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The' Rocky Mount Herald VOLUME 1, NO. 50 I Edgecombe Nan Fatally Injured A. B. Parker Loses Life When Automobile Fails To Take Curve Weldon, Dec. 121.—A. B. Parker, 38, of Edgecombe County, was in jured fatally on the highway be tween Weldon and Enfield last night when he lost control of his car on a. curve. Willie Rowe of Whitakers, who was with Parker was qot injured seriously. Parker is believed to have been traveling at high speed. The car knocked down five posts and Hie attached fencing alongside the . road, turned over several times and was demolished practically. Two Wilson men, Luke Lamb and Crowell Williams, who were passing, started to a Rocky Mount hospital with the men but Park er died on the way. It was re ported that Parker and Rowe were returning from a hunting trip along Roanoke River. Funeral services were conduct ed from his home in Edgecombe County today for Mr. Parker. Elder A. B. Denson of the Primitive Baptist Church, was in charge of final services and inter ment followed in Whitakers. Mr. Parker is survived by his widow and two children, Ramon and A. C. Parker, Jr.; two broth era, J. T. Parker, Pinetops chief of police, and Willie Parker of Whitakers, and two Bisters, Mrs. J. H. Morris of Edgecombe Coun v ty, and Mrs. Joel Price of ; v '- Whitakers. ' Imi , "*T' 0 / HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS COMPETE Hf.' JfciV Greensboro, Dec. 14. High school students of the state will be given an opportunity again spring .to ??mplete' in an es say contest in which $175.00 in cash prizes will be awarded, ac ij cording to an announcement made I -here today by David J. White, Chairman of the Keesler Memorial [K Committee. "A similar contest was conduct ed in March of this year in which more than 6 thousand students I pKJticipated," says Mr. White. I f i "The purpose of the contest is to f interest the young people in thrift I and home ownership. Students en- I tering the contest may write upon any subjects pertaining to thrift Hhu or home ownership. Then contest ants, one to represent each of the ten districts of the North Caro lina Building and Loan League, will be chosen to participate in a ■P- state contest by holding elimina m tions first in the schools during March of the coming year, than If by counties and finally by dis tricts. The winner in each dis- II trict will compete for the grand U' y prizes at the State League Con- Pi vention to be held in Winston i * in May or June. The exact date has not yet been designated. 1,. J "The Keesler Memorial fund, under whose auspices this essay contest is conducted, was created several years ago by the family and friend of the late E. L. Kees f ler of Charlotte, pioneer in build ing and loan work in the South, j , Mr. Keesler was for many years Secretary of the Mutual Building and Loan Association of Charlotte, the first association to be organ ized in this state and at present the largest between Washington and New Orleans. For many years Mr. Keesler gave unsparingly of ' his time in developing the build ing and loan business in North Carina. Largely through his in fluence every city, town and ham ? • let in the state is served by a m local association. Mr. Keesler was a vigorous advocate of thrift and home ownership among the masses f the people. The income from the II Memorial which has teen found- II "ed ip his memory is to be used 11 to farther develop these traits among the people of the state If which he loved. This fund is be ll ing used in the schools because it is believed the habits of thrift ■ | and a desire for home ownership should be instilled in the minds || of our young people early in life." 11 Readers, when yon par chase goods advertised in these columns ted the merchants you nw H in J THE HERALD. EATON REID BURIED HERE Well Known Nash Farmer Died Monday Night)— Passing Unexpected Final rites were conducted this morning for Eaton W. Reid, 71T year old Nash County farmer who died suddenly at his home ten miles west of Whitakers Monday night, and interment followed in Pmeview cemetery. Mr. Reid had been in poor health for some months but his condition had not been regarded as "critical." Services were held from the Reid home and Rev. W. O. Ros ser, of Smithfield, former pastor and life long friend of the de ceased, officiated, assisted by Rev. Tom E. Walters, North Rocky Mount Baptist Church pastor. Mr. Reid, one of the most pros perous arid widely known fiarm ers of the county, was more gen erally known as "Bud" Reid. For nearly twenty years he had been a constant member of the Hickory Baptist church. Following hia de parture from his Warren Coun ty home, he had lived in Battle boro and had served as postmas ter there for a brief time. Then he moved to the Hickory community. % Survivors include his widow, two sons, Lowell Reid, Nash County, and Alton Reid, of the State Col lege faculty in Raleigh; one wa ter, Mrs. D. A. Kelly, of Oklaho ma City.; and three brothers, J. P. Reid, Littleton, J. H. Reid, Mil lerton, Okla., and M. M. Reid, of Paris, Texas. Acting as pallbearers were R. W. Stallings, Whitakers; J. M. Cutchin, Whitakers; C. L. John son, Nashville; J. T. Fisher, Bat tleboro; Nero Bass, Red Oak; and D. B. Greene, near Whtakers. Zebulon Road To Be Widened Two Foot Addition To Road Let Tuesday The sixteen foot stretch of road between Wendell and Zebulon, long 6ne of the pet antipathies ol motorists hereabouts, is to bt widened to eighteen feet at an ear ly date. The highway commission let this ;ob Tuesday of this week, and it is