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The Rocky Mount Herald "VOLUME 2, NO. 11 Great Exposition Opens F. A.Daughtridge Dies At Home • Former Contractor to be Bnried Sat urday—Services at Reaidence at 4:30 P. M. Joseph Arnold Daughtridge, 70, Vomer well-known local contractor die,j suddenly at his home in Num ber Twelve Township, Edgecombe County, early Friday morning. Mr. Daughtridge, who with his fa ther, the late J. A. Daughtridge onee formed one of the largest -contracting firms in this city, was a respected member of the Arlington attest Baptist Church here, and had at one time taught Sunday School 'ihere. He had lived in Number Twelve Township for twenty-eight years. His parents were the late J. A. Daughtridge and Charity Boone Daughtridge. [Funeral services wore conducted Saturday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock with Bev. J. W. Kineheloe, pastor Vf the First Baptist Church, Bev. I ©. N. Marshall, new pastor of the Arlington street Baptist Church, and Bev. E. C. Sexton, pastor of "*h e Calvary Baptist Church, officiat ing. Bites were held from the home 3n Edgecombe County. Burial fol lowed in Pineview. gr The following were active pall bearers: A. B. Williams, J. W. Proc tor, Bichard Fly, Jesse Bichmond, ■William Moody, and J. B. Wiggins, flonorary pallbearers included Dr. J. A. Speight, Dr. B. H. Speight, W. H. *Thomas, W. D. Joyner, George S. Thomas, John Fly, Ben Drake and Marvin Pearce. Mr. Daughtridge leaves his wife, lire. J. A. Daughtridge, four sons, «n« daughter, and several grand ■children. His children are J. B. Daughtridge, J. 8. Daughtridge, J. V. DangTitridge, of, Edgecombe County; ,J. E. Daughtridge, city; and Mrs. E. 9. Edwards, city. o FIRST CHURCH OP CHRIST, SCIENTIST ■"Man" was the subject of the Les son-Sermon in all Churches and So cieties of Christ, Scientist, on Sun day, March 10, 1935. The Golden Text was from Psalms * 37:23, "The steps of a good man are ordered-by the Lord: and he idelightetb in his way." Among the cititions which com . prised the Lesson-Sermon was the following from the Bible: "Fear not: for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gath er thee from the west; I will say ito the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my »ons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth; Even ■ewy one that is called by my aiame: for I have created him for ftnly glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him." (Isiah 43: 5-7) "The Lesson-Sermon also included the following passage from the Christian Science textbook, "Science ♦and Health with Key to the Scrip tures" by Mary Baker Eddy: "God is ttie creator of man, and, the di vine Principle of man remaining perfect, the divine idea or reflec tion, man, remains perfect. Man is ' the expression of God's being. The of God and man( divine "(Principle and idea, are indestructi ble in Science; and Science knows ®o lapse from nor return to har mony, but holds the divine order or I Spiritual law, in which God and ; .-all that He creates aTe perfect and | eternal, to have remained unchang -1 «ed in its eternal history." (Page \ d7O) I * ROBBERS TAKE TIME (h Neosho, Mo.—Seizing a Negro | bank porter as he started to enter, ■four «f seven robbers took his Tteys and went into the bank. With i the porter bound, they waited and £s the bank employees arrived, they tied them up, one by one. When the time clock opened the vault at 8:45 • o'clock, they scooped up SIB,OOO and ;fled in their waiting automobile. I > | Rndm, when yoo vrnr- , J elutse leads adrertM f» these columns tell the I n*rW*-rls yon saw Htn ; THUS H2ULALB. Rondthaler Gets University Post Winston-Salem Man Elected Over W. C. Woodard as Heal of Alumni Chapel Hill, March 9.—Dr. How ard E. Rondthaler, president of Sa lem college, has been elected presi dent of the University of North Carolina Alumni association for 19- 35, it was announced here today following a tally of the mail bal lots cast by alumni during the past several weeks. Dr. Rondthaler was elected over William C. Woodard, of Rocky Mount, the other nominee. The announcement of the new of ficer for 1935 was made at the of fice here of J. Maryon Banners, exe cutive secretary of the association. Vice presidents eleSted ware J. Harper Erwin, Jr., of Durham, and Robert C. de Rosset, of Raleigh, who were named over Leo H. Har vey, of Kinston, and Dr. George L. Carrington, of Burlington, respect ively. Landin Held For Wake Jury Raleigh, March 11.—A Wake coun ty coroner's jury today ordered Lu ther L. Landin, 28-year-old member of the Rocky Mount fire department, and Willie Bryant, Raleigh Negro, held for the grand jury in connec tion with the death here last night in an automobile accident of Miss Ruth Ellis, 24-year-old Wilson Po licewoman. Landin, who is under treatment at Rex Hospital, and Bryant were each ordered held nudes - $1,500 bond by Coroner L. M. Waring on a manslaughter charge. Miss Ellis, who was in the car driven by Landin, was fatally in jured'when the automobile and one driven by Bryant collided, at the intersection of Davie and East Streets. A half dozen witnesses at the in quest testified that the cars met practically in the center of the in tersection. Bryant's car struck the right hand side of Landin's machin e they said. After the crash Landin's car Crashed into a telephone pole on the sidewalk. o Bookkeepers Body Taken From Neuse Smithfield, March 11.