The Rocky Mount Herald
' VOLUME 2, NO. 8
Veterans Plan
Meeting In City
Robert K. Dennis And Committee
Work Oat Details for District
Assembly
Plans for a fifth district Ameri
can legion and Legion -Auxiliary
meeting to be held at the Masonic
Temple here on Friday evening at
.seven o'clock, March 1, werp dia
closed today by the committee on ar
rangements for the gathering which
i« headed by Robert K. Dennis.
Tho session will bring a number
of Legion notables to this city as
well as representatives from the
thirteen posts in the fifth district.
Mr. Dennis said. District Command
eer Jack Lang of Scotland Neck and
Raleigh, and State Commander Hu
bert Olive of Lexington will be the
featured speakers for the occasion,
and a number of local leaders and
1 officials will be invited as guests of
the Legion and Auxiliary.
Supper supplied by Buck Overton
And served by ladies of the East
ern Star will be provided on the
dutch basis for a nominal sum, ac
cording to plans of the committee.
In addition to Mr. Dennis, members
of the group in charge of perfect
ing details of th 0 supper are C. C.
dray, L. B. Aycock, X. A. Cox, A. B.
( Casey and Ben E. Fountain.
The meeting will b e in charge of
J. V. Drake, commander of the
Coleman-Pitt post, who is expected
-to turn the meeting over to Mr.
' Lang shortly after the program is
started. Mr. Drake is in charge of
arrangements for music for the
event.
The district is composed of posts
kere and in Tarboro, Wilson, Enfield,
Nashville, Spring Hope, Weldon,
Scotland Neck, Roanoke Rapids,
Oreenville, Farmville, Littleton and
Middlesex.
We expect that a large represen
tation from each of the posts will
lie present, Mr. Dennis said, and in.
■vitations have been issued to all
the posts to attend. Legion members
. are urged to bring their wives and
their sweethearts.
All white veterans, whether they
are members of the local post or
not, are invited to be present, the
-committee has said. /•
Other details of the arrangements
for the district gathering are ex
pected to be made later.
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MR. AND MRS. OWENS ARRIVE
■i I NSTATES FROM ORIENT
Mr. and Mrs. A. Bingham Owens
and their small son arrived in San
Francisco on FebruarjtJ3 on board
the S. 8. "Hoover," sailing from
China. Mrs. Owens and little Jim
my Braswell Owens came directly
l\ero, having been joined in Rich
r ihond yesterday by her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. J. C. Braswell, while Mr.
Owens remained in Chicago. He
•will make the trip from that point
by motor.
Mr. and Mrs. Owens have return
*ed to the States to make their home
after a residence iq Tientsin, China,
•where Mr. Owens has been district
manager of the Dupont manufactur
ing company's branch for the past
' ton years. He has been transferred
to Wilmington, Delft ware, where he
and his family will make their
home in the future. Mrs. Owens
and Master Jimmy plan to remain
in this city for enextended visit
and they will also visit Mr. Owens'
parents, the Rev. and Mrs. R. Bing
' liam Owens, in Charlotte, before go
ing to Wilmington.
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ERICKSON BEGINS
REVIVAL SERIES
Rev. and Mrs. R. L. Erickson to
day began a special ten-day revi
val at the eity mission. No. 245
Street, after which they
ifeli leave for a northwestern evan
gelistic tour. Other workers will
tak e charge of the mission after
their revival closes on the twenty
eightti of this month.
The public is invited to attend the
yilitaiag meetings of Evangelist
Erickson, who recently opened up
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th e mission here.
Japan asserts U. S. plana ag
gression in th 0 Far East.
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THE HERALD.
District Meeting
American Legion
The District Meeting of the Amer
ican Legion will b e held in Rocky
Mount Friday night March Ist., 19-
35 guests of the Coleman Pitt Local
Post.
It will be a joint meeting of the
Legion and the Womans Auxiliary.
Jack Lang of Farmville is District
Commander and will be present. Al
so State Commander Hubert Olive
of Lexington, N. C., will b 0 pres
ent and deliver an address.
There will be several other dis
tinguished guests, including a num
ber of City Officials.
The fifth District is composed of
Nash, Edgecombe, Wilson, Pitt, Hal
ifax and other counties.
All white World War veterans and
auxiliary members are invited
whether mem b ers of the legion or
not.
A barbecue supper will be served
at 7 P. M. Masonic Temple, Dutch
plan, 50c per plate.
