The Rocky Mount Herald
VOLUME 2, NO. 10
District Mef£
Legion Here
Meeting Featured By Speech Of
State Commander Olive. Many
In Attendance
The district meeting of the Amer
ican Legion for this district met
in Rocky Mount Friday, March 1,
at the MMonic Temple, with a large
iaamb«r of members of the legion
.and auxiliary in attendance.
Barbecue and Brunswick stew were
*erved at a banquet at 7:30 P. M.
Representatives from all over the
•district were present, while State
Commander Olive was present, and
made the speech that featured the
evening. '
Mr. Draper, Commander of the lo
cal post, was toastmaster, wlych post
&e filled most admirably, and as a
veteran in this capacity. District
Commander Long, of Farmville, was
present and presided over the pro
gram of district affairs. He made
a short bat very interesting talk.
The speaker of the evening was
Introduced by Legionaire N. Y.
Chambliss. Th e legion went on rec
ord for immediate payment of the
3xmu«.
W. H. Brake
Wins Pecan Cup
W«at Edgecombe Man's Patented
Peeana Score Highest In Nation
At Show
Entering competition with nuts
from .his patented tree in a contest
at IJvade, Texas, the nation's "pe
can capital," William H. Brake,
farmer and dairyman of the Westl
>£dgeeomb e section near this city,
•today had been presented with the
f. coveted Dr. John R. Brinkley cup
for having grown the best Shelling
pecans in the nation.
The local man said he entered fiv e
■pounds of pecans which shell 100
3>er cent whole halves and 62.7 per
cent kernels. The next in competi
tion to the Brake pecan was the
•*OjSTf6ne," grbwii by E. E. Hisein
■of Waco, Texas, and which shelled
53.3 per cent whole halves and 61.4
•per cent kernels.
The Brake pecan, one of the two
varieties in the nation which has
i>een patented, was developed after
25 years of experimentation by* Wil
liam Brake's father, the late H. L.
Brake, and young Brake himself,
•who is a graduate of North Caro
' lina Btat e college.
Mr. Brake said today that his pe
can trees have been distributed into
ten stdtes in the south and west
including numbers of trees which
have been planted in the grov e of
"Vice President John N. Garner at
TJvalde. Other states in which the
Brake pecan has been planted are
as follows: Kentucky, Georgia,
Mississippi, Arizona, Oklahoma,
Booth Carolina, Virginia and Alaba
ma. The trees have been planted
in every section of North Carolina.
'Hie Brako pecan was entered in
the eonteat held in December at
XJvalde, but. it was not until today
that the owner ha dbeen informed
of the 'final outcome of the judging.
A large silver loving cup was dis
patched to him with words of
praise from the pecan growers in
Texas.
Dr. Simpson is a nativ e North
•Carolinian (Jackson ccfcmty) and has
shown interest from time to time in
the development of the Brake pe
can.
MR. AND MRS. RICKS
LOCATE IN GREENSBORO
Mr. and )frs. Henry Ricks and
their little daughter, Judith, have
gone to Greensboro to make their
home. Mr. Ricks has maintained
headquarters there for some time,
•while his wife and daughter have
heen here with her mother, Mrs.
•■Sam Henry, and Mr. Ricks' parents,
Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Ricks. Mr. Ricks
holds a traveling position witlj, the
Texas Oil company.
Over thirty convicts shoot way out
•of Oklahoma refoJmatory.
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THE WKStALD.
Local Woman
Fatally Injured
Mra. John H. Westbrook Dies Iu
Richmond—Funeral Here Thurs
day Morning
Funeral services for Mrs. John H.
Westbrook, who was fatally injured
in an automobile accident in Rich
mond, Va., Tuesday afternoon, were
held from her "Residence at No. 206
8. Grace Street at ten o'clock on
Thursday morning with Rev. George
W. Perry, pastor of the First Meth
odist church, and Rev. B. F. Black,
of Durham, in charge'.
Mrs. Westbrook died at 4:10
o'clock this morning from injur
ies sustained shortly before two
o'clock yesterday afternoon when
the.car in which she rode-with Mrs.
Alice L. Bruffey, of Richmond, col
lided with a truck driven by Robr
ert C. Clark, Negro of Richmond.
