BUY AND SELL IN ROCKY MOUNT, TRADE CENTER OF EASTERN CAROLINA
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The Rocky Mount Herald
VOLUME 1. NO. 22.
Body Of Poole
Found Sunday
Feshermen Found The Body
Two Miles Below the Bridge
On Hgihway 90. Poole Was
> Drowned Thursday night.
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Three fisheimen found the body
of Kerney O. Poole Sunday morn
ing about two miles down the river
from the bridge on Highway 90. |
Mr. Poole was drowned near the
bridge last Thursday night.
The News and Observer states
that according to reports reaching
Raleigh, one of the fishermen, Her
bert Watkins, saw Mr. Poole's feet
which had been caught on an ob
stacle in the river. The body was
bloated but not bpdly decomposed.
With Watkins were T. E. Williams
and a man named Upchurdh.
Mr. Poole was drowned while
fishing with Linwood King. Inten
sive efforts were made to locate
the body near the place he was
I drowned, including dynamiting of
■ the stream which had swollen to
. an unusual depth dU'i to recent
heavy rains.
When the boat they ware using
was overturned, Mr. King swam to
safety. He said he sajv Mr. Poole
start to swim and believed him to
be out of danger.
The funeral was held at 4 o'clock
v Monday at the Poole 1 residence, 218
I S. Swain Street, Raleigh. Rev. C.
 J. Hollandsworth, pastor of the
First • Vanguard Presbyterian
church, officiated.
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~ FIRST CHURCH OF
"CHRIST, SCIENTIST
* "God The Only Cause and Crea
p tpr" was the subject of the Lesson-
Sermon in all Churches and Socie
ties of Christ, Scientist, on Sun
day, June 10.
The Golden Text was from
Psalms 72:18. "Blessed be the Lord
, God, the God of Israel, who only
doeth wondrous things."
a. Among the citations which com
prised the Lesson-Sermon was the
jt following from the Bible: "There
fore, my brethren dearly beloved
and longed for, my joy and crown,
so stand fast in the Lord, my dear
ly beloved. Finally, brethren, what
soever things are true, whatsoever
things are honest, whatsoever
things are just, whatsoever things
are pure, whatsoever things
'■ are lovely, things are
of good report; if there be any
virtue, if there be any praise, think
g s on these thing." (Phil 4:1,8.)
The Lesson-Sermon also included
the following passage from the
J Christian Science textbook, "Sci
ence and Health with Key to the
Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy:
"Mortals think wickedly; conse
quently they are wicked. They
think sickly thoughts, and so be
come sick. If sin makes sinners,
Truth and Love alone can unmake
them. If a sense of disease produces
suffering and a sense of ease anti-
I dotes suffering, disease is mental,
not material. Hence the fact that
the human mind alone suffers, is
sick, and that the divine Mind alone
heals." (p. 270.)
BIRTH AND DEATH
STATISTICS FOR MAY
According to the figures released
by. the City Health Department,
there were 40 births and 40 deaths
» here in May.
The 40 deaths were divided
among nine white residents, 17
Negr,o residents, 12 white non-res
idents, and two Negro non-resi
dents, making a total of 21 white
and 19 Negro deaths.
The month produced 22 white
and 18 Negro babies.
NEW LABOR PACT
Oil companies controlled by
Harry F. Sinclair, have signed a
contract with union recognition
that has the approval of William
Green, president of the American
Federation of Labor. It is the first
time a major oil company has sign
ed with an independent union and
is hailed as "a treaty of industrial
peace."
Federal Reserve Board sees
highly favorable business signs.
Typhoid Fever Has
Been Greatly Reduced
It is only occasionally that we
take time 'to attempt to inform
the public of changes which' have
taken place over a period of time.
To most of us changes are so grad
ual, so non-interesting, that the
average person is not impressed,
though the significance may be far
reaching.
In checking our records of deaths
from typhoid fever we find that in
1892 when Raleigh had a popula
tion of 12,870 there were 23 deaths
from that disease, 10 white and 13
colored. That was the peak year of
typhoid fever deaths in the Cky of
Raleigh, according to death certifi
cates filed since 1887. According
to the estimate of a few years ago
that ten cases occurred to every
one death, this means that there
were probably 230 cases of typhoid
fever in Raleigh for that year. At
the present time it is estimatad
that only about seven cases occur
to one death, but perhaps ten is
more accurate for the year 1892.
