The Rocky Mount Herald
yOLUME 2, NO. 1
War Veterans
Meet Friday
The World War Veterans of
Nash and Edgecombe Counties,
will hold a meeting in th e Record
er's Court room in Rocky Mount,
on Friday night, January 18th at
eight P. M. All World War Vet
erans ar e urged to attend, as there
will be several important matters
taken up of interest to the veter
ans, including the Bonus.
There will b e several speakers
on the program with Hon. I. T.
Valentine of Nashville, making th e
principal address. Ther e will be
appropriate music for th e occa
sion under th e direction of Mr.
Dewey Wallace. A committee
from the Coleman-Pitt Post of
the American Legion composed of
B. E. Fountain, Chairman, Rob
ert Denis and Dewey W. Wallace
are in charge of making arrange
ments for the occasion. The meet
ing will be presided over by
J. W. Drake, Commander of the
local post of the American Le
gion.
Nashville Man
. Dies Suddenly
Prominent Citizen i And Former
Educator Will Be Laid To Rest
Tuesday In Nashville
Nashville, Jan. 14. J. I. White
prominent local citizen and for
mer educator, succumbed unex
pectedly here early today after
about two weeks illness. H e had
apparently been improving when
he was stricken about four o'clock i
this morning.
The final rites will b e conduct-'
«d at 2:30 Tuesday afternoon from
the Baptist church with Rev. Sam
T. Habel, Jr., Enfield Baptist
pastor, who formerly had the
Nashville pastorate* officiating.
Interment will follow in a local
cemetery. Pallbearers had not
been named today.
Mr. White, who had reached the
ag e of 54 years, had lived with
his family in this plac e for some
fifteen years, and had taught
school in several North Carolina
towns, Nashville and Whitakers
among them, for about twenty
years. He was a native Tar Heel,
having been born in Taylorsville.
Th e deceased had recently been
employed in Zebulon, and before
that had worked her e as a book
keeper for a motor company.
H e belonged to the First Bap
tist church here, and has been ac
tive in Junior order work. H e was
a member of the local Junior Or
der council as well as the Zebu
lon Kiwanis club.
Mr. White went to Wake Forest
college.
H e leaves his wife, formerly
Miss Quint May Copeland, of
Ahoskie; a n d two children, J. Ivey
White, Jr., and A 1 Copeland White.
HEAVY DEMANDS FOR
KNEE ACTION FORECAST
Amplyfying his announcement
of prices of the two new Chevro
let lines for 1935, W. E. Holler,
general sales' manager of the
Chevrolet Motor Company, today
stated that enclosed knee action,
optional on the Master De Luxe
models, will be available at an ad
ditional charge of S2O list. Mr.
Holler predicted that at least 90
per cent of persons buying Mas
ter models in 1935 would exercise
the option and obtain kne e ac
tion at the small price difference
involved.
Mr. Holler emphasized th e fact
that knee action will b e built in
at th e factory, not installed by
th e dealer.
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MAIL LARGER
While the volume of Christmas
mail proved larger than usual, the
receipts were about the same, in
dicating that many persons sent
their greeting cards by third class
mail.
Readers, when yon pur
chase goods advertised
in these oolumns tell the
i merchants yon saw it ki
THE HERALD.
Masonic Bodies
Install Officers
Supper and Business Meetings To
Be Held Her e Tomorrow Night
Rocky Mount chapter No. 57
Royal Arch Masons ar e planning
to install their newly-elected of
ficers at a business meeting to
morrow night at 7:30 o'clock at
the Masonic temple, officials an
nounced today.
The new high priese will be L.
D. Johnson, who succeeds W. F.
Cross; W. H. Lancaster, king,
succeeding Mr. Johnson; John In
nes, scribe, succeeding Mr. Lan
caster, and G. T. Matthews, secre
tary, succeeding George Robbins.
R. S. Graham was reelected
treasurer.
The supper meeting will start
promptly at 6:30 o'clock, it wa s
announced, whil e th e regular con
vocation will get underway at
7:30 o'clock.
MRS. A. W. ARRINGTON
IS CLAIMED BY DEATH
Pioneer Resident of Rocky Mount
Succumbs Following a pro
longed Illness
Mrs. Bettie Hammond Arring
ton, 84, wife of th e lat e Alfred
Williams Arrington, died at the
home of her son, Charles H. Ar
lington. Death came after a per
iod of several months of illness.
