The Rocky Mount Herald
OLUME 5: NUMBER 48
NASH MAN PRESSES CLAIM
TO ABOLISH COUNTY JOB
Kenneth t Of Rocky Mount
Asks Certification An County
Treasurer
Nash County officials today con
tinued to ignore the claim of Ken
neth T. Knight of Kocky Mount,
former government field agent, wm
declared this week-end that h e if
entitled to be certified as the newly
elected Nash County treasurer in
spite of the fact that the county
commissioners abolished tho offic6
earlier this year.
Knight, whose claim attracted at
tention this week-end when he ask
ed Chairman Charles M. McCauiey
of the Nash board of elections to
cdj'tify him as elected county trea
surer in the recent general election,
maintained today that the commis
sioners' action in abolishing the of
fice was not legal.
Only the Sstate legislature con
abolish the office, which is specified
in the State Constitution, and the
legislature can not delegate that au
thority, Knight maintained.
Although the ballots offered no
provision for electing a treasura.*,
since the office was believed to dis
solve with the expiration of the
term of Treasurer J. T. Taylor, De
cember 1, Knight received about a
dozen votes in Rocky Mount town
slut on small squares of papev
with his name printed on them iu
tho manner of ballots, it was dis
closed today.
Chairman R. R. Gay of the Nash
commissioners said today he had
"i&ard of" Knight's claim but that
the matter would not before
the commissioners until Knigl.r
should be certified by the elections
board. -
Elections Chairman McCauley said
he did not believe the law required
him to certify Knight. The matte.*
is not officially before the board of
election*, McCauley said.
Knight told reporters today he in
tended to take steps to compel tdib
Naah elections board to certify him,
bat he declined to disclose detai'l3
of hit'plans. •'
Knight's recourse, according 11
law, local political observers said,
wotild be to bring an action of
mandamus in Nash Superior Court.
Observers considered 1 that Knight s
claim *raa not upheld by the law
because 'he legislature authorized
Nash County in 1931 to abolish the
office and the State Supreme Court
in the case of Tyrell County vs.
Holloway upheld the constititionality
of an identical action by the legis
lature.
MRS. I. H. SMITH
BURIED WEDNESDAY
Resident of Near Scotland Neck
Dies at Aiccstral Home at
Age of 90
Scotland Neck, Nov. 23.—Funeral
services for Mrs. Isaac Hall Smith,
who died at Woodstock, her hom
near here, yesterday afternoon at
/,he age of 90, were to be conduct
ed from the old Trinity church a"
3:30 o'clock this afternoon.
Rev. Benjamin T. Brodie, rector
of the Trinity church where Mrs.
Smith worshipped for many yeirb
before the Episcopal church in Scot
land Neck was built, was to conduct
the funeral with burial following
in the church yard.
T v Mrs. Smith was the oldest mom
ber of the Scotland Neck Episcopal
church and was active in church
work until she became ill two years
ago. She succumbed at 9 o'clock,
yesterday afternoon to an extended
illness.
Mrs. Smith had lived in the Sm s .*.h
ancestral home here for 67 years
following her marriage to Isaac Hali
Smjth of Scotland Neck in 1871.
ft he was born February 17, 1848, the
daughter of Major William J. Bauer
Clark, Charles H. Smith, Charlie
folk.
Surviving are one son, Isaac Hall
Smith of Scotland Neck, four
ters; Mrs. Richard Johnson of
Point, Mrs. Blanche Baker Hanil,
Miss Mary Weldon Smith and MISH
Nannie Smithi of Scotland Neck;
one sister, Miss Blanche Baker of
Norfolk; and one brother, E. N.
Baker of Wadesboro.
• Pallbearers were to include Irvin
Clark, Charles H. niith, Chariio
Lamb, Jim Hall, Jr., Johnson Smith,
S. Alexander and W. E. Almoud,
all of Seotlan dNeck, and J. Me-
Kimmon Saunders of Williamston.
