BUY AND SELL IN ROCKY MOUNT, TRADE CENTER OF EASTERN CAROLINA!
The Rocky Mount Herald
VOLUME 1, NO. 13
GETTING READY FOR
RENTAL PAYMENTS
The adjustment of cotton reduc
tion contracts to make the claims
of past acreage and poundage con
form to the known figures for the
production in each county should
be completed within the next few
weeks, according to Dean I. 0.
Schaub, of State College.
Efforts are being made to start
the rental payments by the latter
part of April, so that the money
may be available to the farmers
for use in the cultivation of the
present crop.
The checks will be sent out from
Washington, headquarters of the
AAA, as fast as the revised con
tracts are accepted there.
Tabulators at State College have
finished the checking of original
contracts in 24 of the 67 cotton
growing* counties. There is some
overstatement in the claims of past
production, but little difficulty is
anticipated in adjusting the figures,
Schaub said.
Catawba and Lincoln counties,
the first two to be checked have
already revised their contracts and
returned them for fianl approval
before they are sent on to Wasn
ington.
The other counties in which the
checking has been completed, and
which are now ready for the re
vision work by loqal agents, are:
Polk, Yadkin, Cabarrus, Stanley,
Alamance, Orange, Chatham, Hoke,
Vance, Wilson, Camden, Pasquo
tank, Perquimans, Chowan, Beau
fort, Guilford, Gaston, Tyrrell,
Alexander, Gates, Warren and
Randolph.
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GRAVELY AND
ROBBINS ENTER
RACE FOR SEAT
Since the withdrawal of Walter
J. Bone from the senatorial race
in Nash county, there has been
two announcements; Mr. L. L.
Gravely announced lkst Saturday
that he would be a candidate, and
Captain J. W. Robbins announced
on Monday. Mr. Gravely is en
gaged in the buying and reselling
of tobacco, being an official of the
China American Tobacco Company,
and has heretofore served two
terms in the State Senate. Cap
tain J. W. Robbins is a farmer and
has large farming interest in
Nash County and has formerly
served Nash County for many
years as a member of its Board of
Commissioners, as chairman, and
represented the county in the
Legislature.
Both of these gentlemen are ex
perienced Legislators and are well
known to the voters in Nash
County.
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COOLEY-FOR-CONGRESS
CLUB IS ORGANIZED
The first Cooley-for-Congress
club has been organized in Nash
ville with Dan Perry, of that place,
as president. The membership
presents practically the entire
voting strength of the county seat.
Other simliar clubs are to be
organized in every county in the
district in the campaign with thn
object of electing Harold D. Cooley,
Nashville attorney and party lead
er, to Congress from the fourth
district to succeed to the post held
for 33 years by the late E. W. Pou.
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PERRY IMPROVING
Physicians rfeport that the con
dition of John Perry, popular high
school student and son of Rev.
and Mrs. George Perry, is improv
ing. Young Perry was struck by
* a ball last Friday while playing
baseball. At the time of the ac
cident it was not thought serious
and thought to be only temporary,
but later a fracture of the skull
was discovered.
Mr. and Mrs. Perry have the
sympathy and prayers of our peo
ple, who wish for their son a
speedy recovery.
HANGS TO HEADLIGHT
Rochester, N. Y.—When a tram
shattered his truck at a crossing,
Ralph Coletta, 19, caught on the
headlight and clung there for a
ride of nearly a mile. He was not
seriously hurt.
To Hold District
Meeting Thurs.
The 13th District Meeting of the
Home Demonstration Clubs will be
held on Thursday, April 12, at
Red Oak. Red Oak has practically
completed a new club house where
the lunch will be served.
The counties represented in the
13th district are Edgecombe, John
son, Wayne, Wilson and Nash.
The following is the program to
be rendered:
Miss Ruth Jones—Presiding
Opening of meeting—Miss Ruth
Jones, Smithfield, chairman of
13th district.
America the Beautiful—Audi
ence.
Collect—
Greetings from Nash—Mrs. Wil
liam W. Ricks, Council President.
Response for the District—Mrs.
Blanche Anderson, Edgecombe
Council, Pres.
Song—Bell of St. Mary's—Red
Oak Quartette.
Roll Call and Minutes—Sec. of
13th District.