Funeral services were held from
the Falls Road residence at 11
o'clock Saturday morning. Burial
followed in the family plot in
Pineview cemetery,
Mrs. Arrington is survived by
her son, C. M. Arrington: - two
grandsons, John L. Arrington, 11,
and C|harles H. Arlington,, Jr.;
two setp-children, Mrs. E. G.
Johnston and B. B. Arrington, and
two great nieces, Mrs. Hyman L.
Battl e and Miss Emily Braswell,
all residents of this citjj.
Mrs. Arrington was a native of
Franklin County where she was
born September 28, 1850, th e dau
ghter of the late Col. and Mrs.
Gray W. Hammond. In 1851, Mrs.
Arrington moved with her parents
to Rocky Mount, then located at
the Falls, and later in 1859, after
the Wilmington and Weldon rail
road had been constructed, Mrs.
Arrington moved with her family
to th e present city.
May 16, 1888 she was married
to A. W. Arrington, who preced
ed her in death 16 years'ago.
For 40 years sh e was treasurer
and a leader in the missionary
work of th e First Methodist church
here.
NEW FORD V 8
ACME OF COMFORT
Ford is introducing in the 1935
models "the extended springbas e
with comfort zone seating." This
basic Ford development greatly
improves riding comfort while re
taining "free action on all four
wheels."
The "better ride" qualities of
the new car have been develop
ed through what is virtually a
revolutionary change in the seat
ing arrangements, plus an entirely
new principle in "springbase," de
sign. The seats have been for
ward so that all passengers ride
now between the axles. The rear
seat is eight and a half inches
furthrer forward of its position
in the former model, bringing pas
sengers closer to the center of
the car and minimizing the ef
fect of bumps in driving over un
even roads.
ln conjunction with this change,
softer, longer springs have been
provided in an unusual type of
mounting. The front springs, in
creased seven and five-eights in
ches in length, are now mounted
three and five eighths inches in
front of the axle; the new long
er rear springs two and a half
inches further to the rear than
in the former models of the V-8.
The springs have been softened
and their design changed so as
to give almost perfect synchroni
zation with each other. The
leaves have been considerably
widened —modified and tapered fo r
greater flexibility and to eliminate
squeaks.
Pig peddlers bringing animals
into Guilford County without
treating them with anti-cholera
serum hav e caused an outbreak of
hog cholera iij the county.
ROCKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1935
Small Girl Dies
In City Hospital
Was Hurt In Automobile Accident
Near Castalia, Said—Funeral
Tuesday
Ida Mae Jessup, who allegedly
was run into by an automobile at
Castalia this morning, died at a
local hospital about 11:40 today
about an hour after she was ad
mitted. Sh e had a fractured akull
and was unconscious when she was
brought into th e hospital.
Miss Jessup, a thirteen-year
old girl who lives at Castalia,
route, No. 2, wa s playing in the
streets when she was hit by an
automobil e driven by F. W. Lang
ley, of Langleys Cross Roads, ac
cording to hospital reports. It is
understood that th e accident was
unavoidable, as both Mr. Langley
and another witness testified that
he (Langley) could not stop the
machin e in tim e to keep from hit
ting th e girl.
She W as trying to recover a
ball with which she had been
playing when she was struck, it
was shown.
Miss Jessup leaves her father
and mother, Mr. and Mrs. E. D.
Jessup, her sisters, Gladys and
Ruby, and two brothers, N. L.
and E. D., Jr., all of Castalia,
route No. 2.
Funeral services have been set
for Tuesdajf* afternoon at Upper
Town Creek church in Edge
combe County, and burial will fol
low there. Th e time of the rites
had not been determined and the
pastor was not known here this
afternoon.
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COAST LINE EMPLOYE IS
TAKEN ILL ON TRAIN
Harry Duty, Atlantic Coast
Line passenge* ponductor who
lives in this city, was taken ill
on duty last night, and was re
moved from th e southbound pas
senger train last night at Weldon
and brought to a local hospital
for treatment.
