BUY AND SELL IN ROCKY MOUNT, TRADE CENTER OF EASTERN CAROLINA
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The Rocky Mount Herald
VOLUME 1. NO. 18.
Rites Held For
Suicide Victim
Funeral Services Held Monday
For Sam Barfield, A. C. L.
Shop Worker f
Final rites for Sam Barfield, 28,
A. C. L. shop worker who fatally
shot himself through the head in
the back-yard of his home at No.
1108 S. Main street Sunday, were
held from Bulluck's Funeral home
at 4:30 o'clock Monday afternoon
with Rev. Tom E. Walters, pastor
of North Rocky Mount Baptist
church in charge. Burial followed
at Pineview cemetery.
Barfield went into his backyard
and shot himself in the forehead
with a .38 calibre pistol. The bullet
ripped through his brain and
emerged from the back of his
head. Death was instantaneous.
He left a note addressed to his
sisters in which he explained he
was "tired of living", officers who
investigated the shooting said. He
explained also in the note that he
had put aside some money with
which to clear up a few debts and
told where the money could be
found and how it should be paid
out, according to the officers.
Surviving are his widow; one
■brother, William Barfield of Dunn;
three sisters, Mrs. Catherine Brown
and Mrs. Ronnie Harrell of Tar
boro, and Mrs. James Grice of
Rockingham, and his mother, Mrs.
G. W. Gay, of Clinton.
Pallbearers were not selected
prior to the flineral services but
were selected from friends who at
tended the final rites.
CONSUMERS STILL
TREAD HARD ROAD
Tugwell Says Buying Public
Entitled to Protection from
Mess Producers
Cleveland, 0-, May 11.—Rexford
G. Tugwell, Assistant Secretary of
Agriculture, told the Consumers
League of Cleveland tonight that
most of the purchasing of goods
by the American people is "charac
teristically made on the basis of
'intangible and glowing generali
ties'."
Because of lack of standards in
most goods sold, control of business
by a comparatively few companies
and "mass standardized judgments
shaped by the press, the radio and
the movies," the 30,000,000 families
who spend 60 per cent of the na
tional income over retail counters
"all too often do not know what
they are buying," he said.
Great Deal
Speaking of the consumers' coun
sel of the farm administration, set
up under the farm act to protect
the interests of consumers, l\igwell
said the group of men and women
"have done what they could to pro
tect this interest, and what they
could do has been a great deal."
"They have been handicapped by
a lack of public support and under
standing, but they have always
fought a good fight."
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MRS. T. PERRY JENKINS
Tarboro.—Funeral services for
Mrs. T. Perry Jenkins were held
this afternoon at four o'clock in
Calvary Episcopal Church, and in
terment was in the church ceme
tery. The service was conducted
by the rector, Rev. Bertram E.
Brown.
Mrs. Jenkins died at her home
on Park Avenue at five o'clock yes
terday afternoon following a lin
gering illness. Surviving are her
husband, one son, Asam, and one
daughter, Mrs. Frank Marsh, of
Salisbury; five sisters, Mesdames
B. B. Howell and Mr. R. Thigpen,
of this county, R. O. Purvis, of
Scotland Neck, Misses Lena and
Kate Redmond, of Rocky Mount;
' two brothers, Henry and James
Redmond.
She was a devoted member of
Calvary Episcopal Church, and also
of the William Dorsey Pender
chapter of the United Daughters of
the Confederacy.
Aud Dover of Cabarrus County
will start growing one and threes
eighth inch cotton staple this sea
son having planted five bushels
directly from the breeder.
LOWER INTEREST RATE
ON NEW LOANS
B. F. Shelton, secretary-treasur
er of the Rocky Mount Production
Credit Association has just receiv
ed word from Governor W. I. My
ers of the Farm Credit Adminis
tration in Washington, D. C., that
the interest rate on new loans from
production credit associations has
been reduced from 5 1-2 to 5 per
cent.
According to Mr. Shelton. the
new E per cent interest rate be
comes effective immediately on all
new loans and advances made by
the association and will be appli
cable until further notice.
"The new interest rate of 5 per
cent will not affect loans already
advanced in full," Mr. Shelton
said. "These will continue to bear
the rate of interest prevailing at
the time the loan was closed. The
I interest charges on loans from the
association are collected when the
loans mature. The Rocky Mount
Production Credit association is
now making loans on acceptable
crop and chattel security to farm
ers in Nash, Edgecombe and Wil
son counties.
