconstitutional. The common masses are awake lit last. Roosevelt has his next elec tion in the bag right now, and Lau don won't be sitting in the White House. That old boy will be looking at the sunflowers out in Kansas, as he always has done. I have never been on relief, in the WPA or the PWA, I am old and walking the streets every day look ing for some kind of work. I 'im homeless, penniless and friendless, and I sleep in the parks. But 1 have not lost faith in God, humanity or Roosevelt. I am no Red or Commun ist. Rich people have never aided me. (Not that there are not nice rich people, for there are a few). Common working people I have found more charitable and sympa -1 thetic than the wealthy. The com mon people know what this has resorted to in trying to stop Roosevelt's re-election. This is a penniless, friendless homeless, old man's tribute to out 1 greatest President, F. D. Roose velt. This is from one who at on 1 time was used to the better thing! in life. FRANK RYAN Washington. Ickes urges government and bust ueas cooperate ou relief. Prison Guard Badly Burned > Burnice Bishop, City, Receives Burns As Gasoline Transferred, Match Struck Transfer of gasoline from a drum to a truck at the Rocky Mount pri > sun camp and striking of a match . nearby allegedly resulted in the 1 painful burning of Burnice Bishop, , 42, section foreman for the state ■ highway and public works commissi on, early today. 1 Bishop, prison guard at the camp. . was burned severly about the • legs, chest, face and hands, early this morning at the prison camp. • Placed in a truck afterward, he was 1 brought to a local hospital. The story told of the accident is that Bishop and Vernon Robbins a co-worker, were transferring some i gasoline from a drum to a tank in ■ a truck this morning about 7:15 ! o'clock at the camp. Robbins struck 1 a match, and in some way Bish > op's pants caught fire. Reportedly they wore nearly burned off him, al ' though those nearby rolled him on ' the ground to try to put out the flames. 1 From what Mr. Bishop said, the 1 fumes must have caught fire. > At the hospital the doctor describ ' I'd the injuries as first and second degree burns on the lower portion 1 of the lower extremities and on tho 1 chest, face and hands. Only Friday Mrs. Mary Gore, of this city, was burned here as .1 ' stove exploded. She died late in the day. Many Farmers Sign Agreements Nash, Edgecombe and Wilson co unties have already furnished near -1 ly 6,000 farmers for the National Soil Conservation program which has seen an estimated 120,000 sign up in the state, it was stated today. Nash estimates indicate about 2,- 200 Nash growers have signed, more than Wilson's 2,000 and Edgecombe's 1,700-odd signers. John W. Goodman, extension specialist, predicted at Raleigh to day about 150,000 farmers in the state will sign up in ■ the program before the end of the season say ing already 120,000 have done so. From Nashville, Nash County Agent J. S. Sugg today said about 75 per cent of the total farms in i the county have been signed up I with the soil conservation program, 1 and this represents 80 per cent of r the total farm land in Nash. Under 1 the extinct AAA program about 3,- : 000 Nash farmers signed. Mr. Suggs indicated his office will I still sign up farmers with the pro -1 gram, provided they come to the office. Questioned about whether 1 the number was up to his expecta s tions, he said it was "about up to ! what we had hoped." In Tarboro, Edgecombe Agent J. ' C. Powell reported this morning 86.- > 4 per cent of the Edgecombe far » mers have placed their signatures as 1 those of persons in agreement with - the conservation program. i This means about 1,720 farmeis r signed out of about 1,900. He too " remarketed it was about what he ? expected as he had previously esti • mated 85 per cent would sign. Ho hopes before long tHe total will • rise to 90 per cent. His office will also sign up per ; sons if they come to the office, he - said. 1 J Raleigh, June 17.—John W. Good -3 man, extension specialist, predicted 1 today 150,000 North Carolina farm -1 ers would sign-up to take part 111 > the soil conservation program be fore the end of the season. The » number has already reached 120,000, I he said. t 0 r »Absentee Voting Increase Seen t - Board Of Election Orders Addition al Ballots For Second Primary a £ An increased number of absentee s ballots but a decreased total num ber of all ballots was ordered yes a terday for the second primary, it i was announced at the office of Ray - mond C. Maxwell, executive secre- II tary of the State Board of Elea i, tions. e The order indicated an expectati r on of a smaller vote in the second .