understood that work will commence on it at a* very early date. Plans have been made to widen the entire stretch of road between Wendell and Rocky Mount, but it is understood that letting* will be by sections: Wendell to Zebu lon, Zebulon to Spring Hope, and Spring Hope to Reeky Mount. RECOMMENDS NRA Extension of NRA is recom mended by a committee of indus trialists, headed by George A. Sloan, president of the Cotton Textile Institute. The committee realized that there were faults, but that there were compensating vnlues in the extension of codes, and recommended maximum hour and wage provisions, bans on child labor and certain labor provisions iegarded by most manufacturers a s "socially industrially desirable" be continued. / o SAITO'S DENIAL Denying a statement quoting him as saying that Japan would, if necessary, "gobble up Northern China" and "fight both Britain and the United States" for her policies in the Far East Ambas sador Saito admitted that Japan would go ahead regardless of oth ers and, "naturally" would take up arms against armed interven tion. o AIR PLANS CUT Faced by higher prices, the Army General Staff has decided to increase the Army's air fleet by only 300 planes during 1935 instead of the 500 originally in tended. Recently, however, the Army purchased fifty new type two-seater pursuit planes, capable of flying 252 miles a n hour, which is about 100 miles an hour faster than most of its present equip ment. ROCKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1934 Show Need For Port Terminal Raleigh, Another discrimina tion against North Carolina mer chants and shippers who have been getting commodities by water to Norfolk and from there to North Carolin a points by truck or in land water way, has just been called to the attention of state officials here, as a result of the action of principal terminal com panies in Norfolk and Portsmouth in greatly increasing their whar fage rates. This increase in whar fage rates on goods to be deliver ed to either trucks or to bay, riv er or inland waterway carriers is also being pointed to as merely another reason why there should be a public port in North Caro lina, such as the one now being built at Morehead City. According to a notice sent- out by six of the leading terminal companies in Norfolk and Ports mouth, the wharfage rates on all goods delivered to trucks, drays or highway vehicles has been in creased to 5 cents per 100 pounds, with only five days free time, ex clusive of Sundays and holidays, with a storage at 1# cent per 100 pounds for every day exceeding five days up to 30 days. The wharfage charge on goods to be delivered to river, bay or inland waterway craft is fixed at 3 1-2 cents per 100 pounds, with five days free time, with storage charges or 1 cent per 100 pounds after five days up to 30 days. No increase was made in the wharfage charge on goods to be delivered to railroads, and this charge was not given. But accord ing to figures obtained from the office of the Division Freight Agent of the Norfolk and South em Railroad here, the wharfage charge on freight received at Nor folk and Portsmouth and consign ed to railroads, varies from 3-5 of a cent per 100 pounds on specifi ed commodities to 1-2 a cent per 100 pounds on unspecified com modities. So the new wharfage rates charged on goods to be de livered to trucks are ten times the rf tes charged on goods to be de livered to railroads. It has been a well known fact ft>r years that North Carolina has been hog-tied by the railroads on rail rates from Norfolk and Portsmouth. And now the termi nals with the approval of the U. S. Department of Commerce have taken another shot at the truck operators and inland waterway boats, at the expense of the ship pers, by putting these excessive wharfage rates into effect. In fact, many here believe that the railr oa ds are ones back of the _ more to put these excessive wharfage rates into ef fect, in order to compel shippers to use the railroads instead of trucks or inland waterway boats. For the new wharfage charges are from five to ten times as great as those charged shippers who use the railroads. When told of thi heavy in crease in wharfage rates today, Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus said: "This is just another example of how North Carolina shippers are at the mercy of the railroads and terminal companies and will be until North Carolina gets a public port of its own. It is just another argument for the new port terminal at Morehead City." The truck operators interpret this drastic increase in wharfage charges as nothing more than a attempt on the part of the termi nals and the railroads to put them out of business, by increasing the wharfage charges to such a point that shippers cannot afford to ship by truck. Until a few years ago, the wharfage rate on news print paper, used by newspapers in the state, was only 1-2 a cent per 100 pounds. Then three years ago it was increased to a 3 cents per 100 pounds, when delivered to mo tor trucks and now has been in creased to 5 cents per 100 pounds. This means that newspaper pub lishers who formerly paid only from $5 to $lO per carload on newsprint paper phipped by water to Norfolk and by truck from Norfolk to North Carolina; points, must nw pay wharfage charges of from $25 to $5O a carload. "Little America" in Miniated —TnijnwwwwrrtiMn-----' :» G. V. Ancker of Los Angeles has constructed this clever miniature of the Byrd Antarctic expedition and Little America. The ships Jacob Ruppert and Oakland at anchor In the Bay of Whales, an auto gyro, tractor, dog