—The body of Paul Eason, bookkeeper for a lo cal • tobacco warehouse, was recov ered late Sunday afternoon from the waters of the Nense river into whUh he was said by officers to have plunged Saturday afternoon. Eason is survived by his widow. Funeral services set for this afternoon. NORTON CALLS UPON DOG OWNERS TO ACT Dr. Roy Norton, city health su perintendent, called attention Mon day to the necessity for more than 600 local dog owners to have their dogs inoculated again against rabies, saying that the year's duration of time since they were first vaccinat ed following the enactment of a rig id law had expired. The cost of vaccinations has been reduced from $1 to 75 cents, it was pointed out. Dr. H. L. Hicks, vet ornarian, has announced that his of fice hours will be from 9 a. m. to noon and from 2 p. m. to 5 p. m. each day this week. His office islo cated on North east Main street. Dr. Norton called attention to the rule on dogs which states that every dog shall b e confined on the premis es of the owner or must wear an adequate muzzle or be held on a leash at all times. . o HUGE RACKET New York. —It is said that th policy, or "numbers" racket is u $100,000,000 a year enterprise in New York. At that rate, char-wom en, grocery clerks and other petty gamblers paid oat $3.50 & second •or $300,000 a day. ROCKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 1935 Electric Power—ln the Making ' Looking upstream at the Norris dam, being built by the Tennessee Valley authority on the Clinch river, near Knoxvlile, Tenn. The dam, as this picture shows, is more than one-third complete. The various sections of the dam now rise more than 100 feet above their solid rock bases. When completed the dam will be 200 feet high and will cost more than $34,000,000. Note the ends of the two huge pentstocks, each more than 20 feet in diameter, between the third and fourth buttress-like sections of the dam. These tubes will pour the dammed-up waters of the Clinch river into turbines for generating electricity. A big powerhouse is to be built at the end of the tubes shown in this picture, and just back of the high retaining wall, projecting from the third section of the dam. Did The Welfare Department Ap* prove Of Hanging Prisoners Up Instead Of Lash? The recent disclosure in the Highway Department of the discipline of prisoners where it has been admitted that as a matter of punishment the prisoners have been hung up in their cells eight to ten hours a day for several days with their feet and hands chained so that they could not move about should cause the people of North Carolina thru their representatives in the legislature to make a most com plete investigation, not only as to the treatment of pris oners but as to other vital matters that have been under question. The serious part about the Whole thing is not that a pris on camp superintendent and guard did this thing* for if they alone were involved and perpetrated this thing then it would be a very simple matter to deal with. They could be prosecuted and punished. But is it right to make these two victims, the Camp Supt. and the Guard, the scape goat in this most gruesome thing that has taken place. The superintendent of the camp and teh guard said they were acting under orders from the Central Prison at Raleigh and our information is that it was set up when the lash was abolished which we consid er a thousand times more humane than the punishment meted out in this instance in the place of the lash. We notice from the papers that Mrs. Bost, who is head of the Welfare Department and who we are informed, has giv en approval to the manner of the discipline of prisoners, or at least to rules under which they are disciplined has not denied at any time that she had knowledge of this form of discipline which is torture itself rather than punishment. We think that the people of North Carolina have a right to have a direct statement from the Head of our Welfare Department as to whether she had knowledge of this form of punishment and if she had edge did she con sent to it. Now these are questions we feel that the people of North Carolina are entitled to know. If the welfare de partment consented to this torture and msfnner of punish ment and if the Central Prison Authorities instigated it, then to take his prison comp Supt. and this Guard and undertake to place the sins of the Welfare Department and the Central Prison Authorities on their heads , and let them be a sin offering for the whole condition then the in vestigation will not produce the results desired. The committee should place and locate this responsibility. THE LEGISLATURE HAS MUCH WORK AHEAD The Legislature is beginning to be loaded with work. Bills of state wide importance are just coming in from the committees. Two investigations are already under way, the Hospital at Morganton, and the Prison torture which has just come to light. Then there is talk of an investigation of the Banking Department under Mr. Hood according to statement of the Greensboro Daily News, which would include investigation of attorney's fees that were paid to certain attorneys. It being reported that certain attorneys received fees that would amount to sums much greater than the Governor's salary. It has been reported that Kenneth Royall has re ceived more than $23,000 from Mr. Hood, he being a close neighbor of Mr. Hood. Dr. Paschall wrote an illuminating article last year, about Mr. Hood showing that he had already spent more than one half million dollars on Attorneys and Liquidators. STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION We are glad to know that the Board of Aldermen has be come aroused as to the serious neecfe of playground and park space in the city of Rocky Mount. At the last meet ing of the Board a resolution was adopted and a commit tee appointed to devise ways and means for the building of an Athletic Stadium. We think this is a step in the right direction but we feel that the cart is being put before the horse. The most crying need in Rocky Mount at this time is that we should have playgrounds for our small chil dren. Heretofore they have had private property to play on but this private property is now being developed, houses are being built on the same, which is compelling the children , to play in the streets; which by reason of the use of the dangerous automobiles makes the street a death trap, for (Please turn to page five) PARAGRAPHS ON NATIONAL PROBLEMS AT WASHINGTON Bailey Advances Recovery Plan ■' ■ ■ / North Carolina Senator Has Article In The March Review of Reviews PROGRAM IS OUTLINED Now York.—"The treatment of emergency conditions is not to be confused with the methods of re covery. The one is temporary, the other is permanent. On e is superfi cial, the other is fundamental. Stop gaps, cushions may be necessary in an emergency, but they do not lay the foundations for recovery." Thus critical of the New Deal is Democratic Senator Josiah W. Bailey of North Carolina in the March Review of Reviews. Ho lays down four steps which the Demo cratic party must.' take before it can start business on the road to normalcy, and make sure of a Democratic victory in 1936. The New Deal must: 1. "Balance the national budget by bringing public expenditures within public revenues, thereby re viving business confidence and de stroying the menace to government credit." 2. "Resume gold payments on mand to end the spectre of infla tion." 3. "Assure a stable government along accepted American linep to re move th e threat of radical experi mentation and revolution." 4. "Reverse the trend toward re liance on public aid for every need through government advocacy of per sonal saving, investing and building up of capital." "There is no reason for aimless groping for some magic deliverance which can never come," concludes Senator Bailey. "Recovery is a conse quence, not a happenstance. It re quires careful planning, with the foundations laid hero and now." Tobacco Control To Be Extended Representative John H. Kerr has declared he will introduce a bill in the presnet Congress extending the Kerr-Smith tobacco control act for another two years without await ing the outcome of pending litiga tion challenging the constitutional ity of the present law, which expires at the end of the 1935-36 marketing season. SEEK OLD TREASURES Bethlehem. Pa.—With an old old map, Lt. Harry A. Adams, U. S. A., retired and his son, plan to set out soon in a two-masted schooner, seeking a sunken Spanish galleon, loaded with gold, silver and jewels. The ship was wrecked during a storm 400 years ago and is believed to bo about where it went down in the Carribean Sea. Adams believes the treasure to be worth at least $7,000,000. From the Carribean, they plan to go to the Canary Islands where they say is a buried treasure of Spanish silver dollars—s2,ooo,ooo worth. o MAN FLIES WITH WINGS Daytona Beach, Fla.—Clem Sohn, parachute jumper, recently jumped off an airplane 12,000 feet up. He wore wings across his shoulders and attached to his arms and wrists, His legs supported a webbing which when spread, gave him tho plane suffaco of a bird's tail. He dropped 2,000 feet and then spread out his arms, checking his descent. For a while he glided, then he zoomed right and left, shot up ward and downward and looped 3 times. At 6,000 feet he pulled the rip cord of hiß parachute and settled to earth. Cunningham now hailed as the greatest milcr of all time. NEW DEAL CONFUSES PUBLIC SUPPORT SAGS PRESENT CONDITIONS POLITICAL PROBLEMS ROOSEVELT MAY ACT SOON RESULTS IN FAR EAST LOWER INTEREST RATES "NO INFLATION"—RICH BERG REPUBLICANS T OATTACK BONUS A BEGINNING The reader of this column, we assume, is an average American cit izen. He is becoming a littlo confus ed over the perplexing problems that are being debated in Washing ton and he is wondering just where the nation stands as th e New Deal shows signs of weakness, as Con gress bucks the President and as critics of the administration begin to press more vigorously to the at tack. Undoubtedly, there has been a sagging of public support behind the President and the thought aris es in many minds that Mr. Roose velt is about to lose his grip upon public affairs. His personal popular ity remains as millions admit their admiration for his courage and ex press appreciation of the great ser vice he has already rendered his country, but, all the same, some glimmer of doubt has arisen as to where and how the thing will end. It is not the purpose of this writer to take up the cudgels for or against the President. Regardless of everything else, we intend to write what we think of national events, to analyze, if possible, current trends and to advise our readers of prob able developments. Space will not permit any thorough review of what has been done or an extended ex position of the present picture. For the same reason it is necessary,, very often, to briefly chronicle sit uations, acts and consequences without being able to give full ex pression to qualifying explanations. Our best judgment, each week is all that wo offer and that will