State Officer W. H. Short, who in
vestigated the accident, expressed
the view that the car driven by
Mrs. Bruffey skidded on wet pave
ment and was struck by the truck.
Mrs. Westbrook was rjished imme
diately to the Johnston-Willis hos
pital. Mrs. Bruffey sustained a con
cussion of the brain and a number
of cuts and bruises. Mrs. West
brooK's skull was fractured in the
collosion. She was 61 years of age.
Mrs. Westbrook, widow of John
H. Westbrook, was prominently
known in this city. For a number
of years she had been active in the
affairs of the community and had
taken a leading part in the program
of the First Methodist church.
The body was brought here Wed
nesday afternoon from Richmond.
Following the funeral services
Thursday morning from the 'home,
burial took place in Wallace.
Mrs. Westbrook is survived by
two sons, the Rev. John H. West
brook, Jr., of Hartford, Conn., and
James Westbrook, a student at the
University of North Carolina in
Chapel Hill; and one sister, Mrs.
Howe Dunn of Wallace.
Pallbearers for the services were
Sam W. Ruark and Robert J. Ru
ark of Raleigh; R. B. Murphy of
Durham; Francis Sloan and Ben
ford Sloan of Hopewell, Va.; pais
ley Boney and Gabriel Boney of
Wallace; and J. W. Aycock of this
city.
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90 Auto Deaths
For January
Report Released At Raleigh Saturday
Shows That 506 People Were More
Or Less Injured While The Kill
ings Were Taking Place
The Raleigh report released Sat
urday shows there were 90 people
* n automobile accidents in
North Carolina during the month
of January. At the same time 506
people were more or less maimed
and broken. A year ago there were
only 67 fatalities in January. As
the Legislature seems determined to
double the state-wide patrol per
haps the fatalities will be cut to
a minimum when this is done if
th e patrolers attend to their busi
ness instead of providing funeral
escorts and escorts for public men
to ride around over the state.
There were 37 pedestrians killed
and 64 injuries in January. There
were 19 collisions that were fatal,
and 279 were injured. There were
two fatalities with horsedrawn ve
hicles and 43 injuries. Four wer 0
killed in a train collision and 12
injured. There was one killed by a
street car and one injured. There
were 10 killed in collision with fix
ed objects and 31 hurt; there were
two killej on bicycles and one in
jured; there were 16 killed by
speeding and 11 injured.
Drunken drivers caused nine
deaths and 38 injuries. Friday, Sat
urday and Sunday did th e greatest
slaughter and the wotst hours were
from 6 to 8 o'clock in the evening.
UNCLE JOE CANNON'S
DAUGHTER IS DEAD
Miss Helen Cannon, 70-year old
spinster who was head of her fath
er's honse in Washington during the
long incumbency $n Congress of the
late "Uncle" Joe Cannon, died Sat
urday at her home in Danville, 111.,
where she has lived since the-death
of her father.
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Commerce Chamber asks $2,000,-
000,000 cut in relief fund.
ROCKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1935
Heftiest Baby in the World
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Leslie, thirty-three months young, son of Mr. and Mrs. Reginald
Bowls of Lowestoft, England, Is perhaps the heftiest baby In tlie world.
Otherwise a normal baby, Leslie Is a miniature giant in weight, for
height. He measures 30% Inches In height, and almost 3 pounds per Inch
avoirdupois. By British reckoning his weight Is seven-stone, or 98 pounds,
and this picture makes him seem even heavier than that. At birth Leslie
was underweight.
Too Much "Economy "
At Morganton
We notice from the papers that a resolution has been of
fered in the Legislature to investigate the Sanatorium for
the Insane at Morganton. The head of the Institution Dr.
McCampbell, has long been in the service of the State and
we have never heard his honesty or ability questioned. The
evidence y?iven before the Legislative Committee disclos
ed a condition which- to oar mind has bedfi brought about
solely by the lack of funds.
The balancing of the Budget appears to have been the
chief aim and object of this administration regardless of
the needs, poverty and distress of our people. If a crime
has been committed it must have been committed by the
Legislature in not appropriating sufficient funds arid if
the funds were appropriated, then the Budget Commission
must have withheld from the Hospital at Morganton more
than was meant in the name of economy for the purpose of
balancing the Budget.