"The reduction of the interest to
5 per cent on new loans," Mr. Shel •
ton continued, "is made possible
by a recent sale of Federal inter
mediate credit bank debentures to
investors at an unusually low rate
of interest. The association gets
money to lend farmers from the
Federal intermediate credit bank
of Columbia, South Carolina.
"The lowering of the interest
rate on new loans to 5 per cent is
the second reduction in two
months, the rate having been re
duced from 6 to 5 1-2 per cent on
March 16.
"According to Governor Myers,"
said Mr. Shelton, the Federal in
termediate credit bank is passing
on immediately to farmer-borrow
ers from production credit associa
tions the saving made possible by
lower cost of getting money. The
confidence of investors in the se
curity of the intermediate credit
banks has been such that the banks
are able to get money to lend at
the lowest discount rate in their
history. Governor Myers says that
the resulting low rate of interest
on production credit association
loans is enabling farmer-borrowers
to save thousands dollars on the
cost of their farming operations
this year. If the associations make
sound loans, and loans that are col
lectible, an adequate supply of low
cost money will continue to be
available.'
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NEW "ICE CREAM BAR"
OPENS HERE TONIGHT
Mr. M. A. Pike who has been
operating a fruit and vegetable
store on North Main street, near
the Cameo Theatre, has recently
remodeled the building, attractive
ly painted and arranged the interi
or, and is planning tonight on a
gala opening of a new "Ice Cream
Bar." He has installed a complete
line of Southern Dairies Ice Cream
and milk products which will ba
ready for the big opening tonight.
Music for this occasion will be
furnished by the Proctor Sound
System.
Mr. Pike stated that he would
continue to handle some fruits and
to handle the vegetables from his
thirty acre truck farm.
The public is cordially invited to
pay this store a visit.
DR. BISHOP RESIGNS
CHURCH PASTORATE
Dr. Francis B. Bishop announced
Friday his resignation as pastor of
the First Universalist chuch to be
come effective July l of this year.
The minister came here six years
ago appointed by the National
Board of Universalist Churches as
superintendent of the North Caro
lina churches with the Rocky
Mount church placed in his special
charge. Later he assumed the pas
torate of the local church.
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MEMBERSHIP DRIVE
OF RED MEN CLOSES
The Tawpaco Tribe No. 15 of the
Improved Order of Red Men, of
Rocky Mount, have recently closed
a membership drive which resulted
in thirty-two applications.
These applicants will be initiated
tonight at the regular meeting.
ROCKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1934.
Must File Statement
Of Expense By 12th
All Candidates for Public Of
fice Included; May 26 Set
for Challenge Day
All candidates for public office
in North Carolina must, file their
initial statements of expenditures
by Tuesday, May 22, according to
the primary election calendar com
piled by the State Board of Elec
tions.
Candidates for State and district
offices must file statements with
the Secretary of State. All candi
dates for State Senator in districts
composed of only one county, can
didates for the House of Represen
tatives and all county officers must
file their statements with the Su
perior court clerks in their respec
tive counties.
Similar procedure should be fol
lowed in filing the final primary
expenditures, the deadline for
which is June 22.
Books for the registration of new
voters will be open on the next
coming two Saturdays, and Satur-
I day, May 26, has been designated
as challenge day, when the regis
trars shall be at the poll from 9
a. m. to 3 p. m., to open the books
to the public for inspection for the
purpose of challenges.
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PLAN COOLEY SPEECH
IN RALEIGH MAY 22
Itimous T. Valentine, manager of
Harold D. Cooley's congressional
campaign, announced recently the
tentative arrangement for the can
didate to speak in the Wake county
courthouse on the evening of Tues
day, May 22.
PROFIT ON SHOW
WILL BE SMALL
E. C. Speight, secretary of the
Merchants association of this city,
revealed Monday that a net profit
of less than SSOO will be realized
on the recent Merchants and Man
ufacturers Exposition and Automo
bile show after deductions are
made for federal taxes.
The exact amount of the fed
eral taxes, the only expense not
settled then, will probably be be
tween $125 and $l5O, Mr. Speight
said and the profit will probably
be between S4OO and SSOO.