President Will
Stop In Raleigh
President Expected to Make Brief
Stop at Capital December 5
President Roosevelt will become
the first National Chief Executive
to visit Raleigh in more than 33
years when he stops here Decem
ber 5, unless present White House
plans ar e changed, the Raleigh
Times said today.
Tho I'resident is expected to stop
around noon that day enroute from
Warm Springs, Ga., to Chapel Hi J
for a speech at the University o£
North Carolina, the paper said it
learned from Washington.
The presidential special, first
scheduled to leave the President at
Sanford* where he was going to
Chapel Hill by automobile, will com.,
here from Columbia, S. C., and
thence to Durham. From there, th 3
Times added, he will tako a car to
the Hill in time for luncheon with
Governor Hoey, President Frank P.
Graham of the university and mvit
ted guests.
After his speech, he leaves for
Washington, via Durham and Grjens
boro.
The late President Theodore Roose
velt's N. C. State fair visit in Oc
tober, 1905, was the last time a
President came to Raleigh, records
show.
NORWEGIAN
QUEEN DIES
IN LONDON
Maud Was Aunt Of King George
And Last Surviving Child Of
Edward VII
London, NOT. 20.—Queen Maud of
Norway, aunt of King George VI
of Great Britain and the last Sur
viving ■ child of King Edward, VTI
died' early today of a heart attack
following abdominal operation four
days ago. She was 68 years eld.
Hoi' ■ death came so suddenly that
King Haakon of Norway, who ra
staying at Buckingham Palace and
had been almost constantly with
his queen, was not at her bedside
She died in her sleep with only
her nurse in' the room.
• Announcement of her death was
withheld until th e people of Norway
had been informed by radio. Nor
wegian radio stations immediate
ly suspended their programs for
two minutes of silence and then
played solemn music for the rest of
their broadcasts.
Queen Maud was taken ill about
a week ago during one of her fra
quent visits here and underwent
her serious operation November 10.
King Haakon huiried from. Nor
way when she was stricken and
had been with her almost constant
ly after the operation.
The Norwegian minister to Lon
don issued this statement from spe
cialists who had attended the Queo:>:
"Her Majesty, Queen Maud of Nor
way, died suddenly and without
i previous warning of heart failure at 1
12:25 A. M. (7:25 P. M. E. 8. T )
Saturday.
"During the hours preceding mid
night, distresses incidental to an ab
dominal operation had diminished
and a disturbed day had given place;
to restfulness."
It was signed by Sir John Weir,
physician-in-ordinary to King George
VI; Sir Lancelot Edward Barring
ton-Ward, surgeon to the King, ai.d
Lord Dawson of Penn., physician
in-ordinary to the King and to
Queen Mother Mary.
After her marriage to Haakon
Buckingham Palace July 22, 1896,
the young English princess, sister
of the late King George V, visited
her often.
She stayed frequently at Apple-1
ton House, Suffolk, which her father
gave her as a wedding present on
condition that she visit it every yer.r
wlule he and her mother lived.
These visits were interrupted on'y
for the war years when it was dan
gerous to cross the North Sea.
She came to England also for im
portant royal occasions and attended
the funeral of the late King George
and the coronation of the present
king.
Plans for the funeral have
been made.
ROCKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1938
A THOUGHT FOR THANKSGIVING
"THANK" and "think" grow out of the same stem.
From one we cross very easily to the other and back
again. Think enough, and thanks are not far behind.
Thank, and you cannot wholly fail to think. When we
think of it, we discover that we really have many gifts
in our hand. There is life—and that is not a small mat
ter. A strange thing about life is that it is never less
full for lack of things; sometimes it is quite the other
way,—lack of things fills it fuller of stern adventure
than we like. But on any terms with honor, life is a
great gift. Life among these human myriads in these
resounding years; life with its ambushed hours, its mar
velous turning of corners, its constant habit of surprise;
life that allows our mistakes and lets us learn, recupe
rate and live again; life with its cradles and its green
God's acre under the hill—it is fabulously worth-while.