Reports from the hospital to
day indicate that he has kidney
colic, but h e is expected to yecov-
STOCKHOLDERS FILE
RESTRAINING ORDER
Would Prevent Officials of the
Schotland Mills From Remov
ing Any of Firm's Assets
A temporary restraining order'
to prevent officials of th c Schot
land Mills, incorporated, silk and
rayon weavers of this city, from
removing any assets of th e firm
was onffiel e in Nash County to
night.
The order was signed by Judge
N. A. Sinclair. and requires that
firm executives make an aswer
to complaints in Nashville on
January 28. Names of mor e than
60 local preferred stockholders
appear on the complaint.
In the petition and complaint
filed by the attorneys, th e stock
holders charged that the corpora
tion, according to audits that have
been made show that the corpora
tion has been incompetently man
aged and that its assets have been
diverted to th e use of its officers
without regard to the rights of
th e stockholders.
Among other items, the follow
ing is alleged: That the audit for
th e period ending April 30. 1932,
shows that the officers of th e
corporation are indebted to the
corporation in the amount of more
than $110,600 as follows. Due by
A. Schotland, $80,782.24; due by
George Schotland, $9,502.28; to
tal due, $110,688.52.
It is charged that th e Schotland
family, with A. Schotland as pres
ident and treasurer; his wife, Rae
Schotland, as its vice president,
and son, Georg e Schotland, as its
secretary, constitute th e board of
directors.
Th e plaintiffs charge further
that all th e voting power in the
company is vested in A. Schot
land, Rae Schotland, and Georg e
Schotland.
TO REPORT SOON
The Communications Commis
sion, which has been investigat
ing the possible merger of tele
graph companies, will make its re
port early in February.
Blessing the Skis at Val Morin
One of tlje most picturesque events of the winter sports season in
the Laurentlans, In Canada, 13 the annual mass of the skis held in the
small Roman Catholic church at Val Morln, when the blessings of the
patron saint of skiers are invoked for the current season. Special per
mission had to be obtained to make this photograph.
Dennis Brummitt,
Student, Patriot — ls
The state has lost one of its ablest officials in the pass
ing,°[,Attorney General Dennis Brummitt. He was able
upright and a student of the law, and his legal opinions
generally stood the test before the Supreme Court of our
btate and the Supreme Court of the United States.
He was a frfend of the people, and jealous of their rights;
and the people recognized him as their friend and called
him to serve them— as mayor of his home town, Oxford—
representative in the legislature three terms—Speaker of
the House—and for the past ten years Attorney General.
They would have elected him to any other office in North
Carolina to which he had aspired.
It was said of the late Chief Justice Clark, who was wont
to sound the warning to the people when their rights were
in danger of being taken away from them, that the people
felt safe and could sleep well when Justice Clark sat on the
house top the warning of danger, and this can
be truly said of our late Attorney General Brummitt. The
people felt safe when he sat on the house top and gave
the warning.
More credit is due him for the defeat of the last proposed
ly. C. Constitution, which was up for adoption in 1934, than
any other North Carolinian. He read and studied the so call
ed document, and warned the people that if this proposed
constitution should be adopted, the people would be left
without local self-government and under dictatorial rule in
the state. The people heard him gladly, and Israel sought
their tents.
There was a concerted effort, well-organized, during
the Gardner Administration to remove the control of the
government from the people. When democracy was facing
this severe test the depression was on, and poverty stalked
about throughout the land. The Attorney General, with a
back bone like the top mast of a ship, stood out, sounded
the warning, when others holding equally as prominent
positions weakened under executive pressure.
He was a Democrat of the Jeffersonian type, believed in
rule of the people and did not fear to trust the people when
they were informed.
He believed in education, and stood for the right of ev
ery child to receive an education from a teacher who re
ceived a fair salary.
SPEED IS CAUSE OF MOST ACCIDENTS
The agitation to legislate an auto drivers license law
and an increase in the Highway Patrol with the hope of les
sening the serious accidents on our highways will not give
the desired results until the patrol is stopped from acting
in the capacity of a revenue collecting agency,—until its
members are relieved of their duties as parade leaders and
left to the discharge of their duties of making travel more
safe on the roads. The blame should not be attached to the
patrolmen, but to those who are ordering them from their
duties.