The exposition was sponsored
jointly by the Merchants associa
tion and the Chamber of Com
merce and the profit will be divid
ed equally between them for car
rying on the business of the two
groups.
SUNDAY SCHOOL -
REVIVAL CLOSES
The Nash County Sunday School
reyival came to a close Sunday af
ternoon with a rally in the Nash
ville church. Dr. Berward Spillman
of Kinston was the principal speak
er for the occasion. The revival
fostered a complete survey of the
territory of twenty-one Baptist
churches. This survey revealed 964
possibilities for the church, and
3369 above twelve years of age
who were lost. The campaign was
directed by Mr. Perry Morgan of
Raleigh, assisted by twenty other
workers from every quarter of the
state. The revival featured special
lectures and classes held every
night in the churches and a gen
eral meeting held each afternoon
for reports and inspiration.
North Rocky Mount Baptist
church had as its leader Mr. L. L.
Morgan. Under his leadership the
Sunday School was completely
revolutionized. Seven new classes
were formed. There is for this
church 1335 possibilities and a field
of 509 lost people above twelve
years of age.
Ihe church is thrilled with a new
vision and faces the future with
new hope. The revival is one of the
greatest ever experienced in Nash
County.
FINAL TEST FOR RANGER
Newport News, Va.—After a
second trial run, this time off the
New England coast, the U. S. S.
Ranger, giant aircraft carrier, will
be turned over to the. Navy De
partment between May 20 and
June Ist.
TEACHERS SALES TAX
Information was received by the Herald last week that a
certain teachpr? and probably more of them, were distribut
ing literature and carrying banners advocating the retention
of the sales tAx as the only way by which the teacher was to
receive his or her salary. It is very infortunate that some of
these young innocent teachers are being misled in this way.
It was reported some weeks ago that these instructions were
proceeding out of the Department of Education'being done
with the sanction of probably instructions of the Chief Ex
ecutive.
The salary-of the school teacher is too low but any teacher
that is well enough informed to be permitted to teach school
should know that if he or she is to receive a better salary
it must be collected in a different way than by the gross
sales tax, which is a tax upon poverty itself, leaving entirely
out of the equation the ability to pay. A child pays one cent
on a ten cents purchase yet when a person purchases more
than $33.00- worth, all above this amount is free and he pays
no sales tax as SIO.OO is the limit on which any one purchase
can be taxed.
Now, is this right? Is it just? Is this system of taxation
to be permanent? The Governor stated in his Campaign
speech that the gross sales tax was a vicious method of
taxation yet he seems to be heading the list of those trying
to make it permanent. North Carolina has sufficient re
sources to support its pyblic schools in a necessary and pro
per manner without resorting to the gross sales tax and
men should be elected to the Legislature who would be will
ing to work to find a necessary revenue.
POLICE DEPARTMENT
During the last few days we have observed one of Rocky
Mount's leading citizens on the street with a petition run
ning into the several hundred names already attached there
to asking that the Board of Aldermen request Chief O. P.
Hedgepeth to reconsider his resignation and remain as Chief
of Police of Rocky Mount, where he has served so efficiently
and well for the past twenty years. This citizen has been
a resident of Rocky Mount most of his life and is well ac
quainted with the character and service of Chief Hedgepeth.
He is probably known personally to more people in Rocky
Mount than any other man, he being our beloved citizen,
Mr. Spencer Robbins.
Rocky Mount has been blessed a great number of years
with a splendid police force, men active in the service of the
city and men of high character. The first test of any police
man should be character, all other attributes being second
ary. Some time ago it was reported that some member of the
Board of Aldermen suggested that certain young policemen
be given the prominent places to work in the city, as they
carried themselves more erect and had straighter waistlines,
but the real test of a good policeman is not his waist line but
his head line and what's in it, this being the first consider
. 2." NoWj all this talk about Rocky Mount's police force
being antiquated, we cannot agree with, nor do we take any
stock in it. Rocky Mount has had a good police force made
up of local men home grown and home raised. The sugges
tion that the city put in a radio service of $3,000 and seven
extra patrolmen, we cannot see any need for and the only
thing to be derived therefrom is an increased tax burden
We notice from the Press that Mr. Edwin H. Powell who
is trainmaster for the A. C. L. Railroad Company and at the
same time draws a large salary from the Conservation and
Game Department, as game warden for Nash County, has
stated that the Police Department showed a lack of interest
in the enforcement of traffic laws which was along the line
of an editorial appearing in the Evening Telegram of last
week. More accidents have probably occurred on Route 40
approaching Rocky Mount from the North than any other
place. For pedestrians the road is a regular death trap There
is a high embankment encased by protectors for the automo
bile with no place for the pedestrian. The Highway Depart
ment should be requested by the Board of Aldermen to
remedy this condition. It is not the fault of the Police De
partment that these pedestrians are run over.