Song—Follow the Gleam—Audi
ence.
Introduction of Speaker—Miss
Katherine Millsaps.
Address—Mrs. Jane S. McKim
mon.
Announcement of Committee—
Invitation to Lunch—Mrs. C. M.
Jones, chairman of dinner com
mittee.
Lunch—l P. M.—Music by C. W.
A. Band of Rocky Mount. (Lunch
eon served in Red Oak Club house,
rear of church). (Please re
assemble promptly at 2 P. M.)
Song—Ho! for Carolina—Audi
ence.
Nash County's New Deal—Mrs.
J. K. Smith.
Report by Counties—Edgecombe,
Johnston, Wilson, Wayne, Nash.
Report of Farm-Home Housing
Survey of Edgecombe—Miss Annie
Lee Howell, Chairman of Survey.
Report of Jane S. McKimmon
Loan Fund—Mrs. Geo. Marsh
bourne.
Presentation of Gavel—Mrs. W.
W. Ricks.
Report of Committees—
Invitation fo r 1935
Song—Friendship—Audience.
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SEVERAL SWINDLED BY
CLOTHING SALESMAN
Several Rocky men have
been victimized recently by a
made-to-order clothing salesman.
He collected a small deposit on
orders which were never filled.
The orders were on Cooper's, In
corporated, Nashville, Tenn. When
the clothing failed to show up af
ter a reasonable time, inquiry was
made of the chief of police at
Nashville. He replied there was
no such firm there as Cooper's, In
corporated, and added similar in
quiries had come from Jackson
ville, Fla, The man who operated
here gave his name as H. L. Day.
He is between 30 and .35 years old
and weighs about 130 pounds. He
apparently knows the clothing
game well and talks in a manner
that would lead one to believe
that he had been in the business
for several years. He may be
recognized by the extremely low
price of his goods compared with
the' fine quality that is offered.
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ANNOUNCE HEARING ON
RIVER IMPROVEMENT
Greenville, April 7. A public
hearing has been ordered by gov
ernment engineers to be held in
Greenville, Thursday, April 26, for
the purpose of reviewing data rela
tive to the opening of Tar river
to navigation.
A bulletin received from the
office of Eugene Reybold, district
government engineer, said oral
statements would be heard at the
hearing but that for the purpose
of accuracy all important facts and
arguments should be submitted in
writing.
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Taylor says steel is out of
slump and faces assured future.
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ROCKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, A
FAILS IN GIVING LEADERSHIP
When a Governor is elected he is expected to give some
leadership, but unfortunately for North Carolina, when the
last Legislature met, our Governor was very much run down
in health, to such an extent that he was unable to give that
leadership which might be expected of the Chief Executive
during the legislative session; and the Legislature for days,
weeks, and even months, seemed to be in a deadlock. One
group undertaking to place the burden of government upon
the resources and wealth of the State. The other group seek
ing t©> place the burden of government on the backs of the
individuals or on a per capita basis. Finally after this dead
lock had continued for days, weeks, and months the Governor
improved in health sufficiently for him to go before the
Legislature, and when he did go he assumed the leadership
of the gross sales tax, stating that the emergency which had
been created by Mr. Hoover made it necessary for him to
advocate this form of taxation, even though he did solemnly
promise the people that he would never stand for this form
of taxation.
The sales tax was adopted, but instead of its becoming
an emergency measure, the Governor since regaining his
health, has given all of his time and strength to a large
degree to trying to make this form of taxation permanent,
failing to give that leadership in seeking to look out for
sources of revenue from which the government might be
supported without resorting to the gross sales tax, which
is a tax upon poverty.
THE BURDEN OF THE 8 MONTHS SCHOOL TERM
News articles appearing in various papers recently re
ported former Governor Gardner and the present Governor
as having stated that North Carolina forward policy in edu
cation was attracting attention throughout the Nation, and
the question was being asked of them, so they state, how
is North Carolina doing it? These questions coming from
all parts of the country. This is the question—how did
North Carolina put on the eight months school term when
other states could not ? And it is stated by former Governor
Gardner and the present Governor that the people are mar
veling, and the question is being asked, "Who did it?" Of
course, the inference is that Governor Ehringhaus and for
mer Governor Gardner did it; but these great leaders do
not tell the complete story.