The next peak year occurred in
1907 with 20 deaths, ten white and
ten colored, when the population of
Raleigh was 17,549. This means
that not s 0 many years ago there
must have been 200 cases of ty
phoid fever in Raleigh in one year.
In 1914 there was another peak
year with thirteen deaths, 7 white
and 6 colored, the population of
Raleigh being 21,298. After that
year there was a rapid decline un
til 1918 when not a single death oc
curred in the City of Raleigh from
typhoid fever. But that was too
good a record to maintain, but
since that time there has not oc
curred in ahy one year more than
six deaths, and in 1931 ther* was
only one.
In the State of North Carolina
m 1914 there were 839 "deaths from
typhoid fever; in 1932 there were
158; and the provisional figures
for 1933 give only 129 deaths for
that year. In the United States a
recent report from 87 cities for
1910, with a population of 22,500,-
000, shows that thewe were 4,637
deaths from typhoid fever in that
year, or a rate of 20.54 per 100,-
000, shows that there were 4,637
87 cities, with a population of 35,-
000,000 there were 423 deaths, or a
rate of 1.18 per 100,000 population.
The public holds in its hands the
control measures to eradicate ty
phoid fever, and from these figures
it appears that these measures are
being reasonably What are
they? Very simple. Safe water
supply, some approved type' of
sewage disposal, screens to keep
out flies and other insects, safe
wholesome milk, the control of food
handlers who may be carriers, and
typhoid fever vaccine. >
Typhoid vaccine is worth all that
authorities have claimed for it,
but it stands to reason that it is
impossible to vaccinate everybody.
So to control typhoid fever we
must improve our sanitary condi
tions and food supply. These things
combined will eventually eradicate
typhoid fever.
IRISH POTATOES BEGIN
MOVING AT BETHEL
Greneville, June 9.—The move
ment of Irish* potatoes has been
started at Bethel, one of the great
est "spud" producing centers in
this part of the state. Although the
industry has not hit its stride yet,
this is expected to take place
around the 15th when thousands
of barrels will be shipped from this
town daily over a period of two
weeks.
Farmers, wh 0 last year enjoyed
a profit on their sales, are faced
by lower \price conditions this year
with indications that they may
break even if prices do not drop
lower. Last year "spuds" sold for
around $2.25 t 0 $2.50 at the height
of the season, but this year with
the season just beginning the price
is from $1.25 to $1.75 a barrel.
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BANKS STEADY
Only two banks of the 14,000 in
the Federal Deposit Insurance Cor
poration are in difficulty, accord
ing to Chairman Leo Crowley, who
points out that none of the banks
have failed in 1934.
U. S. to "consider" extending
if Japan exceeds ration.
ROCKY MOUNT. NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 1934.
Hold Final Rites
For Mrs. Green
Funeral services for Mrs. George
Green, who died at her home on
South Church street Tuesday night
were conducted from the residence
at 4 o'clock Wednesday afternoon
with Dr. J. W. Kinchelce, pastor
of the First Baptist church, offici
ating.
Burial took place in the Pineview
cemetery.
Mrs. Green, 57, died suddenly
about 11 o'clock Tuesday night of
a heart attack. She had made her
home in the city for a number of
yeers, and was a member of the
local First Baptist church. Before
her mariage, she was Miss Mattie
E- Dickens of Halifax county. Her
husband preceded her in death sev
eral years ago.
The deceased is survived by two
children, Miss OUie Blanche Green
of this city and George Green of
Columbia, S. C., one sister, Mrs. J.
E. Campbell of Rocky Mount three
brothers, W. T. Dickens of Atkin
son, N. C., and J. J. Green and B.
F. Green of Rocky Mount, and one
grandchild.
Pall bearers for the services in
cluded Thomas Mitchell, Walter
Mitchel, C. E. Reynolds, Charles
Skinner, George H. Miller, and S.
W. Carpenter.
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Father-Son Banquet
Planned For June 20
The date of the father-son ban
quet, sponsored annually by the Y.