Excessive speed is the cause of nine tenths of all the
accidents, and unless something is done to curtail this, the
license feature will do no good. It should not be a revenue
measure. The patrol should not be a revenue agency. The
department of Revenue has agents almost without num
ber to do this work—and then every merchant and shop
keeper in the state in addition thereto.
COOLEYS MOVE TO
WASHINGTON, D. C.
Congressman Harold D. Cooley
his wife and two children, Hattie
Davis and Roger, left Sunday af
ternoon for Washington, where
Mr. Cooley took his seat as Fourth
District representative Wednes
day morning when the House con
vened.
The Cooleys are living in the
Wardman Park Hotel for the time
They have leased a private home
and will mov e sometim e in May.
In a North Carolina caucus
Cooley joined the state delega
tion in urging extension of Home
Owners Loan Corporation service.
Th e Fourth District representtave
also went on record favoring im
mediate payment of the soldiers'
bonus.
R. M. SANFORD
REPRESENTS SWIFT
Mr. R. M. Sanford, is Sales
manager for Swifts Fertilizer in
Rocky Mount shis season. This is
the third season that Mr. San
ford has represented this Company
in Rocky Mount. His warehouse
is located on Gay Street. This
Company is on e of the largest fer
tilizer dealers in this section, this>
being the 50th anniversary in their
manufacture and sale of fertili-*
zer.
TRANSPORTATION
A proposed amendment to the
Interstate Commerce Commissions
powejs would make it virtual
ruler over land, sea and air
transportation in so far as rates
and allied matters are concerned.
J. L. Thorne, Sr.
Taken By Death
Well Known Local Resident Suc
cumbs in Hospital After
Brief Illness
J. L. Horne, Sr., of No. 215
South, Grace on e of the old
est residents of Nash County, died
in a local hospital here late last
night following a brief period of
critical illness. H e was 85 years
of age.
Funeral services were conduct
ed from th e First Methodist church
on Thursday morning at eleven
o'clock, with the Rev. George W.
Perry, pastor, in charge. Burial
followed in the family plot in
Pineview cemetery.
Mr. Horne is survived by one
daughter, Mrs. O. L. Thompson,
with whom he made his home, and
two sons, J. L. Horne, Jr., of this
city and C. L. Horne, of Smyrna,
Georgia.
Mr. Horn e was stricken extre
mely ill on Tuesday morning and
was rushed immediately to a lo
cal >hospital where he was given
treatment for uremic poisoning
but h e failed to respond and his
death cam e last night shortly be
fore midnight.
Nativ e of Edgecombe
Mr. Horne was the son of J. L.
Horne and Elizabeth Mercer
Horne. H e was born in Edgecombe
County inhhet e Temperance Hall
section and spent his life in East
ern Carolina, wher e he*was known
to a wide circle of friends.
For a number Of years h e was
engaged in insurance business
here, a representative of the Mu
tual Bertefit Company id East
ern Carolina. H e retired from the
insurance field about twenty
years ago and since thaty time
devoted his attneion to farming
in Nash County.
He was a member of the First
Methodist church here. •
Until the first of the week Mr.
Horne had appeared to be in,
good health and in his customar
ily cheerful mood. His fatal at
tack came upon him suddenly and
th e acut e illness and infirmities of
his age contributed to his death
late last night.
Pallbearers for the services,
close friends of the family were R.
A. King, M. P. Dawson, W. C.
Divine, E. G. Johnston, K. D. Bat
tle, W. L. Thorp, Robert Wimber
ley and John M. Daughtry.
Honorary pallbearers were Dr.
E. P. Hines, Dr. George L. Wim
berley, Dr. L. W. Kornegay, J. C.
Braswell, B. H. Dawson, Millard
F. Jones, Dr. M. R. Braswell, N.
B. Dozier, L. D. Harper, R. M.
Wilson, C. S. Taylor, H. H. Zer
bach, L. E. Hart, W. S. Wilkin
son, R. S. Gorham, George A.
Wilkinson, J. L. Suiter, M. D.
Munn, C. H. Arrington, W. C.
Woodard, J. J. Wells, T. W. Cole
man, W. H. Horne, J. E. Fon
vielle, A. B. Aycock, L. L. Grave
ly, W. E. Moore, J. A. Harper
and C. B. Braswell.