Frank Parker
Buried Tues.
Aged Man Has Heart Attack At
Home—Services Were Held
Tuesday Afternoon
Frank Baker Parker, aged local
man who is known throughout east
ern North Carolina, died Monday at
his home, No. 128.J"Iash Street, of a
heart attack.
Mr. Parker, a native of Edgecombe
County, was one of the older resi
dents of Rocky Mount, and has liv
ed here with his wife,, the former
Miss Effie Brown, and his daughter,
Miss Lola Parker, since 1902.
He was a faithful member of the
Fink -Methodist Church, and was
nearly 68 years old.
Rev. George W. Perry, his pas
tor, held the services Tuesday after
noon at 3 o'clock from th e home,
and interment followed in. the fam
ily plot in a local cemetery.
Mr. Parker had been retired for
about five years. Prior to his retire
ment hte had travelled for a b out 25
years as a salesman for a Lynch
burg, Virginia, firm and was known
throughout this part of the state.
His parents were the late Weeks
Baker Parker and Anna Pitt Par
ker, both of Edgecombe county.
ALCOTT CLASSIC "LITTLE
MEN" ON THE SCREEN
Louisa Alcott's immortal "Little
Men" will come to life on the Cam
eo Theatre screen on Monday and
Tuesday in film version of the clas
sic which has been an outstanding
favorite with readers of three gene
rations.
All of the book's matchless charm
is assertedly recaptured on the
screen, and the cast of "Little Men"
is said to include one of the most
imposing arrays of child and adult
stars ever assembled in Hollywood.
There is Ralph Morgan, distin
guished stage and screen actor, in
the role of "Prof. Fritz Bhaer," men
tor of quaint Plumfield School
around which revolves this deathless
story of New England in the seven
ties. There is lovely Erin O'Brien-
Moore, New York stage luminary, as
"Jo." There are Junior Durkin,
dainty Cora Sue Collin/, and Phyl
lis Fraser; and a list of "lttle men,"
headed by Frankie Darro, David
Durand, and Dickie Moore.
MISS MELTON HEADS
HOME MAKERS CLUB
Miss Sally Melton was elected
president of the Young Girls' Home
Makers club when they met in
weekly session At W. Edgecombe
school. Members of tho home econ
omics department comprise the per
sonnel of the club and officers elect
ed, aside from Miss Melton, include:
Miss Minnie Ruth Griffin, vice-pres
ident; Miss Annie Laurie Ezzell,
secretary and treasurer; Miss Rose
Lee Pittman, newspaper reporter.
The club has as its project for
the present time—the making of
spring dresses.
Members present were:
Misses Jessie Brake, Margaret
and Alta Croom, Annie LaUrie Ez
ze)l, Edna Flood, Minnie Ruth Grif
fin, Sally Melton, Christine Pollard,
Rosa Lee Pittman, Margaret Walk
er and Linda Stacey, the advisor.
Roosevelt signs code for tobacco
mnaufactarisg industry.
ROCKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1935
Weldon Nan
Held Here
Joseph Barnes, Young Weldon Reel
dent, Killed Here in Auto Crash
George Warren, young Woldon
man, was free under a $1,250 bond
today following his arrest in con
nection with an accident on the
Battle b oro highway last night,
which took th e life of Joseph
Barnes, 23, also of Weldon.
The Nash County sheriff's office
reported that Warren was the driv
er of the car which late last night
ran into the back of a car driven
by J. C. Stewart of this city, threw
both Warren and Barnes from the
auto and caused th e death of Barnes
about an hour later in a local hos
pital.
C. L. Johnson, Nash County sher
iff, signed the warrant, which charg
ed manslaughter and reckless driv
ing.
Mr. Stewart, South Rocky Mount
druggist, was reported uninjured by
the impact of the car.
Cause for the wreck was unknown,
although local Nash officers express
ed the opinion that Warren prob
ably was driving at a high rate of
speed. Deputies P. H. Johnson and
J. R. Tanner both were on the scene
last night.
A hearing for Warren has been
set for 10 o'clock Friday morning
before W. 8. Swain. Nash justice of
the peace, here, it has been announc
ed.