M.. C. A., has been set for next
Wednesday evening, June 20, at
6:30 o'clock, according to an an
nouncement made Wednesday by
Secretary J. A. Harper of the local
««Y "
Dr. Maynard Fletcher, Washing
ton, N. C., hospital head will be the
principal speaker, while Edmond
Harding, well known musician and
entertainer, has been secured to en
tertain the group.
J. R. Bennett heads a local com
mittee to make plans for the ban
quet, and the following, men make
up the committee: J. L. Horne, Jr.,
Dr. Roy Norton, E. C. Speight, R.
G. Murchison, and R. M. Wilson.
' The usual custom of permitting
no adult to attend the banquet un
less accompanied by at least one
boy and no boy to attend unless ac
companied by an adult, will prevail
again this year, Mr. Harper said.
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NEW POST OFFICE
l*he new post office department
building on Pennsylvania Avenue
is now occupied by the officials
of the postal service and the old
building, after being renovated and
cleaned, will be the home of the
AAA's branch which mails out
checks to farmers for crop curtail
ment.
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STORK BRINGS
FOUR IN IOWA
Out in lowa it may be dry but
the crop 0 f babies is good. Satur
day night, four—three girls and
a boy—were added to the family
of Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Wycoff, of
Sac City, lowa. The babies and
mother are "doing fine."
Dr. G. M. Swearingen, who de
livered the babies, stated that
this was his first such experience
in the practice of medicine and
that he had been practicing for
twenty years.
One of the girls is the heaviest
and the boy is next in weight.
Their weights range from four
and one quarter pounds down to
two and one half pounds.
The heaviest girl and the boy
are being fed with medicine drop
pers. They are given a specially
prepared food, the doctor said.
The two smaller infants are re
ceiving nourishment through
tubes.
The babies run the family ros
ter of Wycoff children up to
nine, there being five older chil
dren.
Dr. Swearingen reported Mrs.
Wycoffs condition was "satis
factory." The husband and father
is employed as a highway work
er.
Many Approve Location Of Park
In last week's issue of The Herald we called attention of
the public to the vacant lot lying between Cokey Road, Hill,
Tarboro, and George Streets, and what a fine park it would
make, centrally located, convenient to all the people, and
ideally situated for a great open air meeting place for our
citizenship. If Rocky Mount should desire to hold a vesper
service, joined in by all the churches of our city, out in the
open air in the cool of the evening, we do not have a place to
hold such meeting. This is the ideal spot for such a meet
ing.
We understand that this matter was discussed before the
Board of Aldermen, endorsed by the Civitan Club, and a com
mittee appointed to further the movement. The public gener
ally has shown a keen interest in this movement and num
bers of calls have been received at The Herald office about
the matter, giving approval.
WHY NOT EXTEND THE CAMPAIGN TO THE
COUNTRY ALSO?
An intensive improvement campaign will begin in Rocky
Mount next week. The purpose of the campaign is to bring
to the attention of property owners of Rocky Mount the im
portance of preserving their property by giving immediate
repairs so as to prevent untold waste and loss to Rocky
Mount. There are leaking roofs and 50 percent of our build
ings in Rocky Mount, which is in line with the general con
dition of other cities of like character, are in need of paint
ing. A committee headed by R. H. Gregory has been appoint
ed to lead the campaign. This campaign has the endorsement
of all the Civic and Business Clubs of Rocky Mount. The
campaign will serve a two fold purpose, the first purpose is
to preserve our property from waste and to beautify the
city. The second, which is as important as the first, will give
work to many of our citizens who are in need of work and
need employment. We join heartily in this movement and
give it our unqualified endorsement.
While our paper has a large circulation in the city it also
has general circulation in both Nash and Edgecombe coun
ties, and if this campaign be necessary and of benefit to the
city, why not extend this campaign into our country dis
tricts for with the coming of the automobiles and improved
roads the home of the farmer received just as prominent a
place as the home of the city dweller, and an improvement to
a farm house really is more noticeable than an improvement
in the city.
The Valley of Virgina is recognized as being one of the
most highly developed country sections in the United States
and is one of the show places of the country. In that section
of the country not only are the dwellings painted but the
barns and fences are painted also.