Life never fails to elicit our thanks when we really
turn our thought upon it.—From Sunday Evening Hour
Talk "Thanksgiving"—By W. J. Cameron.
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JAPAN STEPS BOLDLY
U: S T.RADE BLOCKED
HULL SCORES AGAIN
PACT WITH' ENGLAND
MEXICAN LAND DISPUTE
SETTLEMENT DESIRED
JEWS IN GERMANY
V: 9. WILL RE-ARM
MEN, SHIPS, PLANES
UP TO NEW CONGRESS
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With the national election out of
the way .Americans have recently
their attention upon &ffai's :
outside the continental area of thj
United States, which present prolem*
for the government
In the Par Bast the nation is
faced with the vital isauje created o/
Japanese aggression against China,
with implication that the trade of
other nations will be hampered. In
fact, the Japanese have already in
dicated v/ery clearly that they plan
to follow the course adopted in Man
churia, which has proved disastrous
to all trade except that of the Jap
anese.
The United States has called the
attention of thje Japanese gov ru
men to the "Open Door" policy and
the treaties unde r which Japan
agreed to recspect the territorial
integrity of China. We doubt if any
responsible official of our govern
| ment expects the diplomatic note'
to have any effect on the Japanese
who daily insist that a new order
has arisen in the Far East and that
other nations should amend their
views in harmony with the present
situation.
The announcement that the King
and Queen of Great Britain wil pay
a visit to this country in the early
part of 1939 clearly indicated thj
successful conclusion of efforts to
I negotiate a reciprical trade treaty,
and the announcement of Prime
Minister Mackensie King of Canada
that the pact with that Dominion
will be on a broaded and more com
prehensive scale confirms the fa®* l
The United States, as many read
• ers are aware, under Secretary Hul
I has insisted upon a program of grad
i ually lowering barriers that stand in
6 the way of mutually profitable trad
between the nations of the worll.
t This is directly opposite to the
course of Germany and other total-
itarian nations, which go in strong-
ly for barter agreements, under
which the benefits of the pact ar«
stricty limited and other nations
barred.
The United States reciprocal trade
treaties are un|er the "most favor
;«d nation" clause, which means thai
Advantages given to any country
immediately inure to the benefit of
all ottyer nations that give this nat
ion equal trading rights with all
other nations. The barter system,
says Mr. Hul, means more restrict
ions upon th e commerce of tha
world, while his program tends to n I
move the obstacles and give trade a
free course.
The dispute between the Unitod
States and Mexico, whish involved
the appropriation of American land
and oil companies, without compen
sation by the Mexican Government,
has not been settled, but the recent
agreement in the land controversy
may point the way to a broader set
tlement of more important oil claims
Under the plan agreed upon, a
two-man board will evaluate the
agragrian property taken from
Americans by next May, and the
Moxican Government agrees to pay
$1,,000,000 to the United States to
ward settlement by that time, and
not less than that amount each year
thereafter until the claims as app
roved are paid in full.
While settlement of the land
question does not affect the oil
claims and the Mexican Govern
ment has agreed to no legal prin
ciple as a precedent, the idea per
sists that the latter dispute will
inevitably be settled. Bloth coun
tries appear to be anxious that uo
serious dispute shall contiue to ex
ist. On its part, the United States,
long held up to the smaller repub
lics, of this hemisphere as a dollar
grabbing colossus, is- especially de
sirous that thie dispute shall uot
serve to arouse suspicions in othci
Latin-American countries that might
injure the solidarity which now pre
vails.