- primary than the record-smashing d vote of more than half a million in e the first primary, but an expecta . tion of a greater amount of absen e tee voting. l- The fact that the second primary t- falls on July Fourth, a legal holi g day, was cited as the reason for p the ordering of some 20,000 more absentee ballots than were printed 3, for the first primary. The new al ir lotment of absentee tickets will to -- tal 150,000. te The board's order included 1,200- f3 000 regular ballots, 150,000 absen tee ballots and 100,000 sample bal lots, a total of 1,450,000. For the first primary, a total of 1,780,000 ballots were printed, of which 1,525,- i- 000 were regular, 130,000 absentee and 125,000 sample ballots. Touring the Country by Dog Power ii m JLl.fr l of --.k Forced by 111 health to live outdoors. Karl Llndauer is seeking recov ery by traveling 25,000 miles In a "covered wagon" drawn by dogs that he has befriended. Llndauer started with two animals and now hus 11 "huskies" to pull his cart. This photograph of him and his equipage was made at San Gabriel, Calif. Edgecombe Publishes Its Tax List In Nash County Paper There has been some question raised as to the legality of the recent tax publication in the western side of the county. The list being published in the paper published in Nash County. Edgecombe county has two papers published within its borders; the Rocky Mount Herald was asked to bid on the publication of the Edgecombe County Tax List. The Herald bid 20c per name notwithstanding the Rocky Mount Herald's bid of 20c per name the Board of Commis sioners divided the list and gave one part to the Tarboro Southerner and the other part to the Evening Telegram a paper published in Nash County agreeing to pay 25c per name when they already had a bid of 20c. Only giving 201 names to the Rocky Mount Herald whose bid is 20c per name. There is one thing that can be said about the Board of Commissioners of Edgecombe County, they were at least generous, leaving their own county to give the County tax list publication and pay 5c more than their own county pa per bid. We wonder if they would have done so if it had been their own property. Nash County has never gone out of its county to give tax publication to a foreign paper. - HOW CAN THE PEOPLE BE FOOLED The people of Rocky Mopnt have been interested in building a gymnasium for its children and if they had not been interested, they would not have voted the bond h sue. They are still interested and thy still want to know why th gymnasium has not been built. There has been a feeling that there has been a lack of frankness in our officers in dealing with the people when the bond issue was voted for the gymnasium and the sta dium. The people expected the gymnasium. The stadium has been built, the gymnasium has not. There has been a rumor on the streets that the purpose cf the ruling group was not to build the gymnasium and if it was built, to transfer it to the Nash side, away from the schools. We did not believe this rumor, but the Rocky Mount Evening Telegram, last week, which is copied below, clear ly shows that , that is the intention of the powers that be. if this editorial be true. The Evening Telegram has been supposed to be the spokesman of the present city administration or at least it has assumed that role, but we did not know that it as sumed the power to speak for the school board until this editorial. It was once inquired of Caesar "on what meat did he feed"! The two city attorneys under whose llegal advise this elec tion was held are the brothers-in-law of the editor of the Evening &Telegram. We have not heard from these city attorneys why the election was held but we have to listen to the propaganda of the press instead of having first hand , information. Below is a copy of the editorial in the Evening Telegram which clearly shows that if this paper be the spokesman of the administration, that it is the intention to deny the ' children the right to have a gymnasium yet money has been spent to build a stadium for the Red Soxs. Dedication exercises were planned and the Superintend ' ent of Schools was given a part in this ceremony. The way the matter has been handled, it would have been much • more appropriate to have the mayor of Boston, as his 1 State has received the benefits x-ather than for the Super ? intendent of Schools when the school children have receiv ' ed no benefit. Below is a copy of the editorial in the Evening Telegram; Still Denied Representation The truthfulness of the Bible adage, "sow to the wind r and you shall reap a whirlwind," has never been questioned s and in the minds of some observers that is just what the 1 political powers that be in Edgecombe county are doing. " With the conclusion of the terms of office for members ol the general assembly as named in Saturday's primary, ii - will have been six years since Rocky Mount, on the Edge * combe county side of the city, has had representation ii I either branch of the general assembly. This condition is o having its effect on the development of that side of th ,- city, for in session there are injected problems, matters (Please turn to page four) PARAGRAPHS ON NATIONAL PROBLEMS AT WASHINGTON I i . McDonald Makes Issue Plain Raleigh, June 17.—Ralph W. Mc- Donald today declared that the sec ond primary campaign will be fought on the blunt question of ma chine rule in North Carolina. "The people must decide at tho polls if they want a continuation of the policies of the Gardner-Ehring haus regime or if they want a State government in sympathy with thj average man," the Democratic can didate for Governor ptated. Dr. McDonald's campaign mana ger, W. L. Lumpkin, agreed with the candidate that the burning issue of the second primary concerned dispotition of "The political ring headed by Max Gardner, the su per-lobbyist of America, and Clyde R. Hoey, the super-lobbyist of North Carolina. Both were emphatic in pointing to evils that might arise if Hoey l is chosen to guide the destinies of North Carolina for the next four years. "For 30 years Clyde Hoey has rep- j resented and lobbyied for the power companies," declared Lumpkin. "He worked himself up to a position of political power by protecting major interests. His brother-in-law, Max Gardner, has used the Governorship as a stepping stone to become the • nation's Number 1 Lobbyist. Now Gardner is attempting to keep his hold on our State government by promoting his kinsman for the Gov ernorship. ! "What can the people of North Carolina expect at the hands of this ring of super-lobbyists who always have placed the major interests above the rights of the averaga • manf" Lumpkin pointed out that both Gardner and Hoey had received large fees for lobbying for special | interests, Hoey for the power com-1 • ponies and Gardner for aviation and textile interests. In calling for a second primary, Dr. McDonald quoted Sandy Gra ham's definition of the major issue of the campaign as whether "Max i! Gardner shall continue to direct the State by long distance telephone." "Sandy Graham and I are in com plete accord on that issue," declarsd! Dr. McDonald, "and I call upoi j Graham's followers to join U3 in our i effort to end machine rule in North ] Carolina. They are as diligent as j I in wanting to restore the govern • ment to the people, and their right- j ful place is under our banner. The 1 machine is on its way out in Norfi' 1 Carolina, and I ask the liberty-lov ing voters of our State to rally against continuaton of government for special interests." Father and Son Enjoy Festival L Asheville, June 17.—George l3a _l ac Hughes, gaunt patriarch of New I Bern who recently became a fath ' er at 96, came to Asheville today to see the annual Rhodendron Fea ; tival and to be seen. ; With the sturdy Confederate vet eran, who was dressed up in a new ' outfit, ea.me his 17-months-old son. Franklin Roosevelt Hughes, born t when his father was 94 and recog nized by medical authorities as the first child of record to have a par • ent so old. A granddaughter, Mrs. Emma > Hughes Jenkins, came along too to . u help Hughes while he took in the ' festival, but 28-year-old MM. 1 Hughes and their* baby daughter, 5 Mary Gertrude, who was born a fortnight ago, remained in New j Bern upon the advice of the family ' physician. Tomorrow Hughes is scheduled to - be one of the judges in the baby » parade. Franklin will ride with the ' other entries on a non-competiti«'e ' float, and will be presented with 1 a cup, festival officials said. i Next week, Hughes is scheduled to attend the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia as the P guest of Senator Robert R. Roy f nolds of Asheville. i For more than an hour today the j aged veteran mixed with the throng attracted by the annual floral pa rade. Hundreds crowded around - him and he shook hands