Senator Clark from Edgecombe has very well said that
we cannot budget the insane. We must not withhold from
the insane proper heat, warm clothing, balanced diet, prop
er medical care and attention for the purpose of balancing
a budget. When the Roosevelt administration was charged
in the last Campaign with not operating a balanced budget,
the wife of our distinguished President in one of her
speeches in New York asked th e question, "Do the Repub
licans expect us to withhold food from the hungry in or
der to balance the budget?" We Relieve in balanced budget
but no budget should be balanced at the expense of the in
sane when those incarcerated in our State Institutions
are unable to help themselves, nor at the expense of the
children of this generation in not providing sufficient edu
cational advantages. »
We believe in good roads and North Carolina has built
roads in a most extravagant manner. Roads have been
built and parallel roads have built covering practically the
same territory at a great expense. The Director of the Bud
get has consistently opposed the diversion of any revenue,
which is derived from franchise taxes and gasoline taxes
for the operation of automobiles, for either the State's in
stitutions or either the public schools. If a crime 'has been
committed against society, who has committed this crime?
WHAT HAVE RELIEF FUNDS BOUGHT? ,
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We never have at any time questioned the honesty of
those who have administered the relief funds in our territory
nor do we think it can be questioned, but we do say that
we do not believe that there is a community in North Car
olina that can show less material benefit derived from the
expenditure of a vast sum of money, to it's citizenship gen
erally, than the city of Rocky Mount. It is true that the
people have labored and they have received funds for this
labor and with this money they have bought food and
clothing for their family. Of course, we understand this to
be the first and primary object of this work, but in most
communities we have found that in spending the money they
have tried to spend it in such a way that it would give last
ing benefits to the communities in which it was expended.
Our understanding is that the money expended in this
community was spent under the direction of Mrs. Bulluck
but that the Board of Aldermen generally requested the
projepts where this money was to be spent. We have called
the attention to the serious need of additional play grounds
for our children and still there has been nothing done along
this line except to beautify a Lake that we are informed cost
mere than $40,000.00 to dig, which was carved our of prop
erty owned by" the family of the State Relief Administra
tor, Mrs. Thos. O'Berry.
Inflation Threat
Seen In Capital
Senator Josiah W. Bailey Points Out
That the Inflation Threat Is
Dangerous
With legislation proposing the ex
penditure of nearly five billions of
dollars for work-relief, with anoth
er measure calling for payment of
more than two billions in the sol
dier's bonus, still another piec e set
ting aside over three billions- for
financing farm mortgages, yet ano
ther measure calling for more lib
eral silver laws and finally the un
rest in congress for inflation of the
currency, the capital scene is dis
turbing for a number of reasons.
Senator Josiah W. Bailey, senior
North Carolina Benator, takes these
measures into consideration when he
discusses, at length, the dangers of
inflation now'present, in spite of the
recent statement of Donald R. Rich
berg, close adviser of the president,
that inflation during the next six
years, if President Roosevelt re
mains in office, will not come to
pass.
Senator Bailey sets forth his views
in a letter to Lee B. Weathers, edi
tor and publisher of the Cleveland
Star in Shelby. The letter is as
follows:
"There is no intention to discharge
any appropriation by means of in
flation. However, the difficulty is
that, the more we pay out, the
greater tho necessity will be for in
flation. Inflation will come as a con
sequence of actions, rather than by
purposeful intent. Once we get the
debt of the government to the point
where it threatens the financial
structure of the government, infla
tion will ensue.
"We have now the conditions of
inflation, but we do not hav e in
flation. However, these conditions
would be regarded as inflation if
the flight from the dollar should
begin. It may begin at any time.
Certainly, if congress continues to
appropriate great sums of money,
and to borrow the money, inflation
will ensue as an inevitable conse
quence.
White House
"Baby" Is Dead
Dr. Lyon Gardiner Tyler who died
recently at Williamsburg, Va., was
the son of John Tyler, tenth Presi
dent of the United States and was
born in the White House.