The cost of the public school system was reduced from
twenty-three million to sixteen million dollars, and the
cost of eight months school term has been reduced to sixteen
million dollars, which is a million dollars less than the State
appropriated for the six months school term. They do not
tell the Nation that the burden of the eight months school
term was placed on the teachers by reducing their salaries
to the point that they cannot live. Laborers in many in
stances receive more than they do. They would have you
believe that the gross sales tax did it. It is misleading and
even now reports are being circulated that the teacher may
not even get their salary for the eighth month.
NORTH CAROLINA'S
1933 TOBACCO CROP
Conference To Be
Held In Greenville
Greenville.—The theme for the
second state-wide educational con
ference to be held at East Carolina
Teachers college on April 13 and
14, is "Education for the New So
cial, Political and Economic Or
der." The object of this year's
program is to attempt to solve in
some measure the vital problems
which confront the public schools
in their effort to prepare the child
ren of North Carolina to meet the
demands of the new order. A rep
resentative group of people active
ly engaged in school work and
others interested in the educational
problems of the state, will gather
to discuss these problems.
An excellent program has been
prepared with two general sessions
and two with round !able discus
sion groups, each under able lead
ers. One group will be composed
of those most vitally interested in
administrative problems, county,
and city superintendents, Supt. T.
L. Best, of Franklin county, will
preside over the first of these
meetings, and Supt. Clyde A. Er
win of Rutherford county, will lead
the discussion on the conference
theme. Supt. R. M. Wilson, of the
Rocky Mount schools, will preside
over the second meeting. Supt. R.
S. Proctor, of Craven county, will
tell what is being done in Craven
county to meet the educational
needs of the new order. Rice Ross,
principal of the Moss Hill high
school, will present "Possibilities
of a Modified Platoon System for
Meeting the Educational Needs of
the New Order."
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RAISE OWN SALARIES
Washington.—The five per cent
salary raise contained in the bill
passed over the President's veto
will add $6,457.19 to the salary of
the 531 members of Congress.
The revision of flue-cured to
bacco contracts in which the claims
of past acreage and production
were too high should be completed
for North Carolina in the near
future.
E. Y. Floyd, of State College,
who has charge of the tobacco
control program, said that the re
visions have been completed in 23
counties and that four others will
be finished in a day or two.
This leaves 31 more of the
State's 58 flue-cured lobacco coun
ties yet to finish their contracts.
However, he pointed out, the work
in most of these counties is almost
complete. Their completions should
take only a few more days.
Approximately half of the 68,000
contracts signed have been accept
ed by Floyd's office here after
their revision. The contracts now
accepted cover about one-half of
the total acreage under contract
Floyd estimated.
The rental payments on the
acres which are being retired from
cultivation will amount to more
than $5,000,000. Another $2,000,-
000 will be paid before long to
equalize the incoirie from that part
of the 1933 crop which was sold
before prices reached parity.
Probably more than $6,000,000 in
benefit payments will also be paid
the growers who reduce their pro
duction at the rate of 12 1-2 per
cent of the market value 0 f their
1934 crop.
The counties in which revision
has been completed are: Pitt,
Davidson, Columbus, Sampson,
Hertford, Robeson, Cumberland,
Onslow, Bladen, Caswell, Jones,
Johnston, Craven, Wilkes, New
Hanover, Chatham, Wilson, Vance,
Randolph, Scotland, Duplin, Cald
well, and Montgomery.
Carteret, Bertie, Lenoir, and
Hoke counties are virtually com
plete.
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W. B. Collins, Alleghany county
agent, has been busy assisting with
the corn-hog sign-up and in help
ing the organization of a Tobacco
Production Control Association.
PRIL 13, 1934
Ratifies Contract
For Water Loan
Adopt Resolution Providing
for an Election to Be Held
Monday, May 6th
Adoption of the government's
contract for the loan and grant
of $310,000 for construction of
waterworks here and adoption of
a resolution providing for a mu
nicipal election here Monday, May
6, were outstanding in a brief and
uneventful session of the board of
aldermen at the recorder's court
room Thursday night.
The board heard City Attorney
W. T. Thorp read portions of the
contract, which specifies the man
ner in which the loan of $240,000
shall be repaid through the issu
ance of city bonds. The first pay
ment must be made in 1935 and
will be SIO,OOO. Other annual pay
ments follow until the loan is re
paid.