HOPKINS DOES NOT APPROVE OF THE SALES TAX
Mr. Harry L. Hopkins, Federal Relief Administrator,
speaking in Raleigh and at the University commencement,
stated: "I believe firmly that w eshould meet relief expen
stated: "I believe firmly that we should meet relief expen
ditures out of taxes, not from bond issues. As to the form
sales tax and further burden on property. I do not believe
that the British dole system ever would be tolerated in this
country, but some of it's features might be better than our
present plan."
Mr. Hopkins does not favor the sales tax even as an emerg
ency measure, yet North Carolina is seeking through some
of it's agencies to make the gross sales tax permanent.
North Carolina advertises itself as being one of the leading
states of the Union. How can we boast of such leadersihp
when North Carolina is the only state in the Union that
seeks to support itself by the gross sales tax, save the state
of Mississippi, which has in the past supported itself from
the backs of little picaninnies picking cotton. Let us hope
that the Governor will assert his leadership and find some
other source of taxation rather than the gross sales tax.
Our schools have been supported from the beginning of this
nation without the gross sales tax, up until one year ago,
or thereabouts. Because we have received aid for one year
and a half from this unfortunate source, does it mean that
we shall have to continue to carry this body of death ?
FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS MUST AID
Rocky Mount is beginning its home remodeling campaign.
Some of our people are fully able to remodel their homes
without borrowing money. Others, before they can remodel,
will have to secure small loans. Rocky Mount has the money,
either in banks or held by citizens. For this campaign to be
a success our people must b e able to secure small loans. No
bank was ever broken by small loans through all this de
pression. We do not know of a single failure of an Industrial
Bank that operated independently. May we not urge it upon
those who control and direct the financial resources of our
city to join heartily in this movement and give the financial
support where they can possibly do so.
DRAWBRIDGE KEEPER
EMPLOYS UNIQUE PLAN
FOR CATCHING FISH
Kinston, June 9.—8. F. Gurgan
us, keeper of a Norfolk Southern
railroad drawbridge near here,
caught many shad during the re
cent season.
Every time a shad entered his
net it rang a bell.
Gurganus did not have time to
look after the net regularly, so he
tied a string to its center. The
string was attached to a dinner
bell in his home a short distance
away.
Whenever the bell rang a mem
ber of his family would notify Gur
.ganus. "There's a fish in the net,"
he would be told.
"I had a good season," he said to
day. "I took no few fish from the
net to augment my depression sal
ary. You can't down a man who
uses his head and is a Christian,"
ATTEND FINAL RITES
FOR MISS M'CRAW
Among the Rocky Mount friends
and admirers of Miss Nannie Wig
gin McCraw who attended final
rites held for the popular young
woman in Wilmington on Tuesday
afternoon were the following from
this city: Mrs. T. E. Marshall, Miss
Louise Marshall, Mrs. Niblock,
Miss Annie Young, Mrs. L. W. Kor
negay, Miss Lillie Mclntyre, Mrs.
W. G. Weeks, Mrs.. Calena Broth
ers, Mrs. H. J. Browder, and others,
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MRS. F. D. R. TRAVELS
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, in
the first fifteen months of her hus
band's term of office as president,
has traveled 33,000 miles through
28 states and two countries. Her
travel record is unprecedented. ,
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Poland bars films of three Am
erican companies.
PARAGRAPHS
PROBLEMS AT
Carol's Mistress
Offers To 'Abdicate 9
Rumania's Uncrowned Queen
Says She Loves King Too
Much To Endanger
His Life
Bows To Dictatorship
Bucharest.—Mme. Lupescu, Ru
mania's uncrowned queen, has of
fered to "abdicate" if King Carol
so desired.
The king, who once went into
exile for the sake of his glamorous,
red-haired mistress, returned the
answer that every one who knows
him expected—a categorical refus
al of the offer.
At midnight a courier left Mme.
Lupescu's villa in Bucharest with a
letter for Carol, who is at Sinaia,
80 miles away.
In the leter Mme. Lupescu said
that she loved Carol too much to
endanger his life or his throne,
and if Carol considered it better
for Rumania and the dynasty that
she should leave the country, then
she would do so.
Instead of accepting this offer,
Carol began negotiations with the
iron guard organization (which has
sworn to kill Mme. Lupescu), as
well as with leading officers in his
army.