change as rapidly as the circumstances up on which it is based. In glancing at the present situa tion in the United States we must report considerable gains since the day, in 1933, when Franklin Delano Roosevelt assumed office. Whether due to government spending or oth er causes, business is improving, banking is sounder, confidence is stronger and the basis for super abundant credit, upon which our national economy feeds, is ample. The worst part of the picture is the stagnant capital goods industry, with much of the present unemploy ment attributable to its plight. The millions of unemployed con tinued to complicate the problems of government, making necessary the expenditure of billions in va rious relief measures. The complaint of small business men against the pressure of big business competi tion indicates a needed readjust ment and the fact that laborers and farmers are not "recovering" in the -same proportion as capital demon strates clearly the necessity for a further effort to secure "parity" for both classes. The political picture of the ad ministration is clouded by the hos tile attitude of many Congressmen, including Democrats as well as Re publicans, and an intention on the part of Congress, it seems, to have its say in national affairs. Leader ship from the administration is not now as positive and the huge Dem ocratic majorities in both Houses show signs of a runaway. Republi can opposition is consolidating. Crit icism is frequent and more sustain ed as the extremists on both flanks harass tho middle of the road con tingent. Differences of opinion exist up on almost every point in the great debate over the depression, its causes and whether it is, at last, over. Equally diverse are the voices discussing national recovery, with gloomy prophets insisting that ap parent progress is but the prelude to a worse collapse. Mixed in the argument is th e mooted question* (Please turn to page four) SI.OO PER YEAR Mammoth Exposition To Be Staged By Shrine Club—Merchants And Manufacturers Join To Make Tha Event A Miniature World's Fair. The Merchants and Manufacture ers Exposition, sponsored by the Shrine, will open Monday, March eighteenth, and will continue six nights through Saturday, March 23. The exposition will be held in Mangum's Warehouse. Great prepara tions have been made for the open ing, for the past three weeks, and everything is in readiness for the great event. It is expected that the exposi tion will draw visitors from all parts of the state, and many thous ands are expected to be in attend ance. Neither expense 'nor trouble has been spared in preparation for this, one of the biggest events in the history of Rocky Mount. The business section of the eity aa a whole and individually has joined with the exposition officials in ex tending a welcome to the thousand* of visitors, and in making their visit to the exposition pleasant and profitable. Elaborate booths are being brought here by the Shrine, the equipment being the same that has been used the largest Expo sition in the Country. The displays will offer everything one might use in the home, office, farm or fac tory. Many food products will be demonstrated in the booths as well as electrical appliances and the Ex position will not be only entertain ing but educational as well. Severn feature circus acts will be used each evening and dancing will be enjoyed from 10 to 12. Valuable gifts and souvfltairs will be given free each evening. The Shrine has offered $150.00 in cash to the per* son selling the highest number of season tickets and the contes is open to all. The Shrine Club says that the mammoth show will be just as &d --vertisefl as a miniature World's Fair or a two dollar show for a quarter. o QUICK ACTION AVERTS DEATH Winchester, H. Moore, fruit grower and sawmill owner, was se riously cut when he was caught in. a revolving saw at his mill. On ly his heavy clothing and the promptness of the operator in stopping the machinery saved his life. Mr. Moore had had the mill stopped in order to file a saw and when the saw started again before he gave the signal, he was caught in the teeth of another saw hurled over it headlong. o— CATTLE DISCOVERS GOLD Dorchester, England. While grazing the other day, cattle belong ing to Farmer George Chell kick ed up a half dozen gold coins. This starter Chell digging in his pasture where he unearthed more than a hundred coins, dating back 30© years and estimated to be worth about $5,000. WON'T CUT WAGES Lawrence, Mass.—Bursting into a "workers" meeting, called by labor executives to discuss a voluntary wage reduction, Na/han Brindis, 45- year old shoo executive, told them h e couldn't consider their proposed sacrifice. He said, "The present is no time to cut wages, because of the recent sharp increase in the cost of living." CURES ANGINA Cleveland, O.—Angina pectoris, heretofore regarded as incurable, and eventually fatal, may be con quered by an operation developed by Dr. Claude S. Beck. The disease if caused by hardening and thick ening of the arteries which cut down the heart's blood supply. The new operation provides the heart with a nefc source o*f blood. KEEPS CIGAR 50 YEARS Tacoma, Wash.—On the day he married his wife, Edward E. Smith bought a cigar and made the statement that he would smoke it on his golden wedding day. He re cently had the pleasure of smoking the cigar he had held for fifty years. i AAA retains program despite iftv. creasing food prices.
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