Last night's accident marked the
third highway tragedy and the fourth
person killed in Nash and Edge
combe counties since Sunday. Ed
gar Brockwell, well known Raleigh
business man was drowned on Sun
day morning when the car he was
driving failed, to make a curve on
the Leggett's highway in Edgecombe
county and plunged into Swif
Creek, ana Mre. Vann Batehelor, 65,
and her son, William Batehelor, 28,
both of Nash County, were slain
almost instantly early Sunday night
when a hit and run driver struck
them as they stood beside a strand
ed car at Joyner's cross roads in
Nash County. No clue as to the iden
tity of the hit and run driver had
been discovered today b y the au
thorities.
Register Your
Baby Campaign
Raleigh, Fe b . 19, —Wake County
parents are starting their reports
to Washington of the birth of chil
dren born in the county during the
past 12 months. Cards mailed dur
ing the first two weeks of the "Reg
ister Your Baby" campaign show
that 493 children hav e been proper
ly registered.
This is compared with 1,890 chil
dren which were recorded as having
been born in this county during the
year 1933, as shown in the files of
the Bureau of Vital Statistics of the
State Board of Health' in Raleigh.
Parents are urged by Dr. John H.
Hamilton, director of the Bureau,
to send in these cards as early as
possible.
North Carolina had 75,238 births
properly recorded in 1933, and in
complete figures show that 79,350
births had been recorded for 19-
34, by which Dr. Hamilton estimates
that enough more will be added to
make the number of births in the
State last »year 80,000, or more.
With almost a 5,000 increase in
births in 1934 over those in 1933,
as shown by the records, it is be
lieved that North Carolina has the
chance of again taking her place
at the head of the list in b irth rate,
a position held for many years, but
from which she was dislodged last
year by New Mexico, and tied with
Utah for second place.
Complete recording of births is
being urged in the State by the
U. S. Bureau of the Census, the
State Board of Health and the State
Emergency Relief Administraiton.
DOG TRIPS BOY: HE DIES
Chicago.—Enroute to a candy
store with his dog and playmates
Roy Westney, 5, accidentally got
his legs entangled with his dog
and tripped. He fell to the side
walk, fractured his skull and died
immediately.
Washington weather, notably
hot in summer, has been notably
cold thig winter, with the heaviest
snow in years.
So He Won't Spank the Wrong One
William Bortkewicz of Rockford, 111., has discovered a novel method
of meting out the correct punishment for his twin daughters. Once the
wrong one was spanked because the father couldn't tell them apart, so
he decided to have them fingerprinted to prevent a similar mistake. Here
Is Dorothy, left, and Dolores being fingerprinted by Detective Maurice
Herbert
Doughton For Governor
So far there has been no official announcement of any
Candidate for Governor but it is generally believed in this
part of the State that Hon. R. L. Doughton, affectionately
known as Farmer Bob, will be a Candidate, and will prob
ably make formal announcement before a great while. There
has been a feeling in. our State that Mr. Doughton would
probably not run on account of his high position in Wash
ington as Chairman of the Powerful Ways & Means Com
mittee but according to the statement issued out of Wash
ington last Sunday Mr. Doughton was quoted as stating
that if he was not a Candidate for Governor it was his in
tention to retire from Congress after his t\frent-six years of
service in that body. This to our mind clearly shows that
it is the intention of Farmer Bob to be a Candidate for nom
ination for Governor in the next primary.
Should he announce we predict that he will make a most
formidable candidate. Ho is recognized as being one of
the leading farmers of the West and still operates his
farms and he understands the problems that confront the
farmer and this will" make him strong with the farmer
group. His opposition to the gross sales tax will give him
great strength among the merchants and consuming class
of our people. As Chairman of the Ways and Means Com
mittee in Congress he has given leadership in financing
the National Government without a gross sales tax. He is
recognized as one of the leading business men in this
country. „ _ , .
Somis of the papers have stated that Farmer Bob is
seventy-two years old but what of that? Those who know
and have seen him know that he does not appear to be a
day over fifty and it would take an athlete to outwalk him
and there is not a more mentally alert statesman in Wash
ington than Farmer Bob.
SALES TAX NOT NECESSARY
The substitute revenue Bill, which has been prepared
by Representatives McDonald and Lumpkin, shows thought
and research and clearly demonstrates that the gross sales
tax is absolutely unnecessary in North Carolina. While we
are not fully conversant with all the provisions in said
bill we do think that the bill outlines a good working ba
sis and points the way for a revenue bill without the gross
sales tax section, which is so odious to business and to the
great masses of the citizenship of our State.