City Manager L. B. Aycock re
ported he and George Womble,
local utilities official, had confer
red with W. C. Olsen, of Raleigh,
consulting engineer, and expressed
the belief work on the plant will
probably start within thirty day 3.
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OLDEST WAKE COUNTY
DEED IS GIVEN TO
DUKE LAW SCHOOL
Durham, April 11. —An inden
ture executed in 1796, deeding 37
acres of land in Wake county from
Thomas Harris to Edward Dorum,
has been presented to the law
school of Duke university by J.
H. Harris, of Raleigh. This is
the oldest legal paper executed in
this country which the law library
has acquired, according to Miss
Mary S. Covington, research li
brarian.
The deed, written in black ink
on a parchment sheet measuring
approximately 10 to 16 inches, is
little different in content from
deeds of a much later date. An
outstanding feature of the inden
ture is the manner in which the
parchment is cut; the top of the
sheet is cut irregularly, in some
what of a geometrical design.
The paper bears the signatures
of Henry Moving and Robert
Temple, witnesses; N. Wills, ex
aminer; and W. Hinton, register
of deeds; in addition to those of
the contracting parties.
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RED OAK NEWS I
By Helen Beal
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Miss Cooper visited her parents
in La Grange the past week-end.
Miss Lillian Exum was the week
end guest of Miss Geraldine Par
rish.
Miss Mary Beal visited her sis
ter, Mrs. Arthur Loftin of Golds
boro, last week-end.
We regret to say that Miss
West, a member of the school fac
ulty, is now on the sick list.
Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Parrish, Miss
Geraldine Parrish and Mis s Lillian
Exum attended the funeral of Mr.
Parrish's uncle, of Louisburg, Mon
day.
Miss Mary Francis Hedgespeth
returned to E. C. T. C., Greenville,
last Wednesday, after spending
the Easter holidays with her par
ents.
SALARY CUT EXPECTED
TO BE RESTORED
The restoration of five per cent
of the fifteen per cent cut of the
post office employees is expected
this month. Some of the depart
ments have already received their
increase in wages which' date back
from February 1. Another five per
cent is expected on July 1, and the
other five is to be restored at the
discretion of the President.
BODY KILLS GERMS
St. Petersburg, Fla.—That the
human body manufacturers a
germ-killing chemical is the report
of doctors of the Mayo clinic. The
human germicides, known as ke
tones, are acids and do their work
around the kidneys and bladder.
The clinic has discovered a diet
which will produce them in large
quantities.
People Are Detel
To Keep Going FI
Asserts M
Will Never Consent to Returning to Conditions of Post-Wta
Decade, President Writes in Book—Takes Clever Slap At
Destructive Opposition Government Is Following
"Very Definite, Deep and Permanent Objective."
Yarborough Body
Is Found In River
Weil-Known Louisburg Resi
dent Jumped to His Death
In Stream Saturday.
Moncure, April B.—The body >f
John Brown Yarborough, well
known Louisburg citizen who
jumped into the Haw river near
here late yesterday, was recovered
from the muddy waters early to
day.
Coroner George Brooks officially
termed the death a suicide.
Yarborough, who is 65 years
old, jumped into the river after
telling William Davis, Chesterfield,
S. C., hitch-hiker that "I can't face
the music" and asking him to take
his car to a hotel in Sanford and
tell Mrs. Yarborough what had
happened.
Davis, who had been picked up
a little earlier by Yarborough,
hailed a passing motorist, G. F.
Carr, of Moncure, and as the two
started towards Yarborough, who
was on the river bank, the man
leaped into the water and drown
ed.
Members of the family could
assign no reason for the suicide.
Will Collie, of Raleigh, a grand
son of Yarborough, found the body
this morning just after dawn. Hun
dreds of persons searched the vi
cinity for hours late yesterday and
early last night without success.
Yarborough was a traveling rep
resentative of the American Agri
cultural Chemical company and for
a number of years was a field man
for the state department of agri
culture.
Funeral plans are not known
here.
Surviving are the wife; four
children, R. F. Yarborough of
Louisburg, John B. Yarborough,
Jr., of Durham, Mrs. John Glenn
and Mrs. William Cross of Gates
ville; one brother and three sis
ters, W. H. Yarborough, Miss Mary
Yarborough and Miss Edith Yar
borough of Louisburg, and Mrs. J.