with many f without showing signs of fatigue. Young Franklin was especially in _ terested in a float that featured -i group of calves, but posing for - photographers and being interview - ed by the curious appeared to bore 2 NOTICE e Those desiring to subscribe to The Rocky Mount Herald may do so by sending $l.OO with name and 'f address to The Rocky Mount Herald, Rocky Mount, lt N. C. >. n is Name ie ' a Town State , Route No LANDON LEADS G. O. P. SCORES DECISIVE VICTORY CONVENTION COLORFUL CONVENTION HISTORY REPUBLICANS LEAD CANDIDATES AND STATES UPHOLDS POWER POLICY NEUTRALITY AGAIN CIVIL SERVICE BOOST DEATH UPSETS CONGRESS By Hugu Sims, Special Correspondent As the Republican delegates gath ered at Cleveland last week, the, concensus of opinion was that Gov. Landon would be nominated to carry the party banner in the presidential election this year. The other CM* didates, of course, but on their show and Former President Herbert Hoover flayed the New Deal and ail its works, but the magic build-up of the Kansas executive was not in vain. While he waited at Topeka, keeping aloof from the battle, hi* j trusted lieutenants put him over. The Landon strategy was baasd upon a policy of conciliation and the strong desire that the party get to gether for its quadriennial battle i with its political enemy. The plat'' form was an issue that might prove | embarrassing but this did not ma teralize, largely because there no effort to prevent full opportun ity to all, including Senator Borah. Before the convention reached the nominations it was apparent that the finger of fate was pointed st Landon. Amid all the fanfare that accora-s panies a national convention the Re publicans at Cleveland put on % good show. Senator Steiwer, Rep. Snell, Mr. Hoover and the speaker* nominating favorite candidates lam basted the New Deal, the President and the Democrats in general, with praise for the Constitution, liberty, opportunity and the Republican pax ty traditions, included in the ut- I teranees were hints that the time* . demanded the support of right-think ing Democrats but yearly in th« convention there was little support for the idea of a coalition ticket. Senator Borah arrived at the con* vention to receive much attention and his views were eagerly sought by the sub-committee drafting the. platform. The Senator scored on it* • adoption of an anti-World Court i plank, the failure to come out for gold and the denunciation of mono« ] poly. Another highlight was the ar* i rival and address of Former Presi-k dent Hoover titular head of the par* I ty. He was given a royal welcome Iby the delegates and received % great hand as he poured shot into j the New Deal which he had studied for three years. Statistics on the past records of the Republican and Democratic pw« ties, which have engaged in twen ty contests, reveal that the Repub licans have won fourteen and tha Democrats six. The rivalry begaj\ in 1856 when the Democrats manag ed to defeat the new-born Republi can Party but lost the next six presidential elections during an 4 following the Civil War. In the thirteen elections, beginning in 18- 84, the Democrats have won fiva times and the Republicans eight tmes. Someone with a curiosity regard ing figures reports that from Id -56 to 1932, inclusive, the total Re publican vote was 147,293,061 and th# Democratic total, 131,333,542. The Republican who received the most electoral votes was Herbert Hoovor, with 404 in 1928, and the high scor er for the Democrats was Franklin D. Roosevelt with 472 in 1932. Dnri ing this period, Lincoln and Wood row Wilson were distinctly minority presidents, both having been elect* ed as the result of party divisions. Other minority presidents, based on a count of the votes for minor par ties in the total, include Cleveland and Wilson in 1916 for the Demo crats and Garfield and Hayes for the Republicans. 1 Referring to candidates, during , the last eighty years, Ohio has . been the favorite state from which the Republicans have made their ' selections and New York has fur nished most of the Democratic choi ces. Seven times the Republicans went to Ohio for their candidate, ' four times to Illionis, three to Cal« J ifornia, twice to New York and once to Maine and Massachusetts each. The Democrats have taken an. Em pire State candidate eight times, have gone to Nebraska and New Jer ) sey three times, twice to Pennsyl vania, and once each to IHinoiti * (Please turn to page four)
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