Whatever may have been the emergency two years ago,
and we doubt th e said-emergency ever existed if the prop
er leadership had been given by the Heads of the Revenue
Department, it is clearly shown now that if it did exist
-there is absolutely no necessity for it's continuance and
we agree most heartily with the statement given out by
Representative Blount of Pitt, that this substitute bill
should receive careful thought and attention by the mem
bers of the General Assembly.
Young Mother
Dies Here
Funeral Services For Mrs. Jane
Hockett Held In Virginia
Mrs. Jane Hockett, 14-year-old
wife of P. J. Hockett of No. 15 West
Elm Street, died early Monday in a
local hospital where she had been
undergoing treatment.
The body was sent to Meadow
View, Virginia, home of the hus
band's parents Tuesday for burial.
Mrs. Hockett is survived by her
mother and stepfather, Mr. and Mrs.
L. B. Sadler, and a twin brother,
James Keeter.
WHOLESALE PRICES UP
Washington.—The general level
of wholesale commodity prices in
1934 showed an increase of 14
per cent over the average for the
year 1933, rising to 74.9 per cent
of the 1926 average.
A. S. Harrison
Passes Monday
Young Local Resident Was Buried
at Weeksville Wednesday
Afternoon
Alva S. Harrison, 27, who lived
at No. 716 Arlington Street, died
Monday night at a local hospital. Kid
ney trouble was given as the cause
of his death.
He ha2 been ill for about two
years, and was brought to the hos
pital Sunday.
Mr. Harrison was buried Wednes
day 'afternoon after services were
held at 2 o'clock from the New Be
gun Methodist Church at Weeks
ville. Burial took place in the church
yard.
The body was taken to Elizabeth
City today.
Mr. Harrison, who was born near
Elizabeth City, moved here with,
his wife last July.
Survivors include his wife, former-
PARAGRAPHS ON NATIONAL
PROBLEMS AT WASHINGTON
Three Persons In
East Lose Lives
Hit And Run Drivers Sought For
..Double Killing Near City
Highway fatalities claimed three
lives in Nash and Edgecom b e coun
ties Sunday with an aged mother
and her son counted among the
slain.
The first accident occurred Sun
day morning about 8:30 o'clock
when Edgar Brockwcll, 45, well
known Raleigh business man, was
drowned in Swift Creek in Edge
combe county when his car failed
to make a curve at a bridge near
Leggetts, the second happen
ed Saturday night about 8:45 in
Nash County .when Mrs. Vann
Batehelor, 65, of this eity and her
son, William Batehelor, 28, of Nash
County, were struck and killed by
a hit-and-run driver at Joyner's
Cross Roads about five miles from
Rocky Mount. Drunken driving al
so was charged.
P. H. Johnson and J. R. Tanner,
Nash County deputies who investi
gated the fatality, said that no clue
as to the identity of the person re
sponsible for the wreck had been ob
tained and that two cars were in
volved in the slaying.
Witnesses Give Details
Tho officers quoted witnesses as
saying that two cars were approach
ing the site where the Batehelor
party was stationed beside the old
Raleigh road where the ear, owned
by Ed Walker, which was bringing
Mrs. Batehelor back to town, had
just been pulled out of a "soft!
shoulder" on th e road where it had
stuck. There was a crash just be
fore the car reached the site and
officers were led to believe that the
car in the rear had struck th e front
car. Whether the front car or the
rear car struck the two persons a
moment later was problematical.
Both mother and son died almost
instantly, it was stated, while the
two automobiles roared away gain
ing speed and swaying in the road.
Deputy Johnson said that drunken
driving would enter into thc charges
because of the zigzag tracks along
the highway.
Funeral services for the mother
and son were held Monday after
noon from the home of the son
with Rev. J. B. Ferrell, Free Win
Baptist minister, in charge. Inter
ment followed in the Boone ceme
tery.
William Batehelor is survived by
his wife and two young children,
while the mother, Mrs. Mollie Bateh
elor, is survived by her husband,
Vann Batehelor, and a number of
other relatives. William Batehelor
was a Nash County farmer.
The Raleigh man, a locksmith,
was enroute to Hamilton to open a
safe when the tragedy occurred. His
car had been submerged in 16 feet
of water and had drifted nearly 20
feet when finally recovered about
throe hours after the accident.
Brother Visits City
Sherwood Brockwell, state fire
marshall and brother of the slain
man, stopped briefly in the city
last night enroute back to Raleigh
after visiting tho scene of the trag
edy.