Childrens Clothes
On Exhibition
Designs Furnished by United
States Department of
Agriculture
An exhibit of children's clothing',
designed for easy making and easy
laundering and to aid the child in
dressing himself are being shown
in Nash county by Mrs. Effie Vines
Gordon, Nash county home demon
stration agent, as a part of the
county clothing program.
The designs, furnished by the
bureau 0 f economics of the United
States department of agriculture,
are being exhibited in all of the
home demonstration clubs of the
county. The exhibit was brought
here on May 7 and may be seen at
Mrs. Gordon's home 0 r at the coun
ty office in Nashville until Thurs
day, May 24.
The garments included in the ex
hibit are play suits, sun suits, and
sun suit ensembles for girls and
boys, dresses for little girls, in
fants' wear and rompers for crawl
ing babies. They were designed by
the staff of the division of textiles
and clothing in the bureau of home
economics at Washington, and four
such exhibits are constantly in cir
culation throughout the country in
response to requests from colleges
and other institutions or organiza
tions concerned with child welfare.
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Steel production estimated now
at 56 per cent of capacity.
Allen, Craighill
Finals Speakers
Final Examination Will Get
Underway At Central High
School On Thursday
Rev. F. H. Craighill, rector of
the Church of the Good Shepherd,
will deliver the baccalaureate ser
mon at 8 o'clock Sunday night in
the Central high school auditorium,
while Dr. A. T. Allen, state super
intendent of schools, will deliver
the commencement address on
Tuesday night, May 22, Superitn
end R. M. Wilson has announced.
The summer school sessions will
start on May 24, Mr. Wilson said,
and the term will extend over a
period of five weeks.
While 90 seniors are hoping to
graduate, Principal J. R. Simpson
has indicated that approximately
10 per cent of this number will not
be able to finish unless marked im
provement in grades is seen.
Commencement exercises in both
white and colored schools of the
city will be held simultaneously,
according to the superintendent.
This applies both to the grammar
schools and the high schools.
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Mrs. James Creswell and chil
dren of Siler City, N. C., are visit
ing Dr. and Mrs. A. M. Wooten.
Mrs. Creswell is a sister of Mrs.
Wooten.
Says Telephone
Rates Excessive
Charged that Company Serv
ing Tennessee Cities Made
12.7 in Earnings
Nashville, Tenn., May 10.—Tes
timony was introduced at a tele
phone rate reduction hearing here
today purporting to show that the
Southern Bell Telephone Company
earned an average of 12.7 per cent
in four major Tennessee cities last
year as compared to the 5.5 per
cent earnings recently found suf
ficient for utilities in present times
by the United States Supreme
Court.
H. M. Olmstead, New York Pub
lic utilities consultant, introduced
the testimony in a hearing on a
petition c f Chattanooga, Nashville,
Knoxville and Memphis for a 20
per cent reduction in intrastate
telephone rates and rental charges
and a reduction from 25 to 15 cents
in monthly charges for hand-set
telehones.
Excess returns over the approv
ed 5.5 per cent earnings amounted
to $947,703 in the four cities last
year, Olmstead told the state rail
road and public utilities commis
sion.
The percentage earnings and the
net excess over the 5.5 per cent
figure were given by cities as fol
lows:
Memphis, 13.7 per cent, $395,698.
Nashville, 13.9 per cent, $293,280.
Chattanooga, 11.3 per cent, $l5O
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Knoxvile, 10.1 per cent, $108,194.
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STATE MEETING OF RED
MEN WELL ATTENDED
Mr. E. W. A. Woolard, has re
turned from Gastonia, where he
attended a State meeting of the
improved order of Red Men. The
meeting was largely attended, be
ing 300 delegates in attendance
from all parts 0 f the State.