The king stated that he was
ready to meet the demands of this
group of patriots His
conditions, however, were that the
iron guard should drop their cam
paign against Mme. Lupescu, while
he in return would grant their de
mand for a stronger military rule.
In effect, this means that the
king is willing to embark on a
military dictatorship.
Whatever the outcome of the
present crisis, Bucharest is sure of
one thing, and that is that Carol
will not forsake Mme. Lupescu, and
that Princess Helen (the king's
divorced wife) will never return
to take the place of .the uncrown
ed queen—Magda Lupescu.
27 NOW ON DEATH
ROW AT PRISON
Three convicted murderers
brought up from Cumberland
County has set a record at the
State Prison in number on
Death Row. The total number
now waiting death is 27. The for
mer record for Death Row was
25.
The Cumberland murderers,
which arrived at the State's Pri
sos Sunday, are all Negroes, and
their names are: Busted McLeod,
Vander Glover, and Houston Mc-
Millan. They were sentenced to
die July 16 and 17 but entered
notices of appeal which automat
ically stay execution dates.
They are the first persons sen
tenced to death in Cumberland in
23 years.
Ossie Smith, Northampton
County Negro, is scheduled to
die Friday for murder. Indica
tions are that he will not re
ceive clemency.
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NRA UNION KICKS
The labor union that includes
workers of the NRA is protesting
that the lower paid workers are
reduction of personnel, claiming
the ones threatened with the axe.
Home Loan Banks cut rate to
4 per cent for member banks.
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SPEEDING DROUGHT RELIEF.
TO SPEND HALF-BILLION.
CONGRESS KEPT AT WORK.
TflE WAR DEBT IMPASSE.
G. O. P. STATES PLATFORM.
REPUBLICANS PLAN FIGHT.
ABUSING TELEGRAPH
FRANKS.
ROOSEVELT IS HEAD MAN.
CUBAN TREATY HASTENED.
Relief funds for the drought
stricken areas of the West and
Midwest were assured last week.
More than one-half a billion dollars
will bQ available to alleviate the
suffering caused by the unpre
cedented dry spell and additional
funds will be available if neces
sery.
On the basis of tentative plans »
$100,000,000 will be used for each
of four purposes, as follows: (I)
to buy beef and dairy cattle; (2)
to process cattle and other pro
ducts for relief purposes; (3) to
buy feed for livestock; (4) for
work programs to provide employ
ment for farmers. In addition, $50,-
000,000 will be used to retire sub
marginal lands and for moving the ..
population in North and South Da
kota where crops are n»w beyond
reclamation; $25,000,000 'to buy
wheat, corn and forage seed for
next year; $50,000,000 to expand *
the C. C. C. to take care of the
youth population.
The $100,000,000 to buy beef and
dairy cattle is in addition to the
sums of $150,000,000 already ap
propriated for this purpose in the
Jones-Connelly Act, $50,000,000 for
retiring submarginal lands and re
moving drought- stranded popula
tions is in addition to $25,000,000
already appropriated for that pur
pose.
This is the largest amount ever
contemplated as Federal relief for
any calamity of nature in this
country. Already more than 100,-
000 farmers are being given work
under work programs allotments .
j in seven states. The program will
be extended and will soon include
! twelve or more states. Much of the"
I money is being used in construct
ing wells, canning, soil erosion pro
jects gnd for water pumping facil
ities.
i The early adjournment of Con
| gress was dissirated last week
j when the President let it be known
I that he wanted action on the Wag
! ner Labor and the housing bills*
with intimation that amendments
to the AAA end the oil bill may ba
insisted upon. In the House, the
j program presents no obstacles in
j view of the recent stringent rules
i adopted, which will enable the
| Democrats to put through anything
| desired in their order. In the Sen
| ate, however, the long delay over
I the tariff bill finally passed 57-33,
I indicates something of the time
j that may be required for other con
| troversial measures. Some observ- «.
) ers believe that the long tariff de
bate was inspired in part by oppo
| sition to the labor measure.
j The decision of Great Britain o
j suspend war debt payments pen.d
--j ing some kind of permanent set
tlement brings the whole ques
tion to a new bssis which will re
quire a fresh start if the trouble
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