sleds, whales, seals, penguins and men all are there, and are given motion bjr electricity. Smaller Counties Conservative In Finance ■ We notice that the Governor has recently been agitat ing the consolidation of the Counties as an economy meas ure. It has been suggested by some of the articles appear ing in the News papers that the place to begin this is in Camden County and so far as we know this is the only County that could be consolidated s with another * County without inconvenienceing the people as their Court House is only 3 miles from Elizabeth City but even this we could not recommend as an economy measure because it is great ly known by all that are the least versed in the State and Co unty finances, that the finances of the small Counties are in much better shape than those of the larger Counties. The great mistakes in Governmental expenditures have been much greater in the big Counties than in the small er Counties, as tha,smaller Counties have been generally conservative with the exception of four or five Counties. The Counties are generally created for the convenience of their people. As has been suggested by "Clark's Comments" in the Greensboro News, the Governor in his recent vis it to Washington must have come under the influence of the Brookings Institution which has offices almost front ing the President's grounds in Washington and which played a big role during Mr. Hoover's reign. Since Mr. Roosevelt has come into power we haven't heard much from the Brookings Institution. It is generally known that the consolidation of the Counties, will not make fewer of fices but more offices. Our impression is that the recent consolidation of the Relief Department has not done away with a single office holder. THE PAYMENT OF SOLDIER'S BONUS I It appears now that there will be some kind of Legisla tion introduced in the next Congress to pay or partially pay the Soldier's Bonus, which is represented by adjusted compensation certificates. We have never seen any good reason why these certificates should not be paid as the Government has already recognized them as it's obligation. They have been put in the form of adjusted compensa tion certificates and negotiable just like Government bonds. The payment of these certificates creates no new obligation of the Government, and it would put money into circula tion which is so much needed throughout the entire Coun try/We are not criticizing the stand of the President as the President is trying to bring recovery and health to every body, but we cannot see why any Senator or Representa tive would oppose the payment of the Bonus. HIGHWAY PROTECTIVE LEAGUE According to figures released by the Revenue Depart ment more than half of the taxes paid in the entire State are paid on license taxes on automobiles, sales taxes on same and gasoline. There are many, many thousands of people in the State who own nothing but an automobile and yet the Highway Protective League, which seems to be George Ross Pou, it's executive Secretary, contends that all of this money should be put right back on the ground in laying out new roads and the repairing of old roads. It even asks that an amendment should be put in the Constitution prohibiting the revenue derived from au tomobiles and gasoline to be used for any other purpose than to be put back on the ground in roads. They do not care anything about the education of our children or the support of the State's Institutions, if the statement issued by Mr George Ross Pou, it's executive Secretary, is true. GERMANY HAS ARMED FORCE Paris. —According to reports. Germany will have in 1933 a mil itary force of 5,500,000 men avail able for action on a few days' notice. HOARDING DECREASES Currency circulation at the be gining of December was $5,548- ,797,000, but below that of the pre vious year Confidence in banking institutions, it is said, has caused a decline in money in circulation and indcates lessened hoarding of currency. PROPAGANDA The Federal Trade Commission continues to disclose activities of utility plants in conducting propa ganda against public and munic ipal ownership and operation. It has conducted a six-year investi gation of gas and electric groups. NAVAL FLIERS Advocating a naval air service of 1,910 airplanes by 1940, Rear Admiral Ernest J. King, of the Bureau of Aeronautics, urged a five year building program. Funds for tha first year are available and, upon completion, the Navy wil have 1,193 airplanes. PARAGRAPHS ON NATIONAL PROBLEMS AT WASHINGTON Mrs. Blount Is Taken At Home Local Woman, Wife of J. D. Blount SuccumJbs—Funeral Thursday Mrs. Maude Howerton Blount, practically an invalid for five or six years at her Hill Street home here, succumbed at her home late Tuesday night of heart trouble. Friends of the family said today they noticed that she apparently had taken a turn for the worse about a week ago. Mrs. Blount, a 48-year-old na tive of Halifax, had lived in Roc ky Mount for a considerable time, and was known for her fortitude in carrying on despite her infirm ities. Until she was bedridden some years ago Mrs. Blount had been prominent in the Methodist church activities in this city. Survivors include her husband, J. D. Blount, local wholesale mer chant, one daughter, Mrs. Dor othy B. Hayes, city, three step sons, Lyman, Herman F. and Wil mer Blount, also of Rocky Mqunt, and three sisters, Mrs. Job Tay lor, Roanoke Rapids, Mrs. D. M. Faison, Brooklyn, N. Y., and Miss Essie Howerton, city. The funeral will be conducted at No. 632 Hill Street, the home, Thursday morning at 11 o'clock, with