Last week President Roosevelt
summoned Ambassador Hugh Wil
son from Berlin in order to got
first-hand information as to the
situation in Germany. Mass meet
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New Druggists
Given Licenses
i Obapol Hill, Nov. 21.—-tA new crop
of pharmacists was turned out here
today when the State Board announ.
ced the results of examinations heid
at the University for the past Inie,-.
days. ... , ....
i Incensed were seven full-fledged
pharmacists, nine assistant pharnia
cists, and ten assistant registered
pharmacists. ,
• The successful applicants were an
nounced by P. W. Hancock of Ox
ford, secretary-treasurer of the StaK
board. r.. t> .
Licensed as pharmacists were Jas
per M. Baeart, Greenville; Alonzo F.
Morris, Troy; Edward V. Stephen
son, Madison; Francis P. Link, Reirit
ville; James L Creech, Smithfield;
Earl U. Capps, Greenville; Joseph H.
Cameron, Fayetteville.
Licensed as assistant pharmaci/its
passing full pharmacists examina
tion were: James H. Dever, Greens
boro, Oswald J. Phillips, Albemarle;
Wendell B. Tyson, Rocky Mounf;
Lyle B. Craig, Southern Pine; Jelii
R. Edson, Jr., Enka; Carl E. Bow.
man, Hickory; Clarence H. Gutiuie,
Beaufort; Robert J. Darden, Mount
Olive; and John H. Causey, Wins
ton-Salem.
Passing the examination as assis
tant registered pharmacists were:
O. W. McFalls, Pomona; James C
McGee, Asheville; Calvin E. Ingie
Aslieville; Morris L Cable, Ashe
ville; Howard L. Bishop, Ashevillo;
Wyatt Y. Whitley, Fremont; Miss
Nan Bryan, Tarboro; Thurman T.
Owens, Tarboro; John I. Thomas.
Smithfield. and Alonzo K. Walteis
Selma.
Members of the board giving the
examination were. Dr. E. V. Zoeller,
Tarboro, president; P. W. Hancock,
Oxford, secretary-treasurer; R. A
McDuffie, Greensboro; J. G. Balle.v,
Lenoir, and M. B. Melvin, Raleigh.
AVERAGE GRANT $930
FOR AGED IN STATE
North Carolina needy aged num
bering 31,847 people received a to
tal of $296,136.61 or an average
grant of $9.30 during the month ot
November, Nathan H. Yelton, di
rector of the division of public as
sistance of the State Board ot i
Charities and Public Welfare, an
nounced yesterday. To 20,763 de
pendent children at an avernijo
payment of $5,58, went a total of
$115,923.72 of combined Federa'.,
State and local funds during the
month under the public assistance
program.
RONNIE STEVENS
CLAIME I)BY DEATH
Son of Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Stevens
Dies in Hospital
Ronald E. Stevens, Jr., five-year
old son of Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Ste
vens of Falls Road Extenson, died in
a hospital early Wednesday after
noon, a victim of pneumonia.
HI for only a few days, the an
usually popular child, who was
known as "Ronnie," succumbed at
12:30 o'clock Wednesday.
Funeral services wer e conducted
from the home at three o'clock Tliurs
day afternoon by Rev. F. H. Craig
hill, rector of the Church of the
Good Shepherd. Interment was made
in Pineview cemetery.
Besides his father and mother —
the former being an official of the
Rocky Mount Mills—th e child is sur
vived by two sisters, Lee and Ann
Stevens.
Pallbearers were announced as
follows: F. S. Wilkinson, T. J. Pear
sail, A. P. Thorp, W. W. Shaw, T.
B. Bunn, Jr., G. E. Newby, J. S
Gardner and J. Henry Cuthrell.
None!
There's no fool like an old fool
acting like a young fool.—U. S. SI.
Canopus laws.
Charlotte News Anniversary
The Charlotte News celebrated its 50th birthday lastweek
The golden anniversary was observed by issuing almost a
book edition with 172 pages and a handsome pictorial sec
ion. This edition is indeed a wonderful collection of data
and historical events and will be of interest to every North
Carolinian who may have the opportunnity of seeing a cooy
of this splendid golden anniversary paper. Charlotte is the
biggest city in North Carolina and known through the state
as the Queen City, a great manufacturing center and the
distributing point in North and South Carolina. Its develop
ment has been along progressive and sane lines. This won
derful edition shows the steady development and progress
which has taken place in the last fifty years, and the Char
lotte News not only has witnessed its progress but has been
a definite progressive factor in the city's development. The
public is practically compelled to rely upon its newspaper
for information as to what is going on about us and
throughout the world.