Working on meager information
obtained from Falker, the driver of
the car which was bringing the
mother back to tho city after a
week-end visit to her son, and Eli
sha Neville, resident of tho coun
ty who was aiding in pulling out
the stranded automobile. Nash of
ficers were endeavoring to discover
any clues as to the possible drivers
of the two racing automo b iles.
TWO ARE BOUND OVER * .
IN DOUBLE HOMICIDE
Tarboro, Feb. 19.—When arraing
ed Monday before Recorder W.
Stamps Howard, James Coflield, Ne
gro, was held for Superior Court
on the charge of killing Frank
Black, Negro, in No. 4 Township last
Thursday night. John Daniel, Negro,
of Whitakers, was also held on a
homicide charge, the victim in this
case also having been a Segro.
:
ly Miss Tlielma Mitchell; one bro
ther, Oswald Hairson, and his pa
rents, Mr. ana MM* J. W. Harri'on,
of Weeksville. He had no children.
He worked with the State highway
department in Tarboro before he
moved to this city.
$l.OO PER
CONGRESS IS BUSY
ABOUT "PREVAILING WAGE
TROUBLES OF LEGISLATORS
NRA REVISION IS HOT
PREPARING FOR WAR
HUGE SUMS FOR DEFENSE
By Hugo Sims, Special Washington
Correspondent
Congress is having a busy {ua%
with many legislative problems be-*
fore it. Among them may be include
ed the $4,800,000,000 work relief bill,
economic security, transportation,
and aviation, national resources, re
newal and revision of NBA, new
powers for the Federal Boserre
Board, the budget, the bonus, th«
munitions inquiry, and the problem
of expanding our foreign trade.
The committees dealing witk
these major issues are working
hard, but progress seems to be dif
ficult and unless some speed ia
shown in the near future, the con
gressmen will be spending the sum
mer in Washington or else rushing
legislation pell-mell in order to ge*
through and go home.
Last week the Work Belief reso
lution vraa being considered by a
Senate committee, which at one
one time voted for the payment of
"prevailing wage seal© on all gov
ernmental projects." This was some
thing of a victory for the Ameri
can Federation of Labor but wa*
short-lived b ecause, upon reconsid
eration, the committee reversed it
self. Labor leaders contended that
when the government set up a wage
scale below that for similar work in
private industry, the effect is to
bring down the scale for private
employment.
The Administration, on the other
hand, insisted that the "prevailing
wage" provision r „uld increase the
cost of the work relief bill by two
or three billion dollars and defeat
the essential purpose of the Pre«-
ident's program, which is to provide
a substitute for the dole. The pro
posed wgaes would be larger than the
relief contribution of the govern
ment but, as the President stated,
"Not so much as to encourage the
rejection of opportunities for pri
vate employment or the leaving of
private employment to engage in
Government work."
It is beginning to be apparent
that some congressmen are begin
ning to worry about the charge
that the legislative body is becom
ing a "rubber stamp" for the Pres
ident. Any observer realizes that
Congress seldom originates legisla
tion. As a result, Administration
leaders in Congress - and, particu
larly in the Senate, are seldom in
a position to talk freely or compre
hensively of legislative plans.
In fact, Administrative steersmen,
sometimes are unaware of the de
tails of legislative plans until they
are worked out by lawyers in the
Executive Department. Moreover, or-
in the Executive Depart
ment, the plans are subject to
change without notice, which would
leave the congressional spokesmen
suspended high and dry in the
event that he attempted
the role of prophet.
Again, ther e seems to be some
friction developing between the.
House and the Senate because the'
former, accepting the gag rule, has
limited debate anl refused to ac
cept any amendments at the Pres
ident's request. Then, the members
become hot and bothered when the
Senate mangles the measure, sends
it into a conference where the House
has to recede or do the fighting.
Some observers professed to see
the President's answer to the "rub
ber stamp" complaint, when he sub
mitted to Congress the framing of
legislation extending the life and
powers of the NRA. While the Pres
ident will urge such an extension,
he intimates that the drafting of
the bill should be left to the wis
dom and judgment of CongTess. In
asmuch as the NBA is under heavy
fire from organized la b or, as well
as a number of other people, the
Congress has been given a "live
wire" to hold.
No reader of current news events
can fail to bo impressed by the
ominous preparations for war
which seems to be undorway in
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