R. Collie, of Raleigh.
OXFORD SINGING
CLASS MEETS WITH
GREAT SUCCESS
The Oxford Singing Class which
appeared at the First Baptist
Church here last Friday was term
ed as a great success by its spon
sors here. The proceeds have al
ready exceeded SIOO and there is
still more to be turned in. The
proceeds will go to the Oxford
Orphanage.
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CAPTAIN GILKS
HERE THIS WEEK
Captain Gilks from the head
quarters of the Salvation Army in
Charlotte is to be in Rocky Mount
this week-end to review the corps
here. On Saturday at one o'clock
he is to meet the Advisory Board
of this city at the Y. M. C. A.
building. An open discussion of
the general affairs of the work
here is planned.
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MASONIC ORDER
TO HOLD REUNION
The Enfield Scottish Rite Bodies
of the Masonic Order will hold
their reunion in Rocky Mount in
stead of at Enfield about May 15.
Many distinguished Masons from
other cities will be visitors at thi3
meeting. Degrees ranging from
the 4th to the 18th will be con
ferred at this reunion.
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Mrs. O. W. Hawley, of 417
Dautry St., left Thursday morning
to attend the funeral of her mother
in Franklin, Tenn.
SI.OO PER YE
New York, April 11.—"We
people are determined," write
President Roosevelt, "after goinj
forward for one year, to keep oi
going forward some more ♦ * •
"A year ago things were goin|
wrong with our civilization," tlu
President adds in his "On Ouj
Way," published tomorrow. "W
might as well admit it. We kn«m
at least the ideals of the men am
women who settled America. W
know at least the ideals of th
founders of the republic.
"In the later years condition!
had greatly changed—perhaps w«
had not forgotten the older ideala
but at least we were disregardinf
most of them.
Slape at Destructive Opposition
"We, the people of this coun
try, do not need, nor do we seel
for criticism or for opposition thai
is merely destructive ; such indi
viduals or associations of indi
viduals, which for political or sel
fish financial reasons oppose th«
broad objective, will, we know
harm only themselves, for we a:
a people will never go along witl
any proposal that the country re
turn to the conditions of the de
cade which followed the worlc
war."
"On Our Way," is, in effect, |
report to the public on the Presi
dent's first year. It details the
major events, using as a skeleton
the messages, executive orders
statements and speeches of ths
year, joined by brief explanatory
passages.
An example of the succincl
style of the narrative parts is the
President's disposition of the air]
mail tangle.
Definite and Permanent Objective
"On February 9," he writes,
cause of disclosures that the air
mail contracts had been awarde
under circumstances which con
clusively showed irregularitie
amounting to collusion and illegal
ity, the postmaster general can
celled the contracts, and the tern
porary duty of carrying the air
mail was assigned to the war de
partment.
"In spite of the necessary com
plexity of the group of organiaa
tions whose abbreviated title
have caused some amusement," h 1
writes, "and through what ha
seemed to some a mere reachin)
out for centralized power by tfc
federal government, there has ruj
a very definite, deep and perma
nent objective.
"With regard to the individus
excellence of each one of them,
ca n only repeat what I have ofte:
said—that the individual parts i
this planned program are by n
means inflexible or infallible. I
some respects we may have t
change the method; in others, w
may not have gone far enougl
Time and experience will teach u
many things."
Peaceful, Lawful "Revolution"
The President is "setting fort
the milestones that mark th
achievement of a new publi
policy" in his book, he siad.
"Some people have sought to d«
scribe that policy as revolutionar;
Perhaps it is. It is revolutionar;
however, only in the sense thj
the measures adopted and th
purposes that they seek diff«
(Please turn to paga three,
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A. L. TYSON ,
MOVES STOR
Mr. A. L. Tyson, who has bee
conducting his ready to wear stoi
on West Main St., has tioved ovf
on East Main Street next door
E. Epestien's, in the Keel buildin
The store has been recently ren
vated and Mr. Tyson has great
added to his stock, and has a cor
plete line of ladies' ready to wea
as well as a full line of shoes at
notions for men and women:
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Mrs. Roosevelt scouts danger
American revolution.