Mr. Woolard represented the
Rocky Mount tribe at this meeting.
The meeting was held in conjunc
tion with the State Great Council
of Improved Order of Red Men
and degree of Pocahontas. On Mon
day evening the delegates were en
tertained by local Tribe at a fish
fry at Rankins Lake. Tuesday af
ternoon the representatives were
given a motor trip to historic
King's Mountain Battleground, re
cently designated by an act of
Congress as a National Military
park.
While in Gastonia the represen
tatives made a brief tour to the
North Carolina Orthopaedic Hos
pital. The meeting closed on Wed
nesday afternoon after one of it's
most successful meetings, and the
election of State officers.
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Mrs. C. Roy Griffin entertained
her Tuesday afternoon bridge Club
May 15th. Spring flowers were
used throughout the rooms. Five
tables were placed for play. After
several progressions it was found
that Mrs: W. D. Whitley had high
score and Mrs. A. M. Wooten low.
The hostess presented them with
lovely home-made angel food cakes.
The hostess served delightful re
freshments assisted by Miss Sadye
Bell Brown and Mrs. Leon Griffin.
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Mrs. E. L. Pitt, Jr., entertained
at three tables of bridge honroing
Mrs. James Creswell of Siler City.
Mrs. R. A. Bynum received high
score prize, Mrs. G. H. Webb re
ceived low score prize. The hono
ree was presented with a lovely
gift. A delicious fruit salad course
was served by the hostess assisted
by her sister, Mrs. W. F. Wooten,
of Tarboro.
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Displeased With
State Road Body
Cumberland Delegation Dis
appointed at Outcome of
Petition
Fayetteville, May 11.— "If tha
State Highwty Commission doesn't
ffive us any more than we are get
ting 1 out of them at present, they
ought to cut out the license,
line, and all other taxes," said
County Treasurer R. E. Nimocka
when he returned from Raleigh
yesterday with a Cumberland coun
ty delegation which had made an
other unsuccessful attempt to have
something done about the Cedar
Creek road in this county, which
long since has reached the wash
board stage of decay. Mr. Nimockß
stated that Chairman E. B. Jeff
ress of the highway commission,
referred to the agitation in Cum
berland for reduction of automobile
license taxes and advised the local
delegation that if they wished to
obtain any road building they
should elect a legislative represen
tative who would vote to release
suplus funds held by the commis
sion and oppose division of high
way funds.
The delegation returned from
Raleigh very much dissatisfied with
the way things have gone for Cum
berland County since the county
roads were taken over by the State.
They pointed out that Cumberland
turned over t 0 the State a fairly
complete system of roads for which
the county had bonded itself heavi
ly. The county lost the one cent
gasoline levy it was getting under
the old set-up, has received and i
receiving, now almost nothing in
return, and is left with the large
bonded debt, while the funds are
going to sections which did not
choose to borrow on their own
credit, it was asserted.
The Cumberland delegation also
asserted that it had received defi
nite and repeated assurances from
the highway commission, Mr. Jeff
ress particularly, that the Cedar
Creek road would be rebuilt aw
paved. In fact, it waf surveyad
Now the commission says it hat
no funds for that purpose.
RETURNS FROM
NORTHERN TRIP
Mr. and Mrs. O. J. Nye, this city
and Mrs. Clark of Vandemew
Prof, and Mrs. Ainsleyj of th
school faculty of Hobgood, hav«
returned from a pleasant trip to
Noifolk, Richmond, Fredericks
burg, Alexander, and Washington
D. C.
Messrs. Nye and Ainsley attend'
ed the Grand State Council of the
Order of Fraternal Americana a
Norfolk the 15th and 16th. This
organization is affiliated with the
Junior Order United American Me
chanics. Mr. Nye has been organiz
er in Eastern Carolina with suc
cess for the past three years anc
has recently been promoted to chiei
organizer in the state of Virginia
in connection with the work it
North Carolina. Mr. Nye is ala
being considered for the post ol
State manager of Virginia for th
Beneficiary Degree work in Vir
ginia. There are many other appli
cants on file for this place, bu'
Mr. Nye's past record in the worl
in both North Carolina and Vh
ginia stand him in hand.
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The thousand Mimosa tree
planted along the highway out o
Morgan ton three years ago wep
pruned recently under the direc
tion of tihe Burke County farn
agent.