FOR BIGGER ARMY
Secretary of War George H.
Dern, in his annual report, recom
mends increasing the Army by
about 2,000 officers and 50,000 en
listed men. This would make its
strength 14,000 commissioned of
ficers and 165,000 enlisted men.
MAILING CHECKS
The AAA is grinding out
checks at the rate of $1,500,000 a
day in paying corn-hog farmers
the last half of $150,000,000 being
distributed. Second checks have
been mailed to about one-fourth
of the 1,527,000 producers.
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1 SUPPORTS INQUIRY
After a conference with Presi
dent Roosevelt, Senator Nye indi
cated that the Administration
would support continued investiga
tions by the Senate committee
making an inquiry into the muni
tions industry.
INCREASES
The annual report of Secretary
of Commerce Roper shows in
creases in ten major economic in
dustries but one should remember
that the report closes with the end
of the fiscal year on June 30th,
1934.
SI.OO PER YEAH
A. A. F. Seawell
Attorney-General
Governor Ehringhaus Fills Vacant
cy Caused By Death Of Attor*
ney General Dennis G. Brum*,
mit
Announcement was mad e in Ra*
leigh Wednesday night that Gov*
ernor Ehringhaus has appointed
to th e position of Attorney Gener
al to fill the unexpired term of
th e late Dennis G. Brummitt Hon.
A. A. F. Seawell, prominent at
torney of Sanford. Mr. Seawell
has for sometti e been connect
ed with the offic e °f the attorney
general, and besides abundant
ability for this high position ho
has had considerable valuabl e ex
perience in the routin e duties of
the office.
Bonus Would
Bring Huge
Sum To N. C,
63,926 N. C. Vets Would Get $34,-
622,162, If Bonus Wer e Paid
Representative Wright Patman,
Legionnaire of Texas, has recent
ly published revised figures on
the manner in which th e cash Cer
tificate money, if paid now, would
be distributed among the veter
ans of th e various State. These
figures hav e been declared by offi
cials of the Veterans' Administra
tion in Washington to b©, as near
ly correct as it is possible to make
them. These figures show that 63,-
926 World War Veterans in North
Carolina ar e certificate holders and
that th e value of such certificates
less outstanding loans and inter
est now is $34,622,162.00.
Can anyone doubt the material
benfcfit which would accru e to ev
ery clothing store, grocery store
department store, garage, gas
station, theatre, doctor's office—
to every merchant and business
man, if and when the sums set
forth are released to the 63,926
veterans in North Carolina?
INCREASE IN TOBACCO
EXPORT TRADE NOTED
Shipments For First 11 Months of
1934 Amounted to 412,357,771
Pounds, Report Shows
Washington, Jan. 11. —Appre-
ciable improvement in th e tobac
co export trade of the United
States during 1934 is shown in
a survey for the first 11 months
of the year just completed by the
tobacco division, department of
commerce.
Shipments abroad of leaf tobac
co from the United States in the
January-November period of 1934
amounted to 412,257,771 pounds,
valued at $116,266,345. Thes e to
tals compared with 376,368,028
pounds, valued at $65,786,571, in
the corresponding period of 19-
33 and 379316,005 pounds, valued
at $00,822,572, in the correspond
ing period of 1932, stati's.ics show.
Exports of leaf tobacco during
the first 11 months of 1934, it
is pointed out, represented on
ly 82.55 per cent of those for the
first 11 months of 1929 and ap
proximately 80 per cent of the for
eign shipments in the correspond
ing period of 1930, but increased
9.54 per cent compared with the
11 months period of 1933 and 8.-
68 per cent compared with the
corresponding period of 1932.
Increased exports of leaf tobac
co from th e United States during
th e fi rst 11 months of 1934, the
report states, may be attributed
very largely to the depletion of
foreign stocks of American tobac
co in most European countries,
and th e policy of almost day-to
day buying which was carried out
by many manufacturers during
1932 and 1933, it was stated.
PHILCO EXHIBITS
S6OO RADIO
The Rocky Mount Furniture Co.
has displayed Philco's SOOO.OO ra
dio. It is the most expensive mod
el built by the Philco Company.®
Only 500 of this model ar e being
made in 1935. The public is invit
ed to hear this r»dio which will
be displayed for the next several
days.