Rev. George W. Perry in charge of the services. Burial fol lows in Pineview. Active pallbearers will be J. A. Rosembloon, Dr. S. Walter Staley, Dr. C. T. Smith, Tom A. A vera, I L. M. Morris, C. W. Coghill, Edi Jones and Juliua Thigpen, all of. this city. The deceased was well known for her high Christian character and bravery in times of suffer ing. She belonged to the First Methodist church here. PRESIDENT STRESSES NEED FOR MORE FARM MARKETS "You and I know," said Presi dent Roosevelt in a message to the sixteenth annual convention of the American Farm Bureau Fed eration at Nashville, "that the year now ending has been one of; significant accomplishment for I agriculture. Despite the worst j drought of record, farm income is running about a billion dollars above la«t year. "All of us would like to see an even larger increase in 1935 but we know that this cannot come un less, in the first place, industrial production increases sufficiently to expend the market for farm prod ucts; unless, in the second place, some of our export trade is paid for by mcieased imports; and un less, in the third place, agricul ture continues to adjust the to tal production to the market that actually exists. "To fulfill these three require ments, I ask a continuation of the splendid support you have so un selfishly given in the past. I wish very much that it were possible for me to be with you today." o WINKED? A document from the files of a prominent arms company, written by a sales manager in 1928, and produced before the munitions in vestigating committee, declared thatthe State Department was "willing to shut their eyes to small graft" in Latin America. . o BYRNS IN LEAD Support of Representative Byrns, of Tennessee, by the twen ty-three members of the House of Representatives from Pennsylvan ia, was generality taken last week to indicate his election as Speaker. o CHEAP INTEREST Treasury financing has been es pecially successful recently. Last week a $75,000,000 offering of 182-day bills was oversubscribed more than four times at a rate equivalent to 0.21 per cent inter est per annum. Richbe'" „- ■ -»pak ne«- $l.OO PER YEAR BILLION FOR PUBLIC WORKS TO ATTACK DEPRESSIONS ENDING WAR PROFITS TO DRAFT ALL RESOURCES UTILITIES MAKE NO PEACE PRESIDENT DIVIDES POWER MEN WAIVING NEUTRAL RIGHTS MAY KEEP U. S. OUT OF WAR Creation of a ten-billion dollar fund, to be spent on public works, is suggested by the National Re sources Board as a measure to prevent future depression by cre ating employment when private construction declines. The plan provides a six-year program, to be revised annually, and to be executed to counteract depression trends, or as part of a continu ed scientific development of our natural resources. This peace-time "general staff" would lay down a program for the wise use of the nation's soil, water and mineral resources, in cluding the systematic elimination of unproductive lands from agri cultural use, orderly development of power, water supply and trans portation uses of rivers, reduction of losses by floods and erosions, prevention of wasteful mineral production and increase the acre age of lands available for poppu lar recreation. These ends must be stated briefly because our lim ited space does not permit ex tended explanation. Pointing out that public wdrka expenditures by Federal, State and local governments during the decade between 1921-1930 was around $34,000,000 the board es timated that a similar amount, at least, would be spent during the next decade, but, without suggest ing any rate of annual expendi ture, said that extension of public works into new lines, and expan sion of all undertakings to the reasonable possibilityy of needful public service, would entail an expenditure of around $105,000,- 000,000 in the next twenty or thirty years. Whether five billion dollars a year is too much for the nation to spend for roads, parks, sewers, public libraries, good housing and other facilities is a question hat must be answered, says the board in the light of future develop ments touching the national in come, unemployment and popular demands for pleasure and protec tion. Remarking that "the time has come to take the profit out of war" President Roosevel announc ed his intention of seeking suit able legislation a nd set up a com mittee, headed by Bernard M. Baruch, who served on the War Industries Board, created by Pres ident Wilson in 1918. Assis ing will be Gen. Hugh S. Johnson. The profits are to be removed, it is planned, by completely mobilizing the nation, drafting money, indus try and munitions, as well as men. It has been well known for years that both the Army and Navy have such a plan for application to any future war. The idea is to control the essential resources of the nation by a War Board with great regulatory power to pre vent the misuse of anything need ed for the conflict. In addition, through fixed prices, allocation of material and labor transportation, fuel and general laws to prevent profiteering it is planned to pre vent the wild, unward surge of prices even in anticipation of war. The President's purpose was announced in the wake of revel ations before the Senate Muni tions Investigating committee but it follows considerable thought along the same line. President Wilson, Harding and Coolidge en dorsed the Baruch plan and Pres ident Hoover's War Policies Com mission drafted a complete set of legislation to effect its purpose. Once on the statute books tha law for complete national mobili zation will, in the opinion of mil itary men, make this country page four)