Charlotte is .somewhat younger, than Savannah, having
been incorporated as a town in November 1768. A Char
lotte historian relates: "From Mecklenburg-Strelitz. 'n the
yeer 1761, went a young princess to be the wife of George
the Third and Oueen of En" 1 "-*' 4 V»pv ""Tie Char
lotte. The marriage was a popular one and there va«
rejoicing in England. After P whilp the n*>ws of ; t reached
the Piedmont section of North Carolina, where the people
were just about to make two counties out of one. The name
of the old county was Anson, named for Admiral Anson,
whose good ship carried the young Princess Charlotte t©
England. The new county was named Mecklenburg in tumor
of the Queen who had come from old Mecklenburg in Ger
many, and to do her stillmore honor, they called tneir town
Charlotte." it.
We congratulate the Charlotte New* it - r»n
tire staff, on its birthday. We shall Ve r ~ > "*mi
versary copy as a historical document of the city of Char
lotte. The issue reflects great credit upon the \hole start
of the Charlotte News.
Last week end the Atlantic Coast Railroad Com
pany gave reduced rates to all points '«
trains, all the cars were steel, new and modern, air condi
tioned. From Rocky Mount one could go to Jacksonvi'lp and
return for $5.00, Miami and return for $lO 00 ard Peters
burg and return for $8.50. The seats are made so the backs
can be let back by just pushing a button and are so com
fortable the pullman ceases to be a necessity for comfort
on the train.
These rates are a wonderful advertisement for the At
lantic Coast Line Railroad Company. Florida is a great
state with the climate that is not surpassed in winter
throughout the world. This wonderful climate is not its on
ly asset however. The people in Florida are really begin
ning to farm and furnish vegetables, real summer vege
tables to the population throughout the United States.
Miami appears to have fully recovered from its boom and
from the wreck of its great storm and is one of the show
places of the world. Accommodations are elegant and rea
sonable. Kress 5 and 10 cent store has recently compleled
the prettiest store in Miami. This store is being managed
by Mr. Lloyd who was manager of the Kress store here
about three years ago. He seems to be making a splendid
job of his work in Miami. The store has about 300 em
ployees and clerks. One of the most interesting features
besides the scenery is ihe great Pan American Airport. Here
those visiting Cuba, Mexico and South American countries
embark. On our visit we were fortunate in visiting the port
at the time two planes came in from Cuba and one from
San Juan. It was indeed a most interesting sight to see
these ships land and learn of the accurate schedule they
make. ,
NOTICE
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St.oo PER YF4I
Nash Boy Wins
Medal In State
4-H Club Contest
Beacham Leonard of Nashville i&
awarded a gold medal for making
the best report of any 4-H club mem
ber in Nash county in a National t-
H. Electrification Contest conducted
by extension agents. The medal iJ
7-8 inches high with a clover leaf
and high line towers embossed on
the rectangulnr face and is fitted
with a clasp lock.
Records of county winners com
pete for the state award which is an
all-expense trip to the 17th National
4-H Club Congress, to be held in
Chicago, Nov. 25-Dec. 5. The fou»
highest scoring state winners in the
country receive cash college schol
arships of $4OO, $3OO, $2OO, and $lOO,
provided with all other prizes in
the contest by Westfnghouse Elec
tric & Mfg. Company.
The contest is scored on a repot
stating how electricity can be us-'!
to advantage on a farm, listing ap
pliances and giving cost of opera
tion compared with man power. Pro
motional work, sucb as exhibits ind
demonstrations, also count.
FLORIDA TRIP