Dr. Tyler's death writes another
chapter in the romantic and tragic
story of tho tenth President. In
February, 1844, President Tyler, then
a widower, and a large party took
a cruise down the Potomac on the
U. S. S. Princeton, for the testing
of a new gun. The gun exploded,
and Secretary of State Upshur, and
Secretary of the Navy Gilmer, were
among those killed. Eight months be
fore his term expired President Ty
ler, at 56, married Miss Julia Gardi
ner, of New York, whose father al
so had lost his life in the accident.
She was only 20. Dr. Lyon G. Tyler,
born in 1853, was their son. He was
not, as sometimes declared to be,
the first baby born in the White
House, which Tyler left in 1845.
Incidentally, however, the first
White House baby was born in the
Tyler administration. This was the
president's grandson Robt. Tyler
Jones, who died in Washington, in
1895. From Tyler's time until the
birth of Esther Cleveland, born
Sept. 9, 1893, there had been no oth
er "White House baby."
•Dr. Tyler had invited by
President Roosevelt to visit Wash
ington this spring and be a guest of
the White House but death stepped
in and intervened.
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Leggett Takes
Double Bill
The Leggett high basketball teams
scored a double win over Hobgood.
The boys' game was close, with Hob
good leading, 10 to 9, at the half.
Leggett forged ahead in the second
half to win, 14 to 12.
Donaldson was high scorer for
Hobgood with eight points, while
Cherry led the winners with seven
points. The Leggett boys have won
12 games while losing but two dur
ing the season. In the girl's con
test, Leggett won a decisive victory.
Miniture World's Fair
In Shrine
Dramatic Group
Meets In City
District Preliminary Dramatic Con
tests To Be Held Here On Friday
Plans were progressing rapidly to
day for the district preliminary
dramatic contest which will b 0 stag
ed in the local high school audi
torium Friday night, beginning at
eight o'clock, and in which the
Black Masquers, local high school
dramatic group, will complete with
groups from Wilson and Hender
son high schools for the honor of
participating in the finals in the
state dramatic tournament later thi3
month.
About 25 people are expected to
come here in tho Wilson delegation
which will include a cast of about
10 people and the director, Miss
Johnie Gay Currin, and about 15
people will come here from Hender
son, with a cast of about 10 and the
director, a Miss Shannon, Cyrus M.
Edson, local high school dramatic
teacher, announced this afternoon.
Judges for hte contest, all from
Chapel Hill, include Prof. A. C.
Howell, of the University of North
Carolina English department; John
Parker, teacher of dramatic arts of
the University extension division;
and Mrs. Jennie Walt Hanft, wife
of one of the law faculty at the
University of North Carolina. All
have had wide experience in judging
dramatics, Mr. Edson poiirted out,
and have judged in preliminary con
tests before.
Mrs. Irene Fussier, executive sec
retary of the state dramatic group
which is sponsoring. the- dramatic
tournament at Chapel Hill, is also
expected to come, it was said.
The judges will name the winner
on tho following bases; first, acting
in the play, including under this
makeup, diction, and other points;
the suitability of th 0 play, charac
ters; rticl tlie ijosfnming effects, Mr.
Edson disclosed.
The judges will announce the
winners after all three plays have
been given Friday night, and Mar
garet Dunn, business manager of the
dramatic festival here, will collect
the ballots and disclose the judges'
verdict.
The Black Masquers play, Allan
Monkliouse's "The Grand Cham's
Diamonds," will have several stu
dents participating, it has been an
nounced. These are Beatrice Temko,
Roderick Murchison, Sadie Mae Deal,
Robert Scott, Albert Watkins, and
Howell Whitehead.
The young actors and 'actresses
from Wilson will present a Chinese
comedy, "The Thrice-Promised
Bride" by Ching Chui Hsuing, and
the Henderson students will produce
Lady Gregory's play, " Sureading
the News," it has been announced.
The order of the plays Friday
will not be decided upon until just
before the show, it was understood.
The dramatics class at the high
school will be host to the other
groups at a buffet supper in the
high school cafeteria just before
the performance. Mr. Edson indicat
ed this afternoon.
GUARD IS KILLED
ACCIDENTALLY
Andrew Ayscue, 28, guard on du
ty with the state highway commis
sion convict force, three miles from
Henderson, Vance County, was in
stantly killed Friday when his gun
accidentally discharged as he sat on
a truck dring the dinner hour. A
mixed crew of white and negro pris
onersxwere employed on the proj
ect. The noonday meal just finish
ed, Ayscue perched himself on the
fender of a truck, his feet resting
on the front bumper and his gun
dropped against the bumper. He
reached for his pipe and his to
bacco for a smoke when in some
manner the gun was shaken from
its prop and fell, the hammer strik
ing against the bumper and dis
charging the load.
HANGS FROM WINDOW
Boston.—Dangling from a six
story window, Alfred Le Fleur, 30,
a winder washer, was rescued by a
policeman, lowered head-foremost
from a higher window. Tho man
held a single strand of his broken
safety belt, fainted as he was be
ing pulled to safety.
$l.OO PER YEAR
Mammoth Exposition To Be Staged
By Shrine Club—Merchants And
Manufacturers Join To Make Th«
Event A Miniature World's Fair
The Shrine Club and Masons will
stage the biggest event of its kind
during the week of March 18th at
th e Mangum Warehouse under th«
name of the Merchants and Mfg.
Exposition. Fifty of Rocky Mount's
leading Merchants and Manufactur
ers with Auto Dealers -will offer
more than $250,000 in spectacular
displays that will be equa lto tho
Merchants Building at the Century
of Progress. Elaborate booths are
being brought here by the Shrine,
the equipment being the same that
has been used at the largest Expo
sition in the Country. The display*
will offer everything one might use
in the home, office, farm or fac
tory. Many food products will be
demonstrated in the booths as welt
as electrical appliances and the Ex
position will not be only entertain*
ing but educational as well. Seven
feature circus acts will b 0 used
each evening an,j dancing will bo
enjoyed from 10 to 12. Valuable
gifts and souvenirs will be given
free each evening. The Shrine has
offered $150.00 in cash to the per
son selling tho highest number of
season tickets and tho contest is open
to all. The Shrine Club says that the
mammoth show will be just as ad
vertised as a miniature World's
Fair or a two dollar show for a
quarter.
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Couple Bom In
1815 Found
Stoyan Krastanoff Says He Did Not
Take Any Particular Care Of
Himself
Sofia, March 2.—Stoyan Krastan
off and his wife, Pena, who were
both born in 1815, havtf been dis
covered living happily together in
the village of Ogradishte, near here.
They ( have three daughters and one
son living; but their grandchildren
and great-grandchildren number
about 100.
Both are in very good health, al
though Pena finds housework a lit*,
tie tiring at the age of 120. Stoy
an is as fit as ever, and takes his
daily constitutional. His eyesigh? is
still quite good, but his memory for
recent events is not very strong.
He clearly recollects the events
of his early life when the Turks
ruled the land. For 12 years he
was mayor of his village, and talk#
proudly of those days.
Aske,j how he managed to live so
long, Stoyan said he had not taken
any particular care of himself. H«
ate drank and smoked like any oth
er man—and had lots of hard work
in his youth.
CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATIONS
The United States Civil Service
Commission has announced open
competitive examinations as follows:
Assistant naval architect, $2,000 ia
year. Optional subjects are ship pip
ing and ventilation, hull structures
and arrangements, scientific ship
calculations, and general.
Assistant mineral economist, $2,-
600 a year, Bureau of Mines. Op-,
tional subjects are coal, metals, pe
troleum, nonmetallic, and general
economics of minerals.
Typewriter repairman, departmen
tal service, Washington, D. C.
All States except Utah, lowa, Ver
mont, Virginia, Maryland, anj the
District of Columbia have received
less than their quota of appoint
ments in the apportioned departmen
tal service in Washington, D. C. The
position of typewriter repairman is
not affected by the State apportion
ment law.
Full information may be obtained
from the Secretary of the United
StStes Civil Service Board of Exam
iners at the post office or custom
house in any city which has a post
office of the firnt or the second
class, or from the United States Civ*
il Service Commission,
D. C.
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NEW PHONE BOOKS
Th e new 1935 Telephone Director
ies are being handed around this
week. There are